#Diet Recommendations - Conscious "knowledge is not in itself enough to change behavior, and why public health initiatives that educate people about healthy choice tend to fail. In 1991, the National Cancer Institute determined that only eight per cent of Americans were aware of the recommendations to eat at least five servings of fruit and vegetables daily." "In 2007, government officials tried again, launching a program called Fruits & Veggies. Even so, by 2018 only twelve per cent of Americans ate the recommended two servings of fruit daily, and only nine per cent ate three servings of vegetables." [1]
"The path to breaking bad habits lies not in resolve, but in restructering our environment in ways that sustain good behaviors."
#"Undue Burden" Shift - "In 2016, the court reversed the Texas case involving admitting privileges in a 5-3 decision, saying reducing the pool of doctors permitted to conduct the procedures exerted an 'undue burden' on a woman's right to have an abortion." A Georgetown law professor believes that if the Supreme Court upholds the lower-court ruling, it will send the message that states are free to expand abortion restrictions beyond what was previously considered constitutional, and that "if you change the political composition of the court, you can change constitutional rights." "To uphold Louisiana's restrictions on abortion, they would have to highlight how the facts of each case are unique, or else find that they got something wrong in the previous verdict. Otherwise they would risk creating the impression that the rule of law shifts with different Presidents." [2]
#Diversity Developments - "A 2019 survey of 234 companies in the S&P 500 found that 63% of the diversity professionals had been appointed or promoted to their roles during the past three years." "From 1985 to 2016, the promotion of black law partners inched up from 1.7% to 1.8%. The proportion of black men in management at U.S. companies with 100 or more employees barely budged -- from 3% to 3.2%." [3]
"A 2018 survey of the 15 largest public fashion and apparel companies found that nonwhites held only 11% of board seats and that nearly three quarters of company CEOs were white men. And in the top 200 film releases of 2017, minorities accounted for 7.8% of writers, 12.6% of directors, and 19.8% of lead roles." In higher education, in the fall of 2017, 81% of full-time professors at degree-granting postsecondary schools were white. just 3% were Hispanics, and 4% were black.
#Methane Regulation Gone - "On August 29, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed to eliminate direct regulation of methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas." "In New Mexico, this would mean that 4,700 new and existing oil and gas wells would no longer have to reduce their methane emissions, endangering our climate and our families' health. Methane is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, but it disappears from the atmosphere much faster when emissions are reduced." [4]
Footnotes:
[1] Jerome Grooesman, "The Resistance," The New Yorker, October 28, 2019.
[2] Sanya Mansoor, "How could Louisiana's SCOTUS..." TIME, October 21-28, 2019.
[3] Pamela Newkirk, "Diversity has become..." TIME, October 21-28, 2019.
[4] Camilla Feibelman, "US moves back..." Grande Sierra, October/November/December 2019.
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