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Sarah Kaplan
@sarahkaplan48
Climate reporter @washingtonpost, steward @postguild. I love all the planets but I write about how we can save this one. She/her. [email protected]
Washington, D.C.
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Jun 20, 2023
    Decades ago, scientists started asking whether humans had changed the planet enough to start a new geologic epoch: the Anthropocene. Now, a humble lake in Canada may hold proof of that change -- and end up redefining our history of the Earth.
    washingtonpost.com
    Hidden beneath the surface
    Canada's Crawford Lake may hold evidence that humans have fundamentally changed Earth enough to have started the Anthropocene, a new chapter in geologic time.
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    Jan 20, 2021
    My cat when JLo broke into “Let’s get Loud” 😂
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Jan 14, 2022
    I just got served an ad for a product that claims to be the best way to wash your laundry if you care about climate change and I have to say this: YOU CAN'T SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE BY BUYING STUFF
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Feb 4, 2019
    I’m really proud to work at a newspaper that does this vital work. But maybe next $10 million could go toward better health benefits, parental leave, equal pay, and more jobs for reporters?
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    Jeff Bezos
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    Feb 4, 2019
    Grateful for the journalists at the @washingtonpost and around the world who do the work, no matter the risk or dangers they face. #democracydiesindarkness #SuperBowlAd wapo.st/democracydiesi…
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    Mar 31, 2018
    Steve Melanson, who has slept in his wife’s hospital room every night for 6 months, just told me a Washington Post reader paid for a more comfortable recliner to be manufactured and shipped to him in Las Vegas so he gets a better night’s sleep.
    After the Las Vegas shooting massacre, survival can be excruciating
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    Jul 3, 2021
    I cover a lot of climate disasters. To an extent, I’ve learned to compartmentalize. But hearing about people who collapsed in the street as they tried to walk to cooling shelters this week, the little box labeled “outrage and grief” broke open for me.
    Climate change has gotten deadly. It will get worse.
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    May 24, 2020
    Kyra Swartz, 33, volunteer for pet rescue organizations Lila A. Fenwick, 87, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law Frank Gabrin, 60, emergency room doctor who died in husband’s arms Romi Cohn, 90, saved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo Israel Sauz, 22 - new father
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Sep 8, 2019
    Replying to @sarahkaplan48
    1. "Climate Change" is not a bomb that's gonna go off in 2030 if we don't cut emissions. It's an ongoing process (that is already well underway) and every day we don't take action to mitigate it, it gets worse. But the flip side of that is: everything we DO do makes it better.
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Jan 14, 2022
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    The best way to do your laundry if you care about climate change is wash your clothes however you want and then spend your energy finding community and engaging in collective action to transform institutions and take power out of the hands of those who got us into this mess
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    Sep 8, 2019
    OH at @NMNH: A dad asks his toddler if she’s excited to see the big dinosaurs. Little girl: I want to see the small dinosaurs Dad: the small ones? Little girl: They need people to like them too.
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Jan 26, 2019
    “If you have an infant daughter, she is expected to live til 2100, a year that is no longer mythical. During her lifetime, the oceans will acidify at a rate not seen in 66 million years, there will be no more saltwater fish. If it keeps going this way.”
    ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in...
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Jan 20, 2021
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    Wow this was popular. I don’t have a SoundCloud but please subscribe to your local newspaper.
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    Sarah Kaplan
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    Nov 7, 2018
    With Dems likely to take control of the House, it's looking like Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) will be the chair of the House Science Committee. She was the first registered nurse elected to Congress and would be the first House Sci chair with a STEM background since the 1990s.
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    The Washington Post
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    Nov 7, 2018
    Update: A House Democratic takeover is looking more and more likely wapo.st/2DrlBxo
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    Sarah Kaplan
    @sarahkaplan48
    Sep 1, 2021
    I would like to request one (1) piece of good news this week