💡 Warp News #292
🚜 Agricultural land decreasing globally. 🅾️ Biotech company develops blood type that fits all patients. 👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT.
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🌏 Climate hope
Yesterday I wrote about an interesting fact I recently learned: Over the past ten years, China has accounted for about 90 percent of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
That means the rest of the world has begun to get control over, or even reduce, its CO₂ emissions.
But we can’t just pretend China doesn’t exist. Even there, there is reason for hope. Perhaps emissions have already peaked in China as well, largely thanks to the country’s massive expansion of solar and wind power.
There’s still a long way to go, and it’s easy to lose hope, but that’s exactly why we should pay attention when milestones are reached. An important one is now within sight.
Read more in this week’s Premium Supporter article (open to everyone).
📗 Goal already reached!
Amazingly, we’ve already hit the goal of 250 pre-orders for my new book, The Fifth Acceleration. A huge thank you to all of you who pre-ordered!
Of course, it’s still possible to pre-order the book. Use the code Sundin5 for a 5 percent discount. For now, only available in Swedish.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🦾 AI helps 1200 researchers develop new materials in global hackathon
More than 100 teams developed AI tools that can predict crystal structures, track medicines, and design new chemicals in just two days.
🐸 Researchers successfully breed rare mountain frogs for first time
Seven frogs have been released into the wild at Tooloom National Park as part of a conservation project. The researchers have replicated the frogs' unusual habitat with correct temperature, substrate, plants and sound to enable breeding.
🚜 Agricultural land decreasing globally for the first time
The world's agricultural land peaked in the early 2000s and has been declining since then.
🅾️ Biotech company develops blood type that fits all patients
RedC Biotech develops technology to produce universal red blood cells that can be transfused to all patients. The technology eliminates the need for blood donors by cultivating blood cells from stem cells in large bioreactors.
📉 Tuberculosis medicine cheapest ever - enables treatment of thousands more
The money saved equals 71,000 additional bedaquiline courses.
👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT
ChatGPT had 700 million users per week in July 2025 The gender gap has disappeared – from 80 percent male users to 48 percent in June 2025.
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