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Antibiotics

samedi 21 mai 2016 à 02:00

50,000 people die annually, in just the US and UK, from resistance to antibiotics.

To a large extent, this is due to factory farms that keep animals in crowded conditions and give them all antibiotics to avoid the diseases that would result. They are killing us.

The UK has launched a program to reduce or eliminate indiscriinate antibiotic use in farm animals. Finally, political will to confront the issue.

As new antibiotics are developed, it should be absolutely forbidden to use them in animals.

Great Barrier

samedi 21 mai 2016 à 02:00

Great Barrier Reef Needs $10bn for Chance of Survival, Scientists Say.

The funds would be to clean water pollution so as to help the coral cope with global heating.

However, ocean acidification would eventually kill the coral, all of it, if we don't reduce that.

United States

samedi 21 mai 2016 à 02:00

The US can excel in lots of areas if it stops trying to be number one in blood and gore, and imitates the countries that do peaceful things well.

Estate tax

samedi 21 mai 2016 à 02:00

Most US states have given up on the estate tax, and this costs them a lot of money. It is part of what makes college education in the US so expensive.

Climate Scientists

samedi 21 mai 2016 à 02:00

Climate Scientists, Mourning Earth's Losses, Should Make Their Voices Heard.