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General humanitarian crisis

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:32

Without a big increase in humanitarian aid donations, the UN predicts that 200 million people will die in 2023 for the lack of aid.

200 million is a very large number of deaths in one year. The average number is around 83 million. The human population will decrease in 2023 if this forecast comes true. The 200 million maybe _in addition to_ the 80 million that would have died anyway.

The typical annual increase in human population is around 18 million. It follows that 200 million deaths will mean that the total human population decreases by several years' worth of population growth.

It sees that we have reached the point at which the global disaster we have caused starts to kill so many people that it reduces the human population. This is very bad.

I have begged humans to reduce their birth rate, so that we could reduce the population the painless way and avoid ever reaching this point.

Funding workers' rights

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:18

The NLRB funding is inadequate, and the result is that workers' rights go undefended.

Codified marriage rights

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:18

The US government protected people against possible right-wing attempts to ban interracial and same-sex marriages.

This is good, but it is just a part of the harm that right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court threaten to do. Since Democrats refused to eliminate the filibuster and expand the court, Americans are now sitting ducks for at least two years.

Major economic change

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:02

Varoufakis calls for two major economic changes: to make corporations belong to their workers, and to reduce the dependence on banks for financial transactions.

Documentalism attacked

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 à 10:02

A thug in Vallejo, California, attacked a documentalist who was standing on his own porch, making a video of the thug's traffic stop.

The documentalist sued and the city paid $300,000 to settle the dispute.

The recording showed the thug making false accusations against Burrell. Such false accusations are a common first step in an attempted frame-up. Any thug caught doing this, even if nothing worse results, should be fired and blacklisted for all jobs that involve special authority over the public.