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38,000 species in danger of extinction

lundi 6 septembre 2021 à 02:00

*Komodo dragon in danger of extinction as sea levels rise.* Along with 38,000 other species.

Missing climate goal

lundi 6 septembre 2021 à 02:00

*Europe to miss 2030 climate goal by 21 years at current pace — study.*

Climate crisis deniers

lundi 6 septembre 2021 à 02:00

*[Climate crisis] deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade.* When one fallacious argument ceases to be believed, they fall back to the next line of delusion.

Likely to die

lundi 6 septembre 2021 à 02:00

People from disprivileged groups were particularly likely to die in and near New York City from Hurricane Ida's flooding, because the shortage of housing had pushed them into living in basements that were not safe.

Cost of Post-9/11

dimanche 5 septembre 2021 à 02:00

*Estimated Cost of Post-9/11 US Wars Hits $8 Trillion With Nearly a Million People Dead.*

I am pretty sure that the total of one million is based on an underestimate of the number of Iraqis killed — for instance, the figure from Iraq Body Count, which counted only the deaths which could be individually verified.