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Easy spreading pathogens become more deadly

lundi 23 novembre 2020 à 01:00

If it is easy for a pathogen to spread to other hosts, it tends to evolve to be more deadly to those its hosts.

Thus, covidiots are helping to make Covid-19 more likely to kill those who catch it.

UK to support global treaty on plastic polution

lundi 23 novembre 2020 à 01:00

*UK to support plans for new global treaty to 'turn tide' on plastic pollution.*

Global heating proposals from Labour

lundi 23 novembre 2020 à 01:00

What Labour proposes for curbing global heating is not much better than what the Tories say they will do.

Erin Brockovich

lundi 23 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Erin Brockovich: Biden has chosen for his EPA transition board someone who helped DuPont campaign for continued pollution with one of the toxic PFAs.

I write the "s" of "PFAs" in lower case because it is not an initial: it indicates the plural of "PFA."

We must rethink our system

lundi 23 novembre 2020 à 01:00

*The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system.*

This is a well-known reason why markets give bad results in some cases. The costs that the product imposes on people other than the one who buys it are called "externalities."