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Co-housing and isolation

jeudi 20 août 2020 à 02:00

Co-housing of several families together makes isolation much easier to get through.

Heat-resistant corals

jeudi 20 août 2020 à 02:00

*Heat-resistant corals offer hope as climate crisis warms up oceans*, against the threat of global heating.

However, ocean acidification is another matter. The same CO2 that heats the atmosphere also dissolves in the seas as carbonic acid. Once the water gets too acid, coral (and many other organisms) won't be able to make their shells.

If we discover corals that can stand acidic water as well as heat, that would be an occasion for relief. Otherwise, we had better cut our CO2 emissions on the double.

Excluding fortunes from taxes

jeudi 20 août 2020 à 02:00

Explaining the tools that the rich use exclude fortunes from estate taxes, and how a tax on inheriting could tax those fortunes.

Not even trying

jeudi 20 août 2020 à 02:00

The spending needed to deal with the economic crisis would be a great opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but governments are not even trying.

*Greta Thunberg and Fellow Activists Decry 'Political Inaction' on Climate Crisis After Two Years of School Strikes.*

Reducing powers of Parliament

jeudi 20 août 2020 à 02:00

Bogus Johnson is trying to reduce the powers of Parliament, and thus reduce democracy in the UK.