For several years, the UK Labour government ordered reductions in the amount of salt added to certain foods. In 2014, the new government ended that, and levels of salt increased. This has been tied to 24,000 additional deaths.

Since we get accustomed to whatever level of salt we consume, there is no loss in reducing that across the board.

Expensive plans to protect Rockaway in NYC from future hurricanes may not be effective.

The article explains that efforts to estimate the probability of a another similar disaster were bogus or confused. Meanwhile, science has advanced since the 2000s. We should make a more plausible estimate of that probability, based on acceleration of global heating, then increase it for our continued incomplete knowledge.

Then we should make another such estimate assuming that proposed flood protection plans have been implemented. We can judge whether those plans are worth implementing based on how much they decrease the disaster likelihood.

If even after flood protection it is likely that another disaster will happen within 50 years, the federal government should buy out the properties there, and declare it a protected zone. Let it become beach, or wetlands. We had better be spending that money on decarbonization, which protects the whole world, not on short-term protection of each area by itself.

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Expensive plans to protect Rockaway in NYC from future hurricanes may not be effective.

The article explains that efforts to estimate the probability of a another similar disaster were bogus or confused. Meanwhile, science has advanced since the 2000s. We should make a more plausible estimate of that probability, based on acceleration of global heating, then increase it for our continued incomplete knowledge.

Then we should make another such estimate assuming that proposed flood protection plans have been implemented. We can judge whether those plans are worth implementing based on how much they decrease the disaster likelihood.

If even after flood protection it is likely that another disaster will happen within 50 years, the federal government should buy out the properties there, and declare it a protected zone. Let it become beach, or wetlands. We had better be spending that money on decarbonization, which protects the whole world, not on short-term protection of each area by itself.

Despite the cease fire of the Tigray region's forces with Ethiopia, the atrocities continue there, committed by other ethnic Ethiopian militias and the Eritrean army.