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Global_Heating_Impacts_Rights

mardi 23 juillet 2019 à 02:00

"Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not only basic rights to life, water, food, and housing for hundreds of millions of people, but also democracy and the rule of law."

Anti_Abortion_history

mardi 23 juillet 2019 à 02:00

The Long, Cruel History of the Anti-Abortion Crusade.

The writer is wrong on one point, when he asserts that "no one is pro-abortion". I am pro-abortion. I expect each additional human baby born today to result in more than one additional premature human death a few decades from now. For this and other powerful reasons, have an abortion, not baby.

However, trying to discourage excess births by cutting welfare benefits for large families is cruel and unjustified.

Children did not choose to be born, or in which families they were born, and growing up in poverty can stunt them physically and mentally for life.

Social_Media_Regulations

mardi 23 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Op-Ed From the Future: "The way we regulated social media platforms didn’t end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse."

Oil_and_Gas_industry

mardi 23 juillet 2019 à 02:00

"Stop obsessing over your environmental 'sins.' Fight the oil and gas industry instead."

I agree, as regards personal consumption. However, working to construct fossil fuel facilities does a specially concentrated form of harm. I don't think that you can justify oil drilling in the name of "feeding your family", because global heating is already causing tens of thousands of American families to become destitute, and any wells you drill will make that worse in the future. The first way to fight the oil and gas industry is to stop working for it.

Palestine_Biometrics

mardi 23 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Fingerprint and face scanning makes the occupation of Palestine less inconvenient, but more oppressive.