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Economic growth and global heating

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

The world cannot continue economic growth and avoid global heating disaster. There is no way to decouple growth from greenhouse emissions soon enough.

I guess we need to take from the rich in order to give poor people a better life.

Criminalizing compassion

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

"Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?" Right-wing regimes, founded on cruelty, are trying to make it so.

The US prisons for border-crossers are insufficient to handle the overload caused by the bully's policies of imprisoning them. This will systematically put them in danger of losing life or limb.

Attacking civilian infrastructure

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

The New York Times says that the US is infiltrating malware into Russia's power grids.

This seems like dangerous brinkmanship to me. Power grids are civilian infrastructure, and should not be targets in war. If Russia is doing this to the US, one could argue that threats in return are justified. But then there should be negotiations for a cease fire in that terrain.

US needs industrial policy

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Here are many reasons why the US needs an industrial policy.

Record heat in Alaska

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

'The Changes Are Really Accelerating': Alaska at Record Warm While Greenland Sees Major Ice Melt.