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Climate crisis terms & info

mardi 18 juillet 2023 à 12:32

Advice for teaching the public to recognize the danger of the gradually advancing but ultimately fatal climate disaster.

I'm inclined to value this advice because it starts by recognizing that the terms "climate change" and "global warming" are too weak to make people recognize this as a pressing danger. They are, effectively, euphemisms, and "climate change" was adopted to be one.

*Nearly 120 Million People in US Under Extreme Weather Alerts.* Worse will surely happen within the next five years. Look up! Look up!

EXIM approval: fossil gas

mardi 18 juillet 2023 à 12:32

The US Export-Import bank approved a loan to support more export of fossil gas from the US.

Sea mining results: large implications

mardi 18 juillet 2023 à 12:32

*Deep-sea mining causes huge decreases in sealife across wide region, says study.* Decreases of over 50% for some species. The decrease was observed a year after the mining, and extended beyond the area that was actually mined.

Racial profiling mitigation, CT

mardi 18 juillet 2023 à 12:32

A state investigation found that state thugs made fake reports about traffic tickets they had issued. But it is not yet clear how many did this.

The practice seems to have been designed to cover up racial profiling in the real issuance of traffic tickets.

Marketing rhetoric: processed foods

mardi 18 juillet 2023 à 12:32

Bullshit marketing claims are very convincing in poor countries whose people have not learned to be skeptical of them. This is teaching a generation of young people to get used to lots of dangerous added salt and sugar.