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Overfishing

lundi 17 septembre 2018 à 02:00

The ocean off Tanzania is overfished — more boats are going out, and the catch is declining. A large cause of the decline is the foreign fishing boats that fish illegally.

In the long term, what Tanzania needs is fewer births, not more food.

Repression of insults in the UK

lundi 17 septembre 2018 à 02:00

The UK increasingly represses mere insults. It started with insults based on bigotry, but now it is expanding to all insults.

I disagree with the author on one point: I think it is correct to punish crimes of violence more heavily when they are based on bigotry, such attacks represent a campaign of violence that could tend to spread. It's proper for the state to act to stamp that out.

Progressive organizing among Amish

lundi 17 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Progressive organizing among the Amish.

Cattle overproduction

lundi 17 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Europe is producing more cattle than the environment can stand, and will have to cut in in half.

Global heating and hurricanes

lundi 17 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Global heating is making category 6 hurricanes possible; we will surely see them in the future, and they could submerge entire cities.