3. A UNICEF report published last month provides some context to understand these perceptions of young people better.
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4. The findings reflect the number of children impacted today, and these figures will likely worsen as the impacts of climate change accelerate.
5. This week's annual 'United in Science' report concluded that annual global mean near-surface temperature is likely to be at least 1 ยฐC warmer than pre-industrial levels in each of the coming five years, likely within the range 0.9 ยฐC to 1.8 ยฐC. theplanet.substack.com/p/climate-anxiโฆ
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6. The ten highest emitting countries collectively account for nearly 70 percent of global emissions.
And those 33 'extremely high-risk' countries? They collectively emit only 9 percent of global CO2 emissions.
(1/21) On November 6, 1965, the U.S. agreed with Cuba to airlift Cubans to the United States.
In the next eight years, around 300,000 Cubans took advantage of this program and left for the country that had played a central role in its domestic politics for a long time. ๐งต
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(2/21) On that very same day, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's science advisory committee sent him a report entitled Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.ย
Summarized in one line: a warning that burning fossil fuels will change the climate.
(3/21) Although the report correctly warned about the increase of carbon dioxide, it noted that it would take a few more years before climate models could reasonably project future global surface temperature changes.
An older man, sitting on a bench, next to his parked bicycle. He warned to keep the sunlight out of my camera, and I explained that I used the willow tree on my right for that.
Soon he started talking about his life, and local history.
Born in 1944, the scars of the war were still fresh when he grew up.
His father had unwillingly been involved in the execution of ten men that had tried to escape to the liberated south of the Netherlands.
He had been forced to drive them to their execution place.
A armed soldier made sure he would do it, and more soldiers were in the back of the truck.
His father lived with the frustration that nobody did anything to liberate them, it would have been possible.
When he was eight, the dikes broke. Nearly 2000 people drowned in Zeeland.