Which means they won’t change their ways unless they’re required by law to change (and even then, only when the penalty times the probability of getting caught is higher than the profits from continuing anyway).[Read more at bit.ly/3ueZstV by Robert Reich @RBReich]
Their soothing promises of social responsibility are intended to forestall such laws.[Read more at bit.ly/3ueZstV by Robert Reich @RBReich via @guardianUS]
2/ “The water will continue to rise. “It will have a metallic sheen and will smell bad,” Goodell [@jeffgoodell] writes. “Kids will get strange rashes and fevers. [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
@gimpgalore 1/ But the prospect of child vaccines also offers much needed relief for the adults, most of them women, who are tasked with caring for children: teachers, childcare workers and, above all, mothers.[Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]
2/ The ability to vaccinate kids, and the hope for more regular and dependable schooling and childcare that it brings, could be tremendously meaningful for women’s equality. [Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan via @guardianUS]
3/ Women were economically devastated by the pandemic, and childcare responsibilities were a big part of why.[Read more at bit.ly/3EKUOIV by Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan via @guardianUS]
.@KimHeacox I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I believe your article is true and very frightening for anyone living on the Coast. We have to pass Climate Change legislation now. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
...by the end of this century, when Antarctica, which contains vastly more ice than Greenland, also enters a phase of catastrophic melting,...[Read more at bit.ly/3kh06nu by @KimHeacox via @guardianUS] #ClimateCrisis]
...[catastrophic melting by 2100]...the number of annual flood-prone people could reach nearly half a billion. It’s more than farewell, Miami. It’s goodbye, Florida.[Read more at bit.ly/3kh06nu by @KimHeacox via @guardianUS]#ClimateCrisis
@dougiw118@ClimateHuman 1/ Pathways for achieving net zero by 2050 – meaning that in 2050 any carbon emissions would be balanced by CO2 withdrawn through natural means, like forests,...[Read more at bit.ly/3tApAiz by Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman via @guardianUS]
2/ ...in 2050 any carbon emissions would be balanced by CO2 withdrawn ... and through hypothetical carbon-trapping technology – are designed to give roughly even odds for keeping global heating below 1.5C.[Read more at bit.ly/3tApAiz by Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]
3/ But it’s now apparent that even the current 1.1C of global heating is not a “safe” level. Climate catastrophes are arriving with a frequency and ferocity that have shocked climate scientists.[Read more at bit.ly/3tApAiz by Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman via @guardianUS]
A week ago, Andres Oppenheimer [@oppenheimera], a columnist that writes for the Miami Herald[@miamiherald] who nobody could ever accuse of having a left-wing cell in his body, wrote about his visit to Denmark andHis findingThat mostPeople wereNot wearing masks[wrote @canilor]
[Andres] Oppenheimer[@oppenheimera] titled his article “If U.S. had fought Covid the way Denmark did, hundreds of thousands of Americans will be alive,” Miami Herald[@miamiherald] 9/2/21.[wrote @canilor]
Now, Denmark is over 90% white, and the vast majority of those whites being of Scandinavian make-up.[wrote @canilor]
@DAndreAz2@TXRightToLife@thehill The momentum for red states to pursue abortion restrictions picked up this year after the Supreme Court officially reached a 6-3 conservative majority with Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation late last year.[Read more at bit.ly/3yNSXib by By @JustineColeman8]
The conservative advantage in the highest court motivated state legislatures to enact more than 90 abortion restrictions,.[Read more at bit.ly/3yNSXib by BY Justine Coleman @JustineColeman8 via @thehill]
[the 6-3 conservative majority]...prompting the Guttmacher Insittute[@Guttmacher] to name this 2021 as “the worst legislative year ever” for abortion rights in the country.[Read more at bit.ly/3yNSXib by BY Justine Coleman @JustineColeman8 via @thehill]