I don't know if this has registered so much outside Brazil, but speaking as someone who knows the region well, and still has lots of family there: this has been unimaginably horrible and devastating. The climate dystopia has arrived, and it's really, really awful... www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground.
me at 21: donât trust anyone over thirty! me, nearly 40: (pleading, desperate) donât trust anyone over thirty!!!
It's like we are asking China to stop innovating so quickly because we can't keep up. "Wealthy nations fear a wave of low-priced Chinese exports that will overwhelm factories at home. Yellen cited the manufacturing of electric vehicles & their batteries as well as solar energy equipment."
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs. She also said they had âdifficult conversationsâ about na...
Axelsson's piece gets straight at the heart of the issues for Sweden. "SĂĄpmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away. Sweden does look to the past, but with a false, nostalgic gaze. Its vision of history can only lead the country into a narrow and isolated future."
For the past decades, the two communities of which I am a partâSĂĄmi, from the part of SĂĄpmi that falls within Swedenâs borders, and the Swedish majority societyâhave been developing in different diâŚ
"European ports are being used as trading hubs for fuel that is too dirty â and dangerous â to be sold in the EU. No prizes for guessing where it ends up instead." from the Continent www.thecontinent.org
Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the stateâs permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of âcultural genocide.â
The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the stateâs permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of âcultural genocide.â
"The number of Black students in Illinois enrolled in college has dropped by more than a third over the past decade, and Black students like Granville often cite money as the biggest hurdle standing between them and a college degree, according to research from Gallup." www.wbez.org/stories/more...
Nationalize the railroads.
A Train Took His Legs & Career. His Employers at the Railroad Put the Blame on Him. After brakeman Chris Cole lost both his legs on the job, railroad officials removed evidence before state regulators could see it, omitted key facts in reports & suspended him from a job he could never return to.
After brakeman Chris Cole lost both his legs on the job, railroad officials removed evidence before state regulators could see it, omitted key facts in reports and suspended him from a job he could ne...
"Congress removed new compensation for uranium miners and other victims of radiation exposure from the $886.3 million National Defense Authorization Act, which passed Thursday in Washington." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...