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Economists

samedi 18 janvier 2020 à 01:00

The EU offered to let UK banks do business in Europe in exchange for letting EU fishing boats fish in the UK.

Each of those would make the world a worse place.

Nonviolent activists listed as suspected "extremists"

samedi 18 janvier 2020 à 01:00

The Department of Harassment and Subjugation (DHS) listed the nonviolent Valve Turners as "suspected environmental rights extremists."

To criticize climate defenders as "extremists" shows the conceptual error in using "extreme" to define "dangerous". Not all extremists are dangerous, only those who lean towards violence when there is no justification for violence. When plutocrats have maneuvered almost everyone into disregarding the harm that plutocrats are doing, the few who try to oppose that are by definition "extremists" -- but that doesn't make them a menace to society. Quite the contrary.

The right concept to use here is "fanatical".

Rise in ocean temperature

samedi 18 janvier 2020 à 01:00

The oceans continue heating up. 2019 saw an especially great rise in ocean temperature.

Endangered Australian animal species

samedi 18 janvier 2020 à 01:00

11 endangered Australian animal species that the fires have brought closer to extinction.

Australia's climate denialists

samedi 18 janvier 2020 à 01:00

Australia's climate denialists have "adapted" to evident global heating.

Now they attack a strange straw man by saying that the amount of wildfire can't be related to a specific greenhouse gas reduction policy. That may be true but it isn't pertinent to anything.