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Up to 30 million Americans may be evicted

mercredi 12 août 2020 à 02:00

Up to 30 million Americans may be evicted by the end of September.

Since there won't be many would-be tenants with money to rent those apartments, some of the landlords may decide they have little to gain my evicting their current tenants. At least, I hope so. But what we need is for a decent government to protect them. And pay their rent, if the landlord is a person who isn't rich.

It's time to tax the obscene wealth of the rich

mercredi 12 août 2020 à 02:00

Sanders: *The pandemic is helping the rich get even richer. It's time to tax their obscene wealth.*

Global heating is extending the range of Lyme disease

mercredi 12 août 2020 à 02:00

Global heating is and other diseases spread by ticks.

Displacement of more than a million across the Sahel

mercredi 12 août 2020 à 02:00

*[Covid-19 is expected] to displace more than a million across the Sahel, new tool predicts.*

A letter from the Arctic

mercredi 12 août 2020 à 02:00

*'As the tundra burns, we cannot afford climate silence': a letter from the Arctic.*

The article treats withdrawing from the Paris treaty as if it were a real and enormous act of climate sabotage. To be sure, the wrecker is committing large real acts of sabotage also, but this is only symbolic sabotage. The Paris climate treaty specified an insufficient goal, its signatories did not pledge enough to reach that goal,and most of them are doing much less than what they pledged.

Pulling out of the Paris treaty is only a demonstration of bad faith.

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