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Future children

lundi 7 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Extinction Rebellion activist: "I'm scared of my own future. How could anyone think about having kids now? It's not even just about the carbon footprint and population growth … What kind of world are you thinking they're going to live in?"

Giant sequoias

lundi 7 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Human fire-suppression practices have made giant sequoia trees vulnerable to fire. Droughts caused by global heating make them vulnerable to beetles.

Global heating could make the places they now live unsuitable for them. They may need to grow in other places — but we cannot predict the microclimate of a particular place in 30 years, let alone the different microclimate in 60 years, ore the even more different microclimate in 90 years.

Sleeping in same room

lundi 7 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Salafi Arabia's repressive clerics must be horrified that the country will allow a foreign couple to stay in a single hotel room.

If you do this, I suggest you not tempt fate by getting into the same bed together.

Meanwhile, you can show your disgust for the murder of Khashoggi, and the many political prisoners, by taking your vacation in some other country.

Protect bilbies

lundi 7 octobre 2019 à 02:00

A fenced-off national park in Australia will provide a safe habitat for the threatened bilby.

Keeping cats and foxes out of such a space requires maintenance. A few decades from now, if civilization is too hard pressed, people will let those fences fall apart, and cats and foxes will kill the bilbies.

Perhaps before that happens it will be possible to wipe out the feral cats and foxes in Australia, as well as the cane toads and rabbits, and other introduced species that shouldn't be there.

Might it be possible to clone the extinct lesser bilby?

Voting machine in Georgia

lundi 7 octobre 2019 à 02:00

Georgia is about to install insecure voting machines state-wide.