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Global heating vulnerability

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Of all the countries on Earth, the US is the second-most-vulnerable to damage from global heating.

China is building more coal capacity that would amount to a 25% increase.

Could it be that China wants to provoke disaster because the US will lose more from it than China will? That's the same as the bullshitter's attitude towards a trade war. No, I'm not seriously proposing that theory.

The most vulnerable country is India, which China is not particularly friendly toward either.

Smith and Wesson

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 à 02:00

The stockholders of American Outdoor Brands voted to require the company to record what its gun company subsidiary, Smith and Wesson, is doing to monitor and reduce gun violence.

Trade with Iran

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 à 02:00

EU, China and Russia set up a special financial institution to help insulate their trade with Iran from US sanctions.

Moving glaciers

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Glaciers can move up to 80 feet per day. Global heating has made many glaciers move fast enough to change visibly from day to day.

Biometric id in India

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 à 02:00

India's supreme court ruled that many important activities may not require a biometric id number. However, since paying taxes does require it, in practice it is impossible for Indians to escape.