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LA ghetto polluter charged

dimanche 25 juin 2023 à 02:17

In Watts, a ghetto in Los Angeles, there is a high school, and near it a metal recycling plant which emits a high level of pollution, including brain-stunting lead. That plant has now been charged with felonies for endangering the students.

As a side issue, I criticize the article for referring to high school students as "children" — they'd have to be prodigies to be in high school that young. Of course, that has no effect on the issue of emitting dangerous pollution.

(Satire) Billionaires team-up as rescuers

dimanche 25 juin 2023 à 02:17

(satire) *Coast Guard Sends Another Submersible Full Of Billionaires After The First One.*

Fossil fuel shutdown safe bet

dimanche 25 juin 2023 à 02:17

Economic research concludes that the loss of income from shutting down fossil fuel extraction would fall mainly on the wealthy. We can do it!

Voter-ID law denies very many

dimanche 25 juin 2023 à 02:17

In Britain, at least 14,000 people were denied the right to vote by the Tories' new voter-ID law.

They tended to be from demographic groups one might expect not to vote for Tories.

The actual number denied the right to vote could be in the hundreds of thousands, as many who did not vote said it was because of the voter ID.

Ecosystem tipping-point mastery

dimanche 25 juin 2023 à 02:17

* Amazon rainforest and [1/5 of] other ecosystems could collapse "very soon", researchers warn.*

Perhaps even in a few decades.