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When I started working at Population Media Center, I had a lot to learn about population. Out of all the environmental organizations, publications, and conferences I had connected with – I couldn’t recall learning much about population growth. I soon...
by populationmediacenter
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 06:41 AM PDT
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Hope can be a terrible thing. Our history has seen many stalemates. The natural solution to stalemates is a compromise. What destroys one's will to compromise? Futile hope. The belief that absolute victory is possible. That's why all of us are guilty....
by HiFromIndia
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 03:38 PM PST
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Happy birthday, Markos Moulitsas. May the years be better and better. I love Daily Kos. That's a quantitative fact. Most of my online consumption and contributions have come through Daily Kos. Not counting work, you host over 90% of my public writing....
by greenandblue
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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“Because of our selfishness, we have failed in our responsibility to be guardians and stewards of Earth. We have polluted and despoiled it, endangering our very lives.” – Pope Francis “Say what?” – Many “Christian” Republicans Maybe it’s just time we...
by RickElia
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 06:32 AM PDT
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All I needed was a replacement detergent drawer for our washing machine. And somehow I ended up at the Mountains of Madness with H.P. Lovecraft as my customer service rep. We’ve got a front-loading stackable washer — that we don’t stack. The soap...
by Robert Dobbs
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 10:04 PM PDT
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Sequestration: the action of sequestering or isolating a substance……preferably for carbon a long time. Caveat 1: IANACS (I am not a climate scientist); I do understand science and the scientific method though. Sorry been busy with projects and fell...
by MDGluon16
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 12:34 PM PDT
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Sequestration: the action of sequestering or isolating a substance……preferably for carbon a long time. Caveat 1: IANACS (I am not a climate scientist); I do understand science and the scientific method though Caveat 2: The best ways to lock up carbon...
by MDGluon16
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 01:25 PM PDT
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Climate:Something we depend on being somewhat predictable. Caveat 1: IANACS (I am not a climate scientist); I do understand science and the scientific method though Caveat 2: We cannot go back to a rural, agrarian, low tech society (without massive...
by MDGluon16
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on Sun Apr 23, 2023 at 02:26 PM PDT
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It’s not a surprise that the fossil fuel delegates at the COP27 UN climate summit decided that burning fossil fuel is fine. Considering the catastrophic consequences of global climate change, it’...
by halfbaked
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 01:20 PM PST
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LGBTQ+ people—and especially LGBTQ+ people of color—face both explicit and implicit violence and harassment on an ongoing basis pretty much everywhere in the world. Has progress been made? Yes. Is there a lot more work to be done? Also yes. It’s not...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Mar 21, 2022 at 01:57 PM PDT
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On Batman v. Superman (Warner Bros. name, not Snyder nor Terrio's idea) Chris Terrio wrote an actually good script (like he always does. See movie: Argo) he toned down the excessive unnecessary darkness and put his foot down; so Batman would stop...
by Kaizar
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on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 11:18 AM PDT
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First it was movie Studios trying to train us consumers (specifically movie goers) to watch movies in Monoscopic 2D. Then Warner Bros. and Paramount became the last 2 studios still trying to do that. Luckily all of them have learn their lesson after...
by Kaizar
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on Thu Jan 20, 2022 at 11:59 AM PST
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Global Carbon Budget 2021 Abstract https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/ Full preprint: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/essd-2021-386.pdf 2020, Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) declined by 5.4 % relative to...
by gmoke
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on Tue Jan 11, 2022 at 06:21 PM PST
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Someone, somewhere really ought to take the road less traveled, go against the grain and be a divergent thinker. So here goes. It may not be obvious to most, but Democrats and the Democratic Party make a major mistake, giving ground and forfeiting...
by Stuart Heady
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on Thu Oct 21, 2021 at 12:23 PM PDT
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Ants, zebras, monkeys, snakes: each member of a species looks and acts pretty much like all the rest. They can tell one another apart, but we can’t, unless we study them closely. The differences are tiny; the similarities, vast. The same goes for...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Jul 03, 2021 at 01:36 PM PDT
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UPDATED 2Mar2021. ▓ Foreign Policy and International Events Group 🔶 ■ Diary List ■ Members ■ Profile/mission statement: https://www.dailykos.com/user/FP%20Int%20Group/ Group founded Feb 16, 2021 by Torilahure — A reblogging and discussion group...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 12:45 PM PST
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The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for its ability to promote systemic change not only in the U.S. but throughout the global community. The nomination was issued by Norwegian member of parliament...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Feb 01, 2021 at 12:35 PM PST
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Following is a brief overview of the Covid-19 global pandemic in weekly snapshots to illustrate its growing geographic spread over time by noting the number of countries (#) meeting various thresholds each week, together with global weekly and...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Jun 19, 2020 at 12:04 AM PDT
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On a new Podcast called The Blue Continent Podcast, distinguished international trade expert, Simon Lacey , currently senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, discussed America’s global ...
by BlueContinent
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on Mon May 11, 2020 at 06:28 AM PDT
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We need new words and concepts. Word can and does go “viral” on the internet. The internet is the glue that is now holding the modern world together. We can resist the destruction of Life ...
by linkage
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on Tue Apr 07, 2020 at 01:36 PM PDT
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