Eastern Black or Prairie swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)
South Central Wisconsin, Dane County, USA
2020-07-24 _F2A3630aaa3p
“THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET IS CLOSE TO A MELTING POINT OF NO RETURN
ONCE WE EMIT ABOUT 1000 GIGATONS OF CARBON, MUCH OF THE MASSIVE ICE SHEET WILL MELT IRREVERSIBLY. WE’VE EMITTED 500 GIGATONS SO FAR.”
https://news.agu.org/press-release/the-greenland-ice-sheet-is-close-to-a-melting-point-of-no-return/
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“Why We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan To Destroy Public Education
Our public schools shouldn't be pawns for politicians' ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a crossroads: Fear and division, or hope and opportunity. A great nation does not fear people being educated.”
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“A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy
Transitioning to clean energy would reduce the volume and harm of mining dramatically”
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“A new world order? BRICS nations offer alternative to West
Predictions about the BRICS countries as the fastest growing economies haven't quite panned out. Instead, the alliance is now offering a diplomatic forum and development financing, outside of the Western mainstream”
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) unfortunately has the money to control Washington:
“Biden-Netanyahu spat bursts into full view
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“Austria’s far-right lawmakers walk out of Zelenskyy speech
The far-right politicians said they were protesting against the speech because it violated Austria’s principle of neutrality.”
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A healthy human relationship to nature is THE single biggest prevention measure. And if you think eradicating nature is a solution, you are wrong. The more the world departs from the conditions that existed during the evolution of humans’ most basic physiology the sicker humans will become. That means the Mass Extinction is one big GARGANTUAN health threat to humans, in ways including but NOT limited to viruses.
“Where Will the Next Pandemic Come From?”
“There are multiple factors and vectors that could lead to the next pandemic, but they all have one thing in common…”
Quote: “There are multiple factors and vectors that could lead to the next pandemic, but they all have one thing in common…Financial desperation and the fear of losing their homes or being unable to feed their family contributed to the necessity to continue working and public mingling that spreads illness during a pandemic, as well as protests to “reopen” the economy despite the danger.
Resistance to “socialist” policies like universal healthcare, rent subsidies, and food distribution fuels conservative identity politics and manifests as the “freedom” to gather unmasked and refuse vaccinations. Adhering to ideologies that increase inequality in order to funnel more wealth to the already-wealthy, therefore, both indirectly and directly, made the current pandemic more deadly in the United States than it had to be.
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“Equatorial Guinea confirms 13 Marburg cases after WHO comments”
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“A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be?”
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“Chile detects first case of bird flu in a human”
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“New Deadly Superfungus Can Now Be Found in Half of US States”
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