Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2015-06-04 221aaaap
Thanks Democrats and Republicans! Bang up job on custodianship!!:
The sixth mass extinction in the history of Earth has already begun and three-quarters of all species could disappear.
How You Can Help to Save Wildlife https://www.animalmatters.org/what-you-can-do/
“The Extinction Crisis is Far Worse than You Think”
“Climate Change is accelerating the sixth extinction”
“World biodiversity has declined alarmingly in half a century: more than 25,000 species almost a third of those known, are in danger of disappearing. Climate change will be responsible for 8% of these:
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“E-cigarettes are putting a new generation at risk for nicotine addiction: truth Ambassador Sam spoke with NPR's Yuki Noguchi about his experience with vaping, quitting, and his efforts to now inspire others to live nicotine-free.”
“The chase is on: Regulators are slowly cracking down on vapes aimed at teens”
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“Florida is taking good action. Learn more about ESG. It adds about a dozen nonfinancial and often expensive considerations to companies. It also requires a net zero CO2 commitment. That is costly.”
“Florida pulls $2 bln from BlackRock in largest anti-ESG divestment”
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“Humanity may be destined to disappear someday, but almost everyone would agree that the day should be postponed as long as possible, just as most individuals generally try to delay the inevitable end of their own life. In recent years, however, a disparate group of thinkers has begun to challenge this core assumption.”
“THE PEOPLE CHEERING FOR HUMANITY’S END
A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.”
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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” Leo Tolsoy
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“Rich people are always writing finance articles that are like, “You know how you can have more money? Stop paying for those little things that give your life a bit of joy while me and my friends continue to pay you a non-living wage.”
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They know democrats won’t retaliate against them:
“"Utility companies have chased higher and higher profits and enriched investors rather than keep prices stable for working families."
With colder winter weather looming, a new analysis released Tuesday shows that the nine largest energy utility companies in the U.S. raked in nearly $14 billion in combined profits during the first three quarters of this year—and dished out roughly $11 billion to their wealthy shareholders—as tens of millions of U.S. households struggled to pay their utility bills due to soaring costs.
The watchdog group Accountable.US found that NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Southern Company, Dominion Energy, Constellation Energy, Eversource Energy, Entergy Corporation, DTE Energy, and CMS Energy Corporation brought in $13.8 billion in the first nine months of this fiscal year. The firms, the nine largest in the U.S. by market capitalization, returned over $11.2 billion to shareholders during that period in the form of dividends and stock buybacks.
The utility giants’ massive profits have come at a cost to U.S. households, roughly 20 million of which are behind on their utility payments as providers continue to raise rates across the U.S., pushing home energy costs to unaffordable levels and prompting warnings of a “tsunami of shutoffs.”
The Center for Biological Diversity recently estimated that utilities have shut off households’ power 440,000 times across 15 states that have made their rates publicly available, a large increase from last year. #corporategreed #UtilityCompanies:”
““Well-heeled utility company CEOs are holding consumers’ feet to the fire with exorbitant energy prices,” Liz Zelnick, director of Accountable.US’ Economic Security and Corporate Power program, said in a statement Tuesday. “Not because they have to, judging by their own high profits and generous giveaways to wealthy investors—but because they can with colder weather on the horizon.”
“To prey on families who use a necessary service with unreasonable and unjustified rate hikes is corporate greed at its worst,” Zelnick added.”
“‘Corporate greed at its worst’: top US utility giants reap $14 billion in profits as households suffer”
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Golly, our leaders sure did a bang up job on keeping to the spirit and intent of their oath of office. You know, the part that includes,…maybe something general,… like,… NOT THROWING THE PLANET INTO A DEVASTATING DEATH SPIRAL IN ORDER TO GET DONATIONS:
Peter Carter:
“ACCELERATING OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
10X faster than past 300 million years
This direct result of accelerating atmospheric CO2, is a planet catastrophe in its own right.
“Alex Gullen
A study published Tuesday 3rd March 2020 in Scientific Reports shows that stony corals (a keystone species), which provide food and shelter for almost a quarter of all ocean species, are preparing for a major extinction event as a result of ocean acidification.”
“Reef-building coral exhibiting 'disaster traits' akin to the last major extinction event”
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“Biden breaks with unions, asks congress to stop rail strike.”
Zelensky: “Can we have another $300 billion in weapons?”
Biden: “Anytime, Jack.”
Railroad worker: “Can I have sick pay?”
Biden: “ Not a chance sonny boy.”
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“Whenever there’s a leak of documents from the remote islands and obscure jurisdictions where rich people hide their money, such as this week’s release of the Pandora papers, we ask ourselves how such things could happen. How did we end up with a global system that enables great wealth to be transferred offshore, untaxed and hidden from public view? Politicians condemn it as “the unacceptable face of capitalism”. But it’s not. It is the face of capitalism.”
“Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism”
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