1 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* February 27, 2021 This news article was published by _USA Today._ Humanity is facing not only a coronavirus pandemic and a climate crisis, but its existence is also threatened by falling sperm counts because of chemical exposures, a prominent epidemiologist warns in a new book. "Chemicals in our environment and other lifestyle factors in our modern age have harmed our reproductive health to the extent that, in the future, it may not be possible for most people to reproduce in the old-fashioned way," said Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with more than four decades of experience in the field.
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2 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951_* Sperm counts among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand declined more than 59% from 1973 to 2011, according to a meta-analysis Swan co-wrote in 2017. At the current rate, half of men in those countries would have no sperm by 2045, while many others would have very low counts, Swan told _USA TODAY._ "Some of what we’ve been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'Children of Men,' is rapidly becoming reality," Swan writes in her new book with science writer Stacey Colino out this week, "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race." In the book, Swan argues that chemicals pervasive in our world are interfering with the hormones in our bodies and contributing to harmful reproductive health outcomes in men and women.
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3 of 10 *_FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* These "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" include chemicals that are water-soluble and wash out of our bodies, such as phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), as well as "forever chemicals" that do not degrade, such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Forever chemicals:Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in drinking water throughout US. The chemicals enter our bodies through foods and drink, microscopic airborne particles we inhale, and in the products we absorb through our skin, Swan said. They're found in plastic and vinyl, floor and wall coverings, medical tubing and medical devices, children's toys, nail polishes, perfumes, hair sprays, soaps, shampoos and more.
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Import the third world you get the third world.
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4 of 10 *_To the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Phthalates, for example, are commonly consumed through foods, she said. "They’re added to plastic to make them soft and squishy - think shower curtains, rubber duckies, soft tubing. The processed food we eat passes through soft tubing to get into its packaging. When these chemicals in the plastic come in contact with food, the phthalates leave the plastic and leach into the food. When we eat the food, they get into our bodies," she said. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with hormones in several different ways. Phthalates may "trick the body" into thinking it has more testosterone than it actually does, causing the body to stop producing testosterone and increasing the chances the man will be infertile or have a lower sperm count, Swan said. Dr. Pat Hunt, a geneticist at the Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, has been studying the effect of chemical exposures on male and female fertility since a laboratory accident in 1998 alerted her to the harmful effects of household products.
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5 of 10 *_Threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Humanity is facing not only a coronavirus pandemic and a climate crisis, but its existence is also threatened by falling sperm counts because of chemical exposures, a prominent epidemiologist warns in a new book. "Chemicals in our environment and other lifestyle factors in our modern age have harmed our reproductive health to the extent that, in the future, it may not be possible for most people to reproduce in the old-fashioned way," said Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with more than four decades of experience in the field. P
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6 of 10 *_WASP men sperm FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060_* Sperm counts among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand declined more than 59% from 1973 to 2011, according to a meta-analysis Swan co-wrote in 2017. At the current rate, half of men in those countries would have no sperm by 2045, while many others would have very low counts, Swan told USA TODAY. "Some of what we’ve been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'Children of Men,' is rapidly becoming reality," Swan writes in her new book with science writer Stacey Colino out this week, "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race." In the book, Swan argues that chemicals pervasive in our world are interfering with the hormones in our bodies and contributing to harmful reproductive health outcomes in men and women.
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7 of 10 *_Sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951._* These "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" include chemicals that are water-soluble and wash out of our bodies, such as phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), as well as "forever chemicals" that do not degrade, such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Phthalates, for example, are commonly consumed through foods, she said. "They’re added to plastic to make them soft and squishy - think shower curtains, rubber duckies, soft tubing. The processed food we eat passes through soft tubing to get into its packaging. When these chemicals in the plastic come in contact with food, the phthalates leave the plastic and leach into the food. When we eat the food, they get into our bodies," she said.
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8 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61%._* Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with hormones in several different ways. Phthalates may "trick the body" into thinking it has more testosterone than it actually does, causing the body to stop producing testosterone and increasing the chances the man will be infertile or have a lower sperm count, Swan said. Dr. Pat Hunt, a geneticist at the Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, has been studying the effect of chemical exposures on male and female fertility since a laboratory accident in 1998 alerted her to the harmful effects of household products. "Over the years, I've watched the opinions of my scientific colleagues change as the evidence has become increasingly convincing,"
@seb.k38713 минут бұрын
The thing about EVs is that they are inevitable, but the infrastructure just isn't there to make it viable. Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time.
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9 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Hunt said. "There’s no question that sperm counts have fallen. The hypothesis that sperm counts have fallen due to exposure to these chemicals has also gained more and more credence." Some trade groups, however, question the connection between endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse health outcomes, and some scientists have criticized studies for a lack of evidence demonstrating a direct causation between the two. Vinyl Verified, an organization working to promote public perception of vinyl, writes on its website that "a select number of competitive interests and agenda-driven activists have advanced a dishonest campaign to mislead consumers, and deny them their right to make their own decisions about vinyl." And some scientists question whether sperm counts are falling at all. Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at Britain’s University of Sheffield, said that while he believes prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals can affect male fetal development, he remains "unconvinced by the data which suggests that sperm counts have fallen worldwide because of this." "I think science and medicine has accepted this hypothesis uncritically," Pacey said. "Extraordinary claims generally require extraordinary evidence - however, apparently not in this case." Pacey takes issue with the way scientists have reached their conclusions - by conducting retrospective analyses of semen analysis data performed in the past. Pacey said this method of analysis is "weak" because the methods of laboratory andrology, such as training, have changed over time.
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10 of 10 *_The sperm-counts FALLING 61% since 1951 list of threats to human survival past the year 2060 warns_* The 2017 study Swan co-wrote was "an improvement" because it used more control measures, but the study still not did present "extraordinary evidence," Pacey said. "I cannot prove this, but neither can they." Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as well as the National Toxicology Program, said the 2017 study was "impressive" and noted Swan's work also draws on studies in animals, boys and young men. "There are repeated studies by different investigators in different locations that support that sperm counts are falling," Birnbaum said. "It’s complex what might be causing it. I don’t think there’s any one thing. But I do think endocrine-disrupting chemicals one part of the puzzle." 'People are not choosing to lower their sperm count.'
@MIKEMAKESTHINGS4 минут бұрын
So did they arrest the people with illegal guns? And sentence them to 10 years?
@ktaylor31665 минут бұрын
I miss your old apartment tour videos. This recent content is not interesting to me anymore
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This historical account is from the syllabus of your 5 unit -Floriduh- Whorida *Advanced College Placement* course titled _"Critical Race Theory"_ [CRT] Lecture 19: _Red Summer The Race Riots of 1919._ That explains why QMAGAt-Fascists are so ashamed of and are burning books to whitewash from history; its 401 years of *CRT* “Critical-Racist-History” Ku Dunce Qlan *Democratic-voter-suppressing WASP-skinned-massacres.*
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*Paragraphs 1-7* *Lecture 19* _Red Summer The Race Riots of 1919_ This historical account is from _The National WWI Museum and Memorial._ American servicemen returned from the First World War only to find a new type of violent conflict waiting for them at home. An outbreak of racial violence known as the _“Red Summer”_ occurred in 1919, an event that affected at least 26 cities across the United States.
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P2 _Red Summer The 1919 WASP-Skinned Massacres_ Racial tensions across the U.S. were exacerbated by the discharge of millions of military personnel back to their homes and domestic lives following the end of the war. Competition for opportunities in postwar America combined with a radically changed social landscape _p l a c e d_ *W h i t e s* a n d *B l a c k s* _i n_ *c o n f l i c t* with one another, leading to tragic results. World War I intensified the Great Migration, the mass emigration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North and Midwest in hopes of escaping the poverty and discrimination of Jim Crow laws. By the summer of 1919, approximately 500,000 African Americans had resettled in northern cities. In many cases, northern Whites- *many of them newly arrived immigrants themselves* -did not welcome Black newcomers. Black and white photograph of three white men in National Guard uniform holding rifles surrounding a Black man in civilian clothing. Two Black men in civilian clothing observe off to the side. A Black man in military uniform also observes. National Guard during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of _Chicago History Museum.
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P3 _Red Summer_ When the war ended many returning servicemen resented that their vacated jobs had been taken, particularly by African Americans. Black laborers already suffered from a negative reputation in the White working community for their use as low wage-earning strike breakers, or “scabs,” who would keep factories in operation while the employees went on strike. The situation was made worse in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many officials and others, with little or no evidence, suspected Black workers of being pawns of Bolsheviks and anarchists. Many Whites feared that the return of tens of thousands of Black veterans, with experience living abroad and, more significantly, having received military training, would be unwilling to resubmit to traditional political and social subjugation in the U.S. Many Black leaders encouraged returning servicemen to assert themselves and fight for the dignity and respect they had earned through their military service. W.E.B. Du Bois famously called upon Black veterans to not simply “return from fighting” but to “return fighting.”
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P4 _The Race Riots of 1919_ Many Black veterans were mistreated, and in some cases, attacked while in uniform. *Lynchings increased from 64 in 1918 to 83 in 1919.* Membership in the revived Ku Klux Klan, reborn after D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film _The Birth of a Nation,_ skyrocketed into the millions by the early 1920s. Black and white photograph of a house across the street. The front yard and porch are full of white children. Papers and debris are scattered around the scene. Neighborhood children raiding an African American family's house after they were forced out during the *1919 Chicago Race Riots.* Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-40052. Most violent incidents during _The Red Summer of 1919_ were not initiated by fringe white supremacist terror groups. Ordinary white civilians and veterans, unaffiliated with the Ku Klux Klan or any other racist organization, formed most of the mobs. Many of the dozens of incidents that occurred over the course of the year were made far worse because local, state and federal officials hesitated in taking action or turned a blind eye to the violence. Racial violence broke out in some of the nation’s most populous cities. A four-day riot in Washington, D.C. began on July 19 when a rumor that Black men had assaulted a white woman incited mobs to attack local Black neighborhoods and assault random African American individuals on the streets.
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P5 _Summer Race Riots 1919_ Off-duty sailors and recently discharged Army veterans led the mobs. When the local police were overwhelmed by the mayhem, Washington’s Black community banded together to fight back, arming themselves with bats, clubs, pistols and knives. In nearby Norfolk, Virginia, a parade celebrating the return of a unit of African American troops from Europe turned into a bloody melee and two Black servicemen were k!lled. Ultimately, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had to order troops to secure the streets. Photograph of a street outside several apartment buildings. A group of white men run down the street away from the viewer. Some of them are in mid-throw. Mob running with bricks during the *Chicago Race Riots of 1919.* Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum. Washington was closely followed by a massive race riot in Chicago. Rioting erupted on July 27 when a Black teenager drowned after being hit with stones when he and friends drifted near a de facto whites-only beach. Violent rioting across Chicago’s South and West sides and into the downtown lasted days.
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P6 _Race Riots of 1919_ Eventually the state militia was deployed to restore order. Though records vary, the final Chicago casualty count listed 38 fatalities (23 Black, 15 White), 537 injured and upwards of 1,000 Black families made homeless by the burning and rampant destruction of African American neighborhoods. Black and white photograph of a residential street. A Black woman and a Black man walk down the street. The woman is carrying a broom and a valise. The man is pulling a cart with a large trunk and other objects in it. They are accompanied by a white man dressed in law enforcement uniform. Couple moving during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-65492. Likely the single deadliest incident of the Red Summer occurred in and around Elaine, Ark., on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, after a white law officer was k!lled in a sh00tout outside a Black sharecropper gathering. Gov. Charles Brough ordered 500 Army soldiers from nearby Camp Pike to march on Elaine and put down what was labeled an “insurrection” among the Black sharecroppers. Estimates vary as to how many African Americans were k!lled, but upwards of 200 are believed to have lost their lives.
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P7 _RepubliKlan Riots of 1919_ It’s impossible to say exactly how many people were k!lled or injured in the race riots and lynchings of the Red Summer of 1919-official records for some incidents were poor or never documented. We know that hundreds of people lost their lives, thousands were injured and many more were forced to flee their homes. Yet one legacy of 1919 was the growing confidence and desire to fight back-in the streets, in the courts and in the voting booth-for African American communities across the country. _The Red Summer_ saw Black populations fight back aggressively against racial violence and intimidation in ways that were not typical before. *The Red Summer of 1919* did not intimidate African Americans into submission, as their tormentors had hoped. Instead, African Americans emerged from the violence of that bloody year with a greater sense of shared purpose, identity and pride, which served as a vital foundation for the civil rights movement to come.
@normbrinkman9 минут бұрын
Policy makers don't think that there are economic consequences for their dumb ideas until it's too late .
@megamegaO9 минут бұрын
Forget the up to 10k dollar battery replacement too....the fact that we HAVE to get an EV is why people are getting them. I won't, the government will pay ME to get an EV...the governmwnt will pay ME to have a compatible house with a drive way to actually charge the stupid thing. Nah. Im good. I rather stick with my 08 honda civic that i paid 6k for (yes i shoulda paid less but i was carless and the isurence money practically paid for it)
@hispanicsareoursalvation37510 минут бұрын
The news articles that follow prove that the extinction by the year 2060 runaway-AGW that -America- *Republicabortions are causing.* Creates the *climate-refugees* and homelessness within -America- AmurderKKKguna, *at the southern border,* _and all over the planet._ *QMAGAt-Fascists who read My comments can no longer fool themselves into believing that extinction by the year 2060 due to runaway-AGW is a hoax.*
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*Paragraph 1 of 5.* _‘Red alert’ on climate crisis as number of people going hungry around world doubles, UN report says_ March 19, 2024 This news article was published by _yahoo!News._ The number of people going hungry around the world has more than doubled in the past four years, as the world’s leading weather agency sounded a “red alert” on the climate crisis. 2023 was the hottest year on record, the _World Meteorological Organization_ (WMO) declared on Tuesday, echoing a host of other scientific bodies that have drawn the same conclusion. The global average temperature was 1.45 degrees Celsius hotter than in pre-industrial times in 2023, drawing perilously close to 1.5C - a critical threshold agreed by world leaders, beyond which lie potentially irreversible impacts.
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*Paragraph 2 of 5.* _‘Red alert’ on climate crisis_ Scientists have warned that 2024 is shaping up to be another record-breaking year of high temperatures. One of the most concerning findings of the WMO report is the dramatic surge in food insecurity around the world in just a handful of years. Before the pandemic, 149 million people were classed as “acutely food insecure” - meaning they did not have enough food to meet their daily dietary needs. In just four years, that number has more than doubled to 333 million. Heatwaves, droughts and floods have played a role in the hunger crisis, the WMO said. The extreme events, many driven at least in part by the climate crisis, have led to widespread crop failures and prompted vast numbers of people to uproot from their homes, with the most vulnerable at the greatest risk.
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*Paragraph 3 of 5.* _As number of people going hungry_ Prolonged drought in east Africa has pushed millions into food insecurity, with multiple failed harvests and the de@th of livestock on a large scale. In Zimbabwe, nearly 8 million people, half the population, are severely food-insecure. *“The climate-crisis is THE defining challenge that humanity faces and is closely intertwined with the inequality crisis - as witnessed by growing food insecurity and population displacement, and biodiversity loss,” Ms Saulo said.* UN secretary general Antonio Guterres called the report a “distress call” from the planet. “The state of the global climate report shows a planet on the brink,” he said on Tuesday. “Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts.
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*Paragraph 4 of 5.* _People going hungry around world doubles._ “Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are speeding up.” The WMO’s 2023 report also found that: Ocean heat reached a record level in 2023 A third of the world’s ocean cover suffered marine heatwaves daily in 2023 - surpassing the previous record of 23 per cent in 2016 Sea level rise has doubled since the 1990s Glaciers in western parts of North America and the European Alps went through an “extreme melt season”. North American glaciers lost 9 per cent and Swiss glaciers lost 10 per cent of their volume in just the last two years Professor Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol, said the speed with which glaciers are melting is “staggering”. “If that trend continues then we could see much of the Alps devoid of glaciers in a matter of decades,” he said.
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*Paragraph 5 of 5.* _UN report says Sirens are blaring across all major indicators._ The report did contain some good news when it came to renewable energy. In 2023, there was a nearly 50 per cent increase in renewable energy capacity: the highest growth rate in the past 20 years. The WMO called for an urgent expansion of renewable energy and more finance to help developing countries to transition and adapt to extreme weather. “The faster we transition to using [renewables], the more money we save the global economy,” said Dr Cameron Hepburn, professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford. The money pledged by developed nations for climate action and adaptation measures has nearly doubled so far this decade, the WMO said. However, it still falls far short of what is required, and must increase sixfold to meet the scale of climate challenges. “Worryingly, the gap between scientific evidence, action, and finance to mitigate and reduce future impacts is not closing, and the climate emergency alarm bells keep on ringing,” said Dr Robert Marchant from the department of environment and geography at the University of York.
@number1enemyoftheuseless98511 минут бұрын
I saw this problem a mile away 👍
@NoahsArkStorm13 минут бұрын
Paragraph 1of13 _The 6th Mass Extinction in Earth’s History is Underway_ February 10, 2024 This news article was published by _CT Examiner._ With record-breaking droughts, deluges, floods, high winds, and wildfires as commonplace in America as fatal sh00tings, I suggest meteorologists stop referring to climate change natural disasters as 100-year or once-in-a-decade events. It’s as offensive to TV viewers, reeling from successions of damaging storms, as it is to repeatedly hear “unsettled” to describe and forecast them. Each year, life-or-de@th stakes of global warming and climate change become increasingly clear, as do their price tags. Weather events causing over $1 billion in damages, once rare, now occur on average every 20 days, and a landmark government report recently calculated that extreme weather conditions cause roughly $150 billion in damages each year.
@NoahsArkStorm14 минут бұрын
P 2of13 Those costs fall disproportionately on poor and middle classes. In response, _Inflation Reduction Act_ (IRA) investments of $282 billion to date have been a major catalyst for clean energy projects, producing (according to Goldman Sachs) hundreds of such initiatives and 175,000 alternative energy jobs to boot. Unfortunately, despite a battery manufacturing plant in Georgia, Arkansas solar complex, and wind turbine facilities in Colorado, corporate backlash against environmental, social and governance investing (ESG) has hindered faster progress. Despite the urgent gravity of climatologic prospects, here and throughout the world, the U.S. set an output record for oil production last year, and remains on pace to exceed its average daily supply by 1.5 million barrels, much of which is sold overseas before Rachel Carson’s seminal book _Silent Spring_ appeared on bookshelves in 1962, awakening us to toxic chemical “biomagnifications” and devastating long-term effects of pesticides on the environment, it was excerpted in _The New Yorker._
@ani960314 минут бұрын
In the book of Zechariah in the bible its talks of nations gathering against Israel. This is prophecy and will happen. This is just the beginning.
@NoahsArkStorm14 минут бұрын
P 3of13 Immediately, chemical industries went on the attack, branding Carson a communist and trying to discredit the book (to which she devoted years of corroborative research). Absent scientific evidence of their own, facts were undermined by sexist innuendos labeling Carson a spinster, “hysterical,” and “over-empathetic” towards nonhuman life, as if compassion were a flaw. Even suggesting she was an USSR agricultural propagandist, pesticide companies, engaged in such slander, threatened to sue Carson and her publisher. In essence, they used the same kind of “rube baiting” common in today’s politics, ranging from demonstrably false premises to absurd disconnects from facts and logic that attract low-information Americans away from reality, turning them into cult worshipping partisans.
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P 4of13 Fortunately, that didn’t stop the Kennedy administration from ordering studies on long-term effects of DDT and other pesticides, using _Silent Spring_ as an impetus. Carson herself appeared before a Senate subcommittee in 1963. She was 56, dying from breast c@ncer, and barely able to walk to her seat to testify. Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening (D) addressed Carson directly at the hearing. “Every once in awhile in the history of mankind,” he said. “A book has appeared which substantially alters the course of history.” A decade later, President Nixon banned DDT and, among other environmental accomplishments, passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA), one of jewels in the crown of U.S. history and world governance. The ESA was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction due to “economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.” Nixon signed the legislation into law 50 years ago, December 28, 1973 to be exact. Since its passage, 1,662 U.S. and 638 foreign plants, mammals, fish, insects and other nonhuman animals have been listed as threatened or endangered by extinction.
@NoahsArkStorm14 минут бұрын
Paragraph 4of13 Readers may recall the poignant 2018 photo of 26-year old Joseph Wachira lying beside and comforting Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino in the universe, moments before he passed away that March. The picture is testimony to human failure and just how devastating and alarming this anthropogenic mass extinction is. While the ESA has pulled nearly 300 species back from the brink of oblivion, among them high-profile animals such as bison, grizzly bears, bald eagles, humpback whales, Hawaiian monk seals, whooping cranes, American alligators, gray wolves and the California condor, only 54 species have sufficiently recovered to be taken off the ESA list completely. Furthermore, federal government data reveal striking disparities in allocation of money among biological classes and phyla.
@laterob764114 минут бұрын
It cost more then gas to fill up. And that's if you can get a charging spot
@NoahsArkStorm15 минут бұрын
Paragraph 5of13 Of $1.2 billion spent annually on threatened and endangered species, roughly half goes to salmon and steelhead trout on the West Coast and tens of millions to large aforementioned icons including spotted owls, manatees, gopher tortoises, and right whales. While commercially important fish get 67% of funding, mammals are second at 7%, birds 5%, plants 2% and insects a mere 0.5%. Stephen’s kangaroo rats, Montana stoneflies threatened by climate change, Panama City crayfish, California tiger salamanders and scrub lupine go unassisted, comparatively neglected and teetering near extinction for decades. In fact, more than 200 imperiled plants and nonhuman animals have had nothing spent on their behalf to date. To understand the ESA’s importance and inexplicable funding limitations let’s focus for a moment on the philosophical collisions occurring in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an intellectual halcyon and enlightenment period upon which corporate America and radical right alliances have been throwing shade for decades. It was a heady time scientifically, highlighted by Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon (1969), showing how Earth, seen 239,000 miles away, seemed a small world after all. E.O. Wilson wrote _The Insect Societies_ in 1971 and _Sociobiology_ in 1975. Australian philosopher Peter Singer gave us Animal Liberation (1975) describing the scope of carnage and range of suffering we inflict on other sentient beings with which we share this planet.
@NoahsArkStorm15 минут бұрын
Paragraph 6of13 Ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published _The Population Bomb_ (1968), yet to fully detonate only because fossil fuels have unsustainably boosted agriculture to the detriment of soils, water and energy conservation, not to mention climate. British ethologist Desmond Morris provided _The Naked Ape_ (1967) comparing behaviors of the human species to those of other animals, and Richard Dawkins provided _The Selfish Gene_ (1976) building on the principal theory of George C. Williams’ _Adaptation and Natural Selection_ (1966). Equally important, in 1969, ecologist Robert Paine introduced the concept of “keystone species” studying Pisaster starfish and their impacts on rocky Pacific tidal pools. Paine made a profound discovery ─ some species in an ecological community or ecosystem exert undue influences on stability. When Paine removed Pisaster starfish from experimental tidal pools, leaving adjacent areas unperturbed as controls, his findings were counterintuitive. Species diversity and stability were much higher when Pisaster, the apex predator feeding mostly on mollusks, was present rather than excluded. When the starfish were absent, acorn barnacles (Balanus glandula) filled every available tidal pool crevice, crowding out most other species. Then, months later, California mussels (Mytilus californiensis) overran the barnacles. Even algae were displaced, except those attached directly to the mussels. Species were impacted whether starfish prey or not. After a conversation with Paine while investigating Pacific coast kelp forests, ecologist James Estes identified one of the most potent impacts of keystone species on surrounding environments.
@NoahsArkStorm16 минут бұрын
Paragraph 7of13 Without benefit of the ESA and Richard Nixon’s _Marine Mammals Protection Act_ (1972), unprotected sea otters from Alaska to Southern California were nearly hunted to extinction by the late 19th century, mostly for their fur but also by abalone fishermen with whom they competed in kelp forests where abalone abound. The ecological result of the hunting was catastrophic. Kelp forests are dense masses of large algal vegetation anchored to the sea bottom which often figured prominently in episodes of Lloyd Bridges’ syndicated TV series Sea Hunt. Moreover, when healthy, they’re home to a vast number of shallow marine species and nurseries for many deep-water species as well. Estes realized that, along the entire west coast, the only kelp forests that hadn’t been reduced to desolate, unproductive “sea urchin barrens” were offshore an island at the remotest tip of the Aleutians. As it turned out, this was refuge for the one remaining sea otter population that hadn’t been devastated by hunting. Estes would prove sea otters fed heavily on urchins, and sea urchins fed voraciously on kelp. When sea otters were killed, the spiny invertebrate populations exploded, turning thick kelp forests and vast stretches of ocean floor into barrens. Wherever sea otter populations were rigorously protected and ultimately began to expand, sea urchins declined enough for kelp forests to return, abalone included. Although Paine, Estes et al envisioned “high trophic status” (i.e., top or apex) predators to be consummate keystone species, we now know many other animals, including herbivores, can fit the bill. Forest elephants and wildebeest, for instance, while not at tops of African food webs have been shown to be critically important keystone species. John Terborgh, who studied islands created by the Lake Guri dam and reservoir project in Venezuela, not only identified jaguars as keystones in flooded jungles, but also army ants that controlled defoliating leaf cutter ants. Leaf-cutters, 100 times more abundant than army ants, strip large swaths of forest without their control.
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Paragraph 8of13 Circa 1970, the world was awakening to the idea that all things were possible if science and moral philosophy were given higher priorities than profit-making and wholesale destruction of life. Hunting apex predators to near-extinction had long been a ploy to manufacture consent for designating their prey as “game.” The idea of protecting keystone species, especially those designated endangered, such as wolves, bobcats, foxes, and mountain lions, was thusly anathema to hunters and other benefactors of wildlife management fallacies which, when applied to ecological communities (e.g., Arizona’s Kaibab plateau), historically destabilized them. Corporations were also quick to fund disinformation campaigns to undermine protections of species, such as the California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) and snail darter (Percina tanasi), whose fates were linked to old-growth Northwestern forests and the Tellico dam and reservoir project in Tennessee. Part of the fallout from Lewis Powell’s 1971 memo, attempting to reassert corporate power and take back decision-making ceded to environmentalists, academia and citizens at-large, were “think tanks.” The Heritage Foundation, Cato and American Enterprise Institutes were established expressly to legitimize corporate interests and to advance conservative agendas against consensus scientific opposition.
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Paragraph 9of13 Environmental gains have thusly been hard-fought. In the case of keystone species, it’s taken decades to undo the harm produced by hunting or poisoning apex predators and other important wildlife. The current politically motivated claim that offshore wind farms are killing whales across the globe is not only unsubstantiated, but takes time to dismiss, despite not a single shred of hard evidence to support it. Just this week, the Montana Supreme Court upheld a ruling favoring youth plaintiffs in a climate lawsuit after a district judge ruled Montana regulators had to consider carbon emissions before issuing fossil fuel development permits. The decision was reached in a lawsuit by 16 young plaintiffs alleging dire ramifications of climate change and global warming are already being realized. Recently, for instance, it’s been established that Canada’s Mackenzie River is driving intense CO2 emissions in the Arctic Ocean. Despite being Earth’s smallest ocean, the Arctic plays a major role in affecting climate change, annually absorbing as much as 180 million metric tons of carbon per year in its cold waters, making it one of the planet’s critical carbon sinks. A NASA study, however, has revealed that thawing permafrost and carbon-rich Mackenzie River runoff is causing more CO2 release than the Arctic Ocean can absorb ─ one of those tipping points about which we scientists frequently warn. Desperate struggles, historical or fictional, are most compelling when we summon our resolve to face daunting, seemingly inevitable outcomes and tragically insurmountable odds. We ponder the ill-fated Franklin expedition, Jack London’s protagonist in “To Build a Fire,” lionize Robert Falcon Scott and his frost-bitten, scurvy team pulling sledges of meager rations and rock samples through subzero gales and glacial snowdrifts to their doom.
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Paragraph 10of13 Given that human development, meat industries and agriculture destr0y or degrade upwards of 160,000 acres of tropical rainforest each day, I can side with a Hymenopteran defender of rainforests. Before the first H0m0 sapiens 200,000 years ago, the rate of extinction was about one species per million species per year. Now, all due to human activities, ranging from habitat destruction and hunting to pollution and population growth (also invasive species), the estimated rate of extinction is about 1,000 times higher.
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Paragraph 10of13 In _Life of Pi_ (2012), based on Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, the unusual alliance of a teenage boy and Bengal tiger is similarly tasked. Then there’s “Leiningen Versus the Ants” by Austrian-born German Carl Stephenson (1893-1983). Originally published in 1938, it’s the tale of a Brazilian plantation owner, Leiningen, battling a swarm of army ants. Given that a chunk of former rainforest is at stake, perspectives have changed considerably since I first read the story in the mid-1960s. Still on my list of 40 or so greatest short stories, the ants, a super-organism, now seem much more sympathetic as an antagonist.
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Interesting how small cities can manage crime and sanitation, even without the huge tourism income that this city generates.
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Same here in Toronto...
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Ban from city homeless busted
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Paragraph 10of13 Their failures can empower just as much as the crew of the aptly named Endurance led by Ernest Shackleton, dismantling their Antarctic ice-trapped ship, building small boats from its wreckage and crossing the Southern Ocean against all odd or Capt. William Bligh, set adrift by HMS Bounty mutineers, sailing 3,618 nautical miles to Timor and safe haven. Even Robert Redford’s tour de force performance in _All Is Lost_ (2013) can, quoting Kipling’s “If,” “force our heart and nerve and sinew to last (us) long after they are gone.” When generators and sump pumps work overtime due to 40 years political indifference to anthropogenic climate change and global warming, comfort can be found in Redford’s sailor. After colliding with a shipping container on the Indian Ocean, and despite resourceful efforts to the contrary, he repeatedly confronts his mortality, calmly eating what could be his last meal before abandoning ship to face storms and starvation in a raft.
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1 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* February 27, 2021 This news article was published by _USA Today._ Humanity is facing not only a coronavirus pandemic and a climate crisis, but its existence is also threatened by falling sperm counts because of chemical exposures, a prominent epidemiologist warns in a new book. "Chemicals in our environment and other lifestyle factors in our modern age have harmed our reproductive health to the extent that, in the future, it may not be possible for most people to reproduce in the old-fashioned way," said Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with more than four decades of experience in the field.
2 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951_* Sperm counts among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand declined more than 59% from 1973 to 2011, according to a meta-analysis Swan co-wrote in 2017. At the current rate, half of men in those countries would have no sperm by 2045, while many others would have very low counts, Swan told _USA TODAY._ "Some of what we’ve been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'Children of Men,' is rapidly becoming reality," Swan writes in her new book with science writer Stacey Colino out this week, "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race." In the book, Swan argues that chemicals pervasive in our world are interfering with the hormones in our bodies and contributing to harmful reproductive health outcomes in men and women.
3 of 10 *_FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* These "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" include chemicals that are water-soluble and wash out of our bodies, such as phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), as well as "forever chemicals" that do not degrade, such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Forever chemicals:Toxic 'forever chemicals' found in drinking water throughout US. The chemicals enter our bodies through foods and drink, microscopic airborne particles we inhale, and in the products we absorb through our skin, Swan said. They're found in plastic and vinyl, floor and wall coverings, medical tubing and medical devices, children's toys, nail polishes, perfumes, hair sprays, soaps, shampoos and more.
Import the third world you get the third world.
4 of 10 *_To the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Phthalates, for example, are commonly consumed through foods, she said. "They’re added to plastic to make them soft and squishy - think shower curtains, rubber duckies, soft tubing. The processed food we eat passes through soft tubing to get into its packaging. When these chemicals in the plastic come in contact with food, the phthalates leave the plastic and leach into the food. When we eat the food, they get into our bodies," she said. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with hormones in several different ways. Phthalates may "trick the body" into thinking it has more testosterone than it actually does, causing the body to stop producing testosterone and increasing the chances the man will be infertile or have a lower sperm count, Swan said. Dr. Pat Hunt, a geneticist at the Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, has been studying the effect of chemical exposures on male and female fertility since a laboratory accident in 1998 alerted her to the harmful effects of household products.
5 of 10 *_Threats to human survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Humanity is facing not only a coronavirus pandemic and a climate crisis, but its existence is also threatened by falling sperm counts because of chemical exposures, a prominent epidemiologist warns in a new book. "Chemicals in our environment and other lifestyle factors in our modern age have harmed our reproductive health to the extent that, in the future, it may not be possible for most people to reproduce in the old-fashioned way," said Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York with more than four decades of experience in the field. P
6 of 10 *_WASP men sperm FALLING 61% since 1951 to the list of threats to human survival past the year 2060_* Sperm counts among men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand declined more than 59% from 1973 to 2011, according to a meta-analysis Swan co-wrote in 2017. At the current rate, half of men in those countries would have no sperm by 2045, while many others would have very low counts, Swan told USA TODAY. "Some of what we’ve been thinking of as fiction, from stories such as 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'Children of Men,' is rapidly becoming reality," Swan writes in her new book with science writer Stacey Colino out this week, "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race." In the book, Swan argues that chemicals pervasive in our world are interfering with the hormones in our bodies and contributing to harmful reproductive health outcomes in men and women.
7 of 10 *_Sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61% since 1951._* These "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" include chemicals that are water-soluble and wash out of our bodies, such as phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), as well as "forever chemicals" that do not degrade, such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Phthalates, for example, are commonly consumed through foods, she said. "They’re added to plastic to make them soft and squishy - think shower curtains, rubber duckies, soft tubing. The processed food we eat passes through soft tubing to get into its packaging. When these chemicals in the plastic come in contact with food, the phthalates leave the plastic and leach into the food. When we eat the food, they get into our bodies," she said.
8 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING 61%._* Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with hormones in several different ways. Phthalates may "trick the body" into thinking it has more testosterone than it actually does, causing the body to stop producing testosterone and increasing the chances the man will be infertile or have a lower sperm count, Swan said. Dr. Pat Hunt, a geneticist at the Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, has been studying the effect of chemical exposures on male and female fertility since a laboratory accident in 1998 alerted her to the harmful effects of household products. "Over the years, I've watched the opinions of my scientific colleagues change as the evidence has become increasingly convincing,"
The thing about EVs is that they are inevitable, but the infrastructure just isn't there to make it viable. Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time.
9 of 10 *_Add the sperm-counts of WASP men FALLING survival past the year 2060, epidemiologist warns_* Hunt said. "There’s no question that sperm counts have fallen. The hypothesis that sperm counts have fallen due to exposure to these chemicals has also gained more and more credence." Some trade groups, however, question the connection between endocrine-disrupting chemicals and adverse health outcomes, and some scientists have criticized studies for a lack of evidence demonstrating a direct causation between the two. Vinyl Verified, an organization working to promote public perception of vinyl, writes on its website that "a select number of competitive interests and agenda-driven activists have advanced a dishonest campaign to mislead consumers, and deny them their right to make their own decisions about vinyl." And some scientists question whether sperm counts are falling at all. Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at Britain’s University of Sheffield, said that while he believes prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals can affect male fetal development, he remains "unconvinced by the data which suggests that sperm counts have fallen worldwide because of this." "I think science and medicine has accepted this hypothesis uncritically," Pacey said. "Extraordinary claims generally require extraordinary evidence - however, apparently not in this case." Pacey takes issue with the way scientists have reached their conclusions - by conducting retrospective analyses of semen analysis data performed in the past. Pacey said this method of analysis is "weak" because the methods of laboratory andrology, such as training, have changed over time.
10 of 10 *_The sperm-counts FALLING 61% since 1951 list of threats to human survival past the year 2060 warns_* The 2017 study Swan co-wrote was "an improvement" because it used more control measures, but the study still not did present "extraordinary evidence," Pacey said. "I cannot prove this, but neither can they." Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as well as the National Toxicology Program, said the 2017 study was "impressive" and noted Swan's work also draws on studies in animals, boys and young men. "There are repeated studies by different investigators in different locations that support that sperm counts are falling," Birnbaum said. "It’s complex what might be causing it. I don’t think there’s any one thing. But I do think endocrine-disrupting chemicals one part of the puzzle." 'People are not choosing to lower their sperm count.'
So did they arrest the people with illegal guns? And sentence them to 10 years?
I miss your old apartment tour videos. This recent content is not interesting to me anymore
This historical account is from the syllabus of your 5 unit -Floriduh- Whorida *Advanced College Placement* course titled _"Critical Race Theory"_ [CRT] Lecture 19: _Red Summer The Race Riots of 1919._ That explains why QMAGAt-Fascists are so ashamed of and are burning books to whitewash from history; its 401 years of *CRT* “Critical-Racist-History” Ku Dunce Qlan *Democratic-voter-suppressing WASP-skinned-massacres.*
*Paragraphs 1-7* *Lecture 19* _Red Summer The Race Riots of 1919_ This historical account is from _The National WWI Museum and Memorial._ American servicemen returned from the First World War only to find a new type of violent conflict waiting for them at home. An outbreak of racial violence known as the _“Red Summer”_ occurred in 1919, an event that affected at least 26 cities across the United States.
P2 _Red Summer The 1919 WASP-Skinned Massacres_ Racial tensions across the U.S. were exacerbated by the discharge of millions of military personnel back to their homes and domestic lives following the end of the war. Competition for opportunities in postwar America combined with a radically changed social landscape _p l a c e d_ *W h i t e s* a n d *B l a c k s* _i n_ *c o n f l i c t* with one another, leading to tragic results. World War I intensified the Great Migration, the mass emigration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North and Midwest in hopes of escaping the poverty and discrimination of Jim Crow laws. By the summer of 1919, approximately 500,000 African Americans had resettled in northern cities. In many cases, northern Whites- *many of them newly arrived immigrants themselves* -did not welcome Black newcomers. Black and white photograph of three white men in National Guard uniform holding rifles surrounding a Black man in civilian clothing. Two Black men in civilian clothing observe off to the side. A Black man in military uniform also observes. National Guard during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of _Chicago History Museum.
P3 _Red Summer_ When the war ended many returning servicemen resented that their vacated jobs had been taken, particularly by African Americans. Black laborers already suffered from a negative reputation in the White working community for their use as low wage-earning strike breakers, or “scabs,” who would keep factories in operation while the employees went on strike. The situation was made worse in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many officials and others, with little or no evidence, suspected Black workers of being pawns of Bolsheviks and anarchists. Many Whites feared that the return of tens of thousands of Black veterans, with experience living abroad and, more significantly, having received military training, would be unwilling to resubmit to traditional political and social subjugation in the U.S. Many Black leaders encouraged returning servicemen to assert themselves and fight for the dignity and respect they had earned through their military service. W.E.B. Du Bois famously called upon Black veterans to not simply “return from fighting” but to “return fighting.”
P4 _The Race Riots of 1919_ Many Black veterans were mistreated, and in some cases, attacked while in uniform. *Lynchings increased from 64 in 1918 to 83 in 1919.* Membership in the revived Ku Klux Klan, reborn after D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film _The Birth of a Nation,_ skyrocketed into the millions by the early 1920s. Black and white photograph of a house across the street. The front yard and porch are full of white children. Papers and debris are scattered around the scene. Neighborhood children raiding an African American family's house after they were forced out during the *1919 Chicago Race Riots.* Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-40052. Most violent incidents during _The Red Summer of 1919_ were not initiated by fringe white supremacist terror groups. Ordinary white civilians and veterans, unaffiliated with the Ku Klux Klan or any other racist organization, formed most of the mobs. Many of the dozens of incidents that occurred over the course of the year were made far worse because local, state and federal officials hesitated in taking action or turned a blind eye to the violence. Racial violence broke out in some of the nation’s most populous cities. A four-day riot in Washington, D.C. began on July 19 when a rumor that Black men had assaulted a white woman incited mobs to attack local Black neighborhoods and assault random African American individuals on the streets.
P5 _Summer Race Riots 1919_ Off-duty sailors and recently discharged Army veterans led the mobs. When the local police were overwhelmed by the mayhem, Washington’s Black community banded together to fight back, arming themselves with bats, clubs, pistols and knives. In nearby Norfolk, Virginia, a parade celebrating the return of a unit of African American troops from Europe turned into a bloody melee and two Black servicemen were k!lled. Ultimately, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had to order troops to secure the streets. Photograph of a street outside several apartment buildings. A group of white men run down the street away from the viewer. Some of them are in mid-throw. Mob running with bricks during the *Chicago Race Riots of 1919.* Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum. Washington was closely followed by a massive race riot in Chicago. Rioting erupted on July 27 when a Black teenager drowned after being hit with stones when he and friends drifted near a de facto whites-only beach. Violent rioting across Chicago’s South and West sides and into the downtown lasted days.
P6 _Race Riots of 1919_ Eventually the state militia was deployed to restore order. Though records vary, the final Chicago casualty count listed 38 fatalities (23 Black, 15 White), 537 injured and upwards of 1,000 Black families made homeless by the burning and rampant destruction of African American neighborhoods. Black and white photograph of a residential street. A Black woman and a Black man walk down the street. The woman is carrying a broom and a valise. The man is pulling a cart with a large trunk and other objects in it. They are accompanied by a white man dressed in law enforcement uniform. Couple moving during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Photograph by Jun Fujita, courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-65492. Likely the single deadliest incident of the Red Summer occurred in and around Elaine, Ark., on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, after a white law officer was k!lled in a sh00tout outside a Black sharecropper gathering. Gov. Charles Brough ordered 500 Army soldiers from nearby Camp Pike to march on Elaine and put down what was labeled an “insurrection” among the Black sharecroppers. Estimates vary as to how many African Americans were k!lled, but upwards of 200 are believed to have lost their lives.
P7 _RepubliKlan Riots of 1919_ It’s impossible to say exactly how many people were k!lled or injured in the race riots and lynchings of the Red Summer of 1919-official records for some incidents were poor or never documented. We know that hundreds of people lost their lives, thousands were injured and many more were forced to flee their homes. Yet one legacy of 1919 was the growing confidence and desire to fight back-in the streets, in the courts and in the voting booth-for African American communities across the country. _The Red Summer_ saw Black populations fight back aggressively against racial violence and intimidation in ways that were not typical before. *The Red Summer of 1919* did not intimidate African Americans into submission, as their tormentors had hoped. Instead, African Americans emerged from the violence of that bloody year with a greater sense of shared purpose, identity and pride, which served as a vital foundation for the civil rights movement to come.
Policy makers don't think that there are economic consequences for their dumb ideas until it's too late .
Forget the up to 10k dollar battery replacement too....the fact that we HAVE to get an EV is why people are getting them. I won't, the government will pay ME to get an EV...the governmwnt will pay ME to have a compatible house with a drive way to actually charge the stupid thing. Nah. Im good. I rather stick with my 08 honda civic that i paid 6k for (yes i shoulda paid less but i was carless and the isurence money practically paid for it)
The news articles that follow prove that the extinction by the year 2060 runaway-AGW that -America- *Republicabortions are causing.* Creates the *climate-refugees* and homelessness within -America- AmurderKKKguna, *at the southern border,* _and all over the planet._ *QMAGAt-Fascists who read My comments can no longer fool themselves into believing that extinction by the year 2060 due to runaway-AGW is a hoax.*
*Paragraph 1 of 5.* _‘Red alert’ on climate crisis as number of people going hungry around world doubles, UN report says_ March 19, 2024 This news article was published by _yahoo!News._ The number of people going hungry around the world has more than doubled in the past four years, as the world’s leading weather agency sounded a “red alert” on the climate crisis. 2023 was the hottest year on record, the _World Meteorological Organization_ (WMO) declared on Tuesday, echoing a host of other scientific bodies that have drawn the same conclusion. The global average temperature was 1.45 degrees Celsius hotter than in pre-industrial times in 2023, drawing perilously close to 1.5C - a critical threshold agreed by world leaders, beyond which lie potentially irreversible impacts.
*Paragraph 2 of 5.* _‘Red alert’ on climate crisis_ Scientists have warned that 2024 is shaping up to be another record-breaking year of high temperatures. One of the most concerning findings of the WMO report is the dramatic surge in food insecurity around the world in just a handful of years. Before the pandemic, 149 million people were classed as “acutely food insecure” - meaning they did not have enough food to meet their daily dietary needs. In just four years, that number has more than doubled to 333 million. Heatwaves, droughts and floods have played a role in the hunger crisis, the WMO said. The extreme events, many driven at least in part by the climate crisis, have led to widespread crop failures and prompted vast numbers of people to uproot from their homes, with the most vulnerable at the greatest risk.
*Paragraph 3 of 5.* _As number of people going hungry_ Prolonged drought in east Africa has pushed millions into food insecurity, with multiple failed harvests and the de@th of livestock on a large scale. In Zimbabwe, nearly 8 million people, half the population, are severely food-insecure. *“The climate-crisis is THE defining challenge that humanity faces and is closely intertwined with the inequality crisis - as witnessed by growing food insecurity and population displacement, and biodiversity loss,” Ms Saulo said.* UN secretary general Antonio Guterres called the report a “distress call” from the planet. “The state of the global climate report shows a planet on the brink,” he said on Tuesday. “Fossil fuel pollution is sending climate chaos off the charts.
*Paragraph 4 of 5.* _People going hungry around world doubles._ “Some records aren’t just chart-topping, they’re chart-busting. And changes are speeding up.” The WMO’s 2023 report also found that: Ocean heat reached a record level in 2023 A third of the world’s ocean cover suffered marine heatwaves daily in 2023 - surpassing the previous record of 23 per cent in 2016 Sea level rise has doubled since the 1990s Glaciers in western parts of North America and the European Alps went through an “extreme melt season”. North American glaciers lost 9 per cent and Swiss glaciers lost 10 per cent of their volume in just the last two years Professor Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol, said the speed with which glaciers are melting is “staggering”. “If that trend continues then we could see much of the Alps devoid of glaciers in a matter of decades,” he said.
*Paragraph 5 of 5.* _UN report says Sirens are blaring across all major indicators._ The report did contain some good news when it came to renewable energy. In 2023, there was a nearly 50 per cent increase in renewable energy capacity: the highest growth rate in the past 20 years. The WMO called for an urgent expansion of renewable energy and more finance to help developing countries to transition and adapt to extreme weather. “The faster we transition to using [renewables], the more money we save the global economy,” said Dr Cameron Hepburn, professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford. The money pledged by developed nations for climate action and adaptation measures has nearly doubled so far this decade, the WMO said. However, it still falls far short of what is required, and must increase sixfold to meet the scale of climate challenges. “Worryingly, the gap between scientific evidence, action, and finance to mitigate and reduce future impacts is not closing, and the climate emergency alarm bells keep on ringing,” said Dr Robert Marchant from the department of environment and geography at the University of York.
I saw this problem a mile away 👍
Paragraph 1of13 _The 6th Mass Extinction in Earth’s History is Underway_ February 10, 2024 This news article was published by _CT Examiner._ With record-breaking droughts, deluges, floods, high winds, and wildfires as commonplace in America as fatal sh00tings, I suggest meteorologists stop referring to climate change natural disasters as 100-year or once-in-a-decade events. It’s as offensive to TV viewers, reeling from successions of damaging storms, as it is to repeatedly hear “unsettled” to describe and forecast them. Each year, life-or-de@th stakes of global warming and climate change become increasingly clear, as do their price tags. Weather events causing over $1 billion in damages, once rare, now occur on average every 20 days, and a landmark government report recently calculated that extreme weather conditions cause roughly $150 billion in damages each year.
P 2of13 Those costs fall disproportionately on poor and middle classes. In response, _Inflation Reduction Act_ (IRA) investments of $282 billion to date have been a major catalyst for clean energy projects, producing (according to Goldman Sachs) hundreds of such initiatives and 175,000 alternative energy jobs to boot. Unfortunately, despite a battery manufacturing plant in Georgia, Arkansas solar complex, and wind turbine facilities in Colorado, corporate backlash against environmental, social and governance investing (ESG) has hindered faster progress. Despite the urgent gravity of climatologic prospects, here and throughout the world, the U.S. set an output record for oil production last year, and remains on pace to exceed its average daily supply by 1.5 million barrels, much of which is sold overseas before Rachel Carson’s seminal book _Silent Spring_ appeared on bookshelves in 1962, awakening us to toxic chemical “biomagnifications” and devastating long-term effects of pesticides on the environment, it was excerpted in _The New Yorker._
In the book of Zechariah in the bible its talks of nations gathering against Israel. This is prophecy and will happen. This is just the beginning.
P 3of13 Immediately, chemical industries went on the attack, branding Carson a communist and trying to discredit the book (to which she devoted years of corroborative research). Absent scientific evidence of their own, facts were undermined by sexist innuendos labeling Carson a spinster, “hysterical,” and “over-empathetic” towards nonhuman life, as if compassion were a flaw. Even suggesting she was an USSR agricultural propagandist, pesticide companies, engaged in such slander, threatened to sue Carson and her publisher. In essence, they used the same kind of “rube baiting” common in today’s politics, ranging from demonstrably false premises to absurd disconnects from facts and logic that attract low-information Americans away from reality, turning them into cult worshipping partisans.
P 4of13 Fortunately, that didn’t stop the Kennedy administration from ordering studies on long-term effects of DDT and other pesticides, using _Silent Spring_ as an impetus. Carson herself appeared before a Senate subcommittee in 1963. She was 56, dying from breast c@ncer, and barely able to walk to her seat to testify. Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening (D) addressed Carson directly at the hearing. “Every once in awhile in the history of mankind,” he said. “A book has appeared which substantially alters the course of history.” A decade later, President Nixon banned DDT and, among other environmental accomplishments, passed the Endangered Species Act (ESA), one of jewels in the crown of U.S. history and world governance. The ESA was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction due to “economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.” Nixon signed the legislation into law 50 years ago, December 28, 1973 to be exact. Since its passage, 1,662 U.S. and 638 foreign plants, mammals, fish, insects and other nonhuman animals have been listed as threatened or endangered by extinction.
Paragraph 4of13 Readers may recall the poignant 2018 photo of 26-year old Joseph Wachira lying beside and comforting Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino in the universe, moments before he passed away that March. The picture is testimony to human failure and just how devastating and alarming this anthropogenic mass extinction is. While the ESA has pulled nearly 300 species back from the brink of oblivion, among them high-profile animals such as bison, grizzly bears, bald eagles, humpback whales, Hawaiian monk seals, whooping cranes, American alligators, gray wolves and the California condor, only 54 species have sufficiently recovered to be taken off the ESA list completely. Furthermore, federal government data reveal striking disparities in allocation of money among biological classes and phyla.
It cost more then gas to fill up. And that's if you can get a charging spot
Paragraph 5of13 Of $1.2 billion spent annually on threatened and endangered species, roughly half goes to salmon and steelhead trout on the West Coast and tens of millions to large aforementioned icons including spotted owls, manatees, gopher tortoises, and right whales. While commercially important fish get 67% of funding, mammals are second at 7%, birds 5%, plants 2% and insects a mere 0.5%. Stephen’s kangaroo rats, Montana stoneflies threatened by climate change, Panama City crayfish, California tiger salamanders and scrub lupine go unassisted, comparatively neglected and teetering near extinction for decades. In fact, more than 200 imperiled plants and nonhuman animals have had nothing spent on their behalf to date. To understand the ESA’s importance and inexplicable funding limitations let’s focus for a moment on the philosophical collisions occurring in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an intellectual halcyon and enlightenment period upon which corporate America and radical right alliances have been throwing shade for decades. It was a heady time scientifically, highlighted by Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon (1969), showing how Earth, seen 239,000 miles away, seemed a small world after all. E.O. Wilson wrote _The Insect Societies_ in 1971 and _Sociobiology_ in 1975. Australian philosopher Peter Singer gave us Animal Liberation (1975) describing the scope of carnage and range of suffering we inflict on other sentient beings with which we share this planet.
Paragraph 6of13 Ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published _The Population Bomb_ (1968), yet to fully detonate only because fossil fuels have unsustainably boosted agriculture to the detriment of soils, water and energy conservation, not to mention climate. British ethologist Desmond Morris provided _The Naked Ape_ (1967) comparing behaviors of the human species to those of other animals, and Richard Dawkins provided _The Selfish Gene_ (1976) building on the principal theory of George C. Williams’ _Adaptation and Natural Selection_ (1966). Equally important, in 1969, ecologist Robert Paine introduced the concept of “keystone species” studying Pisaster starfish and their impacts on rocky Pacific tidal pools. Paine made a profound discovery ─ some species in an ecological community or ecosystem exert undue influences on stability. When Paine removed Pisaster starfish from experimental tidal pools, leaving adjacent areas unperturbed as controls, his findings were counterintuitive. Species diversity and stability were much higher when Pisaster, the apex predator feeding mostly on mollusks, was present rather than excluded. When the starfish were absent, acorn barnacles (Balanus glandula) filled every available tidal pool crevice, crowding out most other species. Then, months later, California mussels (Mytilus californiensis) overran the barnacles. Even algae were displaced, except those attached directly to the mussels. Species were impacted whether starfish prey or not. After a conversation with Paine while investigating Pacific coast kelp forests, ecologist James Estes identified one of the most potent impacts of keystone species on surrounding environments.
Paragraph 7of13 Without benefit of the ESA and Richard Nixon’s _Marine Mammals Protection Act_ (1972), unprotected sea otters from Alaska to Southern California were nearly hunted to extinction by the late 19th century, mostly for their fur but also by abalone fishermen with whom they competed in kelp forests where abalone abound. The ecological result of the hunting was catastrophic. Kelp forests are dense masses of large algal vegetation anchored to the sea bottom which often figured prominently in episodes of Lloyd Bridges’ syndicated TV series Sea Hunt. Moreover, when healthy, they’re home to a vast number of shallow marine species and nurseries for many deep-water species as well. Estes realized that, along the entire west coast, the only kelp forests that hadn’t been reduced to desolate, unproductive “sea urchin barrens” were offshore an island at the remotest tip of the Aleutians. As it turned out, this was refuge for the one remaining sea otter population that hadn’t been devastated by hunting. Estes would prove sea otters fed heavily on urchins, and sea urchins fed voraciously on kelp. When sea otters were killed, the spiny invertebrate populations exploded, turning thick kelp forests and vast stretches of ocean floor into barrens. Wherever sea otter populations were rigorously protected and ultimately began to expand, sea urchins declined enough for kelp forests to return, abalone included. Although Paine, Estes et al envisioned “high trophic status” (i.e., top or apex) predators to be consummate keystone species, we now know many other animals, including herbivores, can fit the bill. Forest elephants and wildebeest, for instance, while not at tops of African food webs have been shown to be critically important keystone species. John Terborgh, who studied islands created by the Lake Guri dam and reservoir project in Venezuela, not only identified jaguars as keystones in flooded jungles, but also army ants that controlled defoliating leaf cutter ants. Leaf-cutters, 100 times more abundant than army ants, strip large swaths of forest without their control.
Paragraph 8of13 Circa 1970, the world was awakening to the idea that all things were possible if science and moral philosophy were given higher priorities than profit-making and wholesale destruction of life. Hunting apex predators to near-extinction had long been a ploy to manufacture consent for designating their prey as “game.” The idea of protecting keystone species, especially those designated endangered, such as wolves, bobcats, foxes, and mountain lions, was thusly anathema to hunters and other benefactors of wildlife management fallacies which, when applied to ecological communities (e.g., Arizona’s Kaibab plateau), historically destabilized them. Corporations were also quick to fund disinformation campaigns to undermine protections of species, such as the California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) and snail darter (Percina tanasi), whose fates were linked to old-growth Northwestern forests and the Tellico dam and reservoir project in Tennessee. Part of the fallout from Lewis Powell’s 1971 memo, attempting to reassert corporate power and take back decision-making ceded to environmentalists, academia and citizens at-large, were “think tanks.” The Heritage Foundation, Cato and American Enterprise Institutes were established expressly to legitimize corporate interests and to advance conservative agendas against consensus scientific opposition.
Paragraph 9of13 Environmental gains have thusly been hard-fought. In the case of keystone species, it’s taken decades to undo the harm produced by hunting or poisoning apex predators and other important wildlife. The current politically motivated claim that offshore wind farms are killing whales across the globe is not only unsubstantiated, but takes time to dismiss, despite not a single shred of hard evidence to support it. Just this week, the Montana Supreme Court upheld a ruling favoring youth plaintiffs in a climate lawsuit after a district judge ruled Montana regulators had to consider carbon emissions before issuing fossil fuel development permits. The decision was reached in a lawsuit by 16 young plaintiffs alleging dire ramifications of climate change and global warming are already being realized. Recently, for instance, it’s been established that Canada’s Mackenzie River is driving intense CO2 emissions in the Arctic Ocean. Despite being Earth’s smallest ocean, the Arctic plays a major role in affecting climate change, annually absorbing as much as 180 million metric tons of carbon per year in its cold waters, making it one of the planet’s critical carbon sinks. A NASA study, however, has revealed that thawing permafrost and carbon-rich Mackenzie River runoff is causing more CO2 release than the Arctic Ocean can absorb ─ one of those tipping points about which we scientists frequently warn. Desperate struggles, historical or fictional, are most compelling when we summon our resolve to face daunting, seemingly inevitable outcomes and tragically insurmountable odds. We ponder the ill-fated Franklin expedition, Jack London’s protagonist in “To Build a Fire,” lionize Robert Falcon Scott and his frost-bitten, scurvy team pulling sledges of meager rations and rock samples through subzero gales and glacial snowdrifts to their doom.
Paragraph 10of13 Given that human development, meat industries and agriculture destr0y or degrade upwards of 160,000 acres of tropical rainforest each day, I can side with a Hymenopteran defender of rainforests. Before the first H0m0 sapiens 200,000 years ago, the rate of extinction was about one species per million species per year. Now, all due to human activities, ranging from habitat destruction and hunting to pollution and population growth (also invasive species), the estimated rate of extinction is about 1,000 times higher.
Paragraph 10of13 In _Life of Pi_ (2012), based on Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, the unusual alliance of a teenage boy and Bengal tiger is similarly tasked. Then there’s “Leiningen Versus the Ants” by Austrian-born German Carl Stephenson (1893-1983). Originally published in 1938, it’s the tale of a Brazilian plantation owner, Leiningen, battling a swarm of army ants. Given that a chunk of former rainforest is at stake, perspectives have changed considerably since I first read the story in the mid-1960s. Still on my list of 40 or so greatest short stories, the ants, a super-organism, now seem much more sympathetic as an antagonist.
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Paragraph 10of13 Their failures can empower just as much as the crew of the aptly named Endurance led by Ernest Shackleton, dismantling their Antarctic ice-trapped ship, building small boats from its wreckage and crossing the Southern Ocean against all odd or Capt. William Bligh, set adrift by HMS Bounty mutineers, sailing 3,618 nautical miles to Timor and safe haven. Even Robert Redford’s tour de force performance in _All Is Lost_ (2013) can, quoting Kipling’s “If,” “force our heart and nerve and sinew to last (us) long after they are gone.” When generators and sump pumps work overtime due to 40 years political indifference to anthropogenic climate change and global warming, comfort can be found in Redford’s sailor. After colliding with a shipping container on the Indian Ocean, and despite resourceful efforts to the contrary, he repeatedly confronts his mortality, calmly eating what could be his last meal before abandoning ship to face storms and starvation in a raft.