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Clean-up bill
*Without Reform to Federal Oil and Gas Drilling Requirements,
U.S. Taxpayers Could Face a Nearly $18B Clean-Up Bill.*
The decision to count only drilling on federal lands omits a large part of
the oil drilling, but the fossil companies are clever at skipping out on
their future responsibilities.
Ultimately the public will have to pay for
much of that cleanup too.
But full cleanup is not always feasible. The oil from the Big Spill
is still present on beaches on the US Gulf Coast, and still slowly
poisons wildlife, although it does not attract attention by killing
massive numbers of animals at once.
These costs of cleanup are just a tiny fraction of the cost of the
additional disasters that burning the petroleum will cause.
But this
fraction is easy to prevent, so we would be fools not to do so.
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Relentless bombing
*Palestinians in Khan Younis report relentless bombing. People are
not even safe in Rafah as Israeli bombardment spreads across the south
of the Gaza Strip, and living conditions are described as desperate.*
*20 people killed in airstrikes that hit two homes in Rafah, a town IDF
told Palestinians to flee to.*
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Climate protester arrests
*[UK thugs] make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month.*
Some of them were kept in jail for days.
The true supporters of the planet roasters will arrest any number of
people to keep the oil and profits flowing. As more people recognize the
deadliness of the path we are on, the repression required will increase.
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Global heating
Global heating effects are destroying artifacts that have been preserved
in British bogs for hundreds or thousands of years.
These include handwritten letters and documents from Roman times.
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Urgent: Oppose school voucher programs
US citizens: call on your state education board to oppose school
voucher programs and protect our public education system.
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Issam Abdallah
An Israeli tank fired several shells at a group of journalists in Lebanon,
killing one and injuring six more.
There was no fighting nearby and the Israeli army could not have been
unaware of the journalists.
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Snooping and censoring book readers
Activists in various political causes have noticed that e-books give
distributors of books power to snoop on readers and power to censor
books they disapprove of.
Their campaign does not recognize that these dangers come out of the
DMCA, making them reasons to demand repeal of the DMCA, and that the
only effective and lasting way to eliminate the dangers is to repeal
the DMCA.
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Climate policy
*We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say.*
This approach would be morally legitimate, but I tend to think that
it would not work in practice -- governments will not grant scientists
that sort of power until they are ready to carry out the measures that the
know conscientious scientists would have to establish.
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