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"Protected" nature reserves
Many "protected" nature reserves are not protected very effectively;
biodiversity is declining within them, due to causes such as drilling
for oil.
Global heating could also be contributing to that decline. Protecting
a specific area of land won't preventing from getting hotter, and
getting much wetter, much drier, getting burned to the ground, or
getting flooded.
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The wrecker emboldened misogynists
The wrecker has emboldened misogynists to provocatively shout their
contempt for women and demand for power over them.
Some of them will act this out violently. We must expect to see an
increase in rape.
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Tuition fees in UK universities going up
Tuition fees in UK universities are going up, and some students will
need bigger loans to pay for that,
The UK student loan system is fundamentally better than the US system,
because in the UK system the ex-student who has a low income does not
have to repay the loan.
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Power to strip tax exemption
Republicans are trying to create the power to strip the tax exemption
from any organization that officials accuse of "supporting
terrorists", with no requirement to present any reason or evidence for
that accusation.
The group thus attacked would get a hearing, but it is hard to refute
an accusation that offers no specifics. Even worse, there may be no
limits on what sort of action would constitute "support". Would "End
the siege of Gaza" be construed as "support" for terrorists?
I wouldn't be surprised if the bully's followers said so,
This attack on the freedom of political association in the US, this
attempt to subvert the rule of law by injecting arbitrary power,
illustrates the commitment of right-wing extremists to the elimination
of the basic principles of human rights, such as "innocent until
proven guilty."
I expect the Senate to block this bill, for the rest of this year.
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Labour's tax increases and regulations
The complaints from rich people and businesses, that Labour's tax
increases and regulations will be have some deleterious effects, show
that it would fix problems that vested interests don't want fixed.
In a market-based economy, any change in one variable affects many
others. Pulling on one string reshapes the rest of the network a
little. Some of those secondary effects are good and some are bad.
The fallacy in those arguments is that they exaggerate the
significance of the bad secondary effect, inviting the reader to
assume that it will outweigh the primary benefit of the action.
Sometimes that does happen, but you can't take the word of
the complainers for that.
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Fossil fuel deals at climate summit
*Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit.*
I see little hope for efforts to preserve civilization and technology
fro the danger of global heating, but if it is to happen, the COP
conferences as they are are useless window dressing. They mainly
serve the planet roasters as greenwashing.
They do provide funds for some useful conservation activities —
useful, that is, supposing we do save civilization by preventing
global disaster — but they won't help prevent global disaster.
Papua New Guinea has denounced the conferences as a worthless waste of
time. Bravo!
If there is to be any chance of replacing this broken process with one
that will work, it has to start with an ct of defiance like this one.
Then other countries have to follow that lead lead.
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