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Wealthy white people are happy to destroy the planet. No shits given.
The white supremacy of the 10% is a disgrace.
Holidaymakers in Greece warned of heatwave risks | euronews - YouTube
Greek officials are warning foreigners visiting the Mediterranean country over summer of the dangers associated with the extreme weather.
Lots of Republican Governors making disaster declarations recently. Our daily headlines are now a steady stream of one climate disaster after another.
And yet, we'll insist on our meat. Our air travel. Our purchase of whatever pleases us. We throw the future away every day with our choices.
Record flooding inundates northwest Iowa, prompts evacuations, isolates one city
"I can tell you that the devastation is severe and it's widespread," Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said at a news conference Sunday afternoon in Des Moines.
In front of our eyes, and yet the vast majority in the US will pretend there's nothing they can do.
Climate crisis driving exponential rise in most extreme wildfires | The Guardian
Scientists say this is climate change “playing out in front of our eyes”.
The analysis of satellite data showed the number of extreme fires had risen by more than 10 times in the past 20 years in temperate conifer forests, such as in the western US and Mediterranean. It has increased by seven times in the vast boreal forests in northern Europe and Canada. Australia was also a hotspot for these devastating fires.
Just one more effect of the climate emergency we are now in: Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming - YouTube
In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of its beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water. Stephanie Sy reports from Kansas for our series on the impact of climate change, Tipping Point.
Anyone can make this kind of easy lifestyle change voluntarily today and be a part of the solution. Or don't and know that every day you're making it worse. Your choice.
We need to talk about your starving grandchildren. - YouTube
You might not want to think about this one, but our scientists tell us if we carry on the way we are now, the global food system will have completely broken down by the time a child born today hits retirement age. The good news is, it can be solved. The question is, can we be bothered?
Apple has added another important utility feature to iPadOS 18: the Files app is able to erase and reformat drives. Kaleb Cadle of ByteBits writes:
Now in the Files app on iPadOS 18, when we right click or hold press on an external drive and select “Erase”, new options appear for reformatting the drive. Currently, the format options here are APFS (with options for Case Sensitive or Encrypted), ExFAT, and MS-DOS (FAT), the same format options available in Disc Utility (with the exception of macOS extension formats which wouldn’t make much sense for this feature on iPadOS).
They're really showing the world who they are. They're proud of their dehumanization of Palestinians and their war crimes. There's no shame for them, just pride in their deliberate acts of cruelty.
Reuters reports that Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday.
According to the family of Azmi, there was an arrest raid, and he was injured during the raid, and when the family asked for an ambulance, the army took Mujahed, strapped him on the hood and drove off.
‘Multiple disasters all in one day’: New Mexico’s brutal week of fire and flood | The Guardian
It’s part of a troubling trend. By Rye’s tally, the number of state-declared disasters in New Mexico has quadrupled since 2019. “We are seeing an increase in the impacts to our state in various ways and it has become increasingly challenging over the last couple of years,” she said. “And we are not out of the clear yet.”
The threats are only going to rise as the world continues to warm.
“What I do have expertise in and what I do have authority to do is make assessments of criminal conduct. And we’ve done that in relation to the recent events and you can see that in the report. And the only conclusion you can draw is that the Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world.”
Youth Activists Score Huge Climate Win in Hawaii – Mother Jones
Hawaii officials have announced a “groundbreaking” legal settlement with a group of young climate activists, which they said will force the state’s Department of Transportation to move more aggressively towards a zero-emission transportation system.
Mehdi Hasan's latest is important for anyone that may not have a grasp of the role AIPAC is playing in pushing US politics further and further to the right.
“We need to talk about AIPAC” - YouTube
In Mehdi Hasan's latest monologue, he unpacks how and why AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most powerful lobbying group in the US, is spending record amounts of money to topple - not for the first time - a pro-Palestinian Congressman.
Climate activists, Stonehenge and art: it's about protecting humanity's heritage. But, also, it's about prompting the public to consider and debate: what is the common heritage of humanity?
More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca | Hajj | The Guardian
The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, with more than half of the victims unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.
Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions - The New York Times
Between May 2023 and May 2024, an estimated 6.3 billion people, or roughly 4 out of 5 people in the world, lived through at least a month of what in their areas were considered abnormally high temperatures, according to a recent analysis by Climate Central, a scientific nonprofit.
The damage to human health, agriculture and the global economy is just beginning to be understood.
LOL, you think it's costing a lot now? Just wait.
Climate disasters around U.S. are costing Americans billions - YouTube
NBC News’ Bill Karins details how intense weather around the country is wreaking financial havoc. The data from the weather agency shows the country might be on track to match or even pass the cost of 28 individual billion dollar weather disasters last year.
Louisiana to require the 10 Commandments displayed in every public school classroom : NPR
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.
The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.
There's a lot of confusion and contradiction in the recent back and forth between Netanyahu and Blinken on restrictions of weapons shipments to Israel. Biden has denied that he is withholding weapons and, in fact, is pushing against some in his own party:
Biden has pressed forward with aid despite opposition from within his own Democratic party, where progressives have accused Israel of committing genocide in a war that has now killed more than 37,000 Palestinians.
Meanwhile as US claims that Israel supports the ceasefire deal that is being negotiated Netanyahu pledges to “finish the job”.
Multimedia exploration of Juneteenth:
Juneteenth | National Museum of African American History and Culture
On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day. With the principles of self-determination, citizenship, and democracy magnifying their hopes and dreams, those Texans held fast to the promise of true liberty for all.
Up First briefing: Why Juneteenth is for all Americans : NPR
It commemorates the day federal troops arrived to enforce The Emancipation Proclamation in Texas some two years after it was issued. More broadly, though, it celebrates the end of chattel slavery. To my mind, it celebrates the beginning of true freedom because — as moral philosophers have long known — no one is free until everyone is because oppression ensnares the oppressor as well as the oppressed. Anyone who has ever been in a toxic relationship knows that.