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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

When somebody does the right thing for the wrong reasons, the impact is the same.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Killing off minorities (who are exposed to more of it) is seen as a feature

 

This post uses a gift link which makes access to the article free with registration. Not including an archive.is paywall bypass because Hearst has lawyers who don't like that.

 

This post uses a gift link which makes access to the article free with registration. Not including an archive.is paywall bypass because Hearst has lawyers who don't like that.

 

The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo Wednesday stating that federal immigration agents should arrest refugees who have not yet obtained a green card and detain them indefinitely for rescreening — a policy shift that upends decades of protections

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The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo Wednesday stating that federal immigration agents should arrest refugees who have not yet obtained a green card and detain them indefinitely for rescreening — a policy shift that upends decades of protections

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Een prettige leefomgeving, weerbaarheid tegen klimaatverandering en een betere gezondheid. Dat kan alleen als de overheid en het bedrijfsleven stappen zetten. Dat is de kern van een rapport van de Wetenschappelijke Klimaatraad, dat gedrag als uitgangspunt neemt.

 

An executive order aimed at ramping up production of glyphosate set off alarms among supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

XR has US chapters. They've mostly done protests on the scale of dozens to hundreds of people.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The big question isn't whether they'll break the law: it's whether they've alienated the local police enough that they'll do something besides look the other way.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

They're actively monitoring social media for "antifa" so probably got on their list long ago.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

That at least is physically possible. Its also well under half the problem. So things get worse a bit more slowly if that’s all we do. It takes a lot more to actually stabilize temperatures

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago

Probably makes the guards lives easier if the kids are distracted

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sri Lanka decided to ban imported fossil fuel derived fertilizer and failed to adequately replace it a few years back.

It is really possible to mess this one up, and that's only one of many places fossil fuels are used in agriculture

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Coal, oil, and gas, all three need to be stopped. They are the bulk of the problem, but not all of it; we also need to end some industrial chemicals like SF₆ stop deforestation, and sharply reduce methane production in agriculture.

Cold turkey will kill a lot of people as existing food systems depend on fossil fuels for everything from nitrate fertilizer manufacturing to food delivery.

A managed phase-out is far preferable because of that.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 21 hours ago

FDR had high enough taxes on the wealthy.

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