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How To Deinstitutionalize The Practice Of Human Warfare | Bard
Bard -- World News Trust May 13, 2023 Deinstitutionalizing the practice of human warfare is a complex and challenging task. However, there are a number of things that can be done to move toward this goal. One important step is to educate people about the true costs of war. War is not just about soldiers dying on the battlefield. It is also about the millions of civilians who are killed, injured, ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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ChatGDP: How We End Poverty | Francis Goodwin
Francis Goodwin asks ChatGPT: "How do we end poverty?" ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or opinions. However, according to the United Nations, ending poverty requires ...
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Thawing permafrost may release more CO2 than previously thought, study suggests | Katie Willis
A permafrost thaw slump on the Peel Plateau in the Northwest Territories exposes permafrost rich in ice and sediment. As the permafrost thaws and collapses, sulfuric acid in water breaks down the exp ...
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Record concentration of microplastic in Arctic sea ice | Dr. Ilka Peeken
An AWI scientist is preparing an Arctic sea-ice core for a microplastic analysis in a lab at the AWI Helgoland. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Tristan Vankann April 24, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Experts at ...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos
Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ter ...
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Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre | Alan Rusbridger
As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind the Guardian newspaper's major series on the climate crisis A polar bear in the arctic wilde ...
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Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come | Justin Gillis
Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. CreditKadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times March 30, 2014 -- YOKOHAMA, Japan (New York Times) -- Climate change is alread ...
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Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson
Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin https://worldne ...
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Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain
Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapi ...
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Oo-rah: War and the Free Will of Pool Balls (Fred Reed)
Fred Reed Nov. 2, 2011 (Fred On Everything) -- I read frequently among the lesserly neuronal of the supposed honor of soldiers, of the military virtues of courage, loyalty, and uprightness -- that in ...
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