Nadina LaSpina: "If they live long enough, all will experience disability. It’s in order not to face their own vulnerability and mortality that many would rather put up that wall, which is pity, and at times can also be contempt."
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Your Green New Deal would destroy Alaska’s economy.
I invite you to visit Alaska, and I can personally show you how we responsibly develop America’s natural resources better than anyone. You’re welcome anytime.
Holy toledo, they're talking about essentially shutting down California's power grid this weekend because of fire risk. Life in the climate crisis feels scary in lots of ways, and this is one.
It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up...always, always, always. This week @aoc brought the 🔥🔥🔥. And here’s why I think there’s trouble ahead for Zuck. This isn’t the end of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s the beginning
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The climate crisis threatens our way of life, and we must decarbonize our economy & way of life to save the planet.
I wish it wasn’t such a bad situation too, but previous generations failed to act & now young people need to deal w the science of our future & create opportunity.
Walmart CEO’s salary last year: $23,618,233
A Walmart worker’s median pay last year: $21,952
The issue isn’t that these employees aren’t working hard enough. It’s that our system doesn’t value workers. And it’s a moral outrage.
I dearly love my native state of California; the thought that parts of it may now be 'too dangerous to inhabit' scares and saddens me. And where it goes, many other places will follow. We've simply got to slow down the climate crisis
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This is about as clearcut a case of climate refugees--who did not cause the crisis from which they suffer--as you are going to find. The UN estimates we may see a billion of our brothers and sisters in this trouble this century
“The climate crisis and the immigration crisis are tightly linked... So we should probably think about how to justly deal with that fact, instead of erecting walls and building cages.” @billmckibben https://t.co/17j4hvkjrW
After a long investigation, the intl. People's Permanent Tribunal finds that fracking is inextricably tied to violations of human rights and calls for a ban
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