This must be a moment in which people ask fundamental questions about the rationality of our current health care system, which exists to make corporations as much profit as possible, regardless of the consequences.
It's true that "social distancing forever" and "mass deaths, but normal economy" is a false choice.
But the fact that so many people think it is the choice speaks to how poorly political leaders have explained what comes after the initial period of social distancing.
It is a horrifying absence of political imagination to prefer letting millions die to, say, trying an appropriately sized basic income and mobilizing the economy to surge health resources for 3-6 damn months.
Our choices are not mass economic deprivation or mass death.
We all should be alarmed at this latest onslaught. We have to do more to deter and combat foreign interference in our elections. https://t.co/OeUwjmgTbw
Not one single question about the climate crisis.
Not one single question about the climate crisis.
Not one single question about the climate crisis.
This is the existential crisis of our time. Not one single question, and that’s completely inexcusable. #DemDebate
For more than 50 years, the petroleum industry and politicians have been warned about the climate risks of burning fossil fuels. Yet the top 20 fossil fuel firms have continued to expand and have been behind a third of all carbon emissions since 1965.
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At the moment, the planet is on track to warm more than three degrees Celsius by century's end, which one recent study found would do $551 trillion in damage—more money than currently exists on the planet.
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A dire new report on climate change concludes human activities have caused glacial melt and sea-level rise to happen at an even faster rate than scientists had previously projected. https://t.co/hTUY12Ef5i
If you're keeping track, planet earth had the hottest June ever recorded, the hottest July, the 2nd-hottest August, and now the hottest September. Please join the fight for a livable future
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