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2023-04-27 at 12:55 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastAlarming rates of teen suicide continue to increase in the US
In the United States suicide has become the second leading cause of premature death among those ages 10 to 24; it is the leading cause of death among teens ages 13 to 14.
Results, published online ahead of print in the journal Annals of Pediatrics and Child Health, showed that among children ages 13 to 14, suicide rates more than doubled from 2008 to 2018, following a rise in social media and despite significant declines in suicide mortality in this age group previously from 1999 to 2007. These statistically significant increasing trends were similar by sex, race, urbanization and census regions.
From 2007 to 2018, in suicides among U.S. youths aged 13 to 14 years in metropolitan areas (large central, large fringe, medium and small), 56.7 percent were due to hanging, strangulation or suffocation, while in 34.7 percent, firearms were used. -
2023-04-26 at 10:59 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 10:07 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe Elite monetise climate change:
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2023-04-26 at 10:03 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 7:27 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 5:21 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 5:01 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 4:34 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 4:13 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 3:33 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastOcean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Even Want to Talk About It
"One spoke of being 'extremely worried and completely stressed,'" the outlet reported regarding a scientist who was approached about research published in the journal Earth System Science Data on April 17, as the study warned that the ocean is heating up more rapidly than experts previously realized—posing a greater risk for sea-level rise, extreme weather, and the loss of marine ecosystems.
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2023-04-26 at 3 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 2:31 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastSpeaking of hoaxes destroying the fabric of society, have you heard that nobody wants to work anymore? And because of that, child labor is making a comeback.
It's a symptom of unfettered capitalism. A bunch of people retired early, became permanently disabled, or straight up died, and the profit machine needs to keep crunching along or else Bad Things Will Happen, so: Child labor! Raise the retirement age, top it off with some forced birth and strictly enforced gender roles for good measure. It's quite simple when you identify the root cause. -
2023-04-26 at 2:15 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-26 at 12:46 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastClimate Inequality Report 2023 (The State of Unequal Contributions to and Unequal Impacts of Climate Change)
The ongoing climate crisis is largely driven by a fraction of the total world population. The top 1% of emitters in the world population are responsible for more CO2 emissions than the bottom 50%, with a 72x higher emissions per capita (tCO2e/person). Additionally, the highest emitters have almost doubled their CO2 footprint since 1990. This 1% population group is responsible for almost 1/4 of the growth in GHG emissions since 1990.
Since 1850, North America and Europe have contributed to half of all accumulated GHG emissions.
Contributions to CO2 emissions are now greater within countries than between countries. In 1990, 62% of global carbon inequality was due to between-country inequality; in 2019, 64% of global carbon inequality was due to within-country inequality. Therefore, simply comparing country-level averages can hide the underlying CO2 contributions of various population groups.
In terms of impacts, certain regions of the world have already experienced losses in agricultural productivity (more than 30% since 1961) due to climate change, with the most acute losses in regions that have contributed only marginally to historical emissions, further reinforcing ongoing inequalities (Figure 11). -
2023-04-26 at 12:35 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-25 at 11:55 PM UTC in Folks I work out and lift weights every single day nowI don't do push-ups, instead I do Earth-downs.
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2023-04-25 at 11:47 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThanks, I'll check that out next time I need to fall asleep.
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2023-04-25 at 11:12 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-04-25 at 8:13 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastFossil fuel industries are actively suing to stop climate change action
The companies that are a huge part of climate change, and climate change denial propaganda, are actively working to slow or prevent action. This is fantastic and will surely be very good for society as a whole.
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2023-04-24 at 9:13 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe Green Scare is a piece of forgotten history that hardly anyone talks about anymore (it is an understudied topic in my opinion). During the 1990s and the early 2000s, there was a big green movement in the USA to protect the environment. Animal rights and environmental activists protested against a variety of issues such as animal testing, meat factories, logging, overfishing, climate change, and more, basically any issue related to the environment or animals.
Many protestors were sabotaging or damaging equipment, and burning down buildings. But as far as I know, nobody was killed or murdered by these activists. However, companies had spent years lobbying for the government to take action against them because they were damaging their property and hurting their profits. Then 9/11 happened, and the government used this justification to bring the hammer down on them. Known as Operation Backfire, the FBI made numerous arrests and convictions related to so called eco-terrorism. They labelled the activists as eco-terrorists and went after them relentlessly. This became known as the Green Scare, when the government targeted, arrested, and went after environmentalists.
Eco-terrorism became the Justice Department's Number 1 domestic terror concern, over the likes of white supremacists, and anti-abortion groups which keep in mind have killed and actively harmed people (and are still a problem to this day). The government damaged and shook the foundation of the environmental movement, causing distrust among them. Some activists were let off the hook if they agreed to go undercover (with a wire) to get confessions from other activists that had damaged property, so they didn't know who to trust.
Then in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security raised alarms about the rising threat of extreme right-wing violence which sparked outcry from conservative groups. So they backtracked and disbanded the unit that produced the report.
One side is handed with kid gloves while the other is nearly blasted out of existence.
To give you an idea, of just how bad the divide was just look at what happened to journalist Will Potter. In 1998, as a new reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Will Potter dispersed leaflets that criticized a company for many animal testing violations. FBI agents immediately rounded up and arrested Potter and several others passing out the literature. Weeks later, FBI agents visited Potter's home and threatened him. They told Potter that unless he becomes an informant for FBI and investigates the protest groups, then they would put Potter on a domestic terrorist list. They also made some threats about making sure he wouldn’t receive a Fulbright he had applied for, and making sure his girlfriend at the time wouldn’t receive her PhD funding. Potter of course refused, telling them that there is no way the charges would stick. However this incident inspired Potter to write his book "Green is the New Red" which exposed industry influence over Green Scare-style prosecutions.
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/ecoterrorism-fbi-animal-rights/
