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Martin68's JournalI can and will continue to argue that immigration is a benefit to every healthy country. You should
little research into how the lack of immigration and a rapidly aging society has negatively impacted Japan. You are treading mighty close to Republican taking points my friend. You also seem to lack a moral compass if you think we should turn away refugees from repressive regimes and gang violence. Immigrants don't take any jobs from Americans. They do the jobs Americans refuse to do. They are already a vital part of our economy, without being extended the privileges of citizens, or even the opportunity to obtain citizenship. They get injured on a job and are thrown by the wayside.
I'm not sure I understand the concept that the wildfires are "eroding decades of air quality
improvements." Air quality improvements continue to have a beneficial effect on the air we breathe. While wildfire smoke seriously degrades air quality, it is not permanent, and lasts only as long as the fire burns. Other sources of improvement - controls on industrial emissions and vehicle emissions for example - are still in effect and will continue to have a beneficial effect on air quality. Air quality has returned to norma where we live in Virginia now the the Canadian wildfire smoke is no longer reaching us, as its will elsewhere. The progress is not "unravelling." It is a temporary decrease in air quality. Seems like a very pessimistic way to portray the effect of wildfire smoke. No doubt it has negatively impacted the health of many people, but if other emissions control had not been in effect, the cumulative effect could have been catastrophic.
This has been a very long time coming, but it is essential to reversing our currently unsustainable
land use permitting policies. Nothing should be built next to rivers or streams within 100-year floodplains (or make it 500?). Nothing should be built on steep slopes - roads in particular. Nothing should be built within reach of predicted sea-level rise along the coast or within range of predicted tidal surges. I'm not as familiar with fire danger, but increasing occurrence of wildfires should be taken into account when permitting future building in fire-prone areas. Some smart communities in the Carolinas are buying up property along streams in urban areas that are increasingly prone to flooding and reserving them for gardening or park use. That way there's a flood plain made available to dissipate the energy of floodwaters and return streams to a more natural state. It's about time we started to take climate change seriously and get real about where people should be allowed to live under insurance or government protection.
If you watched the video then you know the title was false. Correcting a falsehood is not
editorializing. The title implies that the subject of the story was directly confronted and publicly shamed for her actions. That's what "to humiliate" means. Just as we expect the Mass Media to correct the falsehoods spewed by Trump, for example, I think we can rely on DU posters to avoid using headlines that are misleading or factually incorrect, whether or not that was the original headline.
This should be interesting. Right wing gun rights colliding with right wing Biden
Derangement Syndrome. They'll have to fight this out within their own deranged minds. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
You know, Matt Gaetz is actually shooting himself in the foot when he says this. if he doesn't
pretend it's all above board, he doesn't have a foot to stand on.
I think if you read it carefully, it addresses the effects on "society" and "civilization" in terms
of where humans have been most "productive." It references "large-scale urbanized agrarian societies". There is no suggestion humans will go extinct. Humans have survived as small cultures in the Kalahari Desert and above the Arctic Circle. We are remarkably adaptable. Our civilization, and the societies that exist now, are not. They will crash and burn. We will end up as small bands living off the land in areas where temperatures aren't as extreme due to altitude and or latitude. We are as adaptable as cockroaches. Evolution will continue, selecting for individuals better adapted to live in a new climate regime. We will not live in cities and large-scale agriculture will be a thing of the past.
It's the same thing every single time with Republicans. They lie their heads off, they conduct
investigations, and in the end they got nothin'. No evidence, no witnesses, zilch, butkis, nada.
No, a nuclear war is not "obviously" the wost catastrophe in our future. In fact, it would not have
the unrelenting power of climate change to destabilize every society on earth. Climate change is INEVITABLE if we don't do something. Nuclear war is not.
No, the rich and "powerful" will not survive. Rising sea levels, droughts, floods, hurricanes,
and wildfires will result in mass migrations and millions of refugees that will destabilize every society on Earth. The wealthy depend on the stock market and real estate. Those will both prove useless against the catastrophes that climate change will bring. We're already getting a preview of what's to come, but the temperature is still rising. if we don't start a mass movement for change, no one is safe. The poor will suffer first, but the consequences will affect everybody and everything.
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Name: Martin JohnsonGender: Male
Hometown: Virginia
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Current location: Charlottesville, VA
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