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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Bill McKibben | Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns





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Bill McKibben | Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
Bill McKibben. (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Bill McKibben, The New Yorker
McKibben writes: "The world's climate scientists said that we'll essentially need to cut our use of fossil fuels in half by 2030 and eliminate them altogether by mid-century. In a world of Trumps and Putins and Bolsonaros and the fossil-fuel companies that back them, that seems nearly impossible."
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Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington DC, on September 13. (photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
Greta Thunberg speaks at a climate protest outside the White House in Washington DC, on September 13. (photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
Greta Thunberg | If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them
Greta Thunberg, Guardian UK
Thunberg writes: "For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you are doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight."
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A bill that would halt employment-based immigration from any country other than India or China is headed back to the Senate floor next week. (photo: Bill Oxford/Getty Images/iStock Photo)
A bill that would halt employment-based immigration from any country other than India or China is headed back to the Senate floor next week. (photo: Bill Oxford/Getty Images/iStock Photo)
This Bill Could End Latin American Workforce Immigration for the Next Decade
Monique O. Madan, The Miami Herald
Madan writes: "A bill that would halt employment-based immigration from any countries other than India or China is headed back to the floor of the U.S. Senate next week."
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 23.1 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, while millions more are either undiagnosed or pre-diabetic. (image: Hayley Warnham/The Guardian)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 23.1 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, while millions more are either undiagnosed or pre-diabetic. (image: Hayley Warnham/The Guardian)
'Medication or Housing': Why Soaring Insulin Prices Are Killing Americans
Michael Sainato, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Price gouging and other barriers to accessing insulin are symptomatic of a broken healthcare system, and demonstrate the need of systemic reforms, diabetes advocates argue."
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Migrant children at the border. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)
Migrant children at the border. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)
Shannon Palus, Slate
Palus writes: "In Matamoros, Mexico, families waiting to cross the border depend on volunteers for food. They sleep in tents and bathe in the river - at least they did until, at one point this summer, guards started standing by to ensure no one tried to swim across."

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Aromatherapy has become so synonymous with expensive massages and essential oil multilevel marketing schemes that it’s easy to overlook the most basic use of a strong scent: It can calm the sensory system, explains Levine. It’s something to snap your focus back to the moment. Stress causes cortisol levels in the body to rise: This is helpful in a fight-or-flight situation, but it’s incredibly damaging to experience for weeks or months on end. Which is why, in the time she was there, Levine sought any way to help bring down prospective immigrants’ cortisol levels so the long-term damage would be even just a little more limited and people would be able to more cogently make their case for asylum. “Anything that helps people to be able to answer those questions articulately is going to serve them,” says Levine. Having even small tools could offer great relief. 




Pro-government supporters shouting during an anti-Trump demonstration on August 10, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. (photo: Carolina Cabral/Getty Images)
Pro-government supporters shouting during an anti-Trump demonstration on August 10, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. (photo: Carolina Cabral/Getty Images)

What the US Sanctions Against Venezuela Have Wrought
Rebecca Hanson and Francisco Sánchez, Jacobin
Excerpt: "The United States's sanctions against Venezuela continue to punish ordinary Venezuelans while deepening the country's political crisis. They need to end."
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Rodrigo Carrillo Ordonez, 48, walks under a fruit tree on the property filled with his many coffee plants in May. He said he would be going to the U.S. because he cannot make money to provide for himself and his family with his coffee plants. (photo: Sarah L. Voisin /WP/Getty Images)
Rodrigo Carrillo Ordonez, 48, walks under a fruit tree on the property filled with his many coffee plants in May. He said he would be going to the U.S. because he cannot make money to provide for himself and his family with his coffee plants. (photo: Sarah L. Voisin /WP/Getty Images)

Trump Administration Ignored Its Own Data Linking Migrant Crisis to Climate Change
Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley, NBC News
Excerpt: "Research compiled one year ago by Customs and Border Protection pointed to an overwhelming factor driving record-setting migration to the U.S. from Guatemala: Crop shortages were leaving rural Guatemalans, especially in the country's western highlands, in extreme poverty and starving."
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