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Post by jdredd on Apr 14, 2018 13:51:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/science/gray-ghost-caribou-extinct.html?mabReward=CBMG1&recid=13EzsWZG3cNLepHKmRkgiEfv1gp&recp=0&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngineHELENA, Mont. — The battle to save the so-called gray ghosts — the only herd of caribou in the lower 48 states — has been lost. A recent aerial survey shows that this international herd of southern mountain caribou, which spends part of its year in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and Washington near the Canadian border, has dwindled to just three animals and should be considered “functionally extinct,” experts say. The Selkirk herd had been disappearing for the last several years. In 2009, the herd, the southernmost in North America, had about 50 animals and was declining. Wildlife officials in Canada began a last-ditch effort to protect them by killing wolves, which occasionally preyed on the few caribou that remained. But the root cause of the extirpation of this herd and the decline of others in Canada is extensive industrial development in British Columbia, experts say. I guess the Millennials deserve a wildlife-free world since they don't seem to give a crap. (What do they give a crap about? I don't know) Sad that the greedy Canadians are trashing their country.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2018 11:19:21 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/news/democrats-millennials-losing-ground-2018/In the last two years, Millennial support for Democrats over Republicans on the generic congressional ballot dropped around 9 percentage points, to 46 percent. The demographic’s support for Republicans has remained steady at about 28 percent. (The remaining 26 percent comprised respondents who said they don’t know or support a third party.) "Even though close to two out of three millennial voters say they do not care for President Trump, that does not necessarily help Democrats, according to the poll, which surveyed 65,000 people including 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34. Some Millennials who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 are now looking at supporting GOP congressional candidates, the poll found. And the same young voters are almost evenly split on the question of which party takes better care of the economy, with 34 percent favoring Democrats compared to 32 percent favoring Republicans — a twelve-point jump for the GOP since 2016. White Millennials have turned toward Republicans the most. Support for both parties among young white voters is equal at 39 percent. This marks a big shift from 2016, when white Millennials supported Democrats over Republicans 47 percent to 33 percent." So why should I think Millennials should think like me? As this thread says, it's their funeral. But it is ghastly how half of white Millennials support the GOP.
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Post by jdredd on May 20, 2018 2:26:01 GMT -5
As each year goes by, it becomes more obvious the Millennials will not break the consumerist mold of their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents. What a shame.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 11, 2018 0:43:51 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Oct 17, 2018 19:35:42 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/climate/brazil-election-amazon-environment.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage"UNITED NATIONS — The presidential election in Brazil will not only shape the destiny of Latin America’s largest country. It is also a referendum on the fate of the Amazon: the world’s largest tropical forest, sometimes known as the lungs of the Earth. The stakes for the planet are huge. The front-runner for the presidency, Jair Bolsonaro — a far-right congressman who has said Brazil’s environmental policy is “suffocating the country” — has promised to champion his country’s powerful agribusiness sector, which seeks to open up more forest to produce the beef and soy that the world demands. He has dangled the possibility of pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. But even if he doesn’t, his campaign promises could have dire consequences for the Amazon, and therefore for the rest of the planet. Stretching across two million square miles, most of it in Brazil, the Amazon acts as a giant sink for the carbon dioxide emissions that the world as a whole produces." The recent rollback of conservation measures reflects the growing influence of a powerful conservative wing within Brazil’s legislature that calls itself the Beef, Bible and Bullet Coalition. A Bolsonaro victory would amplify its influence, analysts said. It will be interesting to see how Brazil's Trump will change policies on deforestation. Meanwhile, our Millennials continue to sleepwalk into a possibly dire future. Would violence be justified to save the planet's future? Doesn't matter. No one is willing to put themselves on the line. Me included.
"Beef, Bullet, and Bible Coalition"? That's pretty effing hilarious.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 14, 2018 23:30:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/science/sperm-infertility-insects-heat.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=HomepageDr. Gage said he thinks that such heat response may account for at least some of the population decline seen in insects. A 2017 study found that the population of flying insects fell by 75 percent over 27 years in German nature preserves. Curt Stager, a professor at Paul Smith’s College in Paul Smiths, New York, said he’s not ready to accept the idea that global climate change is the primary cause of this drop. “Global-scale insecticide usage is, to me, a more convincing cause for a widespread, across-the-board insect decline,” Dr. Stager said. Heat waves, he said, have not occurred universally enough to cause widespread decline. Dr. Pitnick said that given how sensitive sperm is to temperature change, and that coldblooded insects are less able to protect their sperm, it was smart to “explore detrimental effects on sperm as a candidate cause of widespread decline of invertebrate populations in response to climate change.” Whether it's climate change or insecticides (I suspect insecticides), or both, a decline in insects is bad. So many other animals chew on them. Ha-ha, not my problem you foolish Millennials!
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Post by jdredd on Nov 28, 2018 12:28:29 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/25/world/asia/china-us-confrontation.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"With his secret trip to Beijing in 1971, Mr. Kissinger kicked off an era of engagement marked by the stubborn belief that bringing China out of its isolation through trade and investment would make America safer — and perhaps make China more like America. That era now seems to be ending, giving way to a more hostile one, with a trade war encouraged by Mr. Bannon and the ascendancy of his view that the United States must confront China while it still can. From the White House to the boardroom, from academia to the news media, American attitudes toward China have soured to an extent unseen since Mr. Kissinger’s historic trip. China’s rapid rise, and the acute sense of grievance and insecurity it has stirred in the United States, has led some to conclude, as the title of a recent book about the relationship suggested, that these two giants are “destined for war.” Ha-ha! The rotten Boomers are leaving the stupid Millennials with a contrived Cold War with China, just like the contrived Cold War with Russia the stupid Boomers were handed to by the rotten "Greatest Generation".
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Post by jdredd on Dec 7, 2018 3:50:51 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/climate/trump-sage-grouse-oil.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The plan is the latest in a series designed to promote more oil and gas drilling on public land in support of what President Trump has called a policy of American “energy dominance.” Last December, Mr. Trump signed a law that opened the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, and the administration has since moved with unprecedented speed to allow exploratory work to begin there. In January, the Interior Department proposed opening up almost the entire American coastline to offshore drilling. Last December, the administration also slashed the size of two major national monuments in Utah, reducing Bears Ears, a sprawling region of red rock canyons, by 85 percent, and Grand Staircase-Escalante to about half its former size, with the intent of opening the land to drilling and mining. But that move opened up only two million acres, compared with the nine million acres in the sage grouse decision. The opening of great swaths of land and water to drilling could become tough to reverse once companies start leasing the land or sinking rigs into the ground, Patrick Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, said. “It’s a major step,” he said. “It’s practically irreversible once you have the commitment of these lands to industrial uses.” From where I sit, even when the Democrats were in power they only slightly slowed the environmental destruction of America. The Republicans just let it accelerate a little more.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2019 13:33:42 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html?fallback=0&recId=1GJYmEvEPv9RGBRo82VlC8ct68J&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=CA&recAlloc=top_conversion&geoCountry=US&blockId=most-popular&imp_id=936677061&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage"The logical endpoint of excessively avid work, of course, is burnout. That is the subject of a recent viral essay by the BuzzFeed cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, which thoughtfully addresses one of the incongruities of hustle-mania in the young. Namely: If Millennials are supposedly lazy and entitled, how can they also be obsessed with killing it at their jobs? Millennials, Ms. Petersen argues, are just desperately striving to meet their own high expectations. An entire generation was raised to expect that good grades and extracurricular overachievement would reward them with fulfilling jobs that feed their passions. Instead, they wound up with precarious, meaningless work and a mountain of student loan debt. And so posing as a rise-and-grinder, lusty for Monday mornings, starts to make sense as a defense mechanism." Is that what Millennials are good at? Being hard working toadies of corporations? Of course, in this society, your value is based on how hard you work. Is that bad?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2019 10:16:04 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/politics/endangered-species-david-bernhardt.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — After years of effort, scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service had a moment of celebration as they wrapped up a comprehensive analysis of the threat that three widely used pesticides present to hundreds of endangered species, like the kit fox and the seaside sparrow. “Woohoo!” Patrice Ashfield, then a branch chief at Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters, wrote to her colleagues in August 2017. Their analysis found that two of the pesticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were so toxic that they “jeopardize the continued existence” of more than 1,200 endangered birds, fish and other animals and plants, a conclusion that could lead to tighter restrictions on use of the chemicals. But just before the team planned to make its findings public in November 2017, something unexpected happened: Top political appointees of the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, blocked the release and set in motion a new process intended to apply a much narrower standard to determine the risks from the pesticides." Why aren't the Millennials worried about this instead of, well, whatever they worry about? On the other hand, is living in a world with a lot less wildlife really a problem? But it's no wonder businessmen are so happy with Trump.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2019 19:27:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/trump-china-cold-war.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"That was then. Now President Trump is escalating a trade war with China as politicians, policymakers and pundits from both parties urge him not to stop there. Senator Elizabeth Warren rejects America’s past “happy face” China policy, and Senator Marco Rubio tweets about China’s “comprehensive plan to achieve world domination.” Washington is gearing up for full-spectrum competition with the world’s No. 2 power. We may be witnessing the start of a Sino-American cold war. If so, Mr. Trump may prove to be the next Harry Truman, who set the terms of the first Cold War in the late 1940s by pledging to “support free peoples” and creating institutions to integrate them. Mr. Trump is more severe: He vows vengeance upon those who “rape our country” and exacts it through sanctions and tariffs. That he is rallying the country bodes ill for the conflict to come, even compared with the nuclear standoffs, proxy wars and internal repression of the original Cold War. If responsible Americans would prefer a different future, now is the time to say so." Even Dems are jumping on this bandwagon, not surprising the way liberals also jumped on the anti-Soviet bandwagon. But will the Millennials buy this turd handed to them by the Boomers? Oh, they'll do whatever they are told to do.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 10, 2019 23:52:15 GMT -5
I wonder how many Millennials even know who Che is? Should they? It won't get you a good job.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 20, 2019 10:09:17 GMT -5
Maybe war with Iran will be what it takes to wake up Millennials to the evils of Republicanism.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 2, 2019 14:59:39 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/briefing/hong-kong-iran-heat-wave.html"From the Czech Republic to Switzerland to Spain, new heat records tested the Continent’s defenses. Schools were shuttered. Villages were evacuated. Soldiers battled wildfires. And there is more to come, scientists say. The hottest summers in Europe in the last 500 years have all come in the last 17 years. Several of those heat waves bear the fingerprints of human-caused climate change. Worldwide, 2019 is on track to be among the hottest years on record, and Europe is on the front line."
Is this the price Millennials will pay for prosperity? Everything comes with a price. Meanwhile, here at home, the roads are clogged with drivers taking advantage of incredibly cheap gas prices. Globalization itself runs on cheap energy. I've said before Trump might do the world a service by attacking Iran if it drives up the price of petroleum. But that would probably be only temporary.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 25, 2019 19:51:49 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point"Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover. The sharp rise – following year-on-year increases in May and June – confirms fears that president Jair Bolsonaro has given a green light to illegal land invasion, logging and burning.Clearance so far in July has hit 1,345 sq km, a third higher than the previous monthly record under the current monitoring system by the Deter B satellite system, which started in 2015." Free Enterprise and property rights, the idols of conservatives. Plus a Brazilian Trump.
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