CC Newsletter 03 Sept - How Bad Can It Get?
Dear Friend,
How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. Still, the general public is tired of negative articles about climate change. It turns them off. Climate change is impossible to deal with. It’s too much; it’s too negative! As a result, baffling emails come with loud and clear messages, some subtle but some not so subtle. Yet, these same people want access to scientific facts and data that describes just how challenging things really are. They even admit to that while complaining about too much doom and gloom. Nobody is satisfied.
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How Bad Can It Get?
by
Robert Hunziker
How bad can it (climate change) get? The sky’s the limit! No pun intended. Still, the general public is tired of negative articles about climate change. It turns them off. Climate change is impossible to deal with. It’s too much; it’s too negative! As a result, baffling emails come with loud and clear messages, some subtle but some not so subtle. Yet, these same people want access to scientific facts and data that describes just how challenging things really are. They even admit to that while complaining about too much doom and gloom. Nobody is satisfied.
Where Does Russia Receive Its Aid From?
by John P Ruehl
While Ukraine has received enormous aid from around the world since the Russian invasion began in February, open support for Russia should not be dismissed.
My plea to Facebook’s Oversight Board: Stop
criminalizing Palestinian armed resistance
by Rima Najjar
I have just filled out the form of appeal to the Facebook and Instagram Oversight Board, which describes itself as “Ensuring respect for free expression, through independent judgment.” The form provides space just for 2000 characters, so I was not able to present my case fully. And the fact that the drop-down menu that asks which countries are “mentioned or depicted in the content of your appeal” had no designation for either the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) or Palestine does not bode well. I hope that this body is not simply there to help Facebook and Instagram evade regulation.
Why There is a Big Increase in Concern About Homeless Numbers Increasing Rapidly in USA
by Bharat Dogra
In recent years concern has been expressed that the number of homeless persons in the USA has ranged between 500,000 to 600,000, too high for such a rich country. However now the number of homeless people here appears likely to increase very rapidly in the near future. Why?
Food as a Cultural Artifact vs. Political Weapon
by Kandathil Sebastian
Dictating whether people eat or not to eat a particular food is an emotional and cultural issue. Politics based on food fundamentalism and criminalizing certain food habits will backfire on those who engineer such politics.
Increasing threat to federalism from Centrally Sponsored Schemes- Need to form a Federal Front
by E A S Sarma
Increasing threat to federalism from Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs)– Need to form a Federal Front of the States to persuade the Centre not to proliferate CSSs, instead transfer existing CSSs with the associated fund allocations to the States
An agenda for debate on Scheduled Castes and reservations
by P Radhakrishnan
In an editorial dated 01 Sep 2022 the New Indian Express has raised an important issue about the final aim of reservation – whether to remove social and educational backwardness or end untouchability.
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