https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1173277534479376385?s=20
Wow.
Republicans expected to win 65% of presidential elections in which they lose the popular vote by a narrow margin
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Editorial: Climate change is already here. 2020 could be your last chance to stop an apocalypse
Moar nukes!
«Globally, 25% of greenhouse gas emissions today comes from burning fossil fuels to create heat and electricity, mostly for residential and commercial buildings; another 23% is the result of burning fuel for industrial uses. And 14% comes from transportation.»
Steel and concrete, baby. As Bill Gates says he says, “What’s your plan for steel?”
«Fighting the rise in temperature and sea levels will be tough. Our democracy doesn’t encourage politicians to take bold stances; our economic system doesn’t encourage companies to sacrifice profits for the common good. And we humans are understandably disinclined to live differently or to make sacrifices.»
The Climate Crisis Is Poised to Make Huge Swaths of America Totally Uninsurable
Not many care about the ocean rising a few feet or corals dying or salt water intrusion, but INSURANCE…. And, I guess insurance companies will be blamed for their unwillingness to make bad bets.
«Fires on the West Coast, record flooding in the Midwest and the ferocious hurricanes battering the Southeast will all contribute to a significant decrease in home insurance availability.
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“If you’re super wealthy, you can self-insure,”
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Most lenders require a mortgage holder to insure their home in order to maintain the mortgage. If the insurance company in their area decides their neighborhood is too risky to insure, then they will lose coverage and likely default on their mortgage. If the mortgage is already paid, it may be extremely difficult to sell a house that can’t be insured.
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What makes this already difficult situation even worse is that the people who are least capable of bearing this kind of financial burden will likely be the first ones who have to face this reality, as many of the threatened areas are inhabited by socioeconomically vulnerable people.»
A lot of the folks hit by “superstorm Sandy” in New Jersey were not wealthy.
«Florida has in the past pressured insurance companies to maintain home insurance coverage by threatening to not allow those companies to offer things like car insurance in the state if they pull out. Thistlethwaite called this an “ill-conceived” approach since insurance companies will likely just offer worse insurance plans or pull out of the state completely.
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“The only way you’re actually going to keep insurance availability and affordability sustainable is by investing in climate change adaptation.”»
“Adaptation” is going to come up a lot more soon. Even if we manage to bring our CO2 contributions way down.
«Researchers have found that every dollar we spend preparing for a possible natural disaster will save us six to ten dollars we might have spent on recovery.
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“They used to ask if you’re in a good school zone,” Keenan said. “Now they want to know if you’re in an insurable zone.”»
Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy
There’s more, though:
«As sales continued into the billions of dollars, the family board members who controlled the company began transferring big chunks of money out of the firm beginning in 2008, according to multiple state lawsuits.
“Between 2008 and 2018, they directed Purdue to make nearly $11 billion in total distributions (including tax distributions) to partnered companies, foreign entities, and ultimately to trusts established for the benefit of the Sackler families,’’ said recently unsealed portions of a lawsuit filed this year by Oregon’s attorney general.
Such transfers were cited last week by some of the 26 states that rejected the tentative settlement agreement. Those states also said the $10 billion to $12 billion price tag put on the settlement appears inflated.»
Stan Mikita & contact sports
chronic traumatic encephalopathy, yikes.
Let’s not get tired of doing good
Good thing to stumble across.
Why the man Trump once called ‘my African American’ is leaving the GOP
Cheadle told PBS NewsHour he has decided to leave the Republican party and run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative as an independent
#StoppedReading
Active-shooter “training”
So, what’s wrong with “run, hide, fight” and that’s the end of the “training”?
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/18/active-shooter-drill-gone-wrong/
https://medium.com/@adamkraymond
The company I work for is currently dropping some coin on ALICE. Including suggesting workers on one particular floor find a different place to work on one particular day because they’ll be running drills on that floor. So, it’s not just the money paid to consultants, but also other indirect costs associated with this sort of disruption and fear-mongering.
To be fair, I do acknowledge that airline pilots will occasionally trigger the oxygen masks and put the plane into an abrupt, steep dive as training for passengers. I was on such a flight just last never, so I guess we could follow their model.
Utility pole says goodbye
Holy cow, we humans are so SENTIMENTAL. (I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying.)
Shutting down the asylum system
Shooting ourselves in the foot, just for racism.
https://twitter.com/TheToddSchulte/status/1171947381983711233?s=20
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