What A Tragic Waste!!!

Ditto!!

Filosofa's Word

I’ve made no secret of my feelings about millionaires and billionaires who hoard their wealth rather than using it to help people in need.  I’ve also made no secret of my feelings about space travel in this, the 21st century, but in case you missed it, I think it is a complete and total waste of resources.  Combine the two, and you have a very pissed off Filosofa!  Every night, thousands of children around the world go to bed hungry.  Every day, people are dying of diseases that could have been prevented, if only they had access to affordable healthcare.  People are living in their cars, under overpasses on highways.  Some people are working 2-3 jobs just to ensure their children have enough to eat.  And this nation spends millions, billions to play Buzz Lightyear.  NASA’s budget for 2021 is $23.3 billion!  Imagine how many people could eat for…

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BIODIVERSITY — EDUINDEX NEWS — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

The different types of organisms found in an area is known as biodiversity or you can define it in a more accurately as ” the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems of a region”. Biodiversity differ from place to place and dependence of human population has been enormously increased on biodiversity for their necessities. The […] […]

BIODIVERSITY — EDUINDEX NEWS — Tiny Life

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Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais) Endangered The crested capuchin or robust tufted capuchin (Sapajus robustus) is a species of robust capuchin monkey living in Brazil. They were formerly considered a subspecies of the black capuchin but is now considered to be a separate species. The species has a broad diet,[…]

Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus — Palm Oil Detectives

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Un cuento de iniciación – “La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami” — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

ilustración de “La Magia de la Amazonia” – Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami “ Desde sus primeras páginas, La Magie de l’Amazonie, este libro encantador para niños describe un mundo casi inimaginable en el siglo XXI. Un mundo tropical, exuberante e agitado, desbordante de una vida en comunión con los espíritus de los […] […]

Un cuento de iniciación – “La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami” — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life

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Coronavirus digest: India′s COVID death toll 10x higher than official tally | News | DW | 20.07.2021

India’s excess deaths, a count of the number of people who have died in excess as compared to the numbers recorded in the same period in previous years, could be 10 times higher than the official death toll, one of the most comprehensive studies show.

The study, published by Arvind Subramanian, the Indian government’s former chief adviser, and two other researchers, show that the numbers of those who died in excess between January 2020 and June 2021 could be between 3 million and 4.7 million.

Source: Coronavirus digest: India′s COVID death toll 10x higher than official tally | News | DW | 20.07.2021

Maine Becomes First State To Make Businesses Pay For Packaging Waste | Earthwhile

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed a first-in-the-nation bill that will shift the cost of disposing packaging materials away from Maine communities and onto the companies that create them.

Conservation groups cheered the passage of the bill on Tuesday.

Sarah Nichols of the Natural Resources Council of Maine says when the program gets going it will provide millions of dollars to Maine towns and cities that have struggled to fund recycling programs in recent years.

Source: Maine Becomes First State To Make Businesses Pay For Packaging Waste | Earthwhile

Opinion | Stop pleading with anti-vaxxers and start mandating vaccinations – The Washington Post

It’s time to get serious about coronavirus vaccinations. Stop pleading and start mandating.

For the past six months, President Biden, joined by every public health authority in the land, has been begging Americans to get vaccinated. The “pretty, please” approach isn’t working. According to The Post’s covid-19 tracker, in the past week, daily reported covid-19 cases rose 66 percent, covid-related hospitalizations rose 28 percent, and daily reported covid-19 deaths rose 20 percent. With the delta variant spreading across the country, every single state has seen an increase in cases over the past seven days.

This is a preventable tragedy. Over 99 percent of covid-19 deaths in June were among the unvaccinated. Yet even as evidence grows that vaccines are safe and effective, resistance to them is also growing.

Source: Opinion | Stop pleading with anti-vaxxers and start mandating vaccinations – The Washington Post

Plastic Free July and the importance of recycling in Jamaica

Petchary's Blog

It’s Plastic Free July. This is a global initiative founded by the Plastic Free Foundation back in 2011, to rid the world of plastic waste.

In our own lives, we are trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. You know, the old “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” mantra. This is hard. We have taken some steps: we now use wooden toothbrushes and shampoo bars and regular soap, in the bathroom, instead of picking up yet another plastic bottle in the supermarket. That’s a small gesture as a consumer, but I wish there was more we could do, and there probably is. That’s the “reduce” part. We also reuse plastic that we know cannot be recycled if we throw it away – in particular packaging of all kinds. I get angry when I see a few vegetables “packaged” quite unnecessarily in supermarkets, on a styrofoam plate covered in plastic wrap. Why?

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Las sandalias

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Un día antes, en el monasterio, el monje habló a sus discípulos acerca de las apariencias, las superficialidades y la petulancia que condenan a millones de hombres y mujeres, en todo el mundo, principalmente en occidente. Citó las prisiones que la gente fabrica, los anfiteatros y las trampas que los seres humanos construyen al rivalizar racialmente, por su aspecto, por sus grados académicos, por sus creencias y por el dinero, el poder y las cosas materiales que obtienen y, erróneamente, no utilizan para trascender. Mostró a sus alumnos, sorprendidos, carteles con fotogafías de calzado moderno. Se asombraron al detectar la incomodidad de la mayor parte de los modelos, unos que oprimían las puntas de los pies y otros, en tanto, que exigían mantener equilibrio, impedían caminar libremente, presionaban la corriente sanguínea, bloqueaban las terminales nerviosas y agotaban. El maestro…

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