Daily Archives: March 17, 2022

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Six Lifestyle Changes To Reduce Your Carbon Emissions — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Research shows that people in wealthier, high-consuming countries can help avert climate breakdown by making six relatively straightforward lifestyle changes, creating a society of “less stuff and more joy.” Experts say if enacted these “shifts” would account for a quarter of… Six […]

Six Lifestyle Changes To Reduce Your Carbon Emissions — Mother Jones — Barbara Crane Navarro
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Indigenous leaders call for protection for 80 pct. of Amazon by 2025 — Stigmatis — Barbara Crane Navarro

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon basin hold a press conference on March 14, 2022, in Quito, Ecuador. EFE/ Jose Jacome Quito | Mar 14 2022 Indigenous leaders and representatives from the nine countries that share the Amazon basin on Monday met in Quito to call on regional governments and others around the world to guarantee […] […]

Indigenous leaders call for protection for 80 pct. of Amazon by 2025 — Stigmatis — Barbara Crane Navarro
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A Stranger In My Own Country

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Y’know … lately I’ve begun to feel very much a persona non grata in the nation I was born in and have lived in for all of my 70 years.  Why?  Comments like this one from Florida governor Ron DeSantis …

“We want people that are going to fight the left, and that’s what we need to do in this country. That’s what we’re doing in Florida, standing up for people’s freedoms. We’re opposing wokeness. We’re opposing all these things.”

So, to be clear, DeSantis says ‘they’ (whoever ‘they’ are) oppose equal rights for Blacks, LGBTQ people, women, Latinos, atheists, Jews, Muslims, and anyone who doesn’t meet DeSantis’ approval, for that is what “wokeness” is, as defined by the narrow-minded conservatives who see white, Christian males as superior to all others.  And ‘they’ oppose helping people in need, oppose international alliances and trade, and oppose basically anything that is supported…

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