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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

people are no different to trees

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

People are no different to trees, even in the wild they are pruned by nature, via the gale, the wind and the rain, the occasional hailstorm. Human Beings need nourishment in all forms, for our body it varies from culture to culture, from family to family. Feeding the human spirit is no different, we dance, we sing, we read poetry, stories.

Through all these sessions of nourishment is the shared intangible connection of the human heart. We forget how poisonous our heart has become if we leave it unchecked. We become the poison.

I am the poison first before I point my finger at anyone else. My father named me after a tropical forest tree. As I age I have embraced my name sake, as the rings on my trunk are added, I’m thicker, stronger. But if I ignore the rot in my heart, to the very…

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Equality

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Sáng nay đọc thoáng qua những tin tức trên báo của anh Mark, làm tôi nhớ lại những stt tôi đã viết xuống trong những cơn thịnh nộ. Tôi thích ghi lại những gì hiện hữu trong đầu tôi trong những khoảnh khắc cảm xúc như vậy. Ý cuối cùng, không được rõ ràng như mong muốn của tôi.

Đòi hỏi của tôi chính không phải là về sự bảo vệ nữ quyền. Chưa đủ. Tôi muốn bảo vệ những người với những vị trí yếu hơn mình. Những người này thường là đàn bà. Chưa tính đến những người lớn tuổi, con nít. Tôi luôn luôn sẽ bảo vệ gia đình tôi, trong đó có chồng tôi.

Tôi đòi hỏi sự công bằng trước hết là ở gia đình tôi. Muốn đạt được sự công bằng, thứ nhất là phải chấp nhận sự khác biệt giữa…

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Honda, LG Set to Build $4.4 Billion EV Battery Plant in US – Bloomberg

Honda Motor Co. and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. will spend $4.4 billion to build a new battery plant in the US as the Japanese carmaker seeks to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles completely by 2040.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/honda-lg-will-build-4-4-billion-ev-battery-plant-in-us

Climate scientist: ‘This isn’t a drought. It’s something else;’ ‘The desert just to the south of us is moving our way’ | SummitDaily.com

The above-average monsoon season along the Upper Basin of the Colorado River has brought relief after recent summers suffocated by wildfire smoke in the American West. But, according to Brad Udall, senior water and climate research scientist at…
— Read on www.summitdaily.com/news/climate-scientist-this-isnt-a-drought-its-something-else-the-desert-just-to-the-south-of-us-is-moving-our-way/

‘Zombie ice’ from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches | AP News

Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers.
— Read on apnews.com/article/science-oceans-glaciers-greenland-climate-and-environment-9cd7662658ebbeaba05682352de8aa87