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After a devastating wildfire, a California community faced another crisis: PTSD – The Washington Post

It’s been three years since the Camp Fire swept through Northern California, but many residents still face serious mental health issues. Is what’s happening there a warning to the rest of us?
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/27/camp-fire-ptsd/

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‘Apocalypse soon’: reluctant Middle East forced to open eyes to climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

#MaybeTuesday

With the region warming twice as fast as the rest of the world but oil spoils keeping regimes in power, leaders are in a bind
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/29/apocalypse-soon-reluctant-middle-east-forced-to-open-eyes-to-climate-crisis

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Grid: not great

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/24/climate-change-power-outages/

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Plastics Will Contribute More to Climate Change Than Coal by 2030

the total emissions footprint of the plastics industry in the U.S…. is now estimated to be the equivalent of least 232 million tons of carbon dioxide, or the average emissions from 116 standard coal plants

— Read on gizmodo.com/plastic-is-the-new-coal-1847911940

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Climate Change Is Making Us Sicker: Lancet Report

#AreYouDown?

Americans are being exposed to more infectious diseases, heat waves, and wildfires due to climate change. A new report shows just how bad things are getting.
— Read on gizmodo.com/the-era-of-climate-sickness-has-arrived-1847903223

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Biden administration moves to curtail toxic ‘forever chemicals’

The agency has never regulated a hazardous pollutant on such a broad scale.

…which: great!–but also: never?

#WhoNeedsForever

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/18/epa-regulate-forever-chemicals-pfas

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The Myth of the Climate Moderate

“There isn’t a middle ground between a livable and unlivable world.”

www.vox.com/22709379/moderate-versus-progressive-democrats-climate

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Do we need a more radical climate movement? Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes the case. – Vox

Yes; yes we do.

Author Andreas Malm on the failures of climate activism and the need for escalation
— Read on www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm