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How Overconsumption of Our Planet’s Finite Resources Worsens Pandemics
By Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth:The 30-Year Update. It has been adapted for the web Forty-eight years ago I led an 18-month study at MIT on the causes and consequences of growth in population and material production on the planet earth through the year 2100. “If the present growth trends … …
Hate Gun Violence, Live in CT? Calls to Action from CT Against Gun Violence to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Laws in Your State
Call to Action Subscribe to CAGV emails at cagv.org/join-us Inquiries to info@cagv.org GD 4.8.20 rev2 How you can support Extreme Risk Protection Orders to prevent gun death by suicide and homicide Extreme Risk Protection Orders (EROP) offer a legal mechanism—with due process protections for gun owners’ Second Amendment rights—for people …
Is Hollywood Attacking the Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment?
Is Hollywood Attacking the Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment? by Kamala Lopez On January 27th of 2020 the Equal Rights Amendment that would guarantee equal justice under law and ban discrimination on the basis of sex became part of the U.S. Constitution. That’s only the 28th amendment ratified in our …
Why Did The CARES Act Tie Up Help For Desperate Small Businesses?
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), which was signed into law on Friday, March 27th, was unveiled with great fanfare by the Trump Administration. Through bi-partisan debate in both the Senate and the House, the bill had been bolstered to include additional funding for …
VC and Entrepreneur Charlotte Walker: How CARES Is Blank Check to Corps & May Crush Small Businesses
https://youtu.be/1P7-qTNYN4w The CARES act, otherwise known as the stimulus bill, has been very much in the news. But as usual, few media outlets have read the text and explained the fine print. This two-trillion dollar historic allocation of taxpayer money has some startling realities embedded in it. Charlotte Walker, the …
Emergency: “Emergency Bill” Hands Massive $$$ to Vast Corporations, May Crush Small Businesses
Chairs are stacked in a closed Cafe in Manhattan on March 16, 2020 in New York City. – Stocks tumbled on March 16, 2020 despite emergency central bank measures to prop up the virus-battered global economy, as countries across Europe started the week in lockdown and major US cities shut …
“Or Bust” 2020, or Why Biden Will CERTAINLY Be Defeated
https://youtu.be/tMqHupIFoPk If Senator Sanders does not become the Democratic Party nominee, the Bernie or Bust organizers are going to use their PAC, network connections (see attached from WSJ) and email list of 53,000+ voter pledge-takers to make sure everyone they can reach understands that Joe Biden is both a male version of Hillary …
20 Years Later, It’s Time to Update CT’s Extreme Risk Protection Order Law
Connecticut was the first state in the nation to implement an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) law, in 1999 following a mass shooting in the CT Lottery headquarters by a disgruntled employee who friends had reported to the police as being suicidal. He was known to have guns at home, …
Opinion—UPDATE: Trump, Trade, US Manufacturing and the Virus
This piece was originally published by Daily Clout in December 2019 and is republished here with additional information from the author, Ron Wisner. What could possibly go wrong from policies promoting the exportation of the bulk of our supply chain, including drug manufacturing, to a third-world country? Suppose there were …
Bushfire and Fury: Calls for the Sending of Additional US Firefighting Resources to Australia Cited International Arrangement
This blog post was originally published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School. To Australian eyes, the deplaning of US firefighters in Sydney in January 2020 felt like watching the Avengers arrive at a battle scene. Our battle scene this summer has looked apocalyptic, with the …
The Summer of 2019/2020, Australian Koalas Are Caught between a Firestorm and Political Expediency
In August 2019 the world woke to images of blackened bush, injured wildlife and uncontrolled infernos as Australia’s East Coast was consumed by unprecedented bushfires. Around Sydney and the state of New South Wales, 12 million acres of sensitive forest habitat has been ravaged by fire. The impacts on Australia’s …
Desperate to Help Desperate Koalas? The Government Won’t. Here’s What Will.
Most everyone worldwide knows that koalas and other wildlife have been injured, orphaned and starved in the recent Australian bushfires. But what can be done to help them now? Most Australians, and others, who care about wildlife, have no firsthand experience of the complexities which state and federal governments in …