#Crises

All tropical corals are collapsing, and many or all forests are heading for annihilation. All crop-growing regions will soon face destructive weather, for ever. All governments, media, universities, schools &
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Maintaining a D1 football team is expensive. The NCAA requires at least 7 mens programs. Besides basketball, everything else becomes a line-item expense. ODU was at 8 (sailing is not
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I and many others have been calling on foundations to increase spending from whatever was budgeted for 2020 in light of the crises we face. Some have argued that this
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Today was incredible.Imagine inauguration. Then imagine calling your reps the very next day to tell them to push Biden to the left... and thinking we might actually have a shot.We’ve
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PLS RT THIS THREAD: The govt claims it has P1.2 trillion to address COVID.THE DATA IS MISLEADING. Pinagsama ng gobyerno ang listahan ng pagbabyetan na mga programa at listahan kung
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Institutions have a will, independent of the people who run them. Individuals involved in the leadership of an institution can be more or less attuned to the will of the
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The annual report by @CommissionerHR also reflects the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in 2019. Some specific concerns from the foreword: 1/7https://twitter.com/CommissionerHR/status/1252508561105616896 "Despite the decreas
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Screw it, emotional already. I was one of two white kids in an all black Christian school for a good part of my adolescence. It wasn't the best time of
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The free world has been driven insane by China's coronavirus.https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1318632532716457986 The root of that madness is sadly easy to understand. Western politicians have lost the ability to measure costs agains
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THREAD on my interview with Dr Manmohan Singh who said India was looking at a “deep and prolonged economic slowdown” #Manmohansingh #India #economy 1/16 Dr Singh suggested 3 steps to
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Being a doctor does not make you a public health expert.Being a statistician does not make you a public health expert.Being an economist does not make you a public health
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The BC government had 4 years to implement #safesupply for 1 public health emergency. It didn't. Now we're dealing with 2 public health emergencies and seeing more overdoses, more deaths,
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Thread : autiste et schizophrÚne, comment ces diag s'influencent mutuellement. Je vais surtout parler de ma propre expérience, tout le monde ne vit pas forcément les choses comme moi, n'hésitez
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THREAD : La #DREPANOCYTOSE A l'occasion de la Journée Mondiale de la maladie génétique la plus fréquente au monde (la drépanocytose), une pensée pour toutes ces personnes qui se battent
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Gen Z grew up in the shadow of 9/11. For many of them, the coronavirus pandemic is the latest in what has felt like an endless list of American crises.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/gen-z-young-millennials-coronavirus-pandemic-reces
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One of the hardest things about handling an unprecedented crisis is that you can't focus 100% of your attention on it. Other problems don't go away, and can become deadly
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