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China says its people will never stand for Taiwan independence
China's 1.3 billion people are united in their determination never to allow self-ruled Taiwan to become independent, China's top official in charge of ties with the island was quoted as saying on Thursday, in Beijing's latest blast at Taipei. China has repeatedly warned Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, whose leader Tsai Ing-wen assumed the presidency last week, of negative consequences if they fail to recognize Taiwan is a part of China under Beijing's "one China" principle.
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[Academic] Generally, People Are Risk Averse In Gains And Risk Seekers In Losses. What About You??? Let's Check It Out.
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A debate of two lost souls. The Sunset Limited.
I don’t believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamor and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And I loathe these discussions. The argument of the village atheist whose single passion is to revile endlessly that which he denies the existence of in the first place. Your fellowship is a fellowship of pain and nothing more. And if that pain were actually collective instead of simply reiterative then the sheer weight of it would drag the world from the walls of the universe and send it crashing and burning through...
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Donald Trump's ridiculous claim that all polls show he won second debate with Hillary Clinton
In the tweet, which came two days after his second debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump declared: "Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!" So, we thought we’d check the polls.
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Are Young, White Males Being Radicalized Online?
One of the narratives going into Election Day was that there were millions of undercover Donald Trump voters. These were people interested in voting for the Republican candidate but afraid of the stigma associated with doing so publicly. The thinking went that they would say one thing in polls, then go to the voting booth and do another.
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Neoliberalism’s epic fail: The reaction to Hillary Clinton’s loss exposed the impotent elitism of liberalism
By the time last week’s presidential election was finally called for Donald Trump during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the initial disbelief felt by the millions of Americans who had been assured of a Clinton victory by the media had turned into shock and panic — if not yet full-blown despair. As pollsters collectively changed their predictions and news pundits started to resemble confused and dejected children, the fight-or-flight response kicked in for countless viewers.
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Democrats on the brink
AGHAST at the defection of millions who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but for Donald Trump in 2016—notably working-class whites in the Midwest—the left wants the Democratic Party to snatch up the banner of economic populism and declare war on Wall Street, big business and other global elites. At post-election gatherings like the Democracy Alliance conference in Washington, DC, it is an article of faith that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the snowy-haired, finger-jabbing scold who lost the Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton, would have trounced Mr Trump in the general election.
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Asking the Tough Questions With an 18th-Century Debate Society
Is polygamy justifiable? Is it lawful to eat swine's flesh? By Sarah Laskow.
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Radical millennials are a climate force to be reckoned with
The window for hope is closing rapidly for the planet. But young activists are demonstrating their power at the ballot box to push for a different future.
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To Think or Not to Think?
Alan Jacobs’s latest book is a guide for thinking seriously in an age of distraction—but it falls prey to the very kind of habits which he aims to counter. By Mike St. Thomas.
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'The apocalyptic tone of heatwave-reporting doesn’t go far enough. Not when the issue is human extinction'
This summer, the arctic burned. Boreal forests, usually caked in ice, were charred. Further south, from Quebec to Japan, hundreds of people dropped like scorched flies in the heat, as though under a giant magnifying glass. Across Europe, the same: deaths, drought and crop failure. As heatwaves multiply in the future, so will heat-related deaths: 7,000 a year in the UK alone. Droughts will be more intense, leading to food shortages.
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Planet at Risk of Heading Towards Apocalyptic, Irreversible ‘Hothouse Earth’ State
This summer people have been suffering and dying because of heat waves and wildfires in many parts of the world. The past three years were the warmest ever recorded, and 2018 is likely to follow suit. What we do in the next 10-20 years will determine whether our planet remains hospitable to human life or slides down an irreversible path to what scientists in a major new study call “Hothouse Earth” conditions.
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An Inconvenient Truth: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Falling Under Trump
Environmental data for 2017 are pouring in, and the results might not be what you’d expect. In the United States, where President Trump has promised to unshackle the coal industry and to abandon an international climate change treaty, greenhouse-gas emissions fell last year and are expected to continue falling. In Europe, where political leaders consider climate change an urgent priority, emissions rose last year.
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California Could Be the Next State to Ditch Daylight Saving Time
What time is it in California? If voters decide to abolish the clock-changing practice in November, answering that could become more difficult.
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Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions
The role of forests in combating climate change risks being overlooked by the world’s governments, according to a group of scientists that has warned halting deforestation is “just as urgent” as eliminating the use of fossil fuels. Razing the world’s forests would release more than 3 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, more than the amount locked in identified global reserves of oil, coal and gas. By protecting and restoring forests, the world would achieve 18% of the emissions mitigation needed by 2030 to avoid runaway climate change, the group of 40 scientists, spanning five countries, said in a statement.
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Major climate report expected to call for coal shut-down by 2050
A major climate report will say coal-generated electricity must be phased out globally by 2050 if the world is to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of global warming, including the total destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. The report prepared by the United Nations body for climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, distils more than 6000 scientific references – including those from Australian researchers – and will outline the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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Unable to Bury Climate Report, Trump & Deniers Launch Assault on the Science
President Donald Trump's administration and its allies in the climate denial community have mounted a campaign to try to discredit the Fourth National Climate Assessment, an effort that has escalated in intensity since the report's release during the Thanksgiving weekend. Trump could not halt the peer-reviewed assessment by the U.S. government's climate scientists. The report—the most comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States—is mandated by a law Congress passed in 1990.
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In 200 years, humans reversed a climate trend lasting 50 million years, study says
What do scientists see when comparing our future climate with the past? In less than 200 years, humans have reversed a multimillion-year cooling trend, new research suggests. If global warming continues unchecked, Earth in 2030 could resemble its former self from 3 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.
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Jordan Peterson: climate change denier and faux science-lover
Jordan Peterson is many things. He’s a best-selling author, although not in France, unsurprisingly. He’s a former Professor at the University of Toronto, now on likely permanent leave. He’s famous for refusing to use the gender pronouns preferred by his students for reasons he claimed were related to freedom of speech. He’s been adopted by the alt-right and incels as one of their preferred intellectuals, over his very faint protests.
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Climate Activist, 15, Tells Leaders They're Too Immature to Act
At 15, Greta Thunberg has many decades of living with the effects of climate change ahead of her—and she doesn't want to tell her grandchildren she didn't try to stop it. At an address to the United Nations COP24 conference in Poland last week, the Swedish activist accused world leaders of stealing the future of her generation and said they weren't mature enough to act, CNN reports. "You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes," she told the conference, which was attended by delegates from 190 countries.