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The prevailing view in the US doesn't look like it's going to include climate change or anything else environmental. Its very absence is quite frightening.

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Boy, howdy, Talia. Spot on.

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Yes. With the ice caps melting and the Russian tundra and forests burning, what will be left of Russia ? They have to move. Where? To the Ukraine?

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On that note, I highly recommend "The Last Winter" by Porter Fox.

"In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything—from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world." - Goodreads

It is an elegy to ice and snow, with much about histories of the various groups who lived along the snow line through the centuries.

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Bingo.

You found the reason Putin invaded!

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Never thought of that, was invasion the only way. In Putin’s evil mind

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And Times headline today is that countries falling way short of pledges to cut emissions…ensuring much more planetary chaos in future

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A Christian-Nationalist manufactured Rapture. Destruction of the planet by “The Book”

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Plus quite a few other things.

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True but voting rights is in the same category as I look at it, SO important!

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Yes, let's face it - without voting rights there's no democratic election. Education, education, education, with critical thinking skills from the get go.

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You are right, too, Sandra. It is important that we are able to get representatives in who will continue to do something about the climate.

But I do feel we've been sidelined on that front, or maybe in limbo as it were.

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You piqued my interest, Liz. Going to give IBT a try!

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Okay, Liz. Thanks for the tip!

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