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I'm confused to why there is also a french name. I get that it was french at one point but it was 200 years ago, and afaik very little people in the area still speak french
I just saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT9mrbIxeBE and it sounded like an interesting topic to bring on HN. I didn't know about the "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana, but I figure most countries have their own alleys of death. I live in Italy and Taranto is notorious for this reason. The city was home to one of biggest steel producers in Europe. The local economy revolved around the steel plant, but people f…
Long Island (where I live), is likely just as bad, but probably from the water (as opposed to the air). But we have a lot of billionaires, and developers, with significant investment in local real estate. I'm sure that has nothing to do with how quiet things are, about it.
The richest live at the very end in the cleanest area: https://www.savethesound.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MapC... though the good news it's been getting better.
New money is out East. Old money is nearer the city.
20% of the article have been removed on September 6th
It surprises me how we are all sleep walking to extinction and "the masses" truly don't give a damn?
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Get real. https://pazwv.org/
As for GP, one might expect his case to be bolstered if you had examples of his contention. And, well, gentrification exists. Should probably be unflagged and discussed civilly.
Long Island (where I live), is likely just as bad, but probably from the water (as opposed to the air). But we have a lot of billionaires, and developers, with significant investment in local real estate. I'm sure that has nothing to do with how quiet things are, about it.
As humans our days on this planet are numbered. It surprises me how we are all sleep walking to extinction and "the masses" truly don't give a damn?
Some of these missions span multiple decades simply because of the nature of space travel.
A burning question in my mind: how does one get motivated to work on something that they'll probably not even live to see come to fruition/failure? Personally, I wouldn't be, unless if there was some pay involved.
Dealing with climate change is like this. Humans, I think are basically unable to align behind initiatives that do not affect us immediately.
I am a parent. I would like to set up my child for success. But being brutally honest, it's hard for me to even think of what going "above and beyond" means in this respect. I would do everything a normal good parent would do. But then what?
Nobody is paying people to use less plastic or stop polluting etc. So few are incentivized to do anything above and beyond the normal. Superficial things like not using plastic - sure no problem. Keeping a 5 year old phone or wearing worn out shoes - I'll have trouble with these.