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The climate crisis is a biggie for me, as is preserving democracy.

H5N1, it seems we're balancing on a thread. This video was excellent at explaining the exact binding behavior difference between the avian H5N1 and the cow/human variant.

The case of the teenager in Canada becomes very interesting with this understanding bc the recently released genetics suggest they could be patient zero for enhanced human infection. The virus may have mutated in that person, away from avians towards targeting humans.

https://youtu.be/Z_NplGxtF9I

#H5N1 #MedCram #Genetics

H5N1 Mutations Detected in Canadian Case Favor Human Transmission

YouTube
‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/minimal-progress-global-heating-report-cop29
‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds

Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continue

The Guardian

@amydiehl

The Republican billionaires funding MAGA don't want a prosperous democracy, they want a 3rd world economy of general immiseration, while a tiny minority loot the national treasury.

https://theconversation.com/us-is-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality-190486

US is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality

The United States came in 41st worldwide on the UN’s 2022 sustainable development index, down nine spots from last year. A political historian explains the country’s dismal scores.

The Conversation
Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) and I have a guest essay in today's New York Times about the exceptional and not fully explained recent global temperatures, and climate science can become more "operational" to address these questions: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/climate-change-heat-planet.html
Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet

We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.

The New York Times
@COVID19_DISEASE I am reminded of this
If the current dairy farms workforce in the US would be 105,805 then an approx. 7,400 possible H5N1 cases of infection are likely to have happened. {Data: https://www.ncfh.org/dairy-workers-fact-sheet.html}

Climate-Induced Drought Cuts Canada’s Hydro Exports, Hits Utility Revenues

Provincial power utilities in Canada are seeing reduced revenues from shrinking electricity exports as low reservoir levels cut hydroelectricity output

https://www.theenergymix.com/climate-induced-drought-cuts-canadas-hydro-exports-hits-utility-revenues/

#canada #ClimateChange #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate-Induced Drought Cuts Canada’s Hydro Exports, Hits Utility Revenues

Provincial power utilities in Canada are seeing reduced revenues from shrinking electricity exports as low reservoir levels cut hydroelectricity output.

The Energy Mix
Avian Flu Diary: USDA Confirms 2nd Pig on Oregon Farm Tested Positive for H5N1 https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/usda-confirms-2nd-pig-on-oregon-farm.html
USDA Confirms 2nd Pig on Oregon Farm Tested Positive for H5N1

   #18,397 A week after the first reports of H5N1 being detected in a pig in the United States (see USDA: APHIS Reports 1st Detection of HPA...

When I asked
for their analysis
my friend
(who has read theory)
quoted Gramsci:
“The old world
is dying. And
the new world
struggles
to be born: now
is the time
of monsters.”

So, my friends,
in this time
of monsters
stay human
oh, my friends, please
try to stay human.

I'm Russian living in Russia. I was 5 when Putin was 'elected'. I'm 30 now. I know that feeling of hopelessness very well. You should never surrender. Autocrats of the world are counting on you being down and depoliticized because all of this. Don't give them an easy win. Always fight, no matter how bad situation seems.

#usa #trump #election #democracy #us #uspol #USPolitics #harris #russia #putin #palestine #ukraine