Stories presented here tell of anxiety, depression, anger and sadness in the face of large-scale changes to communities and personal lives, mostly due to factors out of people’s hands, which leave them feeling powerless. The problem is especially acute in poorer vulnerable communities lacking sufficient mental health services

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/as-climate-change-burdens-grow-community-mental-health-alarm-bells-ring/

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Climate policy should target the richest cohort responsible for the largest share of global CO₂ emissions

Even socially progressive measures can exert a disproportionate toll on lower-income households

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, which primarily benefit the rich, would significantly reduce emissions without unduly burdening the poor

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/08/climate-action-policy-wealthy-polluters/

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Surprise! Behind today’s door of the Pride Month Book Calendar is a FREE sapphic ebook you can download right now.

Head over to my website and claim it now: https://jae-fiction.com/pride-month-book-calendar/

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A couple of days back I posted

"Stop creating international conferences that meet in the US.

This goes beyond conference policies. Some of your attendees will not be able to get into the US and some of those that do risk arrest."

Many people said that the current risk of arrest was low for people in "safe" categories. I sort of agreed but emphasized that the future risk wasn't. Well the future is already here.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility