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The $120 million anti-trans joke

We used to call it ‘the one joke,’ but now they’ve gone and spent money on it. Two-thirds of voters want politicians to stop attacking trans people and just talk about the economy. Republicans are most likely to say they want this.

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One billion crabs have had it

Alaska’s snow crabs said: ‘You can’t fire me because I quit’. What happens to animals involves plants, bacteria, landscapes, water, air. Everything is connected. How do the snow crabs feel? When can we ask them?

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War may change how we rely on big oil

Energy companies’ reactions to Russia’s war on Ukraine. Often, a catastrophe  forces a business to change by hitting it in its wallet. This is an ethical crisis too. Businesses have to change. Today.

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Talking to climate skeptics

Reflecting on ‘How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate’ (2015). Most USAmericans are scientifically illiterate. It’s not that they don’t memorize scientific facts; they don’t even know how scientific reasoning works.

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