Get Ready For The Future It Is Murder
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You feel the devil’s riding crop:
Heat-related deaths have increased sharply since 2014 in Nevada and Arizona, raising concerns that the hottest parts of the country are struggling to protect their most vulnerable residents from global warming.
In Arizona, the annual number of deaths attributed to heat exposure more than tripled, from 76 deaths in 2014 to 235 in 2017, according to figures obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heat-related deaths in Nevada rose almost fivefold during the same period, from 29 to 139.
Most of those deaths were in the Phoenix and Las Vegas areas, according to state records.
The long-term health effects of rising temperatures and heat waves are expected to be one of the most dangerous consequences of climate change, causing “tens of thousands of additional premature deaths per year across the United States by the end of this century,” according to the federal government’s Global Change Research Program. The effect could be even more severe in other parts of the world, potentially making parts of North Africa and the Middle East “uninhabitable.”
Pretty soon it’s going to be quicker to enumerate the Republican policies that don’t cause tens of thousands of premature deaths a year.
Indonesia is draining the swamp. A steamy, jungle-clad island best known for orangutans, pygmy elephants and oil fields is to become the site of the country’s new capital, in an ambitious plan to ease pressure on smog-choked Jakarta.
President Joko Widodo announced Monday that officials had chosen an area in East Kalimantan province, on the island of Borneo, for the as-yet-unnamed capital. Construction on the 450,000-acre site would start next year, and people would move in beginning in 2024.
Although Indonesians for decades have discussed relocating the capital, the need has become more pressing in recent years.
Rapid growth has pushed the Jakarta metropolitan region’s population to about 30 million, creating a conurbation that is highly congested and polluted. Jakarta sits at the western end of Java, the world’s most populous island, which is home to more than half of Indonesia’s 265 million people.
But perhaps the biggest problem: Jakarta is sinking. Two-fifths of the city lies below sea level, and some areas are subsiding by as much as 10 inches a year — a phenomenon caused by the digging of underground aquifers and exacerbated by climate change.
That…seems bad!