Interesting analysis showing that trees providing shade for concrete lessens the impact from heat waves preventing 100s of deaths across the US. With climate change this is going to become increasingly important.
How long before planners skip the obvious solution and incorporate the likes of water cooled green tarpaulin into their design?
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We let @CalMatters know at that time, along with other media. They did not deem it worthy of coverage because they want to treat things as a human interest story rather than as systemic oppression & systemic failure.
This could have been dealt with years earlier if media had listened to us when we said this was a systemic problem, not just a problem for one or two disabled students. It shouldn't take a disabled student being in student government to get coverage of these issues. @academicchatter@disability
"Military and financial aid to Ukraine should stop and then the war will end immediately."
Well, yes. This would stop the war. It will look like this in reality:
Ukraine will be quickly occupied by Russia. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians will be killed, sent to gulags. Millions of Ukrainians will be forced to flee their homes and emigrate.