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What are the biggest threats to humanity?
bbc.com ^
| 2/15/2019
| Simon Beard and Lauren Holt
Posted on 02/17/2019 5:11:41 PM PST by rktman
For example, the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum both listed climate change and its effects as one of their top risks for 2019.
Recent UN talks heard climate change was already "a matter of life and death" for many regions. While many, including Sir David Attenborough, believe it could lead to the collapse of civilisations and the extinction of "much of the natural world".
The threats are complex and diverse, from killer heatwaves and rising sea levels to widespread famines and migration on a truly immense scale.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ohnoes; weallgonnadie
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SNL or comedycentral skit? Yawn. Where's oldeconomybuyer?
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:11:41 PM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:13:01 PM PST
by
mplc51
To: rktman
Other than Marxism and Islam?
Anything else comes in a distant third place.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:13:18 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both. O)
To: rktman
Claims of racist violence...../S
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:15:09 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
To: BenLurkin
So libs don’t top your list? ;-)
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:15:45 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:16:49 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
To: rktman
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:16:59 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
To: Vendome
Well, the “fact” that it’s a possibility is criminal. Ya know, these POS libs have no actual idea what oppression is. Well, they read about it one time.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:18:05 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
In the seventies it was Killer Bees
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:18:29 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Trump 2020)
To: Lurker
Nope, humility. Or was it humidity?
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:19:03 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Sybeck1
80’s it was ‘EVERYBODY IS GONNA DIE OF AIDS IN 10 YEARS!’ Now, ocean levels. Who knew? ;-)
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:20:12 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
Marxists in all of their guises.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:21:29 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Sybeck1
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:21:32 PM PST
by
Califreak
(If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
Micro-aggressions are a far more serious threat
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:21:49 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: rktman
Yeah, the real oppressed people are digging tunnels to get into this country...
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:22:27 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
To: rktman
Socialists.
Globalists.
Totalitarians.
Liberals.
Yes i know, they are not mutually exclusive groups.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:22:36 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: rktman
Doesn’t matter really.
The remedy will always be the same - crushing taxes to the Babylon on the Potomac and the United Ninnies.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:23:10 PM PST
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: rktman
Forgot, governments. At every level.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:23:37 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: BenLurkin
Other than Marxism and Islam?
Anything else comes in a distant third place. And that would be the unbridled lunacy of leftists/progressives.
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:23:57 PM PST
by
Vlad The Inhaler
(A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
To: Lurker
Excellent answer. “we have met the enemy and he is us!”
CC
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posted on
02/17/2019 5:33:51 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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