Global warming is an inescapable issue for our age.But 180 years ago, most scientists believed that Earth had been steadily cooling since it was formed. When Louis Agassiz presented the concept of a Great Ice Age to the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences in 1837, his suggestion that the planet had turned colder and then warmed up again was met with skepticism and even hostility, triggering years of fierce scientific debate before the idea was accepted.
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COLD, HARD FACTS Franklin Hadley Cocks ’63 visits the grave of Louis Agassiz, the great proponent of the ice age concept.
Worries about our lives don’t suddenly end when we reach the office door.Yet the societal stigma against discussing mental health issues inside and outside the office means that most mental health concerns are ignored and, as a result, made worse. As a result, companies that break down this barrier and provide mental health services for their employees support not just a more productive workforce, but also a happier world.
They’re cute, they’re fluffy, and they’re public enemy number one in Australia.
Australia is at war — with feral cats. By 2020, the government wants to kill two million free roaming cats, a large chunk of the total feral cat population, which is estimated to be between 2 and 6 million
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Some areas of Australia have gone even further. In the northeastern state of Queensland, there’s even a council offering a $10 ($7) bounty per feral cat scalp — a policy People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has lambasted as “cruel.”
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Nor is the problem exclusive to Australia. In neighboring New Zealand, a prominent environmentalist has proposed a cat-free future, with both domestic and feral cats either controlled or culled.
It didn’t take long for the death threats to start. Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist, had just been featured in an Agence France-Presse article republished by Breitbart News about dozens of students staging a “die-in” at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Villaseñor was protesting that day in mid-March for the same reason that she decided to start a school strike four months earlier: to demand that world leaders quit dragging their feet and take swift action to combat global climate change.
“Don’t stage it, just die,” one Breitbart reader commented on the right-wing publication’s website. “I would be more impressed if they doused theselves with gas and set themselves on fire,” wrote another. “You don’t deserve a future, you pathetic halfwit,” said a third.
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Kristin Hogue
Alexandria Villaseñor protesting outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City in February.
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COLD, HARD FACTS Franklin Hadley Cocks ’63 visits the grave of Louis Agassiz, the great proponent of the ice age concept.
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