From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
- Oh my, India had 185,248 new cases yesterday. Their new deaths number is back to the bad old days of September and July.
- Michigan had 10,277 new cases, the highest in the nation, the same as Bangladesh.
It’s just too soon to say that this vaccine raises your risk, even slightly, of blood clots. If there is a risk, it’s so incredibly small it’s almost impossible for us to imagine. To give you a little context, the risk of getting struck by lightning in a given year is one in 500,000. So people should be careful about getting hit by lightning, but we don’t go outside thinking, “Today is the day I’m going to die of lightning strikes.” The scary part of the above is that while the chance of you being hit by lighting is 1 in 1.2 million, this means that 270 Americans each year are struck by a lightning bolt. That is per year, or for someone like me who is 80 years old, for all those years , the odds were 1 in 1530. I'm still alive. |
On March 1 he suggested that the Monarch Butterfly was equivalent to the canary in the coal mine:
Activism is not fun. The pay is bad (usually zero or less). It’s hard work to get any attention. Hard-core activists (not dilettantes like Bill McKibben and me) put a lot on the line, even their lives. The commitment and bravery of indigenous people is inspiring. The hardest thing about activism is that it often seems to have little effect, if any. The Race to Save the World, a film by Joe Gantz, will be released on Earth Day, April 22. The link is to a 9-minute trailer. The film realistically captures characters who take real risks and the impacts on their loved ones and on themselves. Implicitly it raises questions about the best way to achieve environmental goals. It’s not like 1970 when the public could see pollution in the air and in the water – activists could bring 20,000,000 people into the streets for the first Earth Day. That first Earth Day was 51 years ago when 20 million marched for Humanity and Planet Earth. The theme this year is Restore our Earth. Here is what is planned for April 20-22: |
- April 20
- Global Youth Climate Summit led by Earth Uprising.
- Of course Greta Thunberg will be there.
- In the evening, there will be the Hip Hop Caucus presenting We Shall Breath, a virtual gathering.
- Nothing to do with the climate, but on this day at 10AM PDT will be the next Apple Event. What will they introduce this time?
- April 21
- Educational International will lead the Teach for the Planet: Global Education Summit.
- Activists from every continent will argue on why we need transformative climate education now.
- April 22...Earth Day
- President Joe Biden will have a global climate summit.
- In parallel, Earthday.Org will have its second Earth Day Live digital event starting at Noon EDT.
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