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California wildfires: weather conditions worsen threat to giant sequoia trees | Climate... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...s-tallest-tree-general-sherman

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  • julianp22 on 21 Sep 21
     
    You hate to see that these fires are impacting these world wonders
  • samuelws on 26 Sep 21
     
    I think a policy implementation to fight climate change that would not be that hard would be to increase the budget to fund firefighters.
  • agnesg22 on 27 Sep 21
     
    I hope nothing bad happens to those trees ;-;
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Opinion | What Happened to America's Political Center of Gravity? - The New York Times - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...blican-platform-far-right.html

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  • The resulting scores capture how the groups represent themselves, not necessarily their actual policies.
  • The Republican Party leans much farther right than most traditional conservative parties in Western Europe and Canada, according to an analysis of their election manifestos. It is more extreme than Britain’s Independence Party and France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front), which some consider far-right populist parties. The Democratic Party, in contrast, is positioned closer to mainstream liberal parties.
  • the United States’ political center of gravity is to the right of other countries’, partly because of the lack of a serious left-wing party.
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  • The Republican Party leans much
  • If we could put every political party on the same continuum from left to right, where would the American parties fall?
  • Conservative Party in Britain and the Christian Democratic Union in Germany — mainstream right-leaning parties
  • The difference is that in Europe, far-right populist parties are often an alternative to the mainstream. In the United States, the Republican Party is the mainstream.
  • Marine Le Pen
  • The Democrats fall closer to mainstream left and center-left parties in other countries, like the Social Democratic Party in Germany and Britain’s Labour Party,
  • Note: Circles sized by the percentage of the vote won by the party in the latest election in this data. Only parties that won more than 1 percent of the vote and are still in existence are shown. We analyzed parties in a selection of Western European countries, Canada and the United States.
  • agnesg22 on 27 Sep 21
     
    The visual accompanying this article was very useful! I found it helpful to compare the American political parties to European political parties. I always knew that American politics were very right-leaning, but I had no idea of the extent.
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