The #Heat #Crisis Is a #Housing Crisis

"Humble told me that we talk about how sharply smoking increases lung cancer risks, up to 3,000 percent according to #government statistics. But, he added, “being #homeless increases your chance of dying from heat in Phoenix by 50,000 percent.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/climate/the-heat-crisis-is-a-housing-crisis.html

#health #humanrights #politics #environment #earth #emissions #climate #economy #fail #justice #news

Trees and land absorbed almost no #CO2 last year. Is #nature’s #carbon sink failing?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe

#environment #climate #emissions #news #future #crisis #forest #tree

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating

^{Patrick Greenfield (The Guardian)}

Symbolic image for the current state of our #civilization.

#meme #future #humanity #crisis #politics #society #capitalism #war #terror #finance #economy #climate #environment #nature #earth #biodiversity #memes #titanic

Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g7ed3qzxo

A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army #penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile #scalpel.

#uk #health #crisis #Problem #news

Brighton: Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch

A surgeon is alleged to have used a Swiss Army knife because he could not find a sterile scalpel.

^{Joe Pike (BBC News)}