The Daily Populous

Sunday March 24th, 2019 evening edition

image for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wonders whether people should have kids in a climate-ravaged world. So does this movement of 'BirthStrikers.'

She remembers fondly sitting in the freezing cold with hot chocolate, aware of her environment and its fragility.

As she grew older, the singer-songwriter watched a lot of news, and read books like Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs.

The Extinction Rebellion activist group protested on November 23, 2018 in Tower Hill, London.

While BirthStrike is new, the idea of not having children because of climate change has been percolating for years.

Another organization, a non-profit called Conceivable Future, was started on the notion that "the climate crisis is a reproductive crisis."

"We are becoming less than we are as our babies, our future, and our natural world are disappearing.".

"It would break my heart to bring children into the world and have it collapse around them," Conduit said. »

Petition to cancel Brexit closes in on 5m signatures

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The petition to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit has hit five million signatures, a day after a reported million people marched through London to demand a new referendum.

By Sunday afternoon it had more than 5,010,000 signatures, surpassing a 2016 petition calling for a second vote, and the website has already crashed repeatedly.

Climbing: By Sunday afternoon more than 5million people had signed the petition calling on the Government to stop Brexit. »

Richard Dawkins auf Twitter: "Hostility to religion is not the same as hostility to religious people. Quite the contrary. Muslims are the main victims of Islam’s cruelty. I am deeply hostile to Islam

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Mass Protest Vowed If Demand for Public Release of Mueller Report Not Met

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If they try to hide anything, we've got to be ready: https://t.co/q90JBhVzYF #ReleaseTheReport https://t.co/Ctb5KMJS70 — MoveOn (@MoveOn) March 23, 2019.

Meanwhile, there's little indication at this point that either Barr or the White House will seek to conceal the report.

Earlier this week, Trump—continuing to profess is innocence and repeating his "no collusion" mantra—said the report should be made public. »

The Success of an Environmental Charge

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In the UK, single-use plastic carrier bags have become a common feature of shopping since their introduction in the 1980s.

In 2014, over 8.5 billion plastic bags were used by UK supermarket shoppers, which produced around 58,000 metric tons of plastic waste.

The money collected from this charge is usually directed to various charity projects related to environmental protection and social care. »