Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?

11/02/2021

This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.

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Indonesia's Logging Fight

WSJ 07/03/2007

Tom Wright

New York Times 08/16/2013

Gerry Mullany, Gerry, Mullany

Nature walks and improved health and wellbeing- Essential during the Coronavius Pandemic

10/09/2021

Walks taken out in parks, nature settings, and further out in wooded areas are seen as essential for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. This is becoming increasingly popular in the UK and can be pursued in the US, other parts of Europe, India, other parts of Asia, Latin America and Africa as a way to promote neglected mental health during the pandemic. Vaccines are doing their part for body health yet much remains to be done for mental health which has taken a big hit during the pandemic.

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‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health

The Guardian 10/09/2021

The Guardian 06/13/2019

The origins of the coronavirus and the 2018 NIH lifting of a US ban on virus research that increases transmissibility

06/04/2021

Dr. Fauci, NIH, HHS, lifted the ban on research and manipulation of virus in lab settings in 2018 The role played by the Cambridge Group of scientists who opposed lifting the ban on gain of function research for surveillance purposes. The US public and the public in the world in India, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America unaware of what was going on. The devastating effects of the coronavirus in 202 and 2021 and the lack of a vaccine in 2020, lack of a vaccine in sufficient quantities in 2021. The paltry benefits of surveillance compared to the great risks of something going wrong, as pointed out by the Cambridge Group. Why was it ignored in 2018. Who makes decisions for public health in the world. Can the US make decisions for India, the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Does even the US public know about it, much less the public in the world at large. What power is given by the US Constitution to US government agencies on matters of public health. How are a few individuals at HHS and NIH accountable to the public in the US and the world at large.

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Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab

WSJ 06/03/2021

The Editorial Board

The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021

India's effort in mobile manufacturing with PLI incentives, and in 5G

12/16/2020

Unprecedented effort in India in 5G by 2021-2022 and in mobile manufacturing under PLI incentives by 2025.

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‘India will prove cynics wrong...’: Mukesh Ambani on economy, Jio 5G, vaccine

Hindustan Times 12/08/2020

Hindustan Times 12/16/2020

The opening of bars in tourism destinations of Europe in summer triggering a second wave of the pandemic

09/22/2020

Linked Articles

Tourists in Croatia Help Feed Covid-19 Surge Across Europe

WSJ 09/21/2020

Bojan Pancevski

WSJ 08/02/2020

Noemie Bisserbe, Bojan Pancevski

Twitter's short form of 140 characters, the iphone, and the tech platforms building on the declining cultural and other literacy in America, Europe, other countries

05/28/2020

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's regrets on what he sees as the lack of any depth in the short form that works well on mobile phones. The first smartphones came in 2007 and 2008 iphone and android versions, Twitter started in 2006, both growing at the same time, the story of a tech boom that is paralleled by declining cultural and other literacy in America. It also parallels the decline in sense of what is in the national interest among communities in America and Europe and in other countries, leaving them with fewer defences against the coronavirus pandemic by 2020.

Linked Articles

Opinion | A Presidential Smear

WSJ 05/26/2020

The Editorial Board

NYTimes.com 11/09/2013

Matt Richtel

How the WHO failed as early warning system in the coronavirus after being a model during the leadership of Dr. Brundtland in 2003 SARS

05/21/2020

The contrast could not be greater between the World Health Organization today and the WHO under Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a three time prime minister of Norway between 1981 and 1996 with great experience and a record of handling difficult issues of climate change and sustainable development.

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A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL

SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020

Veronika Hackenbroch, Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel

Hindustan Times 05/19/2020

Eliud Kipchoge and Roger Bannister - contrasts and the running style

10/13/2019

Kipchoge's entire focus is on running in 2019 with the world watching and the richest man in Britain heading company Ineos backing him. Bannister is only shown later on BBC and is focussed on completing his medical studies, with no major financial supporter.

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The barrier broken on salad and spikes

The Times 10/13/2019

John Goodbody

BBC Sport 04/26/2019

Two views on populist politics in the U.S. and Europe in 2017- getting started or at their crest and declining

04/25/2017

Linked Articles

Populism, Far From Turned Back, May Be Just Getting Started

The New York Times 04/25/2017

Max Fisher, Amanda Taub

The New York Times 04/24/2017

Steven Erlanger, Alison Smale

Brexit as an opportunity for bringing fresh breath of air to the idea of Europe

01/20/2017

Linked Articles

Brexit Presents Europe with Opportunity for Improvement - SPIEGEL ONLINE

SPIEGEL ONLINE 06/24/2016

Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany

DW.COM 01/17/2017

Christoph Hasselbach

"Deaths of Despair", the causes and effects in a larger context, and the drop in America's ranking in the Social Progress Index to 19th in 2016

07/01/2016

How the middle aged white Americans 45-54 are faring in the current environment with fewer opportunities and greater vulnerabilities in health, education incomes, savings, quality of life, mortality, upward mobility, for this group. Tragically this means their children and the next generation is also affected in the way fewer opportunities are available in the future. The situation is unique to America with weaker social protection than Europe, and to Britain because of years of austerity. There are no quick fixes with easy slogans, and requires first a national awareness, national consensus, and may require the better part of a generation to solve and restore the hope and promise of Jefferson in making the "inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" available to all.

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Rising Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans Are Forcing a Policy Rethink

WSJ 06/30/2016

WSJ 06/30/2016

Josh Zumbrun, Josh, Zumbrun

A guide to understanding the Middle East and South Asia, 1980-2015, and what this means for Europe and the U.S. (1) - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan

09/25/2015

Linked Articles

The Duel of Despots

Wall Street Journal 11/12/2015

Bartle Bull, Bartle, Bull

Wall Street Journal 09/25/2015

Neil Rogachevsky, Neil, Rogachevsky

2016 U.S. presidential candidate Jeb Bush's Tax Plan that spells out details, and takes a shot at 4% growth for restoring lost social and economic mobility in the U.S.

09/09/2015

The efforts to wrestle with the deficit in 2011-2012 led to a vigorous debate on changing the tax code, yet political leaders failed to take up new ideas or spell out the details. Jeb Bush, with advisors Martin Feldstein and Kevin Warsh, takes the unconventional approach of putting in the details, and taking up ideas such as the idea of limiting itemized deductions to 2% of adjusted gross income proposed by Feldstein in that debate. On the $2.1 trillion in income held overseas by U.S. companies Bush proposes 8.75% tax paid over 10 years. On business investment he proposes capital investment be allowed to be deducted in full immediately. It is based on the idea that business investment can drive a vigorous recovery, that workers bear 50% of the burden of higer taxes through sluggish wage growth. It levels the playing field for debt and equity capital, removing "carried interest" provision, as a lesson from the excessive leverage taken by financial institutions in the past.

Linked Articles

The Bush Growth Plan

Wall Street Journal 09/10/2015

Editorial

New York Times 09/09/2015

Alan Rappeport, Alan, Rappeport, Matt Flegenheimer, Matt, Flegenheimer