#hunger
Remember that Ukraine NEEDS you this winter. They have been under attack for 9 years now, with thousands of their children stolen, killed, recruited into the Russian Army & forced to participate in the attempted genocide of their people. Do them a solid, and call your Rep and your Senators, and demand they send aid to BOTH Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. Do it before Christmas. If you can send them Christmas cards, please do. #Ukraine #Palestine #Israel #War #Hunger #Famine
„Dieselbe Strecke Landes, welche als Wiese, d. h. als Viehfutter, zehn Menschen durch das Fleisch der darauf gemästeten #Tiere aus zweiter Hand ernährt, vermag, mit Hirse, Erbsen, Linsen und Gerste bebaut, hundert Menschen zu erhalten und zu ernähren.“ (Alexander von Humboldt)
Dass es heute sogar so aussieht, dass riesige Monokulturen an #Getreide und #Hülsenfrüchte in #Mast-Tröge wandern, während immer mehr Menschen #hungern, konnte er nicht ahnen. #ernährung #fleisch
Palestinians forcibly displaced into Gaza scrubland | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
This is the link to the DCWC fundraiser for Metro Caring. On Colorado Gives Day I invite you to help our neighbors have food.
#Colorado #Hunger #Druidry #DruidryCenteredWomensCircle #Denver #ColoradoGivesDay
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
Creator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life & death in a world 4 C hotter
#greedy #oilandgas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Hunger https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/
📖 Mariana Castro assina, com David Conde Caballero, o artigo "Mercados ilícitos. Hambre y reconfiguración moral en la frontera hispano-lusa durante la posguerra", que foi publicado na revista Historia Contemporánea.
🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.1387/hc.23119
#Histodons #SocialHistory #IberianPeninsula #Hunger #Smuggling #Morals #HistóriaSocial #Contrabando #Fome #Hambre #Moralidade #PósGuerra
Policing is not the answer to shoplifting, feeding people is
#Food #Policing #Inflation #Poverty #Hunger #Police #FoodPrices #FoodInsecurity #CostOfLiving #Shoplifting
#FeedingNotPolicing #FoodTheft #EconomicPressures #Inequality #RisingFoodCosts #Grocery
https://the-14.com/policing-is-not-the-answer-to-shoplifting-feeding-people-is/
*schaut Farbe beim Trocknen zu und kriegt unerklärlicherweise Hunger
#Heimwerken
#Hunger
India’s ‘Amrit Kaal’: Hunger, Inequity and a $30-Trillion Economy
A near ten-fold increase in the size of the economy and per-capita GDP is being projected to be achieved in the next 25 years in the backdrop of poverty, hunger and unemployment, writes MG Devasahayam.
#economy #GDP #unemployment #hunger #poverty #india
https://thewire.in/economy/indias-amrit-kaal-hunger-inequity-and-a-30-trillion-economy
@tagesschau "Bundesinnenministerin Nancy #Faeser (SPD) ... sagte: "Der Rechtsstaat darf sich nicht auf der Nase herumtanzen lassen"
Was sie vergessen hat hinzuzufügen:
"...außer von Bundesminister*innen, die gegen das #Klimaschutzgesetz verstoßen, von skrupellosen #fossilen Konzernen, milliardenschweren #Steuerflüchtlingen und superreichen #Oligarchen."
Denn die sind ja nicht vor #Krieg, Verfolgung, #Hunger und/oder #Klimakatastrophen geflohen, sondern gehören zu deren Hauptverursachern.
Poor nutrition, solitary confinement -- details of how the hostages seized when Hamas attacked southern Israel have been treated in captivity are starting to emerge from under a veil of secrecy.
#Light #HamasHostages #Hunger
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/kept-in-dark-hungry-and-alone-hostages-recount-gaza-captivity-horror-4616014
Ukraine schließt millionenschwere Getreideverträge ab und verspricht Schutz für die Frachter
Vermont Public is gearing up for its annual #GivingTuesday fundraiser!
In collaboration with the Vermont Foodbank and the generous fundholders at the Vermont Community Foundation, every gift made to Vermont Public between now and midnight on Tuesday will result in support of public media in Vermont AND the equivalent of 18 meals being donated to the Vermont Foodbank.
Learn more and make your donation now —> https://www.vermontpublic.org/about-us/2023-11-24/giving-tuesday-every-gift-provides-18-meals-to-vermonters
Consider this: every time you grocery shop, pick up an extra of a couple of items and donate the extras to the local food pantry. This can make a huge difference to someone in need. Hunger knows no boundaries. #Hunger #FoodPantry #Donations #PeopleInNeed
'Jarring Wake-Up Call': Hunger Surges in US After Food Aid Cuts
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"Effective federal public policies over the previous few years were spectacularly successful in stemming U.S. hunger, but as many of those policies have been reversed, hunger has again soared," said one expert.
Two schoolchildren enjoying their school lunch....
https://alaska-native-news.com/jarring-wake-up-call-hunger-surges-in-us-after-food-aid-cuts/71057/
#food #foodaid #hunger #increase #u.s.
Die Ungarn spielen den Ball ins Aus, damit József Varga behandelt werden kann. #HUNGER #Mexico1986
No changes on the frontline. However, battles remain fierce and the #UkrainianArmy is counterattacking in #Horlivka, from where occupiers source their supplies to north of #Avdiivka.
Russian base in Feodosia, #Crimea was targeted.
Overnight, #russia launched its largest drone attack yet, on the day #Ukraine marks the anniversary of the #Holodomor famine: Stalin's #genocide campaign which killed several millions of Ukrainians by #hunger in 1932-33. Ukraine shot down 71 out of 75 drones.
#hunger
#disease
#cleanwater
Will show to NM?
#europa #meinung ##Ökologie #umwelt #politik
#agrarindustrie #artenvielfalt #eu #glyphosat #hunger #klimawandel #lebensmittel #lobbyismus
Das World Food Institute – Institut für Welternährung e. V. ist ein Zusammenschluss von JournalistInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen, PraktikerInnen und interessierten Laien mit dem Ziel, sich gemeinsam für eine Ernährungswende einzusetzen. Das IWE versteht sich als Think-Tank, Informationsplattform, Netzwerk und Kommunikator
https://institut-fuer-welternaehrung.org/freiheit-von-glyphosat
#Undernourishment claimed the lives of around 2.94 million #children in 2019.
In 2022, 735 million people suffered from chronic #hunger. That was 122 million people more than before the #pandemic and 146 million more than in 2015. Therefore, the trend is contrary to the #SDG2 #target to #endHunger by 2030.⛔
Sources: IHME #GBDstudy + @fao https://www.healthdata.org/results/gbd_summaries/2019/child-and-maternal-malnutrition-level-2-risk
https://www.fao.org/3/cc3017en/cc3017en.pdf
#SDGs #GlobalGoals #2030Agenda #GlobalHealth @thelancet
Pay It Forward 👇🏾
🗣️ If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table not a taller fence. 🫶🏽
#quotes #hunger #payitforward #FoodSecurity #CommunitySupport #FoodInsecurity #teamwork
Schrumpfende Portionen aufgrund steigender #Mehrwertsteuer:
Gutverdienende müssen immer häufiger an #Hunger leiden.
Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it’s ever been — here’s how we can solve it
#Canada #Politics #Inflation #Hunger #Healthcare #FoodInsecurity #SocialAssistance #FoodCosts #GroceryRebate #HealthcareImpact #IncomeSupport #CanadaHunger #SocialJustice
https://the-14.com/food-insecurity-in-canada-is-the-worst-its-ever-been-heres-how-we-can-solve-it/
Gaza hunger crisis: Food running out across besieged strip
Youth softball players aim to 'Strike Out Hunger' with food drive
Will Israel release the two million Palestinians hostages as well?
#Palestine #Hunger #Israel #idf #Hamas #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Colonialism #HealthCare #Food #MiddleEast #Biden #Democrats #Accomplices #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #Palestinians #Gaza #Palestinian #Kids #Children #Women #Occupation #Nakba #1948 #GenevaConvention
Israel continues to hold two million Palestinians hostage in Gaza.
#Palestine #Hunger #Israel #idf #Hamas #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Colonialism #HealthCare #Food #MiddleEast #Biden #Democrats #Accomplices #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #Palestinians #Gaza #Palestinian #Kids #Children #Women #Occupation #Nakba #1948 #GenevaConvention
Look at how skinny the little girl in this picture is. Look at how skinny the doctor is.
How can any human being not condemn what Israel is doing to these people?
#Palestine #Hunger #Israel #idf #Hamas #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Colonialism #HealthCare #Food #MiddleEast #Biden #Democrats #Accomplices #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #Palestinians #Gaza #Palestinian #Kids #Children #Women #Occupation #Nakba #1948 #GenevaConvention
From the #UN World #Food Programme "With only ten percent of necessary food supplies entering #Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, the Strip now faces a massive food gap and widespread #hunger as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance ... civilians are facing the immediate possibility of #starvation". This needs to stop now, and governments - including the #UK one - need to stop supporting this action. https://www.wfp.org/news/gaza-faces-widespread-hunger-food-systems-collapse-warns-wfp #IsraelHamasWar #Israel
Newsmast communities are so awesome.
#hunger #infectiousdisease #cleanwater #art #creativeart
We need to create a conspiracy theory that satanists and parts of the government are allowing the homeless to die as a sacrifice to Satan. Maybe the QAnon people will help and save the homeless and conservative Christians will actual do something beyond thoughts and prayers. #NoBillionaires #homelessness #hunger
@s_bergmann @isotopp Wir haben seit einiger Zeit hier endlich auch wieder einen brauchbaren Inder um die Ecke.
Wieso habe ich jetzt eigentlich plötzlich #Hunger? *seufz*
Russia planned to steal grain & starve Ukrainians ahead of invasion, evidence shows
Russia started buying cargo ships & trucks to transport grain as early as Dec 2021
After the full-scale invasion in Feb 2022, Russia attacked grain-rich regions & food infrastructure as part of a deliberate starvation campaign
Moscow has attacked Ukraine’s agriculture sector as a warfare tactic
#Community Fridges Combat Both #Hunger and Climate Change
A concept that spread to meet an urgent need amid the pandemic remains a low-key yet efficient way to feed people and prevent food waste.
By: Max Graham
November 2, 2023
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/community-fridges-hunger-climate-change/
Homelessness, Destitution, and Hunger Soar in the UK | Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/13/homelessness-destitution-and-hunger-soar-uk
#UK
#Homelesness
#Destitution
#Hunger
#FoodBanks
#Poverty
#HumanRights
#TrussellTrust
#TemporaryAccomodation
#HumanRightsViolations
#JosephRowntreeFoundation
#JustFair
#SpecialRapporteurOnExtremePivertyAndHumanRights
#GuaranteeOurEssentials
#SocialSecurityPaymentLevels
#FightPovertyWithRights
#Hunger #Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity | June-November 2023 Outlook
How #GenAI Can Help Companies Go Beyond #Social #Listening : Harvard
#LLemma: a #Model Speaking #Math : Medium
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
Kollektives Handeln statt Wohltätigkeit. Mit solidarischen Küchen gegen den #Hunger in #Brasilien.
Die Stärke der #Rechten liegt in einfachen #Antworten für eine #Bevölkerung ohne #Bildung.
Der lebhafte öffentliche #Diskurs in sozialen #Medien hätte dem fast ein Ende bereitet.
Aber schnell kamen #Algorithmen, #Cancelculture, #Blocklisten und die #Sprechpolizei.
Dabei wäre es doch ganz leicht:
#Hunger = Hunger
#Arbeit = Arbeit
#Leben = Leben
#Tod = Tod
#Rassismus = Rassismus
#Apartheid = Apartheid
#Leid = Leid
#Betrug = Betrug
Malnutrition in Sudan: Hunger on the rise among Sudanese children
You don’t need to be a fan of the British monarchy to applaud King Charles’ efforts to reduce food waste and get more food to those in need:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67381863
That’s what Boulder Food Rescue does — one of my favorite charities and not just because my first cousin once removed is a co-founder. A great place to make some end-of-year donations if your finances allow for it and you’re so inclined:
https://www.boulderfoodrescue.org/
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-> This is why I have rage against ANYONE AND EVERYONE that defends billionaires and prevents the change needed to fix this issue. Those people stand in the way of progress and contribute to human death and extend human suffering. There is no better definition of evil than that.
It is morally bankrupt to think you’re on some moral high ground to argue any stance when people are starving and sleeping in the streets. #nobillionaires #taxbillionaires #hunger #homelessness
There are some truths that when you think about them, they can inform your actions. The biggest one is that there is enough food that no human should go hungry. There are enough resources so that everyone can have shelter. The fact that we have hunger and homelessness is a direct result of billionaires and the lack of will to fix distribution of the food and houses. It is a direct result of greed. -> more #NoBillionaires #hunger #homelessness #taxbillionaires
A monthly average of more than 6 million US women, infants and young children receive benefits in 2022 from the WIC program.
The results from the national data study also tell the story of many families: Kids from low-income and food-insecure households can realize a better future with public assistance.
https://theconversation.com/2-in-5-us-babies-benefit-from-the-wic-nutrition-program-214676
#USpolitics #parenting #hunger
Cincinnati Ohio area school district opens food pantries for children offering kid-friendly, nutritious, shelf-stable items.
Group seeking $100K per year in donations to enable them to utilize the Freestore Foodbank resources for power packs and school pantries to support 400 children per year. So far, they are 40% there. #Ohio #Hunger #Cincinnati
🔗 'We don't work well when we're hungry': Donations help fund much needed food pantries in schools
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, even city rooftops.
"I like to define it as a multi-species approach to growing #food in #water...the three #species in an #aquaponics system are #fish, #plants, and #microorganisms."
"...there are people around the world who are using it to address real #hunger and real crisis...it does play a role."
"#Nature requires balance."
#AquaponicsCycle #symbiosis #OkoFarms #PBS #WomenOfTheEarth
JHarris created a post about effectively donating to a food bank. It's a great collection of tips on how to help those in need!
https://www.metafilter.com/200951/Giving-to-food-banks-effectively
#donation #foodbank #giving #hunger #needs #poverty #metafilter #bestofmetafilter
Welthunger-Index: Kaum Fortschritte im Kampf gegen Hunger
Der Kampf gegen den Hunger stagniert. Das ist das Ergebnis des aktuellen Welthunger-Index. Demnach waren 2022 rund 735 Millionen Menschen unterernährt. Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine und der Klimawandel verschärften die Situation.
@parents4future …doch am besten mit weltweitem frauenrecht auf #abtreibung- oder? Oder???
#klimakatastrophe #kinder #kinderarmut #hunger #flüchtlinge #mittelmeer #kolonialismus #rassismus #Privileg #patriarchat #asyl #aufenthaltsrecht #Fürsorge #krieg #zeitenwende #menschheitskrise #MyBodyMyDecision
UK warns of Russia laying ‘sea mines’ to deter Black Sea cargo ships
A new kind of 3D-printed carrot, in the words of its Qatar-based inventors
The United Nations says rape and sexual assault have become widespread in the conflict in Sudan
Thousands of Sudanese remain trapped in or near the capital amid fighting
Hungry people go one of two ways: Revolution or Slavery. Republicans are betting on slavery.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/house-gop-snap-benefits-cut
#gop #hunger
UNICEF: Nearly 1 million children in Mali threatened with acute malnutrition
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 577
Food security: UN says hunger & malnutrition on the rise
UNGA 2023: Sheikh Tamim calls for end of ‘injustice’
@muellertadzio Die Leute haben vergessen was es heißt, #Hunger zu haben. Denen geht es zu gut.
Ich könnte auch über Vieles klagen, aber gerade angesichts der #Klimakrise und nötiger politischen #Reformen, brauchen wir die #Demokratie.
#Debatten allerdings zum #Eigennutz führen und Wähler gegen die Regierung aufbringen, wie es #CDUCSU gerade machen, schadet der Demokratie. Mangels #Lösungen werfen sie Knüppel vom Spielfeldrand, wo sie der #Wähler richtigerweise platziert hat.
Brazil's President Lula da Silva at #BRICS: "It is very hard to combat #ClimateChange while so many developing countries are still dealing with #hunger #poverty and other #violence."
Well, it's difficult to deal with developing nations while BRICS's Terrorist Russian Federation unleashes #WarCrimes daily in #Ukraine #Syria and #Africa.
And it's difficult to fight poverty while #PutinWarCriminal bombs grain in Ukraine.
Why doesn't Lula tell it to Putin's face? Coward.
Motion to change all instances of "food desert" to food apartheid because it speaks to the systems-level barriers communities face when accessing food.
Diverse communities are not barren wastelands. They are full of culture and lives that matter.
#FoodJustice #LanguageMatters #food #hunger #diversity #justice
Recent data shows the number of Americans without enough to eat has risen by *over one third*. Meanwhile, #Republicans have declared war on free school lunches. #hunger #FoodSecurity https://www.commondreams.org/news/as-gop-wages-morally-appalling-war-on-food-aid-data-shows-35-rise-in-hunger
'Will Literally Change Lives': Massachusetts Legislature Approves Universal Free School Meals
"Congress must follow suit and make this a reality for every child who calls America home," said U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
The Massachusetts Legislature on Monday approved a budget proposal that requires the state's public schools to provide all K-12 students with free meals, making permanent a highly successful pandemic-era program.
Agricultural and food collapse! This is apocalyptic!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38906-7
"Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security... Here we find an increased likelihood of concurrent low yields during summers featuring meandering jets in observations and models... Given the identified model biases, future assessments of regional and concurrent crop losses from meandering jet states remain highly uncertain."
"Concurrent crop failures in major crop-producing regions constitute a systemic risk as associated spikes in food prices can lead to conflict and undernutrition in countries that rely on imports... We find that simultaneous extremes linked to a meandering jet stream from amplified Rossby waves19 lead to regional yield losses... and to concurrent low harvests across the mid-latitudes... This increased likelihood of concurrent low yields in major breadbaskets, is mostly reproduced by historical model experiments, whether driven by reanalysis data or climate models in particular."
If people are not aware, the jetstreams meandering (Rossby waves) over western continental US have stay put (i.e., have not migrated, or diminished, or collapsed) over the last month.They now engulf almost the entirety of continental US, and predictions say that it will continue to stay put over the entire summer.
Let's also not forget, as of now, even without concurrent crop failures as detailed in the paper, as the World Food Programme, FAO and IFPRI have reported, currently 350 million people worldwide are acutely food insecure, with a further 2 billion within the category of being precarious when it comes to food security.
For a news version of this paper including identifying the primary suspects, the politics, why there is hardly any media coverage, and why this is possibly the only thing we should be talking about, here is George Monbiot writing in The Guardian:
"It could scarcely be more screwed up. The effort to protect Earth systems and the human systems that depend on them is led by people working at the margins with tiny resources, while the richest and most powerful use every means at their disposal to stop them. Can you imagine, in decades to come, trying to explain this to your children?"
#GlobalWarming #Hunger #AgricultureCollapse #ClimateChange #ConcurrentDroughts #PoliticalEconomy #Politics #MediaCircus #EnvironmentalCrises
Since the assassination of the Haitian president in 2021, gangs have taken control of major parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and are causing a hunger crisis and havoc in the country. The U.N. says the situation is growing dire and that an international peacekeeping force is needed to restore order. So far no country has committed to sending their forces.
Hunger Doesn’t Take A Holiday🥙
🗣️Great to see many other people being of service at Rosie’s Place in Boston. A safe haven for LGBTQIA+ women and all in need of their services who self- identify as female.
✔️Non-profits cannot do their work
without community partners, donors and volunteers.
👉🏽Ways to Give + Volunteer🔗 https://www.rosiesplace.org/get-involved
#lgbtqia #hunger #giveback #boston #volunteer #hope #womenshealth #equity #equality #payitforward #homeless
There are food sites open throughout #Massachusetts, providing free breakfast and lunch all summer to anyone 18yo or younger. This is intended to replace the free food provided to students at public schools during the school year. No registration or ID is required. See https://ProjectBread.org/SummerEats for more information.
#PSA #hunger #Boston #BostonMA #FreeFood
Hunger knows no geographical or political boundaries. This morning's harvest went to the local food pantry's freedge, which is half cupboard, half refrigerator. #hunger #foodsecurity #donations #newtonma
Great piece by @joshuaphilll on the myth of scarcity. An excellent read.
https://newmeans.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-scarcity?utm_medium=ios
#scarcity #myths #capitalism #greed #poverty #hunger #homelessness #homeless #unhoused #MythOfScarcity
The French government have ensured that food prices will drop after an 'agreement' with food companies.
#GoodNews #France #Food #Prices #AccessToFood #Hunger #CostOfLiving
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/frances-le-maire-says-75-food-firms-cut-prices-2023-06-09/
The "#AI" fraud is on par with the "#Mars" fraud.
Nothing of this is necessary or even helpful to solve the real problems of humanity, like #climatecrisis, #hunger, #war, #exploitation, #authoritarianism etc.
But it is *sold* as a solution, first of all to investors. And the main pressure to buy comes from an ideologically distorted extinction threat.
Hey hi there just a reminder that with summer vacation from school coming, many kids will be missing what may be their only place to get meals. That’s why I leave snacks in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. Why children go hungry in a nation as wealthy as ours is a subject for another toot.
#kind #foodInsecurity #hunger #poverty #books #Bookstodon #author #writer #writing
Berichterstattung und #Talkshows über krasse Belastungen, #Hunger und #Obdachlosigkeit wegen #Inflation und steigender Preise wo?
BBC News - #Palestinian Khader #Adnan dies in #Israel jail after 86 days on #hunger #strike
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-65452946
Here’s another $3 billion in the news (from March)
“(People)…report higher rates of skipping meals, eating less, relying on others for meals and visiting food pantries…
…At the same time, a majority… in all states say they have less than $25 on hand to cover expenses.”
~ Here’s why millions of Americans will lose $3 billion in monthly food stamp benefits starting in March~
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/politics/food-stamps-pandemic-emergency-allotments/index.html
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Drive an electric car…
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#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #war #food #hunger #solar #panel #water #fuel #gas #energy #science #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #environment
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electriccar #ev #earth #ecology #species
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Ten days after refusing to approve a lunch program for low-income children, Republicans in North Dakota voted to supersize meal reimbursements for themselves. Sorry kids -- handouts for me, but not for thee.
#news #politics #usnews #uspolitics #uspol #republicans #gop #gqp #schools #education #hunger #childhunger #hungry #gophypocrisy #hypocrisy
This one has been flying around my #Facebook friends list. In and of itself, it’s true. I have no argument with what it says. But there’s a lot it’s not saying, and I can’t help but feel like it’s designed to disparage the #15minuteCity concept by that omission.
First, the concept itself. The idea of the 15-minute city (“#15mC”) is pretty simple: everything you need for your daily life should be within 15 minutes’ #walk. Some definitions have “walk or #bicycle ride,” but I think that drastically weakens the concept.
In other words, a healthy, able-bodied adult should be able to get to all the usual destinations in no more than a quarter of an hour, on foot. I would add to this that #children, the #elderly, and people of all ages with #disabilities should also be able to get where they’re going via accessible #public #transit, in the same amount of time.
All the usual destinations. Which yes, means #grocery #stores, #restaurants, #movie #theaters, etc.—for people who #work there as well as the patrons. And every other kind of #workplace too. Of course you don’t have to work or eat or shop close to home. But the option needs to be there, and the work has to be able to pay for all the rest.
That’s always been part of the concept. If the work criterion is not met, you don’t have a 15mC; you have a theme park, like the post says. Fair enough.
Yes, and? If you have a #house without a roof, you don’t have a house, you have a collection of walls. If you have a plate without #food on it, you don’t have a meal, you have #hunger. If you have a #legislature that can arbitrarily kick out its members for voicing their opinions, you don’t have #liberty, you have #tyranny. Everyone understands this.
So if we agree that the 15mC is a good idea—I certainly think it is—then let’s try to make it happen. This kind of sniping strikes me as less a valid critique and more an attempt to make the whole idea sound impossible.
Maybe that’s not the intent, but it’s sure how it comes across. Yeah … don’t do that.
Be thankful
Cambodian child
Peace is a Cambodian little girl we met on our life changing trip. Follow the link below to hear our heart breaking encounter.
ART: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/peace-rebecca-herranen.html
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