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U.N. says prominent Afghan girls' education advocate arrested in Kabul — ground.news: 9 sources — 28 March 2023 (LINK)
'We are all Chinese', former Taiwan president says while visiting China — reuters — 28 March 2023 (LINK)
Suicide bomber kills 6 people near foreign ministry in Kabul — ground.news: 43 sources — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
U.N. rights mission blasts EU on Libya migrant abuses — ground.news: 28 sources — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
NATO: Hungarian Parliament ratifies Finland's membership — ground.news: 87 sources — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
World 'population bomb' may not go off as feared, finds Club of Rome study — guardian — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
— The authors caution that falling birthrates alone will not solve the planet's environmental problems, which are already serious at the 8 billion level and are primarily caused by the excess consumption of a wealthy minority. Declining populations can also create new problems, such as a shrinking workforce and greater stress on healthcare associated with an ageing society, as countries like Japan and South Korea are finding.
World Bank Warns of 'Lost Decade' as Potential Growth Slows — bloomberg ● — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
How Earth's natural mechanisms control runaway climate change — new MIT study — source — 28 March 2023 (LINK)
—"Today's global warming will eventually be canceled out through this stabilizing feedback. But on the other hand, it will take hundreds of thousands of years to happen, so not fast enough to solve our present-day issues."
Bill McKibben: Climate change is the legacy of people over the age of 60. That's why we must protest — theguardian — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
Humans need to see themselves as part of nature, says environmental study — phys.org — 27 March 2023 (LINK)
— 'Humanity needs to change its relationship with nature to make it part of ourselves/"us," so that biodiversity and our physical surroundings can flourish.' Professor Tom Oliver will present the findings of the report to the European Commission on Thursday, 20 April.
