River
Happy escapee from the other place. Mix of interests inc health, welfare & disability policy, media, hospice/palliative care, the environment & animal welfare
- The cruelty is the point
- A new study published in The Lancet calculates that: 'global aid cuts could lead to at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.' 'About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.'
- What?! 👀
- Brilliant. He could be addressing 'protesters' outside a migrant hotel today
- “We are currently living through a paradigm shift in the speed, scale and severity of risks driven by the climate-nature crisis. Yet many regulations and government actions are dangerously out of touch with reality.”
- William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- 'Sudan is now the world’s most severe humanitarian emergency' 'UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned that the brutal conflict, famine and mass displacement are pushing millions of civilians deeper into crisis, while aid access remains severely constrained'
- 'Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 19 Palestinians, most of them women and children, by midday Wednesday, according to hospital officials.' 'Israel pledged to continue strikes.' 'Among the Palestinians killed were five children, including a 5-month-old and a baby just 10 days old'
- Reform will support pubs by impoverishing children. Trussell Trust found that 3.8 million children faced hunger in 2024. JRF 2025: 'Our most recent survey found five in six families on Universal Credit had gone without essentials. That means going without basics like food, heating & toiletries.'
- 'Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable.' 'In 2022, roughly seven million cancer diagnoses were linked to modifiable risk factors.' 'Overall, tobacco smoking was the leading contributor to worldwide cancer cases, followed by infections and drinking alcohol.'
- Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable, according to one of the first investigations of its kind go.nature.com/3NSmWmw
