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Being born after World War Two: friends and foes

On February 9, 1942 crowds gathered at New York City’s pier 88 to witness a spectacle. The largest ocean liner in the world was on fire. Fire fighting efforts successfully contained the fire after five and a half hours of effort, … Continue reading

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They are tearing the Amazon rainforest down

It has been growing there for 55 million years. The human race was around 1 million 10,000 years BC. Since the industrial revolution we are now over 8 billion and have wrought irrevocable destruction to the planet. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-sharing-the-amazon-rainforest.html?origin=serp_auto The tragedy … Continue reading

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