Mariel

@marielvdf.bsky.social

Uit de seventies | getrouwd | 2 volwassen kinderen | jurist bestuursrecht | atheïst | licht sportief | nieuws junkie | hou van discussie op basis van feiten | ben het niet altijd met je eens 🙋🏼‍♀️

Naarmate we ouder worden – en ouder wórden we – leveren we in op alles: van gehoor en spierkracht tot libido en geheugen. Dus wat levert langer leven op? Meer levensjaren, maar minder gezonde jaren. Tijd om na te denken over mijn eigen levenseinde, schrijft Dick Wittenberg. Wanneer is genoeg genoeg?

Wil ik (73) wel zo oud mogelijk worden?

Er bestaan 80-plussers die de marathon lopen, maar dat zijn uitzonderingen. Naarmate we ouder worden – en ouder wórden we – leveren we in op alles: van gehoor en spierkracht tot libido en geheugen. Du...

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🇺🇸 Trump: "If Iran doesn't surrender, we'll launch a ground invasion!" 🇺🇸 General Dan: "A ground invasion would be a death trap. Iran has a huge army. They'll isolate U.S. troops, cut off air support, and turn them into sitting ducks." 🇺🇸 Trump: "Then what options do we have left?"

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I think most people do not understand how unbelievably scary this is. It makes me sick that most of the world’s societies have ignored all of the warnings for the past 5 decades. Climate scientists have been telling us that this accelerated warming was coming, it is here now and just getting worse.

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

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@minister-president.bsky.social While Pedro Sánchez says it plainly: “Climate change kills,” I expected more from former “climate crusader” Rob Jetten. Sometimes leadership is simply having the courage to say it out loud. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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