America

2022 - 6 - 25

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Meet America's Change Makers (American Chemistry Council)

These dedicated and passionate individuals are finding new ways to make plastics lighter, stronger, more efficient… and more recyclable.

Also, be sure to check out America’s Change Makers on our website. I expressed to management that I’d like to be a part of improving sustainable solutions in our industry. I like the idea of becoming more sustainable. By linking innovation with sustainability, America’s Change Makers are changing the way plastics are made, used, and remade. After she graduated from college, Natalie found her way to ExxonMobil, where she started her career as a materials engineer. And to create the innovative products we all need to build a more sustainable future.

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Russia's digital nomads head for Latin America (Financial Times)

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Americas society news every morning. On café terraces in Buenos Aires the distinct sound of the ...

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America's heroes – right or wrong (Aljazeera.com)

This week, the US's mercurial relationship with true and manufactured heroes was on quixotic display.

The locusts promised to find Ms Moss and lynch her. And they no longer help other Americans to vote. I felt it was all my fault,” Ms Moss said. The locusts invaded her grandmother’s home to make a “citizen’s arrest”. “Simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country. The FBI urged Ms Freeman to leave home. Ms Moss took a long, reassuring breath before she began answering the committee’s questions. And for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, is foreign to my very being. They blared through loudspeakers that he was corrupt and a paedophile. Instantly. For a lot of Americans, it’s reassuring, I suppose, to believe that it is still possible for heroes to be made in America. Instead, he said this: “It is a tenet of my faith; that the Constitution is divinely inspired. They upset his “gravely ill” daughter who died in 2021.

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'It leaves you speechless': Australian storm chaser captures ... (The Guardian)

Each year photographer Krystle Wright heads to the midwest, drawn by the majestic supercell storms and tornados that can turn blue skies into black fury.

“I think at this point the story for me is that it is an environment; not only is it a storm environment, but it’s also the land of the midwest,” Wright says. It’s a bit sadistic, really,” she says. “The American midwest is the folklore of storm chasing. “At one point this year we were chasing a high intensity day through Minnesota,” she says. “It leaves you speechless,” she says. “It’s amazing,” she says.

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America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good (The Atlantic)

“But in truth, we have never been one nation. We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. This is not a metaphor; it is a ...

The COVID vaccination rate is about 20 percent higher in the blue section, and the per capita COVID death rate is about 20 percent higher in the red. It seems unlikely that the Trump-era Republicans installing the policy priorities of their preponderantly white and Christian coalition across the red states will be satisfied just setting the rules in the places now under their control. The share of kids in poverty is more than 20 percent lower in the blue section than red, and the share of working households with incomes below the poverty line is nearly 40 percent lower. Rather than just protecting slavery within their borders, the Southern states sought to control federal policy to impose their vision across more of the nation, including, potentially, to the point of overriding the prohibitions against slavery in the free states. Since about 2008, Podhorzer calculates, the southern states at the heart of the red nation have again fallen further behind the blue nation in per capita income. (Podhorzer also offers a slightly different grouping of the states that reflects the more recent trend in which Virginia has voted like a blue state at the presidential level, and Arizona and Georgia have moved from red to purple. To Podhorzer, the growing divisions between red and blue states represent a reversion to the lines of separation through much of the nation’s history. And that leaves the country perpetually teetering on a knife’s edge: The combined vote margin for either party across those purple states has been no greater than two percentage points in any of the past three presidential elections, he calculates. With these three states shifted into those categories, the two “nations” are almost equal in eligible voting-age population, and the blue advantage in GDP roughly doubles, with the blue section contributing 48 percent and the red just 35 percent.) All of this is fueling what I’ve called “the great divergence” now under way between red and blue states. “When we think about the United States, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of Red and Blue people,” Podhorzer writes. We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. This is not a metaphor; it is a geographic and historical reality.”

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