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The Ring of Fire, it turns out, is really a ring of subduction zones. Nearly all the earthquakes in the region are caused by continental plates getting stuck on oceanic plates—as North America is stuck on Juan de Fuca—and then getting abruptly unstuck.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
After a series of police shootings of black citizens along Fourteenth Street during summer 1968, the Black United Front held neighborhood hearings on police behavior from which emerged a list of thirteen demands for “community control” of the police department. “We have always had community control [of police],” Ruth Bates Harris observed wryly. “The problem is that it has been white community control.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Yet many governments in the US and Europe continue to heavily subsidise driving through a combination of incentives such as subsidies for fossil fuel production, tax allowances for commuting by car, and incentives for company cars that promote driving over other means of transport. Essentially, such measures pay polluters while imposing the social costs on wider society.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
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