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fromwww.ocregister.com
4 days ago

Oakland author's book Rehab: An American Scandal' examines the human cost of a broken system

While Walter provides history and plenty of politics and policy detail, she does it through individual stories: a doctor who bends the rules as he tries to fight the system, a White middle-class young man who gets treatment in lieu of jail time but then learns that the facility which forces him into hard labor may be even worse, and a Black woman who gets no such option and is sent to jail.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

The real crisis isn't climate change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says

Human survival requires protecting biodiversity and ecosystems alongside reducing greenhouse gas emissions to preserve the living web of plants, animals, soil, and water.
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