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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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593 points geox | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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archildress ◴[02 Jul 25 22:51 UTC] No.44449673[source]▶
I just feel extremely sad about the mass quantity of events like this happening right now because they are all aggregate to huge negative effects but the average person knows nothing of it. It feels so unfixable.
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SchemaLoad ◴[03 Jul 25 01:52 UTC] No.44450869[source]▶
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jordanb ◴[03 Jul 25 02:32 UTC] No.44451073[source]▶
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nandomrumber[dead post] ◴[03 Jul 25 08:55 UTC] No.44453021{3}[source]▶
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aredox ◴[03 Jul 25 08:59 UTC] No.44453043{4}[source]▶
That's until you get disabled in an accident - or your son or daughter is.

Then you'll suddenly convert to how benefits are essential.

(In before: "I don't need a car insurance, I'll never get into any accident, I am too good a driver for that")

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nandomrumber[dead post] ◴[03 Jul 25 09:25 UTC] No.44453208{5}[source]▶
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1. zbentley ◴[03 Jul 25 11:59 UTC] No.44454107{6}[source]▶
You didn’t really answer GP’s point, though. What if a big, strong family is struck by disaster (multiple earners lose jobs or die, or one member develops, say, an illness or huge debt which consumes the entire family’s resources)?

Those kind of scenarios aren’t that rare even in places with very family-first social safety nets (which, incidentally, are often places with high poverty and low standard of living).