Wild fires in Greece, Latvia and Scandinavia killing many.
Europe and Asia experiencing prolonged heatwaves which have seen many people die or hospitalised. Japan has declared the heatwave to be a natural disaster. Britain is having its hottest and driest summer since records began over 300 years ago.
Extreme flooding in Laos causing it’s dam to burst killing many and displacing over 6000 families.
Yet there are people who still deny global warming and climate change is not a thing and that scientists lie in order to destroy industry. What a sad sorry state we are living in and God help those in the future who will probably have worse to come.
Yayoi Kusama’s “Fireflies on the Water” light installation at the Whitney Museum, 2012. Photos taken by Gabrielle Plucknette and are owned by the New York Times.
Sometimes around like 95 he said he didn’t need more money. He’s given away literally millions to his town (he had a little league field(?) build so his kid’s team could play) and to other notable charities for decades. He said, and has written in his books, that there’s only so much money a person needs and the rest is just vanity. He was taught that as a child and lived it as a multi-millionare (which he never truly was – bc he gave it away).
He and his family lived in the same modest suburban house in the same modest Maine town since the 70s.
And then there’s Jeff Bezos.
sometimes is heart-warming to see that indeed good people still exist
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