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[[File:Oil autocracy.jpg |center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/11/putin-autocracies-fossil-fuels-climate-action by Bill McKibben 4/11/2022 The Guardian]]]
[[File:Oil autocracy.jpg |center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/11/putin-autocracies-fossil-fuels-climate-action by Bill McKibben 4/11/2022 The Guardian]]]
  Now that we’ve watched Russia launch an oil-fired invasion of Ukraine, it’s a little easier to see this trend in high relief – but Putin is far from the only case. Consider the examples.
  Now that we’ve watched Russia launch an oil-fired invasion of Ukraine, it’s a little easier to see this trend in high relief – but Putin is far from the only case. Consider the examples.
And so we were left contemplating a world whose people badly want action on climate change, but whose systems aren’t delivering it. In 2021 the UN Development Programme conducted a remarkable poll, across the planet – they questioned people through video-game networks to reach humans less likely to answer traditional surveys. Even amid the Covid pandemic, 64% of them described climate change as a “global emergency”, and that by decisive margins they wanted “broad climate policies beyond the current state of play”. As the UNDP director, Achim Steiner, summarized, “the results of the survey clearly illustrate that urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education level”.
|'''The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering'''
|'''The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering'''
[[File:Redistricting Map.jpg |center|thumb|[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering  by By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía 3/31/2022 538]]]
[[File:Redistricting Map.jpg |center|thumb|[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering  by By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía 3/31/2022 538]]]