If you think pumping the sky full of chemicals sounds like a weird way to fight climate change, you’re not alone. Solar geoengineering — the idea of injecting aerosols into the high atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space and make for a cooler planet — is very controversial. And not just because it seems so offbeat.
Although geoengineering is not yet being deployed in the real world, past computer modeling studies have suggested it could produce unintended effects like droughts. Somehave worried that it might create new climate inequities, worsening the weather in some regions even as it improves conditions in others. It’s incurred so much backlash that until recently it’s been taboo among scientists, and even today, much less attention is devoted to exploring this strategy than to cutting emissions.
But a study published this week in Nature Climate Change argues that the strategy could be highly successful — it’s all a matter of how much geoengineering we use. Yes, spraying a huge quantity of aerosols aimed at totally eliminating global warming can produce unwanted effects. Yet applying the right “dose” — just enough to cut global warming in half — could do the trick without causing negative side effects, the scientists say.
Back in the U.S., a new study finds that Latinx and black communities suffer the most from the effects of pollution, despite white Americans disproportionately creating more emissions. The report, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that Latinx and black Americans are exposed to over 50 percent more fine particulate matter than is directly caused by their consumption habits, while white people are exposed to 17 percent less pollution than they are responsible for. Particulate matter comes from industrial pollution, coal-fired power plants, agriculture and vehicular pollution.
Operation Varsity Blues — that’s the name of a sweeping federal probe into what the Justice Department calls the biggest college admissions scam the agency has ever uncovered. On Tuesday, 50 people, including 13 college coaches, were arrested for taking part in a scheme where wealthy parents paid exorbitant bribes to secure spots for their unqualified children in elite schools, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, UCLA, USC and Wake Forest. Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin; Loughlin’s husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; and Bill McGlashan, a founder of TPG Capital, one of the largest private equity investment firms in the world. We speak with Ivory Toldson, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and president of Quality Education for Minorities. His new book is titled “No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear About Black People.”
Have you ever imagined what the Negroes lives were like prior to the brutal slave trade of between 1434 – 1900? Have you ever tried to imagine how many Negroes were captured and shipped as slaves to the different parts of the world? Have you ever heard about a group called Hebrew Israelites? Have you ever tried to understudy why they believe that slavery and slave trade was custom made for them?
In this video, we tried to examine some of the Hebrew Israelites claims and how they do not align with historical facts. We also examined the need for Negroes to make every effort to study and understand what lies are being told about the slave trade.
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Malte-Brun, C. (1827). Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe.
Buxton, T. F. (1840). The African slave trade and its remedy.
Equiano, O. (1794). The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.
The Bible (1606)
The Bible (1611) King James Version
Hutchinson, T. J. (1858). Impressions of Western Africa. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts.
Have you ever imagined what the Negroes lives were like prior to the brutal slave trade of between 1434 – 1900? Have you ever tried to imagine how many Negroes were captured and shipped as slaves to the different parts of the world? Have you ever heard about a group called Hebrew Israelites? Have you ever tried to understudy why they believe that slavery and slave trade was custom made for them?
In this video, we tried to examine some of the Hebrew Israelites claims and how they do not align with historical facts. We also examined the need for Negroes to make every effort to study and understand what lies are being told about the slave trade.
REFERENCES
Buxton, T. F. (1840). The African slave trade and its remedy.
Johnston, H. H. (2011). A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races. Cambridge University Press.
Burns, A.C (1919) The Nigeria handbook containing statistical and general information respecting the colony and protectorate
Laird, M., & Oldfield, R. A. K. (1837). Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa, by the river Niger… in 1832, 1833 and 1834 (Vol. 2).
The Encyclopedia Britannica Fourteenth Edition 1919
Woodson, C.G – Journal of Negro History 1917
Dowd, J. (1907). The negro races.
Alexander, A. (1846). A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa.
Winters, C. (2015). AFRICAN ORIGIN OF NATIVE AMERICAN R1-M173. International Journal of Innovative Research and Review, 3(1), 21-29.
Winters, C. (2017). A GENETIC CHRONOLOGY OF AFRICAN Y-CHROMOSOMES R-V88 AND R-M269 IN AFRICA AND EURASIA.
Have you ever imagined what the Negroes lives were like prior to the brutal slave trade of between 1434 – 1900? Have you ever tried to imagine how many Negroes were captured and shipped as slaves to the different parts of the world? Have you ever heard about a group called Hebrew Israelites? Have you ever tried to understudy why they believe that slavery and slave trade was custom made for them?
In this video, we tried to examine who it was that captured and sold the Negroes as slaves between 1434 and 1900. We examine the state of the slave trade today and how the slave masters foot soldiers are still murdering and enslaving the Negroes today.
Buxton, T. F. (1840). The African slave trade and its remedy.
Burns, A.C (1919) The Nigeria handbook containing statistical and general information respecting the colony and protectorate
Alexander, A. (1846). A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa.
CROWTHER, R. S. (1855). Journal of an Expedition Up The Niger and Tshadda Rivers, Undertaken by MacGregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854 with Map and Appendix.
Robinson, C. H. (1897). Hausaland, Or, Fifteen Hundred Miles Through the Central Soudan. S. Low, Marston.
Blake, W. O. (1861). The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. H. Miller.
Hazzledine, G. D. (1904). The white man in Nigeria. E. Arnold.
Hodgson, W. B. (1844). Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan. Wiley.
Hodgson, W. B. (1843) The Foulahs of Central Africa and the African Slave Trade
Barrow, J. (1799). An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in years 1797 and 1798
Shaw, F. L. (1905). Tropical Dependency.
Lugard, L. F. J. (1922). The dual mandate in British tropical Africa
Thomas, W. (1860). Adventures and observations on the West coast of Africa and its islands, historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canry, Biafra and Cape Verd islands: their climates, inhabitants and productions
Hutchinson, T. J. (1858). Impressions of Western Africa. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts.
The Negroes before the slave trade(3) Have you ever imagined what the Negroes lives were like prior to the brutal slave trade of between 1434 – 1900? Have you ever tried to imagine how many Negroes were captured and shipped as slaves to the different parts of the world? Have you ever heard about a group called Hebrew Israelites?
Have you ever tried to understudy why they believe that slavery and slave trade was custom made for them? In this video, we tried to examine who it was that captured and sold the Negroes as slaves between 1434 and 1900. We examine the state of the slave trade today and how the slave masters foot soldiers are still murdering and enslaving the Negroes today.
REFERENCES
Buxton, T. F. (1840). The African slave trade and its remedy.
Burns, A.C (1919) The Nigeria handbook containing statistical and general information respecting the colony and protectorate
Alexander, A. (1846). A history of colonization on the western coast of Africa.
CROWTHER, R. S. (1855). Journal of an Expedition Up The Niger and Tshadda Rivers, Undertaken by MacGregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854 with Map and Appendix.
Robinson, C. H. (1897). Hausaland, Or, Fifteen Hundred Miles Through the Central Soudan. S. Low, Marston.
Blake, W. O. (1861). The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. H. Miller.
Hazzledine, G. D. (1904). The white man in Nigeria. E. Arnold.
Hodgson, W. B. (1844). Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan. Wiley.
Hodgson, W. B. (1843) The Foulahs of Central Africa and the African Slave Trade
Barrow, J. (1799). An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in years 1797 and 1798
Shaw, F. L. (1905). Tropical Dependency.
Lugard, L. F. J. (1922). The dual mandate in British tropical Africa
Thomas, W. (1860). Adventures and observations on the West coast of Africa and its islands, historical and descriptive sketches of Madeira, Canry, Biafra and Cape Verd islands: their climates, inhabitants and productions
Today we’re going to discuss the Chinese explorers that landed in the East African country of Kenya approximately 600 years ago, and what happened to their descendants, along with discussing Chinese and East Asian history in the continent of Africa. Keep in mind, I am not directly supporting the actions of Chinese investors or businesses in Africa with this video, merely analyzing the historic relations between East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Migration between the two regions is not one way, of course, but that’s a video for a different day. Further Reading: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/… https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/… http://www.theafricangourmet.com/2016… http://www.france24.com/en/20100316-k… http://www.colorq.org/MeltingPot/arti…
Historian Robin Walker breaks down the difference between racial and self-esteem in the context of Africans being erased from history: Excerpt from a video about The Empire of Songhai. Link to full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czab5…
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