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  1. Dec 2025
    1. Other animals, such as the flying fox, seabirds and corals, are experiencing mass die-offs, while thousands more have moved to higher latitudes and elevations.

      Normal response for animals toward climate changing, toward higher mountains, these animal patterns are more and widespread due to the climate change that's accelerating currently.

    2. Wildfires are scorching larger areas than ever before in many regions, leading to irreversible changes to the landscape.

      Why scientists believe that it's irreversible, why can't we cover it?What make them impossible to reverse back?

    3. Today, half the global population faces water insecurity at least one month per year.

      How severe the issue is, remind us the impact, saying half facing water insecurity highlights and emphasizes the issue, makes it fell urgent to solve and real.

    4. Since 2008, devastating floods and storms have forced more than 20 million people from their homes each year

      It isn't just temperature, it's closely tied to migration, refugees, and lots of people losing their homes every single year due to this problem.

    5. Climate change is already causing widespread disruption in every region in the world with just 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) of warming.

      There is global impact, although it is just 1.1degree, but it's making severe effect and we need to focus and mind this danger. Earth is sensitive and need to be protected, these small changes matter alot.

    1. these are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from Ukraine … They’re Christian, they’re white, they’re very similar.”

      Connecting citizen's attitudes and feeling towards refugees from different countries, western nations responded with more sympathy to Ukraine refugees than other regions' refugees, selecting sympathy to use.

    2. For these policies to become accepted, their victims had to be portrayed as threatening and undeserving.

      What effort should be made or changes to change public's and society's thoughts for refugees?

    3. This strange account of a history in which wars, conflict and dispossession mostly happened in “third world” and “remote” countries (remote from whom?) is a fiction that has come about as a result of a political and media climate that has stripped the humanity of those seeking refuge so completely it has become a fact, repeated with no self-awareness or shame.

      Are and how are journalists aware of these biases?

    4. These opinions were shaped, concertedly and over time, in order to justify inhumane and often violent policies passed to block people from entering European lands.

      Interesting because of dehumanization being used, for justifying harsh policies, connects public's condition and thoughts to political decisions and motives.

    5. There is an acceptance that war is natural in other places but an aberration here.

      Shows that war is normal elsewhere, and reflects that fact that in certain places of the planet, war is considered as normal to happen and expected, while some other places aren't, they are shocking and unexpected.

    6. “The unthinkable has happened. This is not a developing, third world nation. This is Europe.”

      Suggests that the medias were shocked about wars in Europe, and shows how journalists were surprised, that war could happen here, revealing an interesting thing where violence should belong to.