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Destructive wildfires are already common in Australia, and it's not hard to see why climate change would increase their frequency. The driest inhabited continent on the planet, Australia has warmed 0.9°C since 1950, and climate models predict the country could warm further by 2070, up to 5°C over 1990 temperatures, if global greenhouse-gas emissions go unchecked. Beyond a simple rise in average temperatures, climate change will also lead to an increase in Australia's extreme heat waves and droughts. Southwestern Australia is already in the grip of a prolonged drought that has decimated agriculture...
Suicide experts say there is a strong correlation between acute financial strains and depression, often a prelude to substance abuse and suicides. While people jumping out of buildings during the Great Depression was not nearly as common as Hollywood and cartoonists had everyone believe, suicide definitely spiked during that dark period in the nation's history. Suicides in the U.S. reached a peak in 1933 (increasing to 17 per 100,000, from 14 per 100,000 in 1929), around the same time unemployment had swollen to 25%. By contrast, more recent recessions have not had a marked effect on suicide...
...also a cause for concern. "For most Americans, our homes are our primary investment and the locus of our identities and social support systems," notes the American Association of Suicidology. "When combined with the loss of job, home loss has been found to be one of the most common economic strains associated with suicides...
...engage and to develop its own strategic priorities. "Europe will be reluctant to always say yes - and we have different approaches, with some going for more military solutions, some more aid," she says. "But just by embracing Europe as a partner, [the U.S.] will help European countries deliver common answers, and that will be mutually reinforcing for the relationship...
...stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture on the issue is likely to trip up efforts to provide workable reproductive health services to women abroad and common ground on the question at home...