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...rising seas, increased drought and wildfires, shrinking water supplies and more acidic oceans. For the plants that form the very foundation of the food chain, though, an argument can be made that both global warming itself and the rising carbon dioxide levels that cause it are actually a good thing. CO2, after all, is essential for the photosynthesis that most plants depend on for nourishment. And as winters get milder and shorter, plants will have longer growing seasons. More food plus more time to eat it seems like a recipe for very happy vegetables...
...hardest part in this entire thing is not knowing, because you don't know what is going on,” said Alix, whose parents own orphanages and schools in Haiti. “There are so many people I know who have lost someone, or they know people who have lost someone. There are people who are dying who need to be helped...
When you're in the midst of depression, that's the scariest thing - it seems that you're going to feel like that forever. The pain created by depression kills almost 1 million people a year. It almost killed me, and it did kill my aunt. If I can give just one person hope that there's an end to depression, that it is treatable, then that made it worth it for me to write the book. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...understand why people think that mothers who commit suicide are selfish. But I also understand the thought process, believing that getting out of their life is the best thing you can do for them, that it would be an act of love because your existence is poison to them...
...thing is to have hope. It's hard to believe it when you're struggling, but depression does go away. William Styron says, "It is conquerable." If it wasn't, everybody who is depressed would commit suicide. I had to keep reminding myself of that when I was on my 23rd medication combination...