WORLD ROUNDUPTaming the “Trump of the Tropics” | Short-Circuiting China | Blasé About Armageddon, and more
··How Team Biden Tried to Coup-Proof Brazil’s Elections
Sunday’s election in Brazil will be a test for more than Jair Bolsonaro’s integrity
··Heat Waves Cost Poor Countries the Most, Exacerbating Inequality
Climate change is playing out on a landscape of economic inequality
··Biden Short-Circuits China
U.S. ban on semiconductor technology will hurt China
··How Ukraine Is Remaking War
Technological advancements are helping Kyiv succeed
··What Ever Happened to Our Fear of Armageddon?
We don’t know what we don’t know, and our assumptions could lead to an extinction event
··When Pipeline Politics Go Boom
Nordstream 2 explosion wasn’t the first, nor likely the last, casualty of geopolitical competition
··The Anglosphere Needs a Customs Union
An organization that would be “weaker than a federation, but stronger than an alliance”
··Ukraine’s Dream Could Be Taiwan’s Nightmare
Taiwan would be more difficult to defend than Ukraine
··Britain “Exposed” to Russian Missile Attacks
Stationing a Type 45 destroyer in the Thames
How Team Biden Tried to Coup-Proof Brazil’s Elections (Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy)
Over the past year, U.S. President Joe Biden has deployed top administration officials to meet with their Brazilian counterparts and convey a simple message to President Jair Bolsonaro: Don’t derail Brazil’s democracy.
Heat Waves Cost Poor Countries the Most, Exacerbating Inequality (Agence France-Presse / VOA News)
Heat waves, intensified by climate change, have cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the past 30 years, a study published Friday found, with poor countries paying the steepest price.
And those lopsided economic effects contribute to widening inequalities around the world, according to the research.
“The cost of extreme heat from climate change so far has been disproportionately borne by the countries and regions least culpable for global warming,” Dartmouth College professor Justin Mankin, one of the authors of the study published in the journal Science Advances, told AFP. “And that’s an insane tragedy.”
“Climate change is playing out on a landscape of economic inequality, and it is acting to amplify that inequality,” he said.
