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TheDevilChicken t1_j9g9dq8 wrote

Reply to comment by knotacylon in Putin Halts Nuke Pact With US, Vows to Push War in Ukraine by MyCouchPullsOat

The material in the nukes has a half-life, if that degrades too much then you can't have a proper nuclear explosion.

So nukes have literal timers and best-by dates if left as is.

So at best, if Russia did no maintenance, they have dirty bombs instead of proper nukes.

Can someone say if they can actually inspect that part of the nukes?

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npr OP t1_j9g8jw4 wrote

Reply to comment by Educational_Hurry951 in I spent a year preparing for a reporting trip from Senegal to Morocco to Spain. My team and I set out to connect three of the biggest stories of our time: climate change, global migration, and the rise of far-right political leaders. Now that we’re back, AMA! by npr

Demographers, insurance companies, and others have made efforts to answer this question. Buffalo, New York, is one of the places that has pitched itself as a haven from climate displacement. I'm not an expert in this, but my impression is that people are mostly making educated guesses and nobody really knows for sure.

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npr OP t1_j9g7sdz wrote

Reply to comment by Boat_Worker in I spent a year preparing for a reporting trip from Senegal to Morocco to Spain. My team and I set out to connect three of the biggest stories of our time: climate change, global migration, and the rise of far-right political leaders. Now that we’re back, AMA! by npr

The person I've probably quoted most when I talk about this project of Kayly Ober of Refugees International, who called climate change a "vulnerability multiplier." She meant that it exacerbates other factors, such as corruption and poverty, that make life difficult to sustain. So people we met in our reporting were all very aware of climate change. But in the same breath, they would talk about the pressures of overfishing, or the difficulty of earning a living during the pandemic. Climate change is rarely the only force in someone's decision to abandon their home, but it is often the final straw.

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npr OP t1_j9g7klv wrote

Reply to comment by dieyoufool3 in I spent a year preparing for a reporting trip from Senegal to Morocco to Spain. My team and I set out to connect three of the biggest stories of our time: climate change, global migration, and the rise of far-right political leaders. Now that we’re back, AMA! by npr

I think many people still view climate change as a future threat. It was really clear in our reporting that this is something happening right now. Of course that's very apparent in the city of Saint-Louis, where we did a lot of our reporting in Senegal. But even in the strawberry fields of Huelva, Spain, farmers told us that the harvest used to begin in February and it now begins in December. Sneak preview: I just interviewed the author Jake Bittle about his forthcoming book, "The Great Displacement," for All Things Considered. He documents the lives of people displaced by climate change in the United States. And he found them all over the country...from droughts in Arizona to floods in Houston. This isn't a future threat; it's happening right now.

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