Children Are Much Less Likely Than Adults To Prioritise Human Over Animal Lives

“Two boats are sinking and you can save only one. One holds two dogs, the other a person. Which do you save? If you’re not sure, you can say, ‘I can’t decide.’” When I put this to my 11-year-old, his response was immediate: “Save the dogs!” In his defence, he has grown up with a pet dog, which he adores — and, according to a new study in Psychological Science, most other kids would say the same thing.
Read more: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/01/27/children-are-much-less-likely-than-adults-to-prioritise-human-over-animal-lives/?source=Snapzu

Biden to place environmental justice at center of sweeping climate plan

President Biden will make the needs of low-income Americans and communities of color the focus of his plan Wednesday, according to two individuals briefed on it, making environmental justice a top priority for the first time in a generation.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/26/biden-environmental-justice-climate?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE?source=Snapzu

Pastor Scott Lively claims God allowed Trump to lose election for being pro-LGBT

Scott Lively, a longtime anti-LGBTQ pastor, has claimed that God allowed former President Donald Trump to lose the 2020 election because of Trump's alleged support of the LGBTQ agenda. Despite Lively's claim, most national and international LGBTQ rights groups consider Trump to be the most anti-LGBTQ president of all time.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-scott-lively-claims-god-allowed-trump-lose-election-being-pro-lgbt-1564692?source=Snapzu

Chinese people are concerned about use of facial recognition, survey shows

From streets filled with cameras to apps that require biometric identification, facial recognition use has been growing in China but a new survey by a state media outlet indicates that Chinese residents are sceptical about the use of the technology in public spaces.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/3119281/facial-recognition-used-china-everything-refuse-collection-toilet?source=Snapzu

A rapid, decisive response to COVID-19 doesn't just save lives. It helps the economy recover faster.

If the United Kingdom had adopted South Korean-style controls in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it would have saved about 65,000 lives through October 2020 and averted its worst economic decline in more than three centuries, according to a new study that modeled the countries’ coronavirus policies.
Read more: https://academictimes.com/south-korean-style-covid-19-response-wouldve-saved-65000-lives-in-uk/?source=Snapzu

Joe Biden's 'climate day' of executive actions signals clean break with Trump

Joe Biden is to instruct the US government to pause and review all oil and gas drilling on federal land, eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and transform the government’s vast fleet of cars and trucks into electric vehicles, in a sweeping new set of climate executive orders.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/joe-biden-climate-change-executive-orders?source=Snapzu