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Them and Us, a Metaphor for Urban Inequality
2016-06-08 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For the inhabitants of "Bajo Autopista" (Under the Freeway), a slum built under an expressway in the Argentine capital, "they" are the people who live in areas with everything that is denied to "us" - a simple definition of social inclusion and a metaphor for urban inequality. Karina Ros' roof is the Illia freeway, one of the main accesses to Buenos Aires. The shantytown is at the edge of Villas 31 and 31 Bis, where some 60,000 people live just a few metres away from El Retiro, one of the poshest...
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How One Old Car Became a Metaphor for America's Infrastructure
2015-05-01 20:18:10| ENR.com: Headline News
Low and slow across America is how Aileen Cho, Senior Editor of Transportation for ENR and I will be going in a couple of weeks, through the heart of the country, coast-to-coast, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Canada: Runaway train is a metaphor for global warning
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Montreal Gazette: In the aftermath of the Lac-Mégantic hell, almost all the reform talk is about regulations. There are demands for rules to ensure more workers on trains. To improve the brakes on rail cars. To thicken the shells of tanker cars. This concern for safety is imperative and overdue, Yet it also taking attention away from the underlying cause of the Lac-Mégantic nightmare: Our societys dependence on planet-heating fossil fuel, the product aboard the runaway train. The world needs to tackle this ever-increasing...
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