Democracy Now! 2023-08-31 Thursday
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 31, 2023; Military Coup in Gabon Seen as Part of Broader Revolt Against France & Neo-Colonialism in Africa; Scientist Peter Kalmus: The Hurricanes, Floods & Fires of 2023 Are Just the Beginning of Climate Emergency; U.S. Aquifers Are Running Dry, Posing Major Threat to Drinking Water Supply
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.1 | The Dalia is the strongest storm to hit this part of Florida to make landfall and this |
| 0:24.3 | part of Florida in over 100 years. |
| 0:27.1 | I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. |
| 0:31.4 | Hurricane Dalia has left a trail of flooding and destruction from Florida to the Carolinas. |
| 0:37.3 | We'll look at the climate emergency with NASA scientist Peter Kalmas who warns that climate |
| 0:42.3 | disasters will only get worse. |
| 0:45.6 | Plus we look at another crisis, the rapidly shrinking supply of groundwater in the nation's |
| 0:51.5 | aquifers. |
| 0:52.8 | When we over-pump aquifers, what we do is we create a space for saltwater intrusion, |
| 1:00.3 | which dramatically endangers both wildlife as well as the economic stability of our nation. |
| 1:09.0 | But first, a military coup in the oil-rich Central African nation of Gabon has ended |
| 1:15.5 | over 50 years of rule by a single family, which had close ties to both France and the |
| 1:21.2 | United States, all that and more coming up. |
| 1:29.1 | Welcome to democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:34.9 | After bowling through Florida, the downgraded tropical storm of Dalia, last Georgia and South |
| 1:39.9 | Carolina in dating coastal towns, leaving 300,000 customers without power across all |
| 1:45.0 | three states as of early this morning. |
| 1:48.1 | As Dalia moves offshore and up the Atlantic, North Carolina residents are bracing themselves |
| 1:53.1 | for more heavy downpours and possible tornadoes. |
| 1:56.7 | Officials' worn-dangerous storm surges are still possible. |
| 1:59.7 | Two people died in Florida and car crash linked to extreme weather. |
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