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Let them hurry up and die

February 27, 2026 Antarctica Journal

Taro Aso, Japanese Finance Minister and former Prime Minister, bemoaning the financial burden that caring for the elderly in their final years places on the country’s budget. Over a quarter of Japan’s 128 million people are above the age of 60—including Aso, who is 72.

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The tiny mountain pine beetle has chewed through 40 million to 45 million acres of timber in the West and British Columbia in the last 12 years, killing about 12 percent of the forested land west of the Mississippi, and causing serious lumber shortages. Subzero winter temperatures used to kill off the beetle, but a long string of mild winters has enabled it to flourish.

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