Three Line Tales – Three

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Many thanks to Sonya for Week One Hundred and Seventy-Four of Three Line Tales, part of her awesome blog Only 100 Words!

an old enamel number three sign
photo by Alexej via Unsplash

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Tertiary and cracked,
Weathered, and painted over.
Triplicity? Heat!

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Thank you to Sonya of Only 100 Words for coming up with Three Line Tales.

You’ll find full guidelines on her TLT page, but here’s the tl;dr:

  • Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
  • Link back to this post.
  • Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
  • Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
  • NEW: If you want your post to be included in the round-up, you have until Sunday evening to publish it.
  • Have fun.

Happy three-lining!

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Warning: A Sixth Mass Species Extinction Is on the Cards

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1 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — When an entrepreneur designs, makes and markets handbags made of donkey skin, and they become hugely popular, that’s good for business and employment, right? But if the donkey leather is sourced from developing countries with weak environmental laws, what is the socio-economic and environmental impact?

indexPhoto by Pxhere | Photo from UN Environment.

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Ensuring the ‘Lungs of the Planet’ Keep Us Alive: 5 Things You Need to Know about Forests

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Olga Lavrushko | My favorite place by Olga Lavrushko, Ukraine. One of the winners of the International Forest Photograph Contest.

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‘A Moral, Ethical and Economic Imperative’ to Take more Action to Mitigate the ‘Existential Threat’ Posed by Climate Change

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It is nothing less than a “moral, ethical and economic imperative” to take more action to mitigate the existential threat posed by climate change, said top executives from across the United Nations system on Thursday [9 May 2019].

UNDP Comoros/James Stapley | People living on the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean are needing to adapt to climate change.

Calling on Member States to take “urgent action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”, the leaders of more than 30 UN agencies and entities, issued a formal, joint appeal for governments everywhere to “step up ambition and take concrete action” ahead of the landmark Climate Action Summit, which has been convened by UN chief António Guterres this September.

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Work to Make the World a Better Place: 5 Things You Need to Know about ‘Green Jobs’

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Human Wrongs Watch

28 April 2019 — Imagine a world in which practically everyone works in jobs that are helping to transform the global economy, and bring about a world where business can thrive and the needs of the most vulnerable people are met. 

ILO/Marcel Crozet | Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to increase the production capacity of vegetables they sell on the local market. (file 2015)
For the UN, these “green jobs,” play an important role in realising the vision of the future that practically all countries signed up to when they adopted the landmark Paris Agreement in December 2015, an international commitment to combat climate change, and significantly reduce human activity contributing to global warming. 

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My Top Disney Princess Looks

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naomi scott in aladdin

So I saw the new Aladdin and liked it far more than I thought I would from the previews to be honest. It wasn’t great but having never seen the original I can’t compare it to anything. The new film did shoot Jasmine up into my top three Disney Princesses.

And not just because she’s so stylish although that did play a big part.

It also got me thinking about what the best Disney Princess (official and unofficial) looks actually are…

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