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Vladv Posted 6 years ago
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Underwrite
The refusal to treat seriously the threat posed by climate change underwrites the persistence of racism, militarism, and extreme materialism. tomdispatch . Could you please explain what " underwrite " means here.
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org/wiki/underwrite – To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of – or something like this. While there is no obvious connection between refusal to accept the threat of climate change and some of those other things, in fact the author is in this part of the article writing about imagined connections between distinct phenomena. org/2020/06/23/martin-luther-kings-giant-triplets-racism-militarism-and-materialism/ )
- org/wiki/underwrite – To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of – or something like this.
- While there is no obvious connection between refusal to accept the threat of climate change and some of those other things, in fact the author is in this part of the article writing about imagined connections between distinct phenomena.
- org/2020/06/23/martin-luther-kings-giant-triplets-racism-militarism-and-materialism/ )
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It seems to be sense #7 at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/underwrite – To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of – or something like this. While there is no obvious connection
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