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 In a dominant performance, Edwards and Towns propelled the Wolves to a resounding 106-80 victory over Murray, Jokic, and the defending champion Nuggets, giving them a commanding 2-0 series lead.

REWRITE DENVER -- — The Minnesota Timberwolves, led by Anthony Edwards and Karl-Anthony Towns, overpowered the Denver Nuggets on Monday night in a stunningly efficient 106-80 thrashing of the reigning but reeling NBA champions. “We’ve had some really good defensive efforts this year,” Wolves coach Chris Finch said after his team took a surprising 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals. “That has to be right up there with the best of them." The Wolves held Denver to an ugly 29-of-83 shooting night, and the most impressive thing about that was the absence of their best defender, 7-foot-1 center Rudy Gobert, who was back in Minneapolis for the birth of his son. Gobert's fingerprints were all over this masterpiece, Finch suggested. “Rudy's driven the defensive culture here. I think it's a testament to his impact, his presence and what he's infused into the team of how important defense is and how great it can be when we play it," Finch said. “That aside, we expect to win no matter who's with us and who's not.” Towns and Edwards both scored 27 points as the Wolves improved to 6-0 in the playoffs and gave themselves a chance to close out the fuming Nuggets with wins Friday night and Sunday in Minneapolis. So flustered were the Nuggets by the second quarter that coach Michael Malone threw a fit at an official and scuffling point guard Jamal Murray threw a heat pack onto the court in frustration as Towns was about to score on a layup. Malone said he had no idea it was Murray who tossed the heat pack, saying, “I knew a heating pack was on the floor, but it was not in my field of vision." Nor did the officials see him throw it, added crew chief Marc Davis. “We weren’t aware it had come from the bench. If we would have been aware it came from the bench, we could have reviewed it under the hostile act trigger. The penalty would have been a technical foul,” Davis told a pool reporter. Finch said he knew only that the heat pack had come from the Nuggets' bench. “We tried to impress upon (the officials) that there's probably not many fans in the building that have a heat pack. So, it probably had to come from the bench, which they found logical," Finch said. "But yeah, it's inexcusable and dangerous.” Murray, who has shot 9 for 32 in this series, left Ball Arena without comment for the second straight game. He is likely to be fined by the NBA for his actions. Aaron Gordon led Denver with 20 points, Nikola Jokic had 16 points and 16 rebounds but their third-leading scorer was sub Justin Holliday with 13 points. Murray scored eight points on 3-of-18 shooting. Kyle Anderson replaced Gobert in the starting lineup and had eight assists and nine rebounds and reserves Naz Reid and Nickeil Alexander-Walker both scored 14. During a 43-18 first-half flourish by the Timberwolves — Edwards was on the bench for much of it, no less — the Nuggets grew so frustrated that Malone ran way out onto the court and got in Davis' face for an extended blowup during a timeout but avoided a technical. “Although Coach Malone was visibly upset about both his team and the officials, I did not hear him say anything unsportsmanlike that warranted a technical foul,” Davis explained. Frustrated by their slow starts — the Nuggets have trailed by double digits in six of their seven playoff games and by nine in the other — Malone challenged his team to get off to a strong start for once. Only Gordon heeded his coach's call, scoring 13 quick points, including a 3-pointer that brought the Nuggets to 18-17 late in the first quarter. Things unraveled for Denver after that. Trailing 61-35 at the break, the Nuggets' 26-point halftime deficit was Denver's largest in a home playoff game in franchise history. Now the Nuggets, who lost consecutive games just once during the season, find themselves needing to beat Edwards four times in five tries to advance to the Western Conference finals again, a seemingly impossibility given both teams' level of play at the moment. “The message we want to send is that we're extremely honored and blessed that we have this opportunity to go home up 2-0,” Towns said. “But we're humble in this approach.” Edwards, for one, expects to see a different Nuggets team at Target Center this weekend. “It worked in our favor tonight, man. That's all that was,” he said. “We made shots. They didn't. That's the defending champs over there. So, they're not going to come out and play like that again in Game 3.”

How 8 billion people in the world can live 'comfortably'

The world's population surpassed 8 billion on November 15 due to excessive pressure on natural resources. Many believe that if population growth becomes a population explosion, the harmful effects of climate change will increase rapidly, making this planet of 8 billion people uninhabitable even faster

Sarah Hartog, a UN expert on demography, believes that due to the spread of education around the world, awareness among women has increased, people are realizing the need for family planning more than ever before. Sarah Hartog believes that increasing health awareness has a big role to play, otherwise the average life expectancy of people around the world will increase by 25 years in 2022 compared to 1950.

According to the United Nations, if the rate of population and life expectancy continues at this rate, the world's population will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050 and to 11 billion by 2100.

Where nature is struggling to meet the growing needs of 800 crore people, what can be the situation if the population is 1,100 crore or more?

Another United Nations report says that due to population growth, greenhouse gas emissions and natural resources are increasing around the world, and the overall situation of environmental pollution is also getting worse rapidly.

Rather, economic prosperity and the trend of living a luxurious life are mainly responsible, he told DW, "People's income is increasing and that is why the tendency to buy different types of goods is increasing.

Sub-Saharan Africa and one part of Asia are more responsible for the increase in carbon emissions around the world, but recent research says that the use of refrigerators, cars, televisions, ACs, etc. is very high in all the rich countries of the world, and therefore the 'liability' of those countries for environmental pollution is very high.

Global Footprint, an environmental non-governmental organization, said in a study that if all the people of the world lived like the people of the United States, the natural resources of the world would be exhausted in a short time. Like the citizens of Russia, everyone would need 3.4, like the Germans, everyone would need 3, like the Japanese and the Portuguese, everyone would need 2.9, and if everyone like the citizens of France, Spain and Switzerland, 8 billion people would need at least 2.8 natural resources.

In Nigeria, a country of more than 210 million Africans, only 70 percent of the world's natural resources would be used annually if everyone in the world lived like ordinary people.

Sarah Hartog, a global economics director at the World Resources Institute, told Sara Hartog, director of global economics at the World Resources Institute, "We still have (natural) resources. It is important to take initiative to take geopolitics in the right direction.

Sylvia Lorek, a professor at the University of Helsinki and chairperson of Germany's Sustainable Europe Research Institute, has found that to make the world an ideal home for 8 billion people, three things need to be focused on: eating, drinking, living and traveling. Excluding the use of airplanes and private cars and abandoning separate housing arrangements for one person or one family and leaning towards living as collectively as possible, the pressure on natural resources will be greatly reduced, the earth will also be more livable https://bangla.thedailystar.net/news/world/news-419536

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TikTok takes legal action to prevent forthcoming US ban on its platform

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has filed a lawsuit in the United States to block the impending ban imposed by the Trump administration. The app faces a potential ban in the US due to concerns over national security and data privacy. In its lawsuit, TikTok argues that the ban violates its rights under the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. The company claims that it has taken extensive measures to protect user data and has never shared it with any foreign government, including China. TikTok's legal action comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6th, giving ByteDance 45 days to divest itself of TikTok's operation in the US or face a ban. This executive order followed earlier steps taken by India and Australia, where TikTok was banned over similar security concerns. The US government's main concern is that TikTok collects vast amounts of user data which could be accessed by Chinese authorities due to their strict data sharing laws. However, TikTok insists that all American users' data is stored within servers located in Virginia and Singapore and strongly denies any allegations of sharing user information with China.