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A visually stunning documentation.
“The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate.”
“China and the US, also among the largest emitters in the world, perform poorly on a per-capita basis. The United States also loses points for its renewable energy use, while China disappoints on climate change policy.”
“Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020… even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.”
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
“Some of Earth’s weirdest fungi, including types of lichen, mycorrhizal, and insect symbiotes, never quite seemed to fit in our current tree of life.
These Mysterious Fungi Belong to an Entirely New Branch on The Tree of Life : ScienceAlert
“The loss of the amphibian from Costa Rica’s cloud forest was one of the first linked to global heating, say scientists”
‘The ghost that haunts Monteverde’: how the climate crisis killed the golden toad | The Guardian
The Lawfare Podcast has an excellent episode in which three well informed people have a coherent discussion contrasting centralized social media (Twitter) to the decentralized model that is Mastodon, Fediverse and ActivityPub.
On the other hand, The Context Machine offers Holy Crap Twittergeddon, yet another embarrassing example of a couple of tech guys who have obviously not taken the time to learn how Mastodon and the Fediverse actually work. Instead complain and offer numerous bits of misinformation.
Confused by @username@instancename? Confused by the idea that there are different instances? And yet, they’ve been using email for years? It’s really NOT that difficult to understand.
They come off as entitled old guys shaking their fists at the sky because they don’t want to learn something new. You’re embarrassing yourselves and doing your listeners a disservice.
We are still nowhere near climate goals. According to the most recent IPCC report,  to limit warming to 1.5C we can only emit 420bn more tons of CO2 – equal to around 10 years of current emissions.
We need to reverse climate change, not just stop it | The Guardian
A powerful example is Pakistan, where extreme rainfall on the heels of a glacier-melting heat wave flooded nearly one-third of the country in the summer of 2022.
Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries?
Basically, LSVs are small electric vehicles that meet a specific set of abbreviated safety regulations and operate at maximum speeds of 25 mph. They’re permitted on US roads with speed limits posted up to 35 mph.
Tiny low-cost electric cars to save US cities from SUV hell.
The number of delegates with links to fossil fuels at the UN climate summit has jumped 25% from the last meeting.
Global Witness: More than 600 people at the talks are linked to fossil fuels.
COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit - BBC News
A Kulkalgal activist from the Torres Strait Islands has said the way the world often treats Indigenous people is an insult.
Progressives had a lot to smile about as they woke up on Wednesday morning, after many of their preferred candidates won crucial races across the country in the US midterm elections.
Progressive candidates score crucial wins in midterm elections | The Guardian
France just legislated that every parking lot for 80 cars or more must be covered by solar panels
That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home - zero new land needed
Climate action is happening, just not at #COP27
#climateaction
Love to see it!
“In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called Mastodon has surged.”
Sitdown protests are part of a day of demonstrations in and around Schiphol airport
Climate activists storm Amsterdam airport and block private jets | The Guardian
They are the images that made us sit up and take notice. As world leaders gather for Cop27, these pictures prove that global heating isn’t a distant possibility – it’s already here
20 climate photographs that changed the world | The Guardian
This isn’t Democracy.
New analysis finds that 465 billionaires had pumped $881,000,000 into the 2022 federal midterm elections by October.
3/4 of that $881 million is coming from just 20 billionaire households.
