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Now, the capital is 1200 kilometers away and Karachi, home to 20 million people, has found itself in the midst of a raging climate catastrophe.
Karachi: Fighting an unfolding climate apocalypse - Unbias The News
Most people don’t know what early pregnancy actually looks like. That complicates abortion discussions.
Why did images of early pregnancy cause such a firestorm on TikTok? - The Verge
The policy that’s been standard in northern Europe and Canada leads to better outcomes for children and parents
Guaranteed income programs starting to catch on in the US | The Guardian
Salems Lot, one of my very favorite spooky movies, watching it today!
The Story Behind One of the Creepiest Scenes in TV History | Vanity Fair
“The bad news is that we have been ‘systematically underestimating the rate and magnitude of extremes.” - Katharine Hayhoe
Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View - The New York Times
Just to note in the recent actions by climate activists, the art has not been destroyed.
Destroying art in service of justice is a time-honored tradition. Does it ever work?
Climate change paintings protests: The long history of art destruction for social justice.
A significant portion of the US appears to have lost the capacity for rational thought. They seem to want the world to burn.
‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm | The Guardian
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation strikes a chilling tone.
But wait, according to all the Twitter/YouTube/podcast Tech Bros, the iPad is broken and barely usable. Someone please tell her that what she’s doing isn’t possible. 😉
iPadOS 16 new features tips for iPad note taking, digital planning, journaling & more - YouTube
“You wouldn’t believe this is the Mississippi River.”
Mississippi River water levels plummet to historic lows due to drought - The Washington Post
“The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “Emissions remain at dangerous and record highs and are still rising. We must close the emissions gap before climate catastrophe closes in on us all.”
Prof David King, the former UK chief scientific adviser, said: “The report is a dire warning to all countries – none of whom are doing anywhere near enough to manage the climate emergency.”
The report found that existing carbon-cutting policies will cause 2.8C of warming, while pledged policies cut this to 2.6C. Further pledges, dependent on funding flowing from richer to poorer nations, cut this again to 2.4C.”
Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’ | The Guardian
Without drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the report said, the planet is on track to warm by an average of 2.1 to 2.9 degrees Celsius
Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality - The New York Times
Heat spells are increasingly costing people their lives and livelihoods, a new report finds
The numbers are in: the heat is taking a heavy toll on health and incomes - The Verge
Reliance on oil and gas worsening climate impacts and compounding food, energy and cost of living crises
Global health at mercy of fossil fuel addiction, warn scientists | The Guardian
A lot of people ask me how to get started blogging. I figure a lot more are going to want to know how as the major social media sites start to fade. So I made you a guide!
Via Ben Werdmuller
“I wept for the Earth because I realized it’s dying,” Shatner said.
“It was the death that I saw in space and the lifeforce that I saw coming from the planet — the blue, the beige and the white,” he said. “And I realized one was death and the other was life.”
“I saw more clearly than I have, with all the studying and reading I’ve done, the writhing, slow death of Earth and we on it,” Shatner said.
“It’s a little tiny rock with an onion skin air around it. That’s how fragile it all is. It’s so fragile. We hang by a thread … we’re just dangling.”
William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the overview effect : NPR
Talia Stroud from the University of Texas joins us to talk about her project Civic Signals, a project reimagining the Internet as a public space.
Talia Stroud, Civic Signals - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
Alaska officials have cancelled the upcoming snow crab season, due to population decline across the Bering Sea.
Alaska cancels snow crab season over population decline | The Guardian
The disaster has killed 603 people and displaced more than one million residents
Nigeria Is Facing Its Worst Flooding in a Decade | Smithsonian Magazine