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"Guess which one got more attention?" #BillGatesmemo
Excerpt: One was a peer-reviewed article published in the journal Bioscience, that warn that global society is hurtling towards climate chaos. The authors, a who's who of scientists... concluded that 22 of 34 "planetary vital signs" are flashing red, and "the consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate no longer a future threat but are here now." The second message was a 5,000 word memo from one of the world's richest men that offered the supposedly soothing translation that climate change "will not lead to humanity's demise." Guess which one received more attention?
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#Faustianclimatebargains
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#BillGatesmemo #KidsGaze
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Excerpt: For these people, and you, and everyone else, Gates could have written "in 2021, Sri Lanka banned all synthetic agrochemicals". But he didn't. Instead he wrote "one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers."
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#TimeCapsule2076 #KidsGaze
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The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
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November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076
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NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...

Spoiler Alert — It's *Energy*
Carl Sagan quote from a 1995 Charlie Rose interview. NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/clean-energy-electricity-poverty.html NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/clean-energy-electricity-poverty.html
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa
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#TimeCapsule2076
2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic
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"We are hurtling towards climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human driven alterations to the climate are no longer future threats. But are here now. This unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction and unsustainable economic systems and misinformation..." 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa #CarlSagan
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"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear precription for disaster." Carl Sagan
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points https://weatheire.com/news/climate/2025/10/30/major-report-warns-planet-approaching-tipping-poi
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#ConservativesKidsGaze
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We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg
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A screenshot of the now archived piece, co-authored by both Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg, and titled, "We're not reaching the Global Goals. What now?" We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175906/https://www.gatesnotes.com/Global-Goals-Op-Ed
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The Demon-Haunted World by #CarlSagan, "...when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."
Review of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Dr. Michael E. Mann in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/548028a Paragraph highlighted in The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, "...when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#TimeCapsule2076
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Trump’s Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic
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"...a class of incredibly wealthy oligarchs who were too wealthy & powerful to be constrained by republican norms, institutions & laws."
Paul Krugman on modern parallels to how "the Roman Republic degenerated into dictatorship."
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#TimeCapsule2076
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October 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#TimeCapsule2076
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@wriclimate.bsky.social:

📢 #StateOfClimateAction 2025

The report finds global efforts fall far short of what’s needed to keep the #ParisAgreement goal within reach—not a single one of the 45 indicators is on track for 2030

Read the report: bit.ly/4o6hPwm
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#ConservativesKidsGaze
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“We are witnessing widespread decline in the health of our planet. But this is not an inevitable outcome.” said Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for #Climate Impact Research

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Stockholm Resilience Centre: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached A major new scientific review "Planetary Health Check 2025", shows that 7 of 9 planetary boundaries have now been exceeded. Graphic depicting planetary boundaries
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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#TimeCapsule2076
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San Francisco Chronicle article re: how #Trump is abdicating U.S. leadership on science and #climatechange

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San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. falling behind Asian countries on climate science "The United States once stood as the global beacon of scientific excellence. From the Manhattan Project and Apollo missions to mRNA vaccines, American institutions led the charge in understanding and confronting the planet's most pressing challenges. But today that leadership is eroding. Nowhere Is this loss of U.S. leadership more visible than in the realm of climate science." (Lede to San Francisco Chronicle article)
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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* Spoiler Alert * Final scene in "Planet of the Apes" when the protagonist falls to his knees & pounds the sand as he recognizes, for the first time, the ground underfoot is not some foreign terrain but represents the self-immolation of the United States (as he stumbles upon an eroded, half-buried Statue of Liberty 🗽).
October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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NYT: Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level by @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
October 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Cecil atop a birdhouse
October 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Bessent Text Leak: Message Suggests Argentina Bailout Is Backfiring - Forbes

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Key Facts The photo of Bessent’s phone taken by the Associated Press during a United Nations session last week appears to show texts from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who said, “We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China.” The messages referenced the $20 billion aid package by the Trump administration designed to help Argentina and its president, Javier Milei, a Trump ally. After the announcement of the aid, Argentina turned around and sold soybeans to China — while American farmers who have traditionally relied on Beijing to buy soybeans have been frozen out of their largest export market since Trump enacted higher tariffs on China, which launched its own retaliatory tariffs impacting soybean trade with the U.S. The texts continued, saying, “This gives China more leverage on us” and sending a link to the X account of Ben Scholl, a specialty grain trader who chimed in on China’s purchase of Argentinian soybeans after the latter country removed grain export taxes. Scholl said in a tweet last week “China and Argentina work together for soybeans as Bessent offers to subsidize the Argentine economy. They think you are stupid.” Key Facts The photo of Bessent’s phone taken by the Associated Press during a United Nations session last week appears to show texts from Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who said, “We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China.” AP: Elon Musk began his appearance at the CPAC Conference brandishing a chainsaw that was gifted him by Argentine President Javier Milei Elon Musk circa September 2024: "Milei is bringing prosperity to Argentina" (in one photograph President Milei is seen wielding a chainsaw).
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Daily Beast: "The conservative-leaning Supreme Court signaled that it could limit the use of race as a factor in drawing congressional districts, a move that could allow red states to redraw districts, potentially giving Republicans control of Congress for decades."
October 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks & attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Daskalakis, former dir of CDC’s Ntl Ctr - Immunization & Respiratory Diseases
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“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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‘It’s too late’: #DavidSuzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics #TimeCapsule2076

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"We have failed to shift the narrative..."
‘It’s too late’: #DavidSuzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics - "We have failed to shift the narrative..." Q & A w/ David Suzuki
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The Stupidest Speech in UN History - by Bill McKibben
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ExxonMobil - More Than 50 Proud Years of Melting Glaciers - Truthdig
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Life Magazine advertisement, circa February 2, 1962: Each Day Humble [Energy - predecessor to ExxonMobil] Supplies Enough Energy To Melt 7 Million Tons of Glacier!
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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HCR: "And that is all anyone can do as we work to preserve the concept of human self-determination. In that heroic struggle, most of us will be lost to history, but we will, nonetheless, move the story forward, even if just a little bit."
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Old North Church, Boston on April 18, 2025 (250th anniversary of the occasion of lanterns lit)
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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April 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM