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How do you feel about the fact that wild mammals are now at only 4% globally and dwindling fast, while domesticated mammals/birds are at least 60/70%, + rising fast.

Are you okay with it?

If not, how do you propose the trajectory be reversed, if not through rewilding? 🌎
September 5, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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This is such a cool project

Baltimore’s new floating wetland is bringing back wildlife — and clean water

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/09/02/b...
Baltimore's new floating wetland is bringing back wildlife and clean water
The Harbor Wetland mimics the inner harbour's original tidal marsh habitat, which was destroyed long ago when the harbour was dredged out.
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September 5, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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The Scottish Government confirmed yesterday that it will be introducing a 'Heat in Buildings' Bill over the next year. This is expected to set the legal pathway for phasing out fossil fuel heating in Scotland.
www.gov.scot/programme-fo...
Programme for Government
The Programme for Government 2024-2025.
www.gov.scot
September 5, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Literally nothing is 'carbon neutral'. It is a physical impossibility. If someone's telling you their product has zero climate impact, they're actively deciding to lie to you.
October 16, 2023 at 9:27 AM
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Europe’s farming lobbies recognise need to eat less meat in shared vision report

- Dialogue with green groups results in agreement on ‘urgent, ambitious and feasible’ reforms in agriculture

Story by Ajit Niranjan
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Europe’s farming lobbies recognise need to eat less meat in shared vision report
Dialogue with green groups results in agreement on ‘urgent, ambitious and feasible’ reforms in agriculture
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

More than 25% of food produced is wasted. Food WASTE generates 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

(source EPA.ie)
September 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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How Buenos Aires is transforming — and climate proofing — its poorest neighbourhoods

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How Buenos Aires is transforming — and climate proofing — its poorest neighbourhoods
A neighbourhood upgrade project introduced 611 new energy-efficient housing units with solar-powered water heating systems.
theprogressplaybook.com
September 5, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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While this week's allocations were undoubtedly a step in the right direction for the UK energy industry, decarbonising the grid by 2030 would require a fourfold increase in offshore wind capacity being secured next year.
September 5, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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“Seismic waves from earthquakes produce strong enough electric voltages in quartz to extract dissolved gold from fluids infiltrating the mineral.
This mechanism can help explain the creation of large nuggets and observed highly interconnected gold networks within quartz vein fractures.”
🧪⚒️
Scientists find seismic role in formation of large gold nuggets
Forces unleashed by quakes squeeze quartz enough to generate electric fields, driving formation of deposits
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Greenland sharks, which can live to be over 400 years old, eat reindeer and polar bears.

Have a nice day

🧪🦑🌎🦈🐠
September 2, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Renewables are expanding because they provide LCOE compared to other sources of energy and can be deployed quickly. They are also dropping in cost faster than other forms of generation. 🔌🧪💡💨☀️🔋
www.lazard.com/media/xemfey...
September 4, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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From 2000 to 2024, global wind and solar electricity generation has increased from ~ 1% to ~13.5%. Source: EMBER-Climate. 🧪🔌💡💨☀️
September 4, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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Newsletter: the AI bubble is close to bursting, with Big Tech losing $2 trillion in market cap as everybody wakes up to the mediocrity of generative AI. Here’s a comprehensive guide to how everything might fall apart - and how little time OpenAI has left.
www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage/
Burst Damage
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The curr...
www.wheresyoured.at
August 5, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.
August 7, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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In which David Olusoga goes full Historian on recent press commentary on the riots. A sorely needed corrective after some of the tripe I've read over the past two weeks.
There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga
Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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AoNZ relevance: researchers were able to find a wide range of terror content on X, including edited versions of the Christchurch shootings, within *ten minutes* in a recent study.

How the platform remains compliant with NZ law given these constant failures I do not know.
August 12, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Highly reccomend listening to this interview with Imran Ahmed, founder of the UK Centre for Countering Digital Hate.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Imran Ahmed: Countering the online hate fuelling UK riots
Almost 500 arrests have been made in connection with the eruption of far-right violence this week following the killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, in the N...
www.rnz.co.nz
August 13, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Wikipedia is the frayed duct tape holding consensus reality together.
August 31, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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The UK will be coal free (for electricity) by the end of this September, 2024. The place where arguably the Industrial Revolution starting is moving beyond the coal era. We can and must move beyond the fossil fuel era entirely. #FossilFuelsAreStrandedAssets. 🧪🔌💡💨☀️🔋
What a journey!

10 years ago almost 40% of UK electricity was from coal.

Today the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station is Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, which is scheduled to close on September 30, 2024.
September 2, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Great story about a heroine librarian, attacked by book-banning parents she thought were friends. “The crazy thing about this case is they get to wave the freedom of speech flag in the lawsuit, but what started all this is they want to ban books,” said Jones’s lawyer www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/b...
From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’
Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM