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urlyman, 3 days ago to random

Rhetorical question:
Is Farage a total stunt

ht @PabloMartini https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/112560525792401615

ricmac, 3 days ago to random

If you had to power rank the least trustworthy big tech cos to start a new social product, how would you rank them? My list:

1. Google (the least trustworthy; 99% of their products would be eventually sunsetted)
2. Apple (the blue bubble gang is as social as it gets)
3. Meta (long list of past infractions)
4. Amazon (everything they do is designed to make Bezos richer and own more of space)
5. Microsoft (ironic they are the most trustworthy of this lot…but they’ve learned their lesson, no?)

cferdinandi, 4 days ago to random

Lasted 3 hours

https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/112554405432756211

urlyman, 4 days ago to random

There’s a Guardian article from Fiona Harvey today, which links to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says from November last year, citing that…

the richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the bottom 2/3rds.

So how much wealth does one need to be in the world’s richest 1%?

Knight Frank had some answers to that in 2021: https://www.knightfrank.com/research/article/2021-03-01-how-much-wealth-gets-you-into-the-global-top-1

In the UK, at the time, it was $3.3 million, which was about £2.4 million.

London’s average property price is ~£700k

urlyman, 4 days ago to random

#climateDiary
TIL that Graham Stringer, who has been the Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997, and is running again, has been a Trustee of the disaster-capitalism, climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) since 2015.

That’ll really help build Great British Energy
🙄🙄🙄

https://www.thegwpf.org/labour-and-conservative-mps-join-gwpf/

urlyman, 4 days ago to random

“The AI analyst Azeem Azhar recently recalled being in a meeting with 100 CFOs who were discussing the promise of generative AI to cut labor costs.

‘Let’s just say they were like cats surrounding a group of baby starlings — and let’s just say the lips were being licked’, he said”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative

urlyman, 4 days ago to random

#ge2024 #democracy
Keir Starmer is claiming that Labour represents CHANGE… while offering as little change as possible.

Why does change rarely amount to any change at all?
Why do we fail to change?
What would we have to do to make change possible?

In October 2019, David Runciman explored those questions in a 50-minute lecture at Wolfson College, Cambridge, plus 10 minutes of Q&A 👉 https://youtu.be/avX636h4mzE?si=7RIcCGtXe4FUPC4x

urlyman, 5 days ago to random

Got a feeling that the UK centre ground hasn’t shifted that much since 2019. It’s just that the parties have.

The Tories are now way to the right of most of the people that voted for them in 2019.

And Labour are now roughly Cameron with an extra authoritarian topping.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s capitulation

pvonhellermannn, 6 days ago to random

#ClimateDiary Yep, this is where we are at.

urlyman, 6 days ago to random

“What if you knew, not only in your head, but in your bones, that in the next 10 to 20 years, what is viable today will no longer be the case?

What would you be doing today?”

https://overcast.fm/+2tlWtyisQ

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

2006: Nick Stern, commissioned by Labour: “We need to spend 1% of GDP on climate-related policy”.

2008: Nick Stern: “I was wrong, it should be 2%”.

2021: Labour: “We’ll spend £28 bn a year” (1.3% of GDP)

2023: International Energy Agency (IEA) “Global investment in clean energy must reach $4.5 trillion by 2030” (2.5% of GDP)

2024: Labour (whispers) “we’ll spend £8.3 bn over 5 years” (0.07% GDP per year)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xxpypr8d0o

ht @markhburton

#climateDiary

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

34 orange whipped
#trump

The Blues Brothers dancing with Ray Charles on piano in the background.

urlyman, 9 days ago to random

This interview with Vanessa Andreotti on ‘Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity’ is great.

I’m only 20 minutes in so far, but what she has already said – e.g. about education – makes a lot of sense to me

Page:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/125-vanessa-andreotti

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kQ7_IZ8YI

PDF transcript:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/66561b6371d13e15ce3d5deb/1716919139197/TGS+125+Vanessa+Andreotti+Transcript.pdf

#climateDiary

urlyman, 10 days ago to random

I just saw a beige.party poll with 50 ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-choices 🥴

urlyman, 10 days ago to random

Hello climate journalists.

If you’re not helping your readers see the scale of what needs changing and the time available to do it, and beginning to clarify the choices which might fit both…

you are not helping your readers

#climateDiary

urlyman, 10 days ago to random

I think having a large platform is not good for people

urlyman, 13 days ago to random

Policy stealing between Labour and the Tories seems to be more of a two-way street than it should be.

The texture of Labour’s response to the National Service thing is going to be… informative

urlyman, 13 days ago to random

Wonder if anyone will keep track of appearances gifted by mainstream media to Farage et al during #ge2024 campaigning, vs visibility given to the Green Party

urlyman, 13 days ago to random

Good thread. Thanks Geof and Matthew https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/112502615002807247

urlyman, 14 days ago to random

#climateDiary
#decroissance

This is a fascinating and sobering discussion
https://overcast.fm/+nh1AEbE7s