This is the story of how a few individuals confronted an environmental disaster and worked to transform it into an ecological treasure.
I'm energized from reading this (written by @rednikki !) about the work of individuals and communities who did just enough for long enough to help steer things in the right direction, or prevent far worse collapse, even if they didn't live to see the fruit of their work; even if they must have felt very alone.
Monterey Bay today is a stunning marine sanctuary, but a century ago it must have been challenging to see that as anything other than a dream
According to a new analysis, the 2°C target is “impossible” due to continuously rising emissions and fossil fuel use.
Facing the truth...
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The 2°C climate target set out by the 2015 Paris Agreement is dead, according to climate scientist Dr. James Hansen.
Hansen and his colleagues recently concluded that the climate’s sensitivity to fossil fuel use and emissions is greater than previously thought. If Hansen’s new analysis is correct, extreme weather events will occur with more frequency and intensity going forward, and more “tipping points” will be reached, from which the Earth won’t be able to heal.
Hansen is a former NASA scientist and is considered the father of global awareness of climate change. He famously called the Paris Agreement, a result of the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2015, a fraud.
In response to that conference, Hansen said at the time: “It’s just worthless words. There is no action, just promises. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continue to be burned.”
Ten years later, Hansen’s statement rings harsh but true, as 2024 was the warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organization. The past ten years all rank in the top ten warmest in history.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://impakter.com/the-2c-target-is-dead-says-top-climate-scientist/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
What's the point of blogging?
A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/
Morpheus is ready for some discourse theory, in The Matrix (1999). How do you analyze something that is imaginary, symbolic, and exerts its power only in our...
In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/the-man-who-discovered-media-codes-and-how-to/ #media #stuarthall #mediastudies #discourse
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
"Treasury officials denied that he had access but it then turned out that he did. If it ended there, it would be catastrophic. But that unit - whose personnel include a 19-year-old called “Big Balls” - is now raiding and scorching the federal government, department by department, scraping its digital assets, stealing its data, taking control of the code and blowing up its administrative apparatus as it goes."
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
🧵 3/3 end
coup #USpol
The Chilean side of Patagonia is home to incredible landscapes and wildlife, and I spent a week here to document some of it during the winter months. Take a look at to see what I found - amazing Puma encounters and beautiful mountain await.
Sasha Korban Ukrainian street artist, best known for his huge murals that have captured the attention of art enthusiasts around the world. Born in 1987 in Kirovskoye, a small town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Korban began his artistic journey by doing graffiti in his hometown during the earl...
Different doesn’t always mean better. But better necessarily implies different.
Great piece by @gruber on the SuperBowl on-screen graphics. This stands out:
“Human beings evolved to be alarmed by change. If everything looks the same as usual, everything is probably as safe as usual.”
It’s a great tie-in to our release of Tapestry. Some are scared by the colorful timeline design. It’s too “different” from the mono-colored UI’s they’re used to. “It should look like every other reader app!”
Why? Because it’s safe? Try it. It just *might* be better.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/02/fox_new_scorebug_graphic_design
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