Dark Money -
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Thursday, 29 April 2021
quote [ It turns out that reporting is not a proxy for progress. ]
Who would've thunk? Frankly, the article is rather lengthy for stating the obvious. It gets a little more interesting in the end, where they're pondering on actual impactful measures.
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Saturday, 24 April 2021
quote [ History is full of such attempts, almost always gone wrong, to modify the presence or the activities of single species. ]
Some ill-fated eco-control anecdotes.
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Friday, 23 April 2021
quote [ A small herd of wild horses has adapted over the centuries to survive in the harsh Outer Banks of North Carolina. ]
Cause the wild horse runs free forever
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Thursday, 22 April 2021
quote [ When people come to the aid of stranded fish, are the salvaged truly saved? ]
Home is where the rivers dry
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021
quote [ Researchers used satellite imaging and surface soil color to find out how much of the nutrient-rich earth has eroded away ]
Our hearts littering the topsoil
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Friday, 16 April 2021
quote [ What?s more important than looking to carbon offsets is holding governments and businesses to account. Be wary of the word ?offsets? when politicians or corporations throw it around. Remember that ?net-zero? is not zero, and how we get there matters. ]
You ever been in one of those arguments? This article is a good explainer.
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Friday, 9 April 2021
quote [ Where some see threatened mammals, others see a threat to historic trees. ]
I'm a black bat, babe, bangin' on your window pane
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Tuesday, 6 April 2021
quote [ In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever Laurel was carrying was a consignment of plastic children?s bath toys manufactured in China for the Japanese toy company The First Years Inc. Four days later, on 10 January 1992, the freighter ran into a storm in the North Pacific. ]
'Round the world with the Rubber Ducky!
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Monday, 5 April 2021
quote [ It highlights that even if the world?s governments meet their current Paris pledges on time, Earth is likely to reach average global surface temperatures of 3oC above the pre-industrial period during this century, with catastrophic consequences. ]
The sixth assessment report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due out sometime next year but we're seeing a sign of things to come as many of the scientists involved are releasing their Country's individual reports.
We've known for years that the Paris Agreement was a paper tiger, and even the 2 degree line in the sand is genocide for a significant chunk of coastal societies.
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Saturday, 3 April 2021
quote [ New evidence from fossil plants shows today?s South American rainforests arose in the wake of Earth?s fifth mass extinction ]
Now what is a rainforest, tell you yet
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The Conquest of Bread -
The inherent flaws in feudalism and capitalism
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