Ed Hawkins on LinkedIn: July 2023 was the warmest month on record. Burning fossil fuels is…

July 2023 was the warmest month on record. Burning fossil fuels is heating the planet & causing: - more intense heatwaves - heavier rainfall events - glaciers…

#2022 #FOSSILFUEL #HORRORSHOW G20 #GOVTS… staggering USD 1.4 trillion… subsidies… investments by state-owned enterprises (USD 322 billion)… lending from public financial institutions (USD 50 trillion). @TheDemocrats @liberal_party @Europarl_EN https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/fanning-flames-g20-support-of-fossil-fuels
Fanning the Flames: G20 provides record financial support for fossil fuels

This digital story provides the latest evidence regarding the G20's progress in aligning public financial flows with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

International Institute for Sustainable Development
#Stupid #UCP @ABDanielleSmith @RachelNotley @albertaNDP @AB_AgainstUCP @Alberta_UCP #ableg #Conservative #govts undermining postsecondary education - shooting provincial economies in both feet. PSE and per capita income are strongly correlated.
https://higheredstrategy.com/provincial-budgets-2023-24/
Globally #Govts were caught pants down by #SARSCoV2 pandemic a large part becoz of #avoidance #transparency of #data. Teams setting up #CovidDashboards showed whats possible in Govts with #meager_resources if they #opened_data, #APIs #scaled #across_depts bit.ly/3X1T3j1

"We’re supposed to think of #metadata as less than #data, but it isn’t: often it is more. . .#govts that want to control their people & crush #dissent want #metadata." #privacy #Whatsapp #BigTech

READ @MishiChoudhary & Eben Moglen's @TOIIndiaNews piece:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/zuckerbergs-whatsapp-follies-tight-integration-with-facebook-is-a-way-of-selling-your-data-to-advertisers-and-others/

Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp follies: Tight integration with Facebook is a way of selling your data to advertisers and others

Mishi Choudhary & Eben Moglen We must hope that Mark Zuckerberg has more sense of humour than he publicly shows. Only a keen sense of irony could ballast him through the self-destructive storm now ravaging...

@thor
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#Govts and #bigBusiness are using the #opportunity (#crisis) for various things, good and bad, including, no particular order:
- test #reduceTravel (especially #airTravel), not necessarily for the #powerElite who can use #privateJets and #helicopters.
- test #UBI,
- buy up #assets at #lowerPrices,
- boost #militaryBudget, increase #militarisation of #policeForce (especially in #Australia),

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#Govts committee on doubling #farmer income targeted to raise avg income of a farmer household to Rs 2,19,724 by 2022-23, from the 2015-16 base year of Rs 96,703, with the help of an additional public & private investment of 6.4 lakh crore.
👉Did anybody see these investments ?🙄