Ada PalmerDec 20, 2023

Guys, Amazon deforestation is down 50% this year!

It's worth saying twice: Amazon deforestation is down 50% this year!!!!!!! 2023 was also the best year ever for reforestation and carbon reduction! We're doing it! We're really doing it! #ShareGoodNewsToo

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/amazon-rainforest-destruction-slows-sharply-year-date-report-says-2023-11-28

Show threadJill FellowsDec 21, 2023
@adapalmer Damn, I needed some good news today. Gonna read this. Thanks!!
Show threadAda PalmerDec 21, 2023
@jjfphd If you’re craving good news, search for “Future Crunch”
They do roundups of underreported good news. It’s incredibly fortifying realizing how much is actually going well. China passed 50% renewable energy, the giant ocean conservation treaty was the real deal, poverty is down 2/3rds globally since 2000, polio eradication close, malaria vaccine rollout; 2023 was a great year globally on many metrics, but most news doesn’t let us feel it.
Show threadEndemicEarthling

@adapalmer @jjfphd "Poverty is down", in large part because of mobing the goalposts of what gounts as poverty.

The number of people in nutritional deficit has risen considerably since 2008.

China technically has >50% of installed fixed-point electricity generation capacity comprised of lower carbon sources (renewable + nuclear), but the most recent figures I've seen show thatbonly about 1/4 of actual generation is from renewable + nuclear, with well over 50% still coming from coal.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-non-fossil-fuel-electricity-capacity-exceeds-50-total-2023-06-12/

China's installed non-fossil fuel electricity capacity exceeds 50% of total

China's non-fossil fuel energy sources now exceed 50% of its total installed electricity generation capacity, state media outlet Xinhua said on Monday, citing an official at state planner the National Reform and Development Commission.

Reuters
Dec 29, 2023 at 6:28amWeb
Show threadAda PalmerDec 29, 2023
@EndemicEarthling @jjfphd https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-deputy-executive-director-omar-abdi-global-food-security-summit Goalpoast moving and nutritional decline is true for USA but not global, at least according to UNICEF
Statement by UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi at the Global Food Security Summit

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