Political involvement is an unaffordable luxury for many people.
Dr. Greg Kochanski
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Trained as a physicist, done a few things since. Horrified that we're still drilling gas wells in the middle of a climate crisis. #Pittsburgh
Chris Hallbeck
Gernot WagnerWhat the Climate Fight Is Really About
Hint: it's all about minimizing risks & endemic uncertainties
My latest column just out today: https://gwagner.com/climate-uncertainties/
#climate #ClimateShock #economics
We've started naming heat waves after fossil fuel companies.
Ah, the Biden administration.... I'm really happy that Biden is the first US President to take climate change even half-seriously. Raising fees for drilling on Federal land is good; raising the royalties that go to the Federal budget is fine.
But, it'd be better if the crisis was taken fully seriously: why why are we still drilling for gas?
https://gizmodo.com/biden-administration-raises-fee-drilling-federal-land-1850664166
Advisory Briefs 🛠️Want to know the hottest 14 days ever recorded on planet earth?
They were the last 2 weeks. No exceptions. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
Greg Hills@pluralistic
"But what if, instead of trying to force Zuck to be a better emperor-for-life, we passed rules requiring him to let his subjects flee his tyrannical reign?"
This is crucial.
Meta won't let people delete their Threads account unless they also delete their Instagram account. That's Meta's Berlin Wall around Threads, designed (though they will have lots of "technical" reasons why it isn't) to prevent Threads users leaching into the Fediverse.
The wall must fall.
Jay Cheroske@Andrewhinton Richard Wolff talks about this. He frames the pro-democracy movement as bringing democracy into all the parts of our lives where it is currently lacking. Work is a primary part of our lives, yet there is no democracy there.
There's less financial misconduct when bankers work from home.
https://fortune.com/2023/07/18/new-research-suggests-bankers-are-5-times-less-likely-engage-financial-misconduct-working-home-careers-finance-gleb-tsipursky/
https://fortune.com/2023/07/18/new-research-suggests-bankers-are-5-times-less-likely-engage-financial-misconduct-working-home-careers-finance-gleb-tsipursky/
Steve HermanOfficers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative here in #Texas have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, reports Houston Chronicle. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-trooper-migrants-wire-18205076.php
