Paul Cowling

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Far from the madding crowds... sailing, culture and stuff. Europhile
Interested in urban design, keen to see more done on the #climatecrisis and to give everyone good quality of life.
Risk för spår av svenska
Living inStockholm, Sweden
Twitter, Instagram@Picowlo
Pixelfed@[email protected]
Fave quote"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." MLK Jr.
A taste of Christmas.
Part of this years #julbord...
#JoinIn #GodJul
I was shopping yesterday for Christmas and decided that maybe these weren't for me....
#FoulBeans #JoinIn
Prepping is underway for the julbord. 😎🎄🎄🎄
A cheese, basil and capers spread...
#JoinIn #GodJul #HappyChristmas
(via working class history): On this day, 28 November 1919, Faye Schulman, photographer and Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland (now Belarus). In 1942, the Nazis murdered 1,850 Jews in the Lenin ghetto, leaving only Faye and 25 others alive, making Faye take and develop photos of the massacre. Covertly she made copies of the photographs for herself. She soon fled and joined the partisan resistance, serving as a fighter and nurse. While on a raid in Lenin with her unit, Faye managed to retrieve her camera equipment, and then began documenting the resistance movement, developing her photos under blankets. "I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." Faye survived the war and moved to Canada, where she lived until her death on April 24, 2021.
#originalantifa, #partisans, #antifa, #nopasaran
"What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others."
George Monbiot
#quote #ThoughtForTheDay #perception

I still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.

#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita

Cromlechs d'Illarita - Pyrenees
#StandingStoneSunday
New study: even successful efforts to raise fossil fuel prices are often reversed, "with subsidies returning to prereform levels within the first 12 months 62% of the time, and within 5 years 87% of the time." Political leadership plays little role. 🤷‍♂️
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2208024119

All week, university students in the UK, US, and Canada will be striking with Fossil Free Research -- they're asking their universities to stop taking fossil fuel research money. Why? It materially shapes #climate policies and solutions.
A study out last week showed that empirically: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01521-3.epdf?sharing_token=q6u3o3XLL_ziqLal_zfJk9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PFHvJIHvJ_ACmLOp1FbbeYnNHRPkNNIlf-VIv3NozoIW-hh9MJFshD8VY-5P44f-8waRIQIFNAUe1byovgUh9P7aZRAS9XKJsSek7v-xl4U3z3uvq3pL4K5CqeatADXxI%3D

Been looking at how fossil fuel $ work on campuses for a while myself and tried to round it all up in this #podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universities-are-starting-to-say-no-to-fossil-fuel-funding/id1439735906?i=1000582993632

podlink.to/drilled for other platforms!

Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres - Nature Climate Change

University-based energy centres play an important role in climate discourse but many are funded by fossil fuel businesses. This study shows that fossil-fuel-funded centres express more positive sentiment towards natural gas, compared to renewable energy, than those not funded by the fossil industry.

Nature
Moody Sunday #Stockholm - Riddarfjärden