Yes, the enthusiasm for NFTs has cratered, but we shouldn't use junk analysis to make that point. Too many news outlets uncritically reprinted a bad "study", and the resulting eye-catching headline was widely shared.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/news-flash-95-of-nfts-have-always

“British Petroleum, the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals. It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term ‘carbon footprint’ in the early aughts.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

Via @ajsadauskas

#BP #ClimateChange

Everyone has to be out by Friday at noon MDT. At least 5000 evacuees will arrive in #yyc. Flights start at 1 pm Thursday. Yellowknife Hospital is closing units and negotiating medivac flights with SK, AB, and BC… whoever can take patients.

The mayor of #Yellowknife has handed control of the city to the NWT government.

My heart goes out to everyone up north.

N.W.T. officials order phased evacuation of Yellowknife as wildfire nears city | CTV News

#NWT #nwtfires

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/yellowknife-ordered-to-evacuate-as-wildfires-approach-city-1.6522623

Half of all plastics *ever* manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.

Production increased exponentially, from 2 million tons of plastics in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015.

Production is expected to *double* by 2050.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations.

INFO SOURCE — https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-plastic-pollution-crisis-explained/

GRAPHIC SOURCE — https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/

#Plastic #Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

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