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Fascism is a cancer
and it's spreading:
do your part
to stop it ✊

"I detest cheap sentiment".

Iscritto24 dic 2022

#Tourism’s #dark side: Are those who love #Greece killing it?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/9/25/tourisms-dark-side-are-those-who-love-greece-killing-it?traffic_source=rss

> Greece’s population is shrinking, and tourism – its biggest economic success story – is making matters worse.

Tourism’s dark side: Are those who love Greece killing it?

Greece’s population is shrinking, and tourism – its biggest economic success story – is making matters worse.

Al Jazeera
People upset because I say I am not a fan of democracy because it's three wolves and two sheep voting on what's for supper don't seem to realize that I get to vote every two years to see if I have the right to exist.

A court in #Berlin just sentenced a #climate #activist to 8 months in prison, no probation, because she twice glued herself to the road in order to block car traffic. Yes, that's her crime.

Otherwise everything is fine in #Germany.

https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2023/09/haftstrafe-letzte-generation-klimaaktivisten-gerichtsurteil-berlin.html

#fuckcars #climatestrike

"Letzte Generation": Berliner Klima-Aktivistin zu achtmonatiger Haftstrafe ohne Bewährung verurteilt | rbb24

Report: Tax richest 0.5%, raise €213bn for EU coffers

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157452?utm_source=euobs&utm_medium=rss

> A small tax on the richest 0.5 percent would increase EU tax revenues by €213.2 billion, says a new report by the Greens.

Report: Tax richest 0.5%, raise €213bn for EU coffers

A small tax on the richest 0.5 percent would increase EU tax revenues by €213.2 billion, says a new report by the Greens.

EUobserver

almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air

📌 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

📌The worst hit country in Europe is North Macedonia.

📌 Eastern Europe is significantly worse than western Europe, apart from Italy 🇮🇹, where more than a third of those living in the Po valley and surrounding areas in the north of the country breath air that is four times the WHO figure for the most dangerous airborne particulates.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/revealed-almost-everyone-in-europe-breathing-toxic-air

Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air

Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

The Guardian
Let's just be clear about something. When a government says that they want to be 'realistic' about climate action, but still reach 2050 goals ... what they are actually saying is that the problem should be handled by some future government after they are long gone.

Researchers have uncovered China's use of generative #AI to create images for its misinformation campaign targeting the Hawaiian fires. This is apparently the first time they're using it which is weird but it's clear they're building up a sock puppet army for bigger misinformation campaigns aimed at the upcoming US elections. Do your part: educate your community on how to check their info. This ain't a game. Generative AI has been weaponised by states.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/14/asia-pacific/politics/china-disinformation-hawaii-fires-new-techniques/

China sows disinformation about Hawaii fires using new techniques

False posts carrying images apparently made using artificial intelligence put China among the first to have used these tools in such a campaign.

The Japan Times

“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

Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action

The Guardian

This is gold:

"Elizabeth devoted her comfortable life to travelling first-class, shielding her family’s vast wealth from the taxman, managing her family’s pristine, sprawling estates, being feted at lavish state dinners by virtue of luck and primogeniture, caring for her dear dogs and horses, and burnishing the mirage that the British monarchy remains an exemplar of constancy, charity and benevolence."

Britain’s monarchy is dying, and no PR can save it

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/14/britains-monarchy-is-dying-and-no-pr-can-save-it?traffic_source=rss

> The world mostly ignored the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s passing, a reminder of how little the royal family means.

Britain’s monarchy is dying, and no PR can save it

The world mostly ignored the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s passing, a reminder of how little the royal family means.

Al Jazeera