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There are established ways to calculate marine protected area coverage. But #Malta, which has a massive marine territory to profit from, uses some creative accounting, and as a result, protection coverage looks larger
https://www.amphora.media/2025/08/fatti-malta-protect-sea-marine-environment
#marineprotectedarea #protectourseas #marineconservation
Once, amid economic crisis, #Žižek spoke in a viceoconference with #Vilnius about how market expansion is starting to hit its natural limits, so big business will be focusing on extractivism from the public sector. What essential services could they capture that even the most frugal people will have to pay for? Recent example: #Steward #hospitals deal in #Malta
U.S. healthcare operator Steward paid over $7 million to U.K.-based intelligence firms that conducted surveillance and disinformation operations against its critics — and even a Steward employee. T...
Join The Earth Investigation Network. For seven weeks, investigative journalists supported by Journalismfund Europe from all over the planet will share their experiences and advice investigating various issues and problems related to the environment.
Informative podcast, but it is disappointing to see the @BBCWorld use dehumanising language (‘inflow’, ‘mass’). With people in a vulneable state, human-centred language really matters, so:
❌ migrant flows/ tides/ masses
✅ arrival of people who are seeking a job/ asylum/ wish to live abroad
Summary: Car bloat is terrible – for road safety, for the planet, for equity, and for road maintenance.
But bigger cars are often more profitable, so automakers like making them.
The only way out: Government action. Examples:
🔹 Tax vehicles by weight.
🔹 Test vehicles for pedestrian and cyclist safety (still doesn’t happen in the US).
🔹 Require a CDL for the most gigantic vehicles.
Left alone, this problem will only worsen. Governments must step up.
https://slate.com/business/2023/01/electric-cars-hummer-ev-tax-fees-weight-joe-biden.html
"Pushchairs, e-bikes, motorised wheelchairs and pedestrians move at starkly different speeds. By failing to consider this, cities are designing not for health, climate and jobs, but for conflict, injury and chaos." In this op-ed I analyse what happens when, in the absence of standards, authorities are throwing money at the issue of lacking #bike infrastructure around #Europe
https://euideas.eui.eu/2023/03/22/european-transports-cinderella/
David Zipper