RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116198836840453727

‘Kijk naar hoe Donald Trump de regering van Spanje onder druk zet, dan weet je één ding: dit uitbestedingsproject moet coûte que coûte stoppen.’

Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime

“The super-rich are treating our planet like their personal playground, setting it ablaze for pleasure and profit. Their dirty investments and luxury toys —private jets and yachts— aren’t just symbols of excess; they’re a direct threat to people and the planet.”

— Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar

@esqueer on Bluesky :
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lf72fz3fas22

It boggles my mind that people can be so complacent and just go on with their daily lives like nothing is wrong — while the world as we know it is literally vanishing beneath our feet.
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A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north. More than 30% of the region is a net source of CO2 now, according to the analysis, rising to 40% when emissions from wildfires are included.

For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have acted as a deep-freeze for the planet’s carbon, holding vast amounts of potential emissions in the permafrost. But ecosystems in the region are increasingly becoming a contributor to global heating as they release more CO2 into the atmosphere with rising temperatures.

The study comes amid growing concern from scientists about the natural processes that regulate Earth’s climate, which are being affected by rising temperatures. Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils, and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions, but there are signs that these sinks are under strain.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/21/third-of-arctic-carbon-sink-now-a-source-of-emissions-study

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

An investigation finds 15 police departments across 12 US states have arrested suspects identified through facial recognition without having any other evidence (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/police-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition/
http://www.techmeme.com/250113/p32#a250113p32