Newde

@newde
1 Followers
182 Following
512 Posts

"The fate of man is to have grief, when he does not reach his goal and when he has reached his goal." Nescio

Environmentalist, believer in degrowth, also a social democrat. Former student of Politics and Economics but most of all Philosophy.

Our world is deeply unjust, but I'd rather change it today then wait for tomorrow.

Finite understandings of an infinitely complex world will lead to different views. Let's enjoy that and not fight it.

#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal. Ignore, ignore, ignore.

Scores feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain. Officials say at least 51 people have died in south and east of country but death toll is expected to rise.#Spain #Valencia #Floods

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/spain-floods-torrential-rain-deaths?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

At least 95 people dead in Spain’s worst floods in three decades

Soldiers aid search for dozens still missing as prime minister warns extreme weather may not be over

The Guardian

NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula

Credit & Copyright: Chad Leader

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241030.html #APOD

APOD: 2024 October 30 – NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Ecocide generally goes without consequence.

Fighting ecocide doesn't. Last year 196 people were murdered for protecting their environment. Let us remember, and join, their struggle.

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/missing-voices/

The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders | Global Witness

Land and environmental defenders faced brutal silencing tactics in 2023, with a record year for killings in Colombia and criminalisation cases across the world

Global Witness
Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident

The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

BBC News
@kravietz Never tell them Polish and Ukrainian jews fled Russian state sponsored pogroms.

"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air. This produced as much carbon as the average person in the world would in 300 years.""

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam

Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C

The Guardian
@samhkennedy @ayoub They are also in BRICS...

@junesim63 @ayoub And the EU has given support to both sides.

But this conflict unfortunately isn't as catchy, for a lack of a better term, as Ukraine or Gaza, so people lose interest quickly.

And so the Sudanese die in obscurity

How is this not front page news? #Sudan
@ayoub None of the big baddies (Russia/USA/China) are involved, so it doesn't fit people's narratives of the world.