Nina Bernstein“I want news organizations to not only set up their own servers but also to start adding share-on-Mastodon buttons to story pages. That will send a message to Elon et al, endorsing an alternative.” — @jeffjarvis https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/
Peter Gleick
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Climate and water scientist, member US National Academy of Sciences, birds, mandolin. www.gleick.com
I won't send Musk $8 but I'm willing to support the efforts here to build and expand the community.
Are there ways to contribute??
Are there ways to contribute??
What's the equivalent of "tweeps" here?
Tooters?
Tooters?
There's been some talk recently about an upsurge in cholera cases worldwide. 2022 data aren't fully available yet, but here's a graph of global cholera cases over the last 30 years. The big surge here is almost entirely due to cases in Yemen (shown here in red) resulting from the massive destruction of their civilian water and sanitation infrastructure by the Saudis in the recent war. (Data from the WHO Global Health Observatory, plotted by me.)
For context, this is one of my favorite climate graphs, showing 800,000 years of atmospheric CO2, including the massive run-up over the past century. We're now around 420 parts per million (ppm), more than anytime in 800,000 years (actually more than anytime in the past 5 million years) and completely outside the natural ups and downs in the record. This is the driver of the current #climate crisis.
The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water
We’re being packaged and sold a bottle/can/box of lies on water.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23433132/best-bottled-water-is-tap-environment-health
It's #EnvConflictDay, the UN day calling attention to the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts.
Here's my new piece from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the role of #water in the Ukraine war.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/water-as-weapon-and-casualty-in-russias-war-on-ukraine/#post-heading
I thought throwing soup on a protected painting to protest fossil fuels was a bad idea, but will this get as much attention from the media and public?
https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/status/1588894562608508928?t=kUSenkTXb3UPX-LL82Quxg&s=19
Greenpeace UK on Twitter
“🚨 BREAKING: Hundreds of activists are PHYSICALLY STOPPING mega-polluting private jets from taking off from Amsterdam's main airport, @Schiphol. "We want fewer flights, more trains and a ban on unnecessary short-haul flights and private jets". Who can disagree with that?”
This storm, one of the latest large storm ever recorded in the North Atlantic, extends from northern Canada almost all the way to the British Isles.
#climate
#climate
Is there an easy, direct language translation system for toots here?