Mondoweiss 🇵🇸Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees.
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Sustainability-minded reader, writer, editor, activist; supporter of social justice & human rights, advocate for climate action, promoting awareness of Indigenous people & genocide, against militarism & other government BS. Member of Alliance for Sustainable Communities–Lehigh Valley, PA (in Lenapehoking, the traditional home of the Lenape.) NN.
CelloMom On CarsEngineers will tell you: where there's noise, there's wear.
Car noise is mostly tire noise.
Car tires wear into .... microplastics.
Cars are one of the largest sources of ocean microplastics, and since humans are part of the web of life, we also ingest those microplastic particles.
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/111914703836626460
(Yes, bicycle tires wear too. A lot less though: they're skinny, and carry a lot less weight).
Delegates Against Genocide, a coalition of delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC), calls for delegates to vote ‘No’ on the 2024 Democratic Party platform over its failure to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and a U.S. arms embargo on Israel.
DNC ‘Delegates Against Genocide’ urge a ‘no’ vote on Democratic Party platform
Delegates Against Genocide, a coalition of delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC), calls for delegates to vote ‘No’ on the 2024 Democratic Party platform over its failure to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and a U.S. arms embargo on Israel.
David SirotaGoogle's AI search is on track to use more energy than an entire country.
Utilities are jacking up your electricity rates to subsidize Big Tech's data centers.
Lobbyists have made sure the government isn't tracking AI energy use.
This story is insane👇
https://www.levernews.com/the-unknown-toll-of-the-ai-takeover/
The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.
kottke.orgIn the last 10 years, Paris has closed 100 streets to cars, removed 50,000 parking spots, tripled parking fees for SUVs, and built more than 800 miles of bike lanes. “Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470
Robert ReichAll nine Republican senators running for reelection this year just voted against the right to contraception:
John Barrasso
Marsha Blackburn
Kevin Cramer
Ted Cruz
Deb Fischer
Josh Hawley
Pete Ricketts
Rick Scott
Roger Wicker
So much for the party of "freedom."
A recent media flurry over the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza amounts to nothing more than genocide denial. This campaign to discredit the Gaza health ministry is simply a strategy to allow the Gaza genocide to continue.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/unpacking-the-israeli-campaign-to-deny-the-gaza-genocide/
Bread and CircusesWildfires in the northern forests of Canada and Siberia not only emit planet-warming greenhouse gases, but also tremendous amounts of black carbon...
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While not a greenhouse gas like CO2 and methane, black carbon has its own significant impacts on the climate. Clouds of dark wildfire smoke, for instance, absorb the sun’s energy, warming the atmosphere. While CO2 stays up there for centuries, and methane for a decade or so, black carbon falls back to Earth after no more than a few weeks.
When snow and ice are dusted with black carbon, the dark coloration absorbs heat. And if highly reflective snow or ice melts, this uncovers darker ground or ocean underneath, which absorbs sunlight much more readily, helping to heat up the region.
This then forms a feedback loop:
As the world warms, wildfires in northern latitudes get ever more frequent and intense, as hotter temperatures suck out what moisture remains in the vegetation.
Bigger, more intense, and more frequent fires produce more smoke and black carbon, which warms the atmosphere still more, further intensifying the blazes. Arctic wildfires also release extraordinary amounts of CO2, providing additional warming globally.
The black carbon that makes it to the Arctic melts more snow and ice, leading to more warming, and more melting, and more warming, and on and on.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-is-ignoring-the-other-deadly-kind-of-carbon/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
stux⚡️Dis makes me happy