The Short List Of #Climate Actions That Will Work
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/08/11/the-short-list-of-climate-actions-that-will-work/

On the list:

"Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel…The US alone spends tens of billions of dollars annually on subsidies…for the fossil fuel industry & hasn’t done a thing about it since committing to eliminate them in 2009. The G7 and G20 have committed to eliminating subsidies, but progress has been very slow. Save money for cleaning up the mess the industry is leaving behind."

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

I like Vanity Fair's headline:

"Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-trying-to-overturn-the-election

#Trump #Impeachment #News #Headline #VanityFair #BessLevin #Law #Crime #Spoiler #He's #Guilty #Elections #Comedy

#Enshittification isn't inevitable: under different conditions and constraints, the old, good internet could have given way to a new, good internet. Enshittification is the result of specific policy choices: encouraging monopolies; enabling high-speed, digital shell games; and blocking #interoperability.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

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The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the #climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts.

Rrsearchers estimate a collapse of the #AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w