Swarnalatha

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IAF 93-99. NAL 01-05. Just a saner denizen.
Environment | Local governance | Anti-consumerism | Road Safety / Defensive Driving | நம் குப்பை நம் பொறுப்பு | മലയാളം | Abhor दिखावा 🙂
Bloghttps://feastforthought.blogspot.com/
Earlier tidbitshttps://web.archive.org/web/20140804221356/https://www.nal.res.in/pages/swarna.htm
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SwarnalathaJun 6, 2025
VeeJun 5, 2025
What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld
SwarnalathaJun 6, 2025
View from Elephant HillsMay 22, 2025

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why.

First, it concerns a proposed project so monumental in its ambitions as in its folly, and so egregious in its likely destruction of vulnerable human lives and ecologies that it deserves all the attention, critique, […]

https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/

Great Nicobar: Greenwashing a Catastrophe

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why. First,…

View from Elephant Hills
Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025

"Types of Greenwashing". #WED2025
Additional suggestions:
'greensplaining': "the explanation of something, typically knowledge already known to an indigenous community, by a company's PR or certain Global North professionals, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing."

'greenpainting': When companies & governments launching destructive mega-projects, are proud of what they should really be ashamed about.

Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025

"AI responses may include mistakes."

They definitely do. QED.

Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025
The actual source of this infographic is https://honestfashion.org/greenwashing-vs-greenhushing (2023 blog)
Show threadSwarnalathaJun 5, 2025
The search continued:
Result reads "The "hf." in the image refers to Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm with a website at..." hfDOTcom.
SwarnalathaJun 5, 2025
i looked for the source of an image - an infographic - relevant for today, #WED2025.
The search returned this result.
SwarnalathaSep 17, 2024
Show threadRohini LakshanéSep 17, 2024
A downloadable and print-friendly version of this article is now available at: https://zenodo.org/records/13771123
It also has a DOI.
The crying shame of image-based abuse

This is a print-friendly copy of the longform article "The Crying Shame of Image-Based Abuse" published on Factor Daily at https://factordaily.com/the-crying-shame-of-image-based-abuse/ Commonly called “revenge porn”, “leak” or “MMS scandal”, image-based abuse is a widespread and systemic yet untrammelled issue that destroys lives.This article is the first in a series on image-based abuse in India. It is a on output of Rohini Lakshané fellowship at Factor Daily.  Attribution for the images in the article: Somesh Kumar, Factor Daily (2024)

Zenodo
SwarnalathaSep 17, 2024

"... a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search, & data center power demand will grow 160%... research has made similar findings, projecting data center emissions globally to accumulate to 2.5bn metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030."

The cons continue to be well ahead of the pros.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

The Guardian
SwarnalathaMay 29, 2023
Internet Freedom FoundationMay 26, 2023

We’re asking you to #VoteForABetterMeta.

Eko, India Civil Watch and IFF are launching a campaign to urge Meta shareholders to vote yes to Proposal 7, a shareholder proposal dealing with allegations of bias against Meta’s operations in India. 1/3

https://internetfreedom.in/metas-shareholder-proposal/

Proposal calling for accountability in India at Meta's AGM on May 31, 2023

Meta is set to hold its Annual General Meeting on May 31. Proposal 7 which addresses content regulation in India and the outcome of the votes for Proposal 7 bear significance for the Indian audience. This campaign, jointly launched by Eko, ICWI, and IFF, urges shareholders to vote Yes to Proposal 7.

Internet Freedom Foundation