“It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”
There is a pretty much endless stream of academic research and investigating journalism showing carbon offsets are a scam and seemingly no reckoning with the fact that they undergird the vast majority of net-zero pledges https://t.co/KU3FkgLbSv
I get that many people don't believe that "Traffic Evaporation" happens, but 20 years of case studies say it is real. "People adjusted their behavior ... https://t.co/8F0aC4aZOs
starting an ongoing thread of my favorite 3rd spaces or "community living rooms" in NYC 🛋️ (that you probably haven't heard about)
📍Land to Sea - a brooklyn multi-use creative space & coffee shop with the goal to uplift and support local creators of color
1 win in 61 matches vs playoffs teams since 2020 for Atlanta United.
In this time spand, Carlos Bocanegra fired 2 managers, spent $30m+ and got a contract extension.
On the left, the widest highway in the world: Interstate 10, located in Katy Texas, it serves over 219,000 vehicles DAILY.
On the right, the subway in Rome. Not the best system in the world, but it carries 819,000 passengers DAILY.
Please stop calling the neighborhoods in northwest Atlanta “the Upper Westside”. This is a developer and real estate term and isn’t a thing. It’s meant to wipe out the histories of these neighborhoods.
Atlanta is one of the fastest warming cities in the country and it sees 75% more flooding events than in 1950
So, naturally, the city is plowing forward w/ a plan to rip up its forest (which protects ppl from heat & floods) … for a $90M police facility
🧵https://t.co/pKhyJlAasz