Alex Morrison

Founder/Director @Cogapp, Editor @ElephantClimate.
Sustainability + Digital + Strategy + Culture.
All views my own.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

And there, my dears, you have it - in a nutshell.

#COP29 #ClimateCatastrophe

@TTTMediaXR @ScientistsX @ThierryAaron

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@rohanpaul_ai Does he recognise that Claude is software?

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Income Inequality and the Erosion of Democracy

In this study, Rau & Stokes conclude that “income inequality is a strong & highly robust predictor of democratic erosion”

A reminder that problems of democracy are related to the social context

Open Access: https://t.co/uw3tD1hLYe

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@ClimateDad77 Capital looks at images like these and sees an opportunity to sell things to desperate people. Where you and I see despair, it sees opportunity. Capital is a cancerous parasite feeding on society and until it is contained the destruction will continue.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@RobinBoardmanUK These are the first major climate catastrophes. The situation is Tehran is cataclysmic.

"If rationing doesn't work," Pezeshkian said, "we may have to evacuate Tehran." [home of 10 million people]

https://t.co/j7nM8LY0M4

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Some good news- With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study

https://t.co/DqUpe2gqvs

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@campbellclaret The real weakness of the BBC is the appointments by the previous government to the board.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: Earth's 8.7 million species call for immediate system change

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

🚨🦠BREAKING🦠🚨
The most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth is threatened by global warming!

New study:
'Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity'
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[Ben See @ClimateBen]

'richer nations must support the poorer countries set to bear the most severe climate harms'

https://t.co/GZZFYPSrlR

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

One of the biggest systemic failures of the UK economy is that the best maths and science graduates work in finance rather than the STEM professions that actually build a productive economy.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@michaelmezz @jasonhickel We should also tax the rich because they benefit disproportionately from the legal apparatus of the state which protects their assets and property rights.

If this asset protection were provided by a private organisation they would be charged (and pay) an annual percentage fee.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

Yet more extremely bad news...

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: horrified scientists warn Antarctica is no longer the stable frozen continent it was once believed it to be 🧵

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

At least they agree. . .

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: fears of catastrophe grow as Establishment scientists who organised IPCC's dangerously wrong climate assumptions begin to acknowledge they were wrong 🧵

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@GarethDennis It is absolutely obscene. Hugely destructive.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@caitoz The Greeks called them tyrants and their hubris led inexorably to nemesis.

[The Visual Commentary on Scripture @TheVCS]

The legendary American composer Steve Reich speaks to @BenQuash in our series of ‘Creative Conversations’.

They discuss the profound role of the Bible in transforming both the subject matter and the style of Reich’s music.

Watch our latest VCS film:

https://t.co/SJroD82ySn

[Javier Corrales @jcorrales2011]

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes checked off.

[Alex Morrison @Alex__Morrison]

@mattwridley @realDonaldTrump No it’s not a scandal.

It’s a disagreement between scientists. That’s how science works.

My bet is that the new paper will be discredited - but we shall see.