“no waste” is good but it’s not a climate solution. carbon dioxide waste, not municipal waste, is the main direct cause of global heating. lots of people conflate these
A NASA scientist was arrested for locking himself onto a Chase Bank in L.A. alongside other members of the Scientist Rebellion.
AJ+ spoke with @ClimateHuman in a personal capacity about his arrest in the fight for climate justice.
In Afghanistan the grapes are stored for up to six months, kept fresh in airtight mud-straw containers. Afghans developed this method of food preservation, which uses mud-straw containers and is known as kangina, centuries ago in Afghanistan's rural north.
#archaeohistories
This is Emma Smart, an ecologist, scientist and activist with @Extinction_R
On 13th April she glued her hand to a window in London and is now being denied bail. She's being held in a windowless solitary cell, no certainty what happens next.
She is on hunger strike.
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A reminder of one of the most beautiful etymologies out there: the 'pupil' of the eye is named after the Latin 'pupilla', little doll' - because when we look into the eyes of another, we see a tiny, doll-like reflection of ourselves.
Student loan interest rates expected to rise from 4.5% to 12% for high earners and from 1.5% to 9% for low earners from September. An average grad with £50k debt will incur £2,200 to £3000 in interest over 6 months, just in case young wallets haven't been hit hard enough.
This is the best response I've ever seen to the stupid style of questioning - beloved also of the British media - that thinks good politics is about memorising numbers, and the more numbers you memorise, the better the politics.
"Whatever you think of this prime minister, today is an important day. In 1733, Dr Thomas Fuller wrote: 'Be you ever so high, the law is above you.'
"What today shows is that, almost three hundred years later, his words remain true." - @JolyonMaugham
https://t.co/Yu9pCltEGe
@Talulah2517@johnmcdonnellMP I think we're at the point where we have to work for what we truly want...Labour has now been well and truly captured. To vote for them now is to vote 'slow' in the same foxtrot...quick ( Con ) quick, slow, quick quick, slow....> NHS privatised
Hopefully I'm wrong 😪