The petrol-driven car is becoming extinct in Norway as electric ones take over. Only 19 of them sold in the whole country in the first two months of this year. Yet pressure is growing to delay their phase-out in the U.K.
https://t.co/jKMIvti0KF
Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.
After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.
Yields of ecologically-friendly, regenerative farming drop by only a third as much as those of conventional farming in drought. Study of 1200 French farms shows it saved enough wheat to make 130 million baguettes.
https://t.co/6gthVtcJQj
This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv
Pope Leo XIV in Madrid: “I encourage you to nurture the process of European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity.”
Wonderful.
A powerful reminder of how beautiful and hopeful the European project truly is.
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@LabourBerry Issues remain about imposing house building on productive green fields let alone never built on, designated green belt. Here in rural Kent, we don’t have reliable water or power or phone or internet infrastructure. If you still expect us to supply your food, please grow up.
South East Water update:
500 customers in Kent remain without water on an eighth day of disruption.
3000 customers may be experiencing low pressure or an intermittent supply.
900,000 litres of water have been handed out at bottled-water stations.
This is cobblers.
The water shortage was a result of SE Water not being able to treat water fast enough to meet increased demand.
A failure of capacity and infrastructure.