In Part 3 of #EnvironmentUndone: my story on how the govt. is pursuing a new $1.6bn coal plant less than 100km from Delhi - an area with the world’s most polluted air. Read about the people, forests and wildlife sacrificed for a coal plant that India doesn’t even need 👇
@suhasinih@nistula Can the likes of Arnab Goswami even be called journalists though? You’re asking I.N.D.I.A to treat them as such, but Goswami et al. do not operate as fair and objective interviewers with their audiences’ interests at heart
London‘s famous street art spot Brick Lane is painted over and replaced by Chinese propaganda slogan “The 12 Core Socialist Values” .
It is done by a Chinese nationalist named as Yiyue who studied at Royal College of Art.
NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat".
This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
“June 2023 may be remembered as the start of a big change in the climate system, with many key global indicators flashing red warning lights amid signs that some systems are tipping toward a new state from which they may not recover.” https://t.co/HjuUjIShjD
Good piece on how South Asia’s coffee culture was displaced by tea culture under British colonialism. It’s interesting to think how closely many of us associate chai with our culture but coffee with the West when coffee has a much older history:
https://t.co/MBnBQmZQZO
"A giant dump of unused fast fashion clothing in Chile's Atacama Desert is now clearly visible to satellites."
The magnitude of irrational production for profit and planned obsolescence is hard to overstate.
https://t.co/uLrFeq9ko3
A Beijing LGBTQ+ center closed under China’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights, citing “forces beyond our control” on WeChat.
The Beijing LGBT Center offered mental health care, HIV testing & pushed for marriage equality.
WeChat shut down dozens of student-run LGBTQ+ accounts in 2021.
Common question from First World people: What can I do in the face of climate change.
Answer from the farmers of Malawi: Everything.
https://t.co/pIuonRe7Nn
@nebuer42 PCR-free travel begins April 29. With that gone, travelling to China is now like anywhere else! My mum is here now and finding a test centre in her small town/outside a major UK city was def the hardest thing about coming here - so many had shut down. Happy that hassle is over 😅
Over the last four years, a tireless motley crew of volunteers at @PinkListIndia has been tracking what MPs have said on LGBTQ+ issues. It's dull, dry work - with no immediate results.
Today, our research was used in the Supreme Court to support #MarriageEquality. Small wins ❤️