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Environment | Energy | Politics (Occasionally)
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[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

@mssanctimonious a better understanding of how the family's own wealth impacts climate change and how eliminating single use plastic is not even close to the solution it is more of a good to have at this point

[Sumer Sharma @sumer1311]

Word to Indians criticising US/Israel war with Iran. Don't frame in religious terms, or even simplistic anti-Israel terms. While your global politics may be great, it's key to understand the domestic context you're speaking in. Above framing is polarised and will play out on (1)

[IOM Mozambique @IOM_Mozambique]

🔋Energy access=dignity, safety & opportunity. Yet many displaced & host communities in 🇲🇿 still lack it

At #READS workshop by IOM Mozambique and GPA at UNITAR we tackled gaps, explored solutions & fostered partnerships for a sustainable energy future

Together, we power change!

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

@sumer1311 @nishantkauntia_

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

Whenever you feel useless in life just remember there is something called commission of air quality management in Delhi

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

Unfortunately this is a terrible terrible use of science and data, coupled with near complete absence of any ethical frame in which science is bring deployed (badly) for public policy recommendations. Which therefore results in an opinion, and not anything more evidentiary, that is devoid of policy merit, scientific rigour and moral justification.

What it does, among other things, for example, is to recommend by implication that we should reduce focus on curbing toxic and other pollution from motor vehicles!

Doing so two years in a row in the same manner, even if partly masked the second time over, makes it irresponsible, if not worse.

Why I say it: Because the opinion, 2 yrs in a row, comes riddled with these absurdities:

1. Using biomass burning data from all over country (vast rural geography +dense urban) to distract away from pollution issues of urbanised dense areas such as Delhi or dirt industrial belts.

2. Confusing actual exposure of people to pollutants with ambient levels of pollution. Ex: vehicular exhaust in your face vs biomass smoke dispersed in open vs biomass burn inhouse.

3. Equating luxury emissions of rich to the suvival essential of poor.

4. Confusing action priorities for indoor pollution and health with outdoor pollution.

5. Trying to suggest a strange one country one priority list solution replacement of airshed specific, pocket specific actions based on different pollution exposures and ambient profiles of cities and other contiguous areas.

6. The absolutely wrong anecdote to start with: the racist nomenclature of 'Asian Brown Cloud' for this black carbon aerosol phenomenon, sensationalist scare mongering publicity of interpreted impact was debunked by globally recognized scientists such as J Srinivasan and S Gadgil as exaggerated unproven raising the fact that substantive bits of the cloud was likely natural phenomenon and not human activity induced. Everyone including UNEP piped down on it after. Lots more to read for anyone online.

I could go on and on... And I am only a student of environmental policy making, that the author and I studied at the same 'school': Centre for Science and Environment.

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

joke of a democracy

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Well said. It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in a way common people can see it.

A fake narrative can persist only for a limited period of time. Eventually, the facts will always come out!

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

@ashoswai because the India you live in sees none of this right? the "motherland" sets the pulse so pls chill

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

God bless, best decision -- now just change blink it so that the gig workers get their dues

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Update on Zomato Legends - after two years of trying, not finding product market fit, we have decided to shut down the service with immediate effect.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Solidarity with Virginia Woolf and her summer writing goals

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

@xavvierrrrrr bhai tu gadha hai kuch kar le zindagi mei

[Himanshi Dahiya @himansshhi]

Women talking about women safety.

[Agups @AmaltaGupta]

@chetan_bhagat ek toh all your books glorify stupid af man children. You are a part of the problem. Please sit down. Ab bada farzi feminist you want to be

[vani @paneerchillli]

every heinous crime against women reminds me of this

[Sucharita @Su4ita]

I am not Nirbhaya. She was not Nirbhaya. I am scared. She was scared. We are ALL scared of ALL men ALL the time.

[bob dhillon @thebugcollect0r]

she was so real for this

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

this got talked about a lot when I worked on google maps.

I would personally love this feature, and it’s technically feasible.

here’s why I fought it loudly every time it came up

🧵

[Narundar @NarundarM]

When you were telling everyone unemployment wasn't an issue, but you lost your own job.