Aref Adamali

Things about economic development, business, design and the built and natural environment in Kenya, and a bit beyond.

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

"The awful costs of this climate crisis – both human and economic – are now reaching national emergency levels. What needs to be done is equally clear: leave coal, oil and gas behind faster, scale up renewables and protect people where the impacts are already hitting hardest."

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

So the world’s greatest military power is struggling to subdue a regional bully, and the world’s cultural superpower is being out-trolled by a regime that whips women for showing their hair. For the man who let this happen, “loser” seems like an understatement.

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

“Hey Loser, come closer, I’m the exposer/Fake billionaire, your whole empire a poser” is not a bad put-down. Nor is: “You drop ‘Fake News’, sitting high in your tower/Morally bankrupt, just drunk on the power.”

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"AI scored worse than US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the same poll, but better than the Democratic party and Iran."

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

Each 100-word AI prompt uses up roughly one 500ml bottle of water due to the cooling needs of datacenters
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Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order. These words are increasingly dismissed as elitist, woke or dead. We need to ask ourselves if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option.

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“The world is moving forward, full speed ahead,” Guterres said. “No group or government can stop the clean energy revolution. Science is on our side, and the economics have shifted.”
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[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

"Back in Homer’s day, people lived within an oral culture, then humans slowly developed a literate culture. Now we seem to be moving to a screen culture. Civilization was fun while it lasted."

https://t.co/WGBsBX8lMB

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr sports a gold Trump-head lapel pin.

Members of Trump’s cabinet, along with Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted-felon leader.

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The World Health Organization warned that Africa is facing a growing risk of outbreaks of diseases that spread from animals to people by more than 60 per cent over the last 10 years because of rapid population growth and encroachment on wildlife habitats.
https://t.co/Mi1X3UvzVz

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

Does growth ever become uneconomic?
Herman Daly has been exploring for more than 50 years arguments in favor of a steady-state economy, one that forgoes the insatiable and environmentally destructive hunger for growth
https://t.co/vmeLx7L40u

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

By 2100, 12 of the 20 largest municipal areas in the world will be located in Africa and one-third of the global population will live there, most of them in cities. It is an upheaval the size of which has never before been experienced.
https://t.co/bmztGpXxOQ

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

@johnKamau1 Congratulations John. Keep writing.

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And those who are or should be aware of that threat but stand in the way of action for the sake of short-term profits or political expediency are, in a real sense, betraying humanity."
https://t.co/xgGV2FfTpF

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

"If you aren’t terrified by the threat posed by rising levels of greenhouse gases, you aren’t paying attention — which, sadly, many people aren’t.

[Aref Adamali @arefadamali]

“Kenyan teachers were absent from class during 47 percent of unannounced visits and spent about two hours and 20 minutes a day teaching.”

https://t.co/wNjrFYNOOv