Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. https://t.co/hKCpzS06uY”Right now, the most powerful people in the world are deeply complicit in the gravest crisis that the world has ever experienced.”
@larrybrilliant Classic pattern of autocrats. Attack education and critical thinking. Did we ever suspect public libraries would be attacked? Libraries. who want nothing but to help with whatever you ask. And as the daily front line top defender of rights of free expression and private inquiry.
Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis https://t.co/MAtJTZbILE
“Parker agrees there’s now a responsibility to educate. “We have to communicate climate in almost every forecast…”
Job has changed. Now an essential service!
The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded | The New Yorker —Please deconstruct @RobAtkinsonITIF
@billmckibben hyperventilating? Or extremely serious business? https://t.co/xF1xKAIZ8W
Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe https://t.co/r2EJPZ962W Stand back @RobAtkinsonITIF and let the markets handle this… anomaly.
@PeterDiamandis Connect the unconnected to internet via LEO enabled community hubs/ libraries as critical to humanity’s adaptation to climate driven disasters. Cheapest most effective response. @GigLibraries
It’s a fair and tough question, Rob. Cannot speak for Bill. But unless you believe the situation is not an actual existential crisis, then probably no. Or if you think markets left to themselves will address this, then again not. Do you really?
@donmeans@cleantechnica@billmckibben I see Don, if we just all focus on the planet then all will be well. Do you or Bill M honestly think the billions of people on earth will voluntarily spend money (and banks lose money) all at the same time to save the planet? Serious question.
Gulp.
The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported this week that 60% of workforce inactivity (i.e. people not working) is now due to Long COVID.
https://t.co/TSNDxxqmWI
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