Eva-Maria McCormack @emcberlin.bsky.social

Founder & CEO Talking Hope | communications #climate #democracy #socialjustice | Past: Exec.Dir. #EuropeanClimateFoundation @dgapev @dpa |@emcberlin.bsky.social

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

The late, great former head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger in his own words on Brexit

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Must read piece on climate inequalities and how to solve them, by @jonathanwatts https://t.co/yQNSULCdFv

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Reminder: The UK car industry has over-complied with its EV targets to date

https://t.co/4OejBC5C6G

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

The world today is characterized by large-scale inequalities. And a climate crisis is looming over us.

We urgently need a new vision for global progress in the 21st Century. One that grounds human development and equality in planetary habitability.

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?

The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Germany is not hosting American troops. It is hosting American power. Amplifying it. Projecting it across three continents. And now, for the first time with real legal and political weight behind it, voices inside Germany are beginning to say out loud: Berlin could shut down every American base on German soil.

A fiber-optic cable runs beneath Ramstein Air Base. It carries a signal from a drone pilot in Nevada to an armed aircraft over Yemen. Fraction of a second. Precision. Control. That cable sits on German soil. Cut it, and the strikes do not miss. They simply cannot happen.

This week Washington punished Berlin for telling the truth about the Iran war. Five thousand troops withdrawn. A presidential post calling Germany a failure.
The language of a tenant who has forgotten whose name is on the deed.

Because Berlin can end all of it. Not the 5,000. All 36,436. Every soldier, every satellite dish, every signal passing through German soil on its way to a target over Africa or the Middle East.

Spain tore it up. Italy said no. Germany has not moved yet.

But it is thinking about it. And what it is thinking about is this: Germany holds the one thing that separates America from every other country on earth. The ability to project military force across three continents simultaneously. Take away the European staging ground and the United States becomes what every other nation in the Western Hemisphere already is. Large. Armed. And unable to reach anyone who does not live next door.

https://t.co/WNPeoGJ5oM

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

[Antonio Spadaro @antoniospadaro]

Donald J. #Trump prende di mira #PapaLeone XIV. E cosi tradisce un disagio profondo. Quando il potere politico si accanisce contro una voce morale, è perché non riesce a contenerla. Trump non discute Leone: lo implora di rientrare in un linguaggio che possa dominare. Ma il Papa parla un’altra lingua, che non si lascia ridurre alla grammatica della forza, della sicurezza, dell’interesse nazionale.

In questo senso, l’attacco è una dichiarazione di impotenza. Non potendo assimilare quella voce, il potere tenta di delegittimarla. Ma così facendo ne riconosce implicitamente il peso. Se Leone fosse irrilevante, non meriterebbe una parola. Invece viene chiamato in causa, nominato, combattuto: segno che la sua parola incide.

È qui che emerge la forza morale della Chiesa. Non come contro-potere, ma come spazio in cui il potere viene giudicato da un criterio che non controlla. Leone non risponde sul terreno della polemica, e proprio per questo resta fuori dalla presa. È libero.

E quella libertà, disarmata e disarmante , è forse ciò che più inquieta. E, nello stesso tempo, ciò che più conta.

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

In response to a personal attack by President Donald Trump the night before, Pope Leo told journalists on the papal plane to Algeria:

“I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do. We are not politicians. We don’t deal with foreign policy with the same perspective he might understand it, but I do believe in the message of the Gospel, as a peacemaker.”

(Video: @OSVNews)

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Fiona Hill, former White House advisor on Russia: “Just to be very clear, we’re not really talking about a negotiated peace in Ukraine.

Trump still wants a personal relationship with Putin and to change the nature of the US-Russia bilateral relationship, just as he tried at Helsinki.

Ukraine is in the way. So what Trump is trying to do is get Ukraine out of the way.”

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

My generation had its criticisms of US journalism, but we always thought it was the freest in the world. Now? “FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war
Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage”. Appalling.

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

This is marvellous

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

EXCLUSIVE: Palantir owner Peter Thiel, who holds hundred million pounds of sensitive UK Govt contracts facilitated by Epstein associate Peter Mandelson, was co-owner of billion dollar fund with Jeffrey Epstein. Both connected to senior Russian officials https://t.co/v1kBnQujKb

[Eva-Maria McCormack @emcberlin.bsky.social @EMCBerlin]

https://t.co/HWsCkZQyMC

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

Holding on to 1.5°C aligned mitigation pathways and science based targets is absolutely essential. In order to minimize overshoot, costs to investments & impacts on the global economy. And, it is doable, zero solutions are there and are winners
https://t.co/xW7NGlpLTW via @ft

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

Putin made a public speech in Moscow today. He referred to the European leaders - who are trying to mediate a diplomatic solution to the Russian war again Ukraine - as “European piglets”.

This is all you need to know about Russia’s diplomacy.

[Joerg Lau @joerglau]

Matthias Döpfners schockierender Text: Deutschland leide unter einem „nationalsozialistischen Trauma“, will „bloß nicht exzellent“ sein; Macron ist im „Würgegriff“ von Islamisten und Antisemiten ; Starmer übt sich in „kultureller Unterwerfung”.
Trump will ein starkes Europa.

[Jana Puglierin @jana_puglierin]

While we were sleeping in Europe (and I don‘t mean only tonight) a new US National Security Strategy was published. https://t.co/rlBU1zQU0H

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏