I made a new zine all about how ICT climate politics look productively different if we focus less on green consumer behaviours and more on opposing infrastructure expansions.
It's quite fun, and written with a non-academic audience in mind!
https://t.co/1ncvOsXZGX
The Bangladesh Water Devt Board work with Google Maps to give updates on floods in the Brahmaputra River. But their predictive tools don't reach villagers who may see rapid rise of water by 50+ cm/day. Yesterday 50% of the area in this photo was land. @hasibahsanbd@ITUkbh
The Friendship NGO in Bangladesh has a beautiful and award winni g training center in Gaibandha. Privileged to visit it as part of our fieldwork about climate change and digitalisation @hasibahsanbd @ITUkbh
Welcome to the Anthropocene
8 billion humans
3 trillion trees cut down
1000s species extinct
37% of land used for farming
Nitrogen fixation doubled
Atm CO2 up 50%
Atm CH4 up 250%
Micro-plastics in all oceans
Global temp up 1.2°C
How to change the future? https://t.co/XKI3VHkRRM
Am in Florence in the middle of a mega heat wave, and it's quite something watching the ambulances rush to pick up people who have collapsed in the heat while everyone drives around and eats tons of meat and gazillions of tourists fly in & out.
#ClimateCrisis
Store strategiske investeringer i bestemte forskningsfelter kan være et problem, da de 1) ofte sker på bekostning af andre forskningsområder, og 2) risikerer at skabe forsknings-bobler, der brister når pengene forsvinder, med tab af viden og kompetencer som resultat. #dkforsk
Rapt attention in this @ITUkbh room during sunny Easter week as a bunch of us gather for @etnostd Sociocultural Carbon project symposium. An appetising set of drafts to get teeth into and chew on!
This morning I followed the conference on decoupling in the Nordics - is economic growth compatible with a sustainable future? While the answer is never simple, it didn't seem like a 'yes' from what I heard: https://t.co/ua8nXX7tol
On 20 April, Antonio Miguel V. Monteiro will be giving an online talk on Big Earth observation data analytics and bioeconomy in the Brazilian Amazon and the dynamics of the agrarian economy in the context of an urbanized forest. More info: https://t.co/UBFp9TQ6nI
Enig med @stinuslindgreen: Det, der… generer mig mest, er, at argumenterne for reformen fra @regeringDK og deres sjældne støtter, alle bygger på misforståelser og manglende indsigt i den verden, de er ved at gøre skade på. #uddpol https://t.co/VaVL9whN4K
Universitetsuddannelserne har i mange år gjort meget for at forbedre sig gennem reform på reform og ikke mindst nærmet sig erhvervslivet gennem praktikordninger, specialecamarbejer m.m. Så @plauritsen har sandsynligvis ret mht. regeringens væsentligste motivation ...