Forest fires in India have risen by over 80%, and the only way to fight them is to create your own ‘micro-climate’
✍️Simrit Malhi
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Before dismissing this as utopian, hippy nonsense that won’t play out in the ‘real world’, consider this – there are plenty of examples of gift economies at work today.
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It's wild that we are measuring "recovery" based on industrial production and stock prices, rather than human well-being and ecological health. Capitalism is not fit for purpose.
Since existing awards are about Savarna gatekeepers rewarding Savarna writers for being Savarna, Meta invites young, under-25 writers from Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi and minority backgrounds to send in autobiographical writing exploring identity and experience in any language.
@deepikapadukone@deepikapadukone we aren't in '83 anymore. Patriarchy is dying; let's look for those husbands who put their wife's dream before their own, in the new millenia?
This should seriously scare the crappers out of every single one of us. The ripple effect could be massive - huge disruption to global weather patterns, sea level rise, disruption of ocean food chains, species extinction... just for starters.
@MeherM@BBC_Travel Such a nostalgic piece... I miss bombil :( I guess it was out of the scope of this piece but maybe a small mention on it being endangered now?
Weinstein's lawyers wanted women struck off for:
Attending the women's march
Careers in media/finance
Abuse in past relationships
Being too young to know what H'wood/NYC were like in the 90s
Half The Jurors In Harvey Weinstein's Rape Trial Are White Men https://t.co/trt1LWW6nA