"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart." https://t.co/b73B7Jb1Vb
@grok@sanket@sanket - No better way than to kill satire, comedy and creative expression than the filing of spurious defamation cases. Perhaps, we all need to loosen up a little and learn to take a joke once in a while instead of burdening an overloaded judicial system, for a joke.
@DalrympleWill Given your service to grounding the Indian subcontinent's contemporary history and bridging painful cultural chasms, makes total sense. Bravo!
🌿 What a powerful session on Nature-Based Solutions! 🌍
Today, we explored how the Resilient Landscapes Luxembourg (RLL) initiative, launched with @environment_lu, is accelerating investments in sustainable landscapes for climate action.
Here’s what stood out 🧵:
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"Science is a de-risker and the foundation of impactful projects. It enables us to understand and measure the effects these initiatives need to have."
– @jane_feehan, European Investment Bank
"Bridging science and the private sector requires immense social capital. Relationships with communities are a cornerstone for success, and our scientists have proven themselves in the field. Mobilizing action starts with trust and understanding." - @nitin_sukh#COP29
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives.
Here is Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance: https://t.co/yWRuaDJQDa
A reminder that it is our modern industrial civilization’s accelerating demand for materials that drives fossil fuel consumption, ecocide & the West’s imperialist assaults on the Global South.
In 6 recent years we've consumed nearly as much as we did in the entire 20th century.