Sameer Shisodia

Biker, farmer, traveller, dreamer, tree hugger.
Rainmatter Foundation
Linger Leisure

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

@Sathish Yes, that's precisely the problem with this picture/occurrence. It's bus stops, road sides, temples, parks, waterfalls. To me each tree is a place of worship. But nah, who pointed out for who is the problem, not the massive waste and behavioural issue.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

Pretend/lip service devotion/patriotism vs true versions are a very different thing. We're collectively so full of shit, and terrible custodians of places. Travel - esp to ecologically sensitive places - should be an earned privilege, not a right.

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Indian tourists and devotees continue to destroy Himalayas throwing garbage all around. This is Uttarakhand.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

Locals, travellers, everyone, everywhere. We merely consume the places we live in, or visit. Zero civic sense, custodianship, no real patriotism, no real spirituality or instinct. Just chest thumping, for-show and hollow words. Pathetic, sad, and shameful. We can/must do better.

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Devotees are throwing garbage just outside Puri temple in Odisha. You don’t hate these devotees enough.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

It's not really about the budget (that works for the asphalt guys) but really about the quality/supervision. A well made road should last 10 years. Let citizens+experts participate and ensure quality, and see how this goes.

[Deepak Bopanna @dpkBopanna]

Big announcement for Bengaluru by CM DK Shivakumar: 2000 crore allocated for improving Bengaluru roads in the next couple of months.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

All those insisting and pushing the whole cockroach reaction (not just the CJP - that's hopefully just one instance) to become electoral reduce democracy to votes and elections. It's about our voice, about the collective imagination and view, and about holding power accountable.

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

IF NOT US, WHO?
IF NOT NOW, WHEN !
I will be joining the CJP members in Delhi on 6th June if nothing changes by 5th June. Any self respecting Minister should resign if things go so wrong... Not to mention the effect on millions of young lives and in fact the future of India.

#CockroachJantaParty #CJP #SonamWangchuk
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[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

Not bad as far as workspaces go, right?

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

I'm loving the posts that help visualize the gorgeous, complex and powerful real world vs the limited human imagination of (artificial) intelligence.

[aidil @climateaidil]

Malaysia wants to become a regional hub for AI & data centres. A data centre can use up to 25.5 million tonnes of water annually. This amount can support 300,000 people every single day.

Nothing can replace our freshwater ecosystems once they are destroyed & drained.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

The whole species has a deathwish.

[@[email protected] @alpugades]

Urgente. Han comenzado las tareas del vaciado de la Laguna de Ambroz en Madrid . Se va a vaciar entera y talar los árboles de alrededor de la laguna. Todo un atentado ecológico. Van a destruir los taludes donde hay colonias de avión zapador, gorrión chillón y abejarucos europeos.

[do nothing vacations @lingerleisure]

Vacations that take you back to a more carefree, a more connected-with-nature time.

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[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Disturbing news. Loss of Arctic sea ice has caused an “irreversible” shift in the chemistry of the ocean that is disrupting the foundations of chain of life, a two-decade-long study has concluded. Tipping points are already here…

https://t.co/KxWPsI8qST

[Aakash ( Indian Libertarian) @aakash_rewari]

Schools in India succeed by producing a generation of cowards too scared to question the government.

They don’t teach lasting knowledge ,most subjects are forgotten after exams. What truly sticks is deep programming - servitude, blind obedience & zero courage to fight back.

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

Why no one is talking about this? In Himachal pradesh almost 2 lakh people are affected by antibiotic resistance. Around 600 factories are dumping pharma waste without any care. Most of them are dumping directly in rivers. Sirsa river TDS is cross 1000. Thank you Dainik bhaskar for covering this.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

Everything in India is built as that :( And the money is really made off the construction, not really operations/value from them. I suspect it's similar for the Nicobar plans, the tunnel etc etc as well.

[Urban Pixel @UrbanPixxel]

Airports in India are built as real estate projects, not transport projects. Which is why barely any of them have a well-integrated metro/bus/cab system. You’re always at the mercy of extortionate cabs/rickshaws.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

India has an ongoing climate week every week, these days :p

#dark #reality #planetarycrisis

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

This is why I do not yet trust that "innovation", "entrepreneurship" or "climate tech/impact investment" will actually solve anything at meaningful scale. Because fundamentally, the idea of money doesn't yet recognize the planet.

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.
Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.
The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.
That is the business model.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

What a ride it's been, and what an amazing set of folks I've met, been awed/inspired by, learned from and become friends with, in this journey. The trust/faith from @Nithin0dha and Kailash gave us tremendous freedom and space, and hopefully we used it well.

[Rainmatter Foundation @RainmatterOrg]

@zenx moves to a new role as Ecosystem Fellow for Design-led Thinking, helping co-design responses to seemingly unsolvable problems.

From June, Sathyanarayan Shankaran @tweetenator (who led our urban work) takes over as CEO.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

▶️A new study on climate projections has set the alarm bells ringing all along the 11,000-km coastline of India, from Gujarat in western India to the Sundarbans delta in eastern India.

▶️The western coast will get wetter and hotter; there will be reduced monsoon rainfall over coastal Odisha and West Bengal by 2040, it warns.

▶️ Approximately 40 coastal districts are likely to see maximum summer average temperature rise by over 1 degree Celsius (°C) by 2040.

@JamwalNidhi reports

https://t.co/eyKFseXavc

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

And our governments are hell-bent on decimating our core assets, and hence compromising our future, rapidly.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

The Maharashtra government on May 13 exempted an iron ore mining and processing project in Gadchiroli from wildlife clearance by claiming — incorrectly — it was not located in any tiger corridor.

The project proposal involves diverting 9.4 sq km of forest land in Gadchiroli for iron ore extraction and processing by Lloyds Metals & Energy.

It received forest clearance on April 15 and environment clearance on May 12, a day before it was exempted from obtaining wildlife clearance.

According to the project site map submitted by Lloyds to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the area falls in forest compartments 196, 197, 273, 274, 275, 276, 298, 300 and 301.

All but one (300) of these compartments are identified as part of the Tadoba-Indravati tiger corridor in the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)-approved Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP) of the Tadoba Andhari tiger reserve.

[Sameer Shisodia @zenx]

Trees are assets. Forests even more so. Rivers are assets. Good soils are assets. Biodiversity is an asset. As a country, as citizens and administrators, we forgot this and are now starting to face extreme consequences. Let's rebuild our assets over the next decade or two.

[Reclaim Chennai streets @reclaimchennai]

The footpath is almost 60° C when directly exposed to the sun, but add a tree and it drops to 30° C.

Chennai is hot and humid because we have cut down all the trees that gave us shade and cooling, not because Chennai has always been hot.