Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

It was "woke" people who ended slavery, ended Jim Crow, passed Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote, passed both Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act plus championed marriage equality. Now you get why the GOP hates people who are woke.

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.

There's an interesting new paper in the journal Ecological Economics. The title is:

"Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1%"

This is from the abstract --

Unsustainable environmental degradation and extreme economic inequality are two of humanity's most pressing challenges. They are intimately linked. Climate-altering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are disproportionately driven by consumption among wealthy and socially privileged groups, yet poorer and socially marginalized peoples face disproportionate climate harms.
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What really grabbed me, however, was the chart below, created by Andrew Fanning using data contained in the paper. It clearly illustrates the massive scale of carbon inequality in our modern society.

#Inequality #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Eat the rich.

Doctor's voices

"The fact that the Ontario government watched our public healthcare system collapse due to underfunding...but set aside public funding just so they could invest in private for-profit healthcare…tells you everything you need to know about their priorities."

Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Physician, Toronto

#Privatization #malfeasance #Ontario #Conservatives

https://globalnews.ca/news/9329915/ontario-private-hospital-health-facility-funding/

Doug Ford carefully said Ontarians would always 'ACCESS' their healthcare with an OHIP card - which leaves the door wide open for Ontarians to always 'PAY' for their healthcare with a credit card.

#ListenToHisLanguage #Ontario #SellingPrivatization #OHIP #Shoppers #Loblaw

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinics-health-care-1.6712444

I see reports of slowing growth on #Mastodon. Good. Don’t tell anyone else. Everyone here is awesome.

Except the artists. Tell them. And the scientists. And the musicians. Tell them too. And the chefs. And the space nerds. And the mountain climbers and surfers. And the farmers. Tell them. And the horticulturists. And the photographers. And the software developers. And the poets. And the astronauts. And the dancers. And..

Tell interesting people, the fediverse is where you want to be.

Finding the courage to be joyfully bad at something is more important than talent in the long run.

I laughed.
#caturday #funnycats

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations
(Davis et al, 2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology)

"On the basis of more than 2 years of research on long COVID and decades of research on conditions such as ME/CFS, a significant proportion of individuals with long COVID may have lifelong disabilities if no action is taken."

#LongCOVID #MECFS

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

@girls_can now if I had the time 😆 I'd like to dig into this paper:

"Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science" https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4342

@girls_can The Soil and Water Conservation Society formed in 1946. Planning for it began in 1941.

@girls_can Another key early work is Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation, 1913 by William Temple Hornaday. Quite incredible foresight. I own a prized 1st Edition!

@girls_can the same protest about obscene police budget I creases we had here in Montreal is about to happen in Toronto. We’re the frogs in the fascist stew.

Eary #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #mastodogs #mastodog #dog