Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Climate Change Could Cut World Economy by $23 Trillion in 2050, Insurance Giant Warns
Poor nations would be particularly hard hit, but few would escape, Swiss Re said. The findings could influence how the industry prices insurance and invests its mammoth portfolios.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/climate/world-economy-swiss-re-insurance.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

New passport arrives for Brazilian who took Welsh language citizenship oath. https://nation.cymru/news/new-passport-arrives-for-brazilian-who-took-welsh-language-citizenship-oath/

People of Ceredigion have the lowest carbon footprint in the UK, study reveals. https://nation.cymru/news/people-of-ceredigion-have-the-lowest-carbon-footprint-in-the-uk-study-reveals/

Man, 24, arrested over mass #tree felling in #Surrey | #UK news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/23/man-24-arrested-over-mass-tree-felling-in-surrey

#Crime #Vandalism #England

“When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one’s dreams if one is not to be troubled by them; there is a way of separating one’s dreams from one’s life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.”

-- Marcel Proust

Only 40% of people in Wales think the UK will still exist in a decade. https://nation.cymru/news/only-40-of-people-in-wales-think-the-uk-will-still-exist-in-a-decade/

YesCymru cofounder calls for Wales to have its own central bank. https://nation.cymru/news/yescymru-cofounder-calls-for-wales-to-have-its-own-central-bank/

#EtonCollege, one of the bastions of privileged elite in England, has produced 20 prime ministers, including the catastrophic #DavidCameron and #BorisJohnson

The UK press rarely reports on why such dysfunctional and corrupt people are products of this system, but other journalists are more forensic https://www-spiegel-de.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-eton-college-perpetuates-problems-in-the-uk-a-1280694-amp.html

#Spiegel #Eton #UKPol

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#Cartoon #Humour

Callaghan government discussed moving sea borders and using propaganda to prevent UK break-up. https://nation.cymru/news/callaghan-government-discussed-moving-sea-borders-and-using-propaganda-to-prevent-uk-break-up/

Derek Chauvin (The murderer of #GeorgeFloyd) has just officially been convicted of murder by the grand jury, finally justice!

#Derek #DerekChauvin #Chauvin #Floyd #Trial

The negative impact of global heating on agriculture has wiped out the gains due to technological advances over the last 60 years 🌍🥵🔥🌿🥀

Whilst there's certainly a debate to be had about what sort of farming we need, what's beyond doubt is we are putting the ability of humanity to feed ourselves at risk by our current emissions trajectory.

https://climatenewsnetwork.net/global-farming-feels-the-impacts-of-global-heating/

#ClimateChange

No 10 #race #report tries to normalise #WhiteSupremacy, say #UN experts | Race | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/19/no-10-race-report-tries-normalise-white-supremacy-un-experts

#UK #RaceRelations #Racism #SystemicRacism

Dear movie directors... stop depicting people outrunning explosions. Not even Hussein bolt could outrun an explosion. That is all.

My 4th grade teacher (upstate NY) taught us how to read newspapers with scavenger hunts for facts and bonuses for finding mistakes. We also learned how to write an editorial and how to write a letter of complaint or inquiry to a company with emphasis on "being a kid" and encouraged to extort them for free merch. Rest in peace Mr. Siegler.

‘Relentless’ #ClimateCrisis intensified in #2020, says #UN report | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/relentless-climate-crisis-intensified-in-2020-says-un-report

#Environment #GlobalWarming

#Nefyn #beach #landslide: People warned to keep away - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56799238

#UK #Wales #Geology #Erosion #Coast

#HennyBeaumont on the #UK #government’s #RaceReport – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/apr/19/henny-beaumont-government-race-report-cartoon

#Politics #Satire #BorisJohnson