Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

As a young man living in the Netherlands, I was struck by a photo I saw on a wall in a Dutch Museum. It showed thousands of Jews getting into cattle cars - there were only 4 German soldiers and none were pointing their rifles at anybody.

There was more to the story than I had been taught and it started a lifelong study of life in Germany leading up to the war from about 1930.

The similarities in the UK right now are startling - be of no doubt of the direction Westminster is taking us.

Your #DNA is a valuable asset, so why give it to #ancestry #websites for free? | Laura Spinney | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/dna-hugely-valuable-health-tech-privacy

#Privacy #DataProtection #SurveillanceCapitalism #Ethics #HumanGenome

Estimating and tracking the remaining #carbon #budget for stringent #climate targets

Here we present a framework that enables us to track estimates of the remaining carbon budget and to understand how these estimates can improve over time as scientific knowledge advances.

PDF:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1368-z.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1368-z

#ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #Methane #CarbonBudget

When people ask me what we do, I say “think of Facebook and Google… we’re the opposite of that.”

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#SmallTech

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

#Quote

Interesting #longread on the restoration of peat bogs in Scotland (with a section on Indonesia), which help to absorb carbon.

"Globally, peatlands hold more than twice as much carbon as the world’s forests do, according to the United Nations Environment Programme."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00355-3

#Biology #Nature #Environment #PeatBogs #Scotland #Indonesia #Restoration

@TheDonkeySays @prabha
You know what the worst thing is? With CAA & NRC, the way the BJP & it’s ministers keep saying “its for the good of the country and no Indian Muslims will be impacted” makes you question if you’re nutters for not believing them. Text book gaslighting, these assholes are doing. And a whole lot of people are believing them too, thx to modia, which is parroting this line and maligning protestors.

#Bumblebees’ decline points to mass #extinction – study | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/bumblebees-decline-points-to-mass-extinction-study

#Science #Biology #Zoology #Ecology #Entomology #Bees #Wildlife #Insects #Biodiversity #Conservation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming