@AnnemarieBridy So, @MichaelEMann, do you have any thoughts on the original WaPo article? I generally defer to climate scientists on matters like these, and have come to respect your take on things like this.
@AnnemarieBridy So on the one hand, this article is discussing a **very** real, very grave, very concerningly likely scenario regarding the forest. On the other hand, the recently elected president Lula isn't going continue the same policies his predecessor had regarding the forest, and from what I have heard from other reports, the forest could be saved or made more resilient via restorative efforts.
I feel like it would have been better to balance this article with *something*
about what can be done than simply implying that it is necessarily too late. We need a path for action alongside the warnings of doom, and obscuring the former while only focusing on the latter is a bad idea.
I joined this site a fortnight ago today.
I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.
Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.
We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.
And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.
It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.
We just got used to it.
And now we are out.
@eevee I'm gonna boost *and* like this!
A groundbreaking decision taken by world govs yesterday gives explicit protection to 54 species of sharks, some of which aren't critically endangered today, but soon would be without help.
This is a win for the planet really, as sharks are a 420M year old keystone ocean species that have survived 4 mass extinction events. Oceans need them to persist. No sharks, no oceans, no us.
@killyourfm True, but compare the numbers here with those at https://fediverse.observer/stats .
As you may have noticed the bot is fully functional on Mastodon, its new home!
You can try it now by adding #BbcMicroBot to your BASIC toot.
It may take up to 24hr to respond while I tune for the fediverse (CWs... visibility... tags vs mentions).
Also video puts load on a community instance - so just use the 🚀 for a screenshot for now.
Gemini halts withdrawals from their lending service
November 16, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=gemini-halts-withdrawals-from-their-lending-service
So an apparent reason for disabling #Twitter's employee badges is that Elon is afraid some would sabotage the company after the (non-hooman) ultimatum
If he had just acted with a little hoomanity in the first place he wouldn't be in this mess..
I wonder what's next...
uk politics, brexit
The British people ‘just got a lot poorer’, says IFS thinktank - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/18/british-people-poorer-ifs-uk-autumn-statement maybe giving the tories an untouchable 80-seat majority wasn't so clever, #brexiters...
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