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It's great that Rümeysa Öztürk is to be released immediately, after being illegally and unconstitutionally arrested for writing an op-ed.
But she was in jail for 6 weeks before the slowly turning wheels of justice got around to ruling.
6 weeks.
How many more uncounted people are in jail like this?

Humanity, in spite of current crises, can still regenerate nature, find to more #wellbeing within #planetaryboundaries.
Earth4All lays out such a story. H I V E Initiative interviews me on new strategy for a shared, broad wellbeing. It IS solvable! (but maybe it's easier to keep doomscrolling and despairing in the flood of media alarms, than to actually build a healthy bio-socio-economy Watch and/or read if your curious) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOlzTj1tinw

And the week after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52wDOQ0kSg

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More rain & #flood in #Norway, today in #Telemark anyone recognizing some pattern here? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCBJwB04v_4

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Australia is driving the koala to extinction

"The deep dive shows the mining industry has been the biggest approved clearer of koala habitat since the koala was added to the threatened species list in 2012."

"Under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, proponents behind new projects must examine if any threatened species are present in their development area."

"Since the koala was added to the national threatened species list in 2012, 126 projects considered to have significant impacts on koalas were approved in NSW, Queensland and the ACT...Almost 34,000 hectares of habitat was approved for clearing, across several different industries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-09-04/renewable-vs-fossil-fuel-land-clearing-of-koala-habitat/103765336
#Deforestation #koalas #biodiversity #FossilFuels #energy #coal #renewables #mining #extractivism #grazing #cattle #sprawl #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #regulation #transparency #EUDR #Australia #SettlerSociety #values #ecocide #extinction

A fading shadow of a koala (in shop window) being consumed by settler society. Bellingen, Tuckers Nob SF

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"Offshore wind turbine platform pivots downwind like a weathervane"

#WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

https://newatlas.com/energy/x90-offshore-wind-turbine-platform-pivot/

#GoodNews Ultra-short takeoff and electric landing plane rakes in $8 billion in pre-orders #GoElectric #TeslaForTheSkies #CutFossilAircraft https://newatlas.com/aircraft/electra-estol-preorders/

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🌞💨 As the cost of #RenewableEnergy plummets, the choice is clear. Solar and wind aren’t just winning the race against fossil fuels; they’re changing the game for our planet. It’s not just an environmental imperative—it’s economic sense. #SustainableFuture #CleanEnergyRevolution #climate #renewables

You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/smartphones-attention-economy-reclaim-free-time?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

IMF's Special Drawing Rights, SDRs Are the Great Untapped Source of #Climate #Finance by Jayati Ghosh @ProSyn @Earth4All_ https://prosyn.org/xFb537Y

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RT by @mortenhelveg: 🇦🇷 Argentina has democratically chosen to try a far-right populist adventure. It is the sovereign choice of the Argentinian people.

But let's repeat it again and again: every time, those experiments end in failure and suffering.

▫️Brazilians have emerged poorer under Bolsonaro.
▫️Americans almost lost their democracy under Trump.
▫️Polish women lost their right to abortion under PiS.
▫️Hungarians no longer have a free press.
▫️Brits have embarked on a long economic decline with Brexit.

🔴 Europe must be protected from such political disasters. And on that regard, elections do matter.

#JavierMilei

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/steph_sejourne/status/1726559721501368665#m

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Finally, some #GoodNews #climate: Rich countries hit $100bn climate finance goal two years late, data shows
Annual funding promise made in 2009 to help poor countries deal with climate crisis had original 2020 target https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/rich-countries-hit-climate-finance-goal-two-years-late-data?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Poets don't miss.

Resignation letter from the NYT poetry editor Anne boyer, full text:

I have resigned as poetry editor of "The New York Times Magazine".

The Israeli state's U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts--everything grows smaller and harder from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.

Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won't write about poetry alongside the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news in the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present

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280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/280-million-e-bikes-are-slashing-oil-demand-far-more-than-electric-vehicles/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Well, they did it. eLife fired Michael Eisen. Absolutely outrageous. The bounds of allowed thought tighten. Any criticism of Israel is out of bounds. A new McCarthyism, except instead of communists under the bed, it's people who think it matters both when Israelis are slaughtered AND when Palestinians are slaughtered. And many, many in the academic community, seeing this, are afraid to speak, especially those without tenure, & even w/ tenure especially those from Middle Eastern countries other than Israel. How easily they can be slandered as anti-semitic should they speak.

Please sign our petition calling for this *not* to happen, and to defend academic freedom: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdJyIQzIsTypmmZXIi-RfSjbe4Psp1RIvjXz-DxWJKA5hHIQ/viewform

#neuroscience #israel #palestine #freespeech #biology

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If the first #solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would #fossilfuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did ?
#renewables #renawableEnergy #capitalism #greed #solarenergy
https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-hadnt-been-kidnapped-would-fossil-fuels-have-dominated-the-20th-century-the-way-they-did-215300

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The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza as part of its campaign to stamp out Hamas terrorism. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. It is what my community once endured in World War II, all because of the actions of others who happened to share our ethnicity. Have we learned nothing? How will this possibly help deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.

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New low solar module price record from PV Infolink. Must be Wednesday again.

($0.148 per Watt this week for standard monofacial monocrystalline silicon on global markets).

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