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I don't know if this has registered so much outside Brazil, but speaking as someone who knows the region well, and still has lots of family there: this has been unimaginably horrible and devastating. The climate dystopia has arrived, and it's really, really awful... www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration
Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration

Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground.

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me at 21: don’t trust anyone over thirty! me, nearly 40: (pleading, desperate) don’t trust anyone over thirty!!!

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It's like we are asking China to stop innovating so quickly because we can't keep up. "Wealthy nations fear a wave of low-priced Chinese exports that will overwhelm factories at home. Yellen cited the manufacturing of electric vehicles & their batteries as well as solar energy equipment."

US will push China to change a policy threatening American jobs, Treasury Secretary Yellen says
US will push China to change a policy threatening American jobs, Treasury Secretary Yellen says

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs. She also said they had “difficult conversations” about na...

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Axelsson's piece gets straight at the heart of the issues for Sweden. "SĂĄpmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away. Sweden does look to the past, but with a false, nostalgic gaze. Its vision of history can only lead the country into a narrow and isolated future."

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past
An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

For the past decades, the two communities of which I am a part—Sámi, from the part of Sápmi that falls within Sweden’s borders, and the Swedish majority society—have been developing in different di…

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"European ports are being used as trading hubs for fuel that is too dirty – and dangerous – to be sold in the EU. No prizes for guessing where it ends up instead." from the Continent www.thecontinent.org

Inside the ‘African quality fuel scandal European ports are being used as trading hubs for fuel that is too dirty - and dangerous - to be sold in the EU. No prizes for guessing where it ends up instead.

Marian Ansah in Accra, Steven in Europe. But major international oil Vanden Bussche in Antwerp traders, including Trafigura and Vitol, and Bram Logger in Amsterdam continue to sell this dirty fuel to West African countries, despite the proven risks In the energy industry, the cheapest, ~ to people’s health and the environment. dirtiest petrol is referred to as “African In doing so, they are bypassing efforts quality” designed to improve the air quality ‘This type of petrol, laced with high  of West African cities, according to levels of toxic substances, is banned a months-long investigation by The
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Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the state’s permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of “cultural genocide.”

Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers
Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers

The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the state’s permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of “cultural genocide.”

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Americans will use anything but the metric system.

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"The number of Black students in Illinois enrolled in college has dropped by more than a third over the past decade, and Black students like Granville often cite money as the biggest hurdle standing between them and a college degree, according to research from Gallup." www.wbez.org/stories/more...

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"Congress removed new compensation for uranium miners and other victims of radiation exposure from the $886.3 million National Defense Authorization Act, which passed Thursday in Washington." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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Joe P
@solarengineer.bsky.social
solar engineer & maple-syrup addict.
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