‘Rulfo (1917-86) was shy to the point of evasiveness, nearly mute in interviews and conversations, uncomplicated in his ways and routines. “Yo creo en el silencio,” he said in an interview. “I believe in silence.”’
09:17 AM - Dec 02, 2023
“Humility doesn’t come easy to the American evangelical. We are an immodest and excessively indulged people.”
08:10 AM - Dec 02, 2023
What an ignoramus. I totally missed that Paris Hilton had a baby this past week. 🙃
04:13 PM - Dec 01, 2023
“The case has never been clearer: Eat less bacon and more beans.”
07:13 AM - Dec 01, 2023
“Governments and businesses have the most power to reverse climate change. As individuals, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of throwing soup at art, but we know switching to clean energy, flying less, adopting plant-based diets, are some of the most effective ways to help save our planet.”
06:51 AM - Dec 01, 2023
“The Times Opinion/Ipsos survey found that Americans tend to underestimate the effects of actions that are harder to take, like avoiding air travel or adopting a vegan diet. And they overestimate the amount of emissions avoided by using energy-efficient appliances and recycling.”
06:42 AM - Dec 01, 2023
“According to the fossil record, geology and evolution have been engaged in a dance for 3.8 billion years, since our planet was only 700 million years old. It was then that the first single-celled creatures appeared, perhaps in undersea volcanic vents, feasting on the chemical energy around them.”
06:27 AM - Dec 01, 2023
‘For huge swaths of the world, this mind-set carried a brutal message that America has often conveyed to its own marginalized populations: We care about democracy for us, not them.’
06:37 AM - Nov 30, 2023
“Avocados have been consumed for thousands of years in the region. But producing the fruit on an industrial scale for export dates only to the 1990s, when Mexico pressured the USA to end its ban on avocado imports, after opening its own market to American corn.”
07:23 AM - Nov 28, 2023
‘She cited manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals. “Twitter has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies.”’
06:27 AM - Nov 28, 2023
“Grimmway Farms and Bolthouse Farms are the world’s biggest carrot growers. They pump as much water as they can. But they insist that everyone in the Valley must reduce their groundwater use more so that the two companies can cut back less. Small farms can’t afford to protect their water rights.”
10:25 AM - Nov 27, 2023
“Digital businesses depend on mineral slavery in Africa, dump toxic waste in China, facilitate the undermining of democracy across the globe and spread destabilising disinformation for profit – all from the sociopathic remove afforded by remote administration.”
07:35 AM - Nov 26, 2023
“The lavish lifestyles of the very rich – the 1% – attract attention. But the 10% are responsible for half of all global emissions, making them key to ending the climate crisis.”
04:53 AM - Nov 21, 2023
“Dr. Graeme Pearman admits he was naive to think policy and action would just follow the science.”
09:46 AM - Nov 20, 2023
07:11 AM - Nov 18, 2023
‘On 1 November, Texas railroad commissioner Wayne Christian – who oversees the state’s oil and gas industry – sent a letter to the education board’s chairman Kevin Ellis, relaying “concerns for potential textbooks that could promote a radical environmentalist agenda”.’
01:21 AM - Nov 18, 2023
“The next Food and Farm Bill can very much be a climate bill by making and protecting substantial investments that improve the resilience of our food and farming system to worsening climate impacts.”
blog.ucsusa.org
07:04 PM - Nov 14, 2023
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05:54 PM - Nov 14, 2023
“Longstreet made the obvious point that the losing party should not expect to impose its perspective on the victor. He believed Confederates should accept that the Union’s victory demonstrated the superiority of a society based on free labor over one based on slavery.”
10:41 AM - Nov 14, 2023
“During the past half century, the United States has warmed faster than the planet as a whole. Our nation is also enduring billion-dollar climate and weather disasters every three weeks, on average, with total costs averaging nearly $120 billion annually since 2018.”
ucsusa.org
US Government Report Warns Stampede of Climate Disasters to Continue Without Strong Actions to Cut Emissions | Union of Concerned Scientists
The Fifth National Climate Assessment—a quadrennial report mandated by Congress since 1990—was released today. Statements by Drs. Kristina Dahl and Rachel Cleetus with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
06:19 AM - Nov 14, 2023
“There’s no time left to tinker at the edges. Instead, we need immediate, transformational changes across every single sector this decade.”
04:49 AM - Nov 14, 2023
Jazz fusion and baroque do it for me. I spend countless hours listening to it. But Apple Music tells me these are the top ten tunes I listen to. Not ashamed. Great music (and artists.) Prolly gives away my age, too.
02:16 PM - Nov 11, 2023
“Countries around the world have been implementing health taxes, for example by taxing tobacco or sugary drinks, but few have extended them to processed foods. Colombia’s model is more expansive than what we have seen before and could serve as an example to other countries.”
05:39 AM - Nov 11, 2023
“Sound scary? It is, if you ask some A.I. safety researchers, who fear that giving bots more autonomy could lead to disaster.”
07:52 AM - Nov 10, 2023
“The difference between visible leaks in Texas and New Mexico is “huge” and should spur governments in the US and other countries to crack down on this pollution.”
06:36 AM - Nov 09, 2023
“The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization plans to outline solutions to improve global health next year.”
05:26 AM - Nov 07, 2023
‘Looking at 2024, Kinzinger casts the election as “a simple question of democracy or no democracy … if it was Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I don’t think there’s any question I would vote for Joe Biden”.’
06:31 AM - Nov 06, 2023
“Chicago covers so much rich ground, from how we treat one another to how we treat the planet. Yet, as with all her work, the aim is not for a dominating matriarchal culture, but rather an equitable one.”
theguardian.com
‘What if women ruled the world?’ Judy Chicago’s latest show feels very timely | Art and design | The Guardian
The great artist has brought together 500 years of artworks by women and placed them under flags questioning male dominance. Given the revelations of the Covid inquiry, they feel sadly urgent
06:22 AM - Nov 06, 2023
“Keeping body weight, blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure in check while maintaining healthy sleep and eating regimes, doing regular physical activity and not smoking may slow the ageing process by around six years.”
06:10 AM - Nov 06, 2023
