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Latin name, "passer adorabilis"?

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Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

Despite a spike in cancer deaths in indigenous communities near Alberta's tar sands operation, the Canadian government plans to allow the release of toxic tailings into the pristine river system. Ocean currents would then carry them to the rest of the world.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio:

· United States: 347:1
· Switzerland: 120:1
· France: 130:1
· Germany: 55:1
· UK: 52:1 (FTSE 350) 78:1 (FTSE 100)
· Denmark: 50:1
· Sweden: 71.1:1
· Austria: 60:1
· Italy: 20:1
· Japan: 11:1

Outliers:
· Coca-Cola: 2160:1
· Starbucks: 1049:1
· Tesco: 431:1

via DeepSeek

In early March?! We used to have snow October through May.

My rule was, "Don't pack the sweaters away until July 1st."

Not only is the renewal of trapping licenses illegal under EU law, but many trapping sites are situated in areas set aside to protect biodiversity.
Bird numbers are already unsustainable. Further reductions will speed up habitat destruction and rob the public of the chance to view birds in the wild.

Two adult caribou stand in a flat, snow-covered field, looking at the camera. A text box at the bottom of the image reads "The Trump administration is taking steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing."

The Trump admin. is holding lease sales for #OilAndGas projects across millions of acres of irreplaceable #Arctic landscapes 🦌🦌

We are fighting back in court — these lands and waters are not Trump's to sell out.

Please help by giving today to the Future for the Wild Fund ➡️ bit.ly/4lFxl1T

Where?

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Two marsupials “rediscovered” in West Papua after 6,000 years.

Nice headline.

Now the part nobody mentions:
The world’s largest deforestation project is happening in that same rainforest.

The animals returned.

The forest is disappearing.

The current ideology has always depended on the deliberate creation of poverty, by wrecking the commons (as you pointed out), then swooping in with some wasteful ecocidal scheme packaged as individual freedom 😆

Up to 60 million healthy bison roamed the western plains of colonial U.S. They were massacred to dishearten the native tribes and make way for an ideological divvying up of that space into private property populated by unhealthy non-indigenous animals (also private property) that cost $$ in upkeep.

So Communism can only succeed if there are no other competing ideologies in the world? You've pretty much defined imperialism and totalitarianism. Stalin's gulags were all about wiping out competing ideas and/or anyone who expressed dissatisfaction with his ideas.

If you believe in egalitarian ideals, why relish the opportunity to call me a failure? Why approach a social encounter as a power struggle rather than an exchange of ideas?Someone so convinced of their correctness, easily threatened, would seek power over others, not act as a humble part of a whole.

🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces.

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Please show me an example of this, because from all historical examples, party membership and status within the party becomes just another echelon of power and access.

The fact we don't have at least two tidal lagoons in South Wales, home to some of the strongest tides in the world, is an absurd abandonment of the welfare of the country.

But however much we learn from experimenting on animals, we ultimately gain very little. We're still a people who can easily switch off our empathy when instructed, whether towards a mouse or a fellow human. This will be our undoing.

The fist step would be to not vote for any party that's funded/owned by Billionaires or Corps.
So that's Tories, Labour and ReformUK. (they literally are
'all the same')
Vote only for parties funded, therefore owned, by ordinary people.
So far, the Greens are looking like best choice

Yes but historically there were cruel empires that took shape under different economic systems. The villain is extreme hierarchy. This was/is just as evident in Communist regimes

How is this different from any hierarchical profession?

But hierarchy-reinforced-by-physiology applies to many other groups, not just billionaires. Humans generally have long disregarded the sentience of other animals.

It involves empowering local communities, (in)forming policy by citizens' assemblies, changing the voting system, agreeing proper shared aims (i.e. not just "economic growth") and a wholesale abandonment of the greed=good principle that has underpinned almost every policy change in my lifetime.

After the Allied Powers forced the unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan in 1945, the U.S. occupation policy succeeded in dismantling Japan's wealthy class and redistributing wealth to the general populace. This became the foundation for Japan's subsequent growth.

Yes, an astonishing story. And after 5 years, the occupying powers suddenly went: "hang on, this looks a bit like socialism. Whoops!". Too late mate. Japan got everything US citizens were not allowed to have.

Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming Mexico recently joined three countries which have proposed a ban on the commercial octopus aquaculture industry.

Octopuses are intelligent, sentient, wild animals who suffer profoundly in captivity.

There is no valid justification for farming them.

#StopOctopusFarming #KeepThemWild

You can apply this to explain humans' tolerance for the wholescale destruction of nature. Our diminished respect for fellow animals is traceable in cave art. Wildlife- elk, bear, horses- once depicted as godlike giants became smaller as human groups stratified and developed more powerful technology.

Aww... Brother and sister
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Peatlands cover just 3–4% of Earth's land, yet they store twice the carbon of all the world's forests combined. Protecting peatlands is rated an Emergency Brake climate solution, one of the fastest-acting tools we have.

Learn more 👉 drawdown.org/explorer/protect-peatlands

You must be in a different hemisphere. Nothing much growing here in Europe...

Fight Putin Ride a Bike On a Ukraine Flag With images of assorted family cycles

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