Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
What's happening to the global economy because the Strait of Hormuz is closed provides all the proof you need that there is no "decoupling" the economy from the material conditions of the planet. We're embedded in the environment, folks. There is no economy without nature.
there's a theory that if only Britain exploited North Sea oil we'd be secure from a global energy price shock
which totally ignores (or doesn't understand) the fact that energy prices are global and a rise in UK production (from a declining basin) would have negligible impact on that global price
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Britain is in a deep structural economic hole thanks to austerity, Brexit and global shocks that is nearly impossible to get out of. It is rather unfair to expect government to reverse those long-term drags on national prosperity, but it needs to start explaining to voters why we are where we are.
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
Those first few responses got a chuckle out of me.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Sea levels already ‘much higher’ than many scientists had estimated ft.trib.al/Fu0eKeu
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
Good piece by Giles Coren on Nando's and others deciding that, no, they don't want chickens to live OK lives after all www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
It would make sense for progressives to
- oppose this call for mass deportation of Commonwealth migrants, both long settled + those who came in last 5 years
- defend the existing voting rights from retrospective change
- promote participation of eligible voters
- rethink own settlement reforms
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
According to the medical journal @thelancet.com, heat extremes caused an estimated 546k deaths every year between 2012 & 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s
“That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every 7hrs throughout the year” says Prof Ollie Jay
Analysis of 28 million US patient records shows fine particulate air pollution increases risk of Alzheimers Disease
Risk increases independently of other possible causes such as hypertension
Comes as Trump administration seeks to soften rules on this type of pollution
www.ft.com/content/35c5...
1. We don't have to depend on the whims of fossil tyrants for our electricity any more.
2. dammit I need to add Cuba to my solar demand spreadsheet.
Enjoy getting WAY down into this piece and discovering the govt casually briefing about abandoning Net Zero to pay for more guns.
UK considering significant increase to defence spending www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Which UK cities do you think are best placed to follow the path Manchester has followed? Are there aspects of the Manchester model you think other cities should be wary of copying/repeating? TIA :)
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
In case anyone's wondering how Jeff Bezos feels about climate policy these days, the Washington Post editorial board just heartily endorsed Trump ripping up the EPA's "endangerment finding," which allows the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
In a letter Friday to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, the Federal Judicial Center said it had "omitted" the climate science chapter from its latest Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The removal marks a significant victory for Republican efforts to thwart a raft of climate lawsuits that the fossil fuel industry has warned could cost it billions of dollars. On Friday, the Republican Attorneys General Association congratulated its members on X, writing that the "Federal Judicial Center has announced they are removing ridiculous WOKE climate science from judicial manuals."
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
My wife (Canadian, arrived in UK in Jan 2021, has worked full time since arriving) is at risk of seeing her waiting time for settlement doubled. I deplore this policy and we are already looking at moving to Canada rather than have to live with 5 more years of eye watering fees & hostility from gov
"There is no well funded, expansive, career-boosting media ecosystem for intellectual rigour, for careful judgement, for objective assessments of complicated phenomena...But there is a thriving, well-remunerated ecosystem for right-wing provocation"
I think it’s very plausible that all the gains from AI end up in old industries getting more efficient and are not captured by the AI companies themselves. The classic fate of a technology that complements but does not replace human labour.
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
