Interesting! So if this goal is one China will actually achieve: How much will absolut emissions decrease? (Low growth vs high growth scenario)

Sexual violence is widespread in #Sudan.

Survivors have shared their experiences with MSF: attacks in El Fasher, assaults while fleeing and families torn apart or killed.

These stories are difficult to read, but they help amplify their voices: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-surviv...

Now we need to get New York City to expand Summer Streets to more than just a few weekends each year. In fact, rebrand it as "City Streets" or something like that and have it every weekend.

Orban's Hungary was a nexus of authoritarian interests in weakening European democracy.

He was a good friend of Trump, Putin and Xi!

Bannon referred to Orban as "Trump before Trump."

Well, Orban is gone. MAGA is next.

More and More and More It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sour...

Not a fiction but some of the futurologist narratives seem to have been pure science fiction! 😅

www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

A 1st century BCE Roman marble sculpture of four puppies asleep together, discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, and now preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. 🐾💕

Also oil went up to $100. So degrowth for the ME and growth in Texas...

Are they compostable? Or is the glue some kind of naughty unnatural resin?

I never realised badminton created this extreme amount of waste and had a strong connection to the slaughter house

Melania's strange Epstein speech was a fun distraction from her husbands war

Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent? Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before, and don’t we all know how it ends?

"Remember: When you dehumanize a group long enough, you make their pain and suffering easier to ignore and their displacement and destruction easier to justify."
Read this from @mehdimedzedine.bsky.social

The Iran War in Context:
Fossil Fuels: A ‘Weapon of War’ with Antonia Juhasz
Why is this Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEA...

Donald Trump has threatened that Iran’s 'whole civilisation will die tonight'. This is incredibly alarming.

These threats normalise mass civilian harm, and makes an already volatile situation even worse

Starmer must condemn Trump’s rhetoric and urgently review and remove US access to UK airbases.

Retoriskt? Dom har ju redan eskalerat attackerna på infrastruktur senaste dagarna.

Tänker att Trump mkt väl är kapabel att hitta på att ett avtal gjorts likväl som att attackera med större bomber...

May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope.
indivisible.org/events/may-d...

#Lebanon: Around 2pm Sunday, Israeli forces struck a densely populated area in Beirut, meters from Rafik Hariri Public Hospital, where MSF supports an ER doctor.

A mass-casualty influx followed. In the first hour: 4 killed, ~40 injured. More feared as rubble is cleared.

"Berlin, which last year opened a new stretch of motorway inside the city and voted to scrap 30km/h speed limits on 23 main streets, still has a higher share of cyclists than Paris."

Paris is developing but not yet a bike city. Utrecht, Copenhagen and Amsterdam are ones to write home about... 🚲

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime

www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

what a paragraph (Andrew Cockburn in latest LRB)

Swedish PM offers deal that could see far-right allowed into government Party, which has neo-Nazi roots, will hold ‘important ministerial posts within immigration’ if four-party coalition wins in September

A genuinely horrible development

Håller med om poängen, men inte helt om exemplet!

Har inte följt elpriserna i Sverige/EU men de verkar klarat sig bättre nu än 2022? Var väl gas priserna i Europa som höjde priserna överallt då.

Hur elektrifierat är Kina i förhållande till Sverige i nuläget?

Kan Kinas stabilitet bero lite grann på bland annat världens största kolanvändning, egna gruvor, oljeutvinning och fracking, samt pipelines från Ryssland och världens största oljereserv? 🤔

Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

Ja inte meningen att vara glädjedödare heller, utan har bara lite problem med den forskningen. Definitivt positivt med de stora protesterna!

Ja västerländska demokratier (ett ord som kan betyda väldigt lite så frågan är vart USA ens är på den skalan) har jag för mig inte alls var med i deras forskning.

Kanske inte finns exempel för att det inte hänt.

Polacy na Dalekim Wschodzie, Grochowski, Kazimierz, Harbin 1928

This flag symbolized the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), a joint Sino-Russian venture established under the 1896 Li–Lobanov Treaty, which granted Russia a concession to build a railway through Manchuria. Adopted in 1897, it served as the official emblem for the Russian-managed company, displaying its authority at railway stations and facilities like those in Harbin.

Cossacks guard the CER bridge over the Sungari River in Harbin during the Russo-Japanese War (1905)

A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin

There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.

3,5% hypotesen har väl inget stöd när det gäller västerländska samhällen?

Maine’s signage is on point.

Another example of how building out renewables doesn't necessarily mean that fossil fuels diminish.

Fressoz even decribed the symbiosis of coal and renewables in western China.

No surprise as renewables have had a hard time keeping up with growing demand. The scale of the build out of coal plants last year is mindblowing. More than the rest of the world combined and even more...