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Thursday, April 25th, 2024
| Time |
Event |
| 11:34a |
World Bank and IMF meet on polycrisis
The new president of the World Bank
wants
funds to invest in decrbonization of poor countries.
This lending program would be a good idea, but the highest priorities
for investments in decarbonization are:
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Getting wealthier countries to invest in their own decarbonization, They produce a lot
more greenhouse gas than poor counries do. They do invest in renewable electric generation,
but their fossil fuel extraction is still
increasing
year by year, and greenhouse emissions likewise.
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Putting an end to
funding
for "aid" that takes the form of "investment" and "development" of fossil fuel extraction,
transport and combustion in poor countries.
Shifting those funds to decarbonization aid would be the best way to start that.
But if we don't require these actions. decarbonization won't get off the ground.
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The pregnant denied medical treatment
Some hospitals in abortion-forbidding states
turn
women away from emergency rooms so as not to get stuck choosing between the crime of saving
them or the liability of letting them die.
The US government s trying to enforce the law that emergency rooms can't just send a patient
away. Now the case has
come to the
Supreme Court, where right-wing fanatics may decide to kill women in the name of the
sacredness of fetuses.
| | 11:34a |
Yanis Varoufakis censored, banned, DEU
Yanis Varoufakis presents the
text of
the speech over which Germany banned his presence and even from presenting videos of his
views. This puts political freedom in Germany under grave threat.
In the text he affirms his solidarity with all victims of atrocities, including Jews and
Palestinians. I don't agree with every detail of his views, but rather than quibble, I say his
heart is in the right place.
Zoom demands that users make accounts and identify themselves before they can participate in a
call. This puts Zoom in position to block any conference in Germany in which Varoufakis tried
to participate.
That is one of many reasons why Zoom is an injustice and we should
denounce and reject it.
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Permafrost regime shift
Due to global heating, *northern permafrost region
[now]
emits more greenhouse gases than it captures.*
This is an example of a positive feedback. Positive feedbacks, which we can't entirely
predict, are what can destroy civilization.
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Catastrophic flooding, CN-GD
Guangdong province in China is the latest place to be hit by formerly-unusual
torrential
rains.
Will this teach China that continuing to increase its greenhouse emissions would be deadly?
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