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Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance Nature - A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP...

The doughnut has become such a useful tool for organising ideas around the complexity of interacting systems. rdcu.be/eLT6G

Subsidizing Fossil Fuels, but Not Clean Energy

The madness of this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

It took decades to install the first 700 GW of solar PV. Now the world installs them in a year.

We're passing the mic to the pros🎙️ We and Pictures of the Year Asia are hosting 3 conversations with leading photographers and picture editors, and the Pictures of the Year contest chiefs. Join us!

On the 15th and 23rd March Parallax Photo Journal and Pictures of the Year Asia are hosting three conversations on professional practices. I'll be moderating, join us!

More info on the Parallax Website: parallax.asia

And in our newsletter: parallaxasia.substack.com/p/were-passi...

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to.

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Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

“…trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government […] in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

OpenAI and other frontier AI models try to "scheme" users Researchers find that as LLMs evolve they could be more likely to deceive users.

Replacing a creaking government infrastructure with more efficient AI? Sure, what could possibly go wrong? www.axios.com/2024/12/13/a...

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

“…the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."

The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI #Climate

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies (Gift Article) The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

State Capture - A coup in all but name. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It. A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?

Bankers and policymakers simply don't understand that we risk a 50% GDP loss in our children's lifetimes due to #ClimateChange, because current economic climate models are not even "roughly right," but "precisely wrong."

My latest for @newrepublic.com:

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Taps sign:

Carole Cadwalladr writing in her substack about how none of this social media lurch toward a deregulated free for all & power mad CEOs is at all surprising if you have been paying attention. Unfortunately it seems a lot of people have not been paying attention.

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Global Warming Surges Well Past 1.5-Degree Mark in 2024 - Inside Climate News International agencies coordinate release of annual climate data to highlight the past year’s “exceptional”—and dangerous—climate conditions.

New reports marks 2024 as the first full calendar year with more than 1.5C of human-caused global warming above pre-industrial levels. The past 2 years averaged together also exceeded 1.5C, intensifying concerns about extreme climate impacts. insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Maria Ressa's 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is a memoir and manifesto In 2013, Ressa laid out her forward-looking vision for the future of public service journalism to me. Her book traces a humbling, harrowing journey from social media advocate to democracy defender.

If you have not read Maria Ressa’s books “How to Stand up to a Dictator”, I highly recommend it. It’s a harrowing account of how unregulated online vitriol, lies and misinformation can have devastating consequences. www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1...

People say "freedom of speech" when what they really mean is freedom from consequence or responsibility.

Just took a long haul flight and the amount of people obviously sick, but not wearing a mask is staggering. Have we learned nothing?

And that’s a wrap for ‘24! We did a bunch of things in 2024! Also, our chat with Stephanie Syjuco left me wondering about what stories the internet will tell about us in the future

Latest Parallax newsletter is out - wrapping up 2024 and a recap of our conversation with Stephanie Syjuco. Read it here!

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A Brocken Spectre in the low cloud and fog shrouding the valley of Wharfedale.

tomwhitephoto (@tomwhitephoto@mastodonapp.uk) 38 Posts, 55 Following, 280 Followers · Insomniac from Yorkshire. I make photographs & sometimes other stuff. Teaching visual/media literacy, photojournalism, documentary arts, cinema, etc.

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Guest Blog: Courting the Heat: Heatwaves, Remedy, and Climate Justice - Climate Law Blog Introduction It was forty-three degrees Celsius or 109.4 Fahrenheit in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a hot April day and the tin homes of the community members in the informal settlement of Khorail were steadi...

Guest Blog: Courting the Heat: Heatwaves, Remedy, and Climate Justice

Tom White Photography Tom White is a British freelance photographer, educator, editor and curator currently based in Southeast Asia.

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I'm a #photographer and #Educator from #Yorkshire. My fields are #Documentary #Journalism #ImmersiveMedia and #PlanetaryHealth. Also #Music #Arts & #Culture. No echo chambers, trying to listen. I #Hike, #Run, #Climb & #Cycle. Outdoors as much as possible.

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