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A graphic poster with a green, textured background. At the center is a black-and-white image of Earth. Above the planet, a small private jet flies around the Earth, leaving a dark, tangled trail. Across the middle of the image, bold white text on black rectangles reads “CLIMATE PLUNDER.” Below, smaller white text states, “How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster.” In the bottom-right corner, the Oxfam logo and the word “OXFAM” appear in white.

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

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This happens with a swim bladder of a fish when dragged out from the deep 👺This ‘baro trauma’ causes immens suffering and ultimately death💔#Fishing = #Torture & #Murder Fish maybe even suffer more in this industry than land animals do in the slaughterhouse. Live #vegan don’t let them suffer🙏

South Korean solar firm cuts pay and hours for Georgia workers as US officials detain imports A South Korean solar company says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported compone...

"A South Korean solar company says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported components needed to make solar panels."

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the ...

The world is failing to meet the 2.0°C target of the Paris Agreement, let alone 1.5°C.

1.5°C was always nearly impossible, but did setting that goal help or hurt climate action?

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power New concrete and carbon black supercapacitors with optimized electrolytes have 10 times the energy storage of previous designs and can be incorporated into a wide range of architectural forms.

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."

China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Is tofu the most versatile food on the planet? 🌍

We think so - it can become chocolate mousse, pasta sauce, 'chicken' - you name it, tofu can do it 🤍

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Terrible

We live in a paranoid nation with over 400 million civilian owned guns.

Maria was a house cleaner. She accidentally went to a wrong house & got shot in the head. Now, her 4 children are motherless.

#GunsDontMakeUsSafer

I don't support this.

Line chart showing cumulative homicides by calendar year for 2001 through 2025 in Chicago. The line for 2025 is highlighted, showing that we're on trend to have relatively few homicides this year.

As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001.

No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.

Toyota's 40-Year Solid-State Battery Could Change Everything We Know About EVs The automaker claims the next-gen EV batteries will outlast the vehicle itself and get reinstalled in new ones.

The automaker claims the next-gen EV batteries will outlast the vehicle itself, then get reinstalled in new ones.

insideevs.com/news/778354/...

I do not support this. Shameful.

WOW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets a rock star welcome in Houston, Texas — greeted by cheering crowds lined up outside his rally today.

A $100 billion company paying its CEO $96M in four months while offering baristas 50 cents more an hour says everything about who the system serves.
Workers aren’t asking for charity — they’re demanding fairness.

Shameful

Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" "Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

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For cities to be successful, livable, and sustainable, the ratio of cars to trains must be drastically lower than what's pictured here.

An urban train network should be funded as a critical service of society, not a half assed afterthought.

If someone’s too young to buy a beer, they shouldn’t be allowed to carry a hidden, loaded gun in public. But right now, House Republicans are pushing for a bill that would override state gun laws—making it easier for people under 21 to carry concealed guns in states that wouldn’t otherwise let them.

The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees The Plant Based Treaty is a landmark international treaty and first of its kind to put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis. The Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of ...

Leave Animals Alone! plantbasedtreaty.org

Prices Are Rising From Trump’s Tariffs—Can Supreme Court Stop It? What To Know. Businesses are reporting they’re increasingly having to pass the costs of tariffs on to consumers.

Businesses are reporting they’re increasingly having to pass the costs of tariffs on to consumers.

It's all in the phrasing. People love government benefits. Don't call it "democratic socialism" call it "compassionate capitalism".

The Best Revenge is a Well-Run City Better Local Government is a Bulwark

Did my first #Substack, "The Best Revenge is a Well-Run City" open.substack.com/pub/thecityc...

@smerelman.bsky.social "Would A Majority of Americans Embrace Democratic Socialism" is the wrong question. It should be "Would A Majority of Americans Embrace More Equitable Capitalism". The answer is a resounding "yes".