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In the latest issue of Top 40 under 40, we found all the rising stars started out as grunts before rocketing to C-suite positions. When asked, the CEOs exclaimed how amazed they were at their employee's ambition: "I'm so proud of my son!"

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Wildfire resilience is all the rage. The problem is that wildfire damages are extremely non-linear. For it to be effective, you need to do _everything_, and even then, it relies mostly on luck... And not having a neighbour's house catch on fire. www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/a-ne...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s genuinely hard to believe these articles aren’t satire at this point. It’s not a puzzle. It’s not a mystery. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’re still in a global pandemic. It’s a mass disabling event that society is ignoring because they wanted to go “back to normal”

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I'll be on the Weather and Climate Livestream today at 7:15 PM Pacific (10:15 PM Eastern) to talk about how anomalous recent global temperatures have been, and address the question of whether warming has accelerated. Join here! wclivestream.com/watch/

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An interview with Prof. Tim Snyder, international expert on fascism, with Eli Glasner of the CBC. youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g?...

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This is, sorry to say, obvious to the point of insipid. Could have been written by a chat engine. What Canada and the world need to come to understand is the role of propaganda and of social media enabling it. We had better figure out how to resist it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome to the Age of Disenlightenment. It is not just simply that we don't know, but rather it is that we _don't_ want to know...

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The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪 - PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands - PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems - REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods - RESTORE degraded lands

submitted 224 days ago • 49 comments

This is hyper relevant.

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AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

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Even 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, 22.8% of pediatric patients still had long-COVID symptoms. Some of these symptoms were similar to those of ME/CFS, potentially affecting children's QOL. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This is true.

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Is endemic is the right word? It means infection constantly present in a region without extra infections coming in - measles spreads like wildfire in the unvaccinated globally. Suspect ‘endemic’ is used to reassure, not educate. #Vaccinate #MeaslesIsDangerous www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

“Storing carbon in plants is not equivalent to keeping it stored in fossil fuels (by not burning those fossil fuels in the first place)." theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Climate change summarized. "Carbon is Forever" 🧵 0/6

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The fallacy is assuming that green buildings are damaging to the economy. Quite the opposite, they liberate cash flow for the long-term.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Canadian Conservative YouTubers claim they were offered Russian money to fund their videos. Their strange story raises serious questions Experts warn that content creators and social media influencers could be prime targets for foreign actors looking to interfere in Canada’s democracy

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Incredible the degree to which vaccine hesitancy is now ALL about political identity. Views on vaccines = ideological flag. Science means nothing. Politics means everything. Unvaccinated? Likely voted CPC & VERY against immigration. via @voiceoffranky.bsky.social cc @picardonhealth.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Woah, rare to see this kind of language in Nature 👀 “We show that +1.5 °C is far too high and that current climate conditions…could trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and high rates of Sea Level Rise... that would stretch the limits of adaptation” and could have “catastrophic consequences for humanity”

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Long Covid is the reason my family takes all the precautions we can. Even if the odds are 1/1000, that is a very high # for a potentially life altering event. What makes it harder is limited treatments and nascent understanding of causes. This warrants a precautionary approach until we know more.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Novel concept: housing as a need, not as an investment.

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