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What if all the great struggles we face, including the great difficulties we see in solving them, start with a spectacular failure of imagination? (With a h/t to @micheleleemoore.bsky.social and Manjana Milkoreit) conservechange.medium.com/i-believe-in...

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Two years ago, we demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic likely began at the Huanan Market via zoonosis resulting from the wildlife trade. Many unanswered questions remained about the animals themselves. Some answers, out today in @CellCellPress. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Only Mr Carney, Ms Gould & Mr Singh talking about decarbonizing, in the face of a strong push for pipelines (5-8 yrs to build), or new LNG projects. At a time when EU ⬇️ its use of nat gas by approx 20%, from 2021-2024. We will pay $bs for stranded assets www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/o...

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Forget pipelines — the U.S. trade war is our chance to decarbonize #decarbonization #Canada #fossilfuels #pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/o...

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Okay, I will say it. Put Down That Burger www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/o...

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Is it time to reinstate vaccine passports for people coming into Canada?

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The way we complain about egg prices and not the calamitous mass decimation of life forms from albatrosses to dolphins across the ends of the Earth or the billions of hens cooked alive in feeble attempts to stifle a pandemic arisen as a consequence of our greed says something about us, as a society.

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Maybe we could ask corporations not to fund fascism, like, ask them to be nice? That's worked out well. How about RULES instead: if you fund fascism = no permits, loans, subsidies (should be none anyway) and get your assets seized and corp wound up.

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