audio – Guardian interview with the writer, David Wallace-Wells
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/feb/05/is-climate-change-way-worse-than-we-realise-today-in-focus-podcast
He expanded the original NY magazine article into a book
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QtWebEngine
It’s an interesting alternative to Gecko, KHTML and WebKit and a semi-alternative to Chromium (though based, like Chromium on Blink)
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Life on the breadline
Life on the breadline: ‘I am sick and tired of trying to be a cheerful poor person’
by Nijole Naujokas. She’s a talented writer!
JD Salinger’s unseen writings to be published, family confirms
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/jd-salingers-unseen-writings-to-be-published-family-confirms
‘My father was writing for 50 years without publishing. That’s a lot of material’
Stoppage of USAID funding to West Bank, Gaza set to hit Palestinians hard
USAID, US NGOs leave Gaza, West Bank over terrorism law
‘It really hurts’: US aid cuts hit most vulnerable Palestinians
The Demise of USAID Efforts in the West Bank and Gaza
Trump admin to end all USAID projects in West Bank and Gaza by January 31
USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31st
‘USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31,’ former director says
After 25 years, USAID Palestinian mission set to close at end of month
The change even means the stoppage of funding to ongoing Israeli – Palestinian peace projects like the change agents courses of the School for Peace and its Palestinian partners.
Belgian student climate protests snowball
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Thousands of Belgian students skipped classes for the fourth week in a row on Thursday to protest against global warming, part of a growing youth protest around the world.
A hopeful sign.
SRP – a natural technique for rice productions with higher yields, less emissions
“technique developed by a Jesuit priest is producing bigger harvests – and reducing emissions of a crop responsible for 1.5% of greenhouse gases”
In The One Straw Revolution, Fukuoka too championed his method of growing rice with much less water, which was similarly ignored.
The benevolent bureaucrats of military occupation
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/benevolent-bureaucrats-military-occupation
“Israeli occupation bureaucrats shamelessly exploit Palestinian patients from Gaza to present their military rule over a besieged people as benign or even benevolent.”
thanks to Richard M. Stallman for sharing.
Worse than plastic waste: the burning tyres choking India
The British government is already flouting its own rules, allowing scrap tyres to be sent abroad for burning – what will happen post-Brexit?
Amazing, shocking article
3 articles on climate change
CNN currently is running 3 good articles on climate change (I say articles, because I’ve disabled CNN’s video autoplay and usually just read them)
Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/opinions/climate-change-getting-worse-intl/index.html
How to solve the world’s plastics problem: Bring back the milk man
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/loop-reusable-packaging-mission-ahead/index.html
Teen activist tells Davos elite they’re to blame for climate crisis
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/europe/greta-thunberg-davos-world-economic-forum-intl/index.html
She traveled to Davos 32 hours by train to avoid flying. That makes me feel guilty about booking that plane ride from Delhi to Bangalore now, rather than face a journey of a similar length. OK she’s only 16 and I’m 62… but maybe on the way back up.