Notices by Charles Muller (acmuller@mastodon.social), page 5

Most PERENCO executives are foreigners. The Moandais who find themselves there are used for work of lesser importance. The unemployment rate is still very high in this city and its surroundings. The solution to development in this city is to be found in another type of economy and not in oil.

Where we are as a country

Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They're for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-2023-term_n_649f25b7e4b030efa12065d4

What will YOU spend your precious 600 posts a day on?

ngl…I appreciate this real-time experiment in friction in design 😂

Study: #EcologicalCollapse Could Happen Much Sooner Than Expected
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch

Without a doubt, the landscape of our planet is changing. Arctic sea ice is melting, rainforests are being razed for agriculture, deserts are expanding and meadows are appearing in places that have been covered in snow for thousands of years. In some parts of the world, tipping points have already been surpassed, and in others, the danger of that happening may... https://popularresistance.org/study-ecological-collapse-could-happen-much-sooner-than-expected/

The Modern Form Of Colonialism: Climate Change
By Tapti Sen, Inequality.org.

I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by #climatechange in the coming decades. 75 percent of the country lies below sea level. #Bangladesh, a tropical country on top of a low-lying delta, is no stranger to flooding, especially during monsoon season.

https://popularresistance.org/the-modern-form-of-colonialism-climate-change/

DeepL: Go from casual to formal in Japanese

Strike the right tone in Japanese with our latest feature, available now on our web translator and API, and soon to be rolled out on our desktop and mobile apps. This functionality allows you to switch from an informal to a formal tone, so you can sound even more professional in a Japanese business context.

Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims To Stop Praying At Sacred Site
By Last Real Indians.

Reno, Nevada — Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect #ThackerPass
and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass #lithium mine. The lawsuit is similar to what is called a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” or SLAPP suit, aimed at shutting down free speech and protest.

https://popularresistance.org/lithium-nevada-lawsuit-aims-to-stop-praying-at-sacred-site/
#climatecrisis

Hey fedi admins? Don’t just defederate/block Facebook/Meta. Put some time right now into figuring out what terms of service to have in place that will deny them the right to harvest data. They may not be able to use ActivityPub if you don’t federate, but nothing stops them from trying other means to harvest your users’ data.

Activists From Coast To Coast Demand Biden End Fossil Fuel Era
By People Vs. Fossil Fuels, Popular Resistance

Washington D.C. – Over 2,000 climate activists, frontline leaders, and environmental justice organizations in over 65 locations in more than 25 US states joined together from June 8–11th for a national week of action to send a strong message to President Biden: no more #fossilfuels.
https://popularresistance.org/bidenclimate-activists-from-coast-to-coast-demand-biden-end-the-fossil-fuel-era/ #climatecrisis

What if we looked at ourselves as we were some tribe in the remotes of the technological wilderness.

We face a catastrophe that unfolds from our very habit to confine what we call „#nature“ into hospitable domains: the #climatecrisis.

It’s the habit of mastery, domination, control. We‘re feeling the threat, but cannot admit that control got out of control. Our habit has to enforce itself. Hence the switch to absolute, to #authoritarian control.

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#anthropology #ethics

The Case For A (Mostly) Car-Free World
By Anthony Leong, Canadian Dimension

I grew up in Los Angeles, one of the most sprawling, car-dependent cities in the world. It’s easy to find highway-sized lanes in residential areas and signposts right in the middle of tiny sidewalks in my hometown. Although I regularly cycled and took public transit right up until I was 18 and moved away, the state of my city and the way people moved through it was normal to me... #climatecrisis https://popularresistance.org/the-case-for-a-mostly-car-free-world/

Requiem for Our Species
Chris Hedges
Jun 12, 2023

The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/requiem-for-our-species?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #climatecrisis

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reach Record High
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch

A new study by 50 leading scientists conducted to supplement the “information gap” between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports said global #greenhousegas emissions have soared to a record high and are threatening to push our planet into “unprecedented” global heating. #climatecrisis https://popularresistance.org/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-reach-record-high/

What’s Next For Extinction Rebellion After A Disappointing Success?
By Douglas Rogers, Waging Nonviolence

It’s been just over a month since 60,000 people gathered in London for Extinction Rebellion U.K.’s Big One. Despite being potentially the biggest climate demonstration in U.K. history, you might well have missed it. The press coverage was virtually non-existent and the event produced no noticeable change: The British government remains hell-bent on... https://popularresistance.org/whats-next-for-extinction-rebellion-after-a-disappointing-success/ #climatecrisis

RESOURCE> DDB/CJKV-E dictionaries update, May 2023 https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/discussions/12870679/resource-ddbcjkv-e-dictionaries-update-may-2023

School strike week 249. Today the theme for our strike is biodiversity. It is crucial - both for the climate and biodiversity - that we #RestoreNature. This means restoring our greatest ally in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. We now have an immense opportunity to turn the tide for nature in Europe: the Nature Restoration Law. 1/2

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide.*

* On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

Biden Missing, But Assange Sydney Rally Goes On
By Consortium News.

Joe #Biden was due in Sydney Wednesday where he’s facing increased pressure to let Julian #Assange go. Biden cancelled the trip but a rally in Hyde Park sent him the message anyway. Stella Assange, Scott Ludlum, John Shipton, Gabriel Shipton, David McBride and Stephen Kenny addressed the rally Wednesday morning.

https://popularresistance.org/biden-missing-but-assange-sydney-rally-goes-on/

US Empire Of #Debt Headed For Collapse
By Pepe Escobar, Orinoco Tribune.

Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old #geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed.

https://popularresistance.org/escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse/