Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world)

Parisians voted on a proposal to block 500 streets to traffic and replace asphalt with plants and trees. 😍

https://wapo.st/4iUN1vu

It’s probably not a good sign when your closest ally issues a travel warning against you.

https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878

Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/climate/global-temperatures-wmo-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E4.mcnK.87j5cpht6uwX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I can't help but think they're trying to destroy our habitable planet because they either believe that's the condition under which God will rapture them into heaven, or they think their minds will be uploaded to a supercomputer where they'll live forever. Either way, there's no need for our planet.

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.

“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.aeUC.tdm1nbDIVEL2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It's difficult to recommend anyone visit the US these days.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/canadian-woman-who-was-detained-in-us-immigration-jails-returns-to-vancouver/

If Viktor Orbán did this, we’d denounce it in the strongest terms. This is not normal for the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/columbia-university-students-disciplined-hamilton-hall.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.x6dC.bRQuLvmztnFc&smid=nytcore-android-share

It's only a tariff on champagne if it's on products from the Champagne region of France. Otherwise, it's just sparkling pettiness.

https://wapo.st/3DF1Mn2

Trump increasing the wrong kind of consumption.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/tuberculosis-kenya-us-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.MXmu.dJzwd8IarYzR&smid=url-share

Sure, eggs are expensive but Trump has made stocks affordable for everyone.

"The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects, from breast-feeding support efforts in Baltimore to mosquito-net programs in Mozambique."

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/johns-hopkins-federal-funding-foreign-aid-cut-ca841d31?st=EJYFJk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Robin Gerus, the new executive director of Halifax Transit, takes the bus daily to understand the system from a rider’s perspective.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/why-halifax-s-new-transit-boss-is-taking-the-bus-every-day-1.7479717

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250228603358/en/

The idea that the countries of the Global South will be capable of recycling materials that rich countries dump on them is unrealistic.

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-03-01/where-do-the-clothes-go-after-we-put-them-in-a-recycling-bin-an-11-month-investigation-covering-thousands-of-kilometers.html

I dislike the framing of climate tipping points, but it's good to keep in mind that there are components of the climate system that react nonlinearly to warming and will exacerbate climate change. We don't know the timing, but we know the only way to prevent disaster is to stop burning fossil fuels.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/11/climate/earth-warming-climate-tipping-points.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.i_iV.9BglkY4IpxCl

Federal government agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, including clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, environmental quality, and pollution.

These words literally refer to the quality of our life support system on Earth.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.k-DS.zzXJJ16uRPJ7&smid=bs-share

The world is becoming more and more dangerous every day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/fda-infant-formula-kyle-diamantas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.-Iz-.9YOvntvai9EC&smid=url-share

Some people say, "Alongside rapid and drastic decarbonization, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed to meet climate goals."

I say no! Unless we decarbonize drastically, CDR will be useless.

So we say, "AFTER rapid and drastic decarbonization, CDR will be needed to meet climate goals."

I think about this map a lot.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

Capitalism can't solve climate change because publicly traded companies must satisfy their shareholders — typically institutional investors — resulting in a focus on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of long-term planning for both the company and the environment.

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/news-and-insights/press-releases/growing-shareholder-value-a-reset-bp.html