2020 January

The living northern lights of the deep sea. The comb jelly

Environnement Le dernier rhinocéros de Sumatra vivant en Malaisie est mort C’est officiel, le rhinocéros de Sumatra a disparu de Malaisie. Six mois après la mort du dernier mâle de cette espèce vivant dans le pays, c’est la dernière femelle…
Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in ‘strange metal

Google’s New AI Project Could Be a Conservation Game Changer

Two atoms have been captured on film forming a bond, for the first time ever

 

Society

The five universal laws of human stupidity
nderstanding France’s General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
THE PROGRESSIVE’S GUIDE TO CORPORATE-DEMOCRAT SPEAK
Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, A Global Movement Unleashed
2019: Scientists Funded by Bill Gates to Spray Particles into the Sky in First Experiment to Dim the Sun
PROTESTS CONTINUE IN FRANCE AGAINST PENSION REFORM
Stress, anxiety, harassment: huge survey reveals pressures of scientists’ working lives
A just transition with climate and social ambition
Neoliberalism Was Supposed to Make Us Richer: Three Reasons Why It Didn’t
The Collapse Of Civilization May Have Already Begun
http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4776/1/Bendell_BecauseItsNot.pdf
https://jembendell.com/2019/09/09/six-months-of-the-deep-adaptation-forum/
Robert Reich: Here are 5 ways to stop corporations from ruining the future of work
Know Their Names: Eight Activists Assassinated For Fighting Climate Change
A Trend That Could Change Everything, Collaborations Across Generations — And What It Means for Causes, Nonprofits and Social Enterprises
Alt-Right strategy: Counterrevolution in Europe, War in the World
The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher.
The 2010s Killed Off the Polite Climate Change Conversation
 Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet?
Hasbro Launches Line Of Trap-Building Kits To Encourage Girls To Get Into Post-Apocalyptic Survivalism
“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems
On the impossibility of efficient markets
IMF boss says global economy risks return of Great Depression

Thomas Piketty : «Il va y avoir des crises sociales extrêmement violentes»

What the GOP’s proposed climate policies would, and wouldn’t, do

Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon

  Environment
There’s been a huge spike in one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases
https://newrepublic.com/article/156000/educated-fools-democrats-misunderstand-politics-social-class
Trump EPA approved 100-plus products with pesticides banned elsewhere or slated for U.S. phaseout. Common Dreams:
6 zero-waste lessons from Paris
The Lake Erie Bill of Rights Deserves to Stand, Should be Enforced
glyphosate and neonicotinoid insecticides.

Outrage Culture Is Ruining Foreign Policy

Trump Removes Pollution Protections for America’s Rivers and Streams

Corruption

Davos billionaires are happy to let the world burn
How do fossil fuel companies have so much power?

Study: Massive Blowout at Gas Well in 2018 Spewed 5 Times as Much Methane as ExxonMobil Estimated

Utility Companies Spent $1 Billion Covering Their Asses

Corruption Is Contagious
Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact
How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
 
Green New Deal
Where is the ‘deal’ in the European Green Deal?
Gone Fishing? No Fish but Plenty of Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
 Technology
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-new-ai-and-facial-recognition-tech-could-reshape-las-vegas-casinos
   
 

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work jobs, emphases competitive he Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan will mobilise more than €230 billion over the next decade from private, public and mixed investment and boost growth in growth domestic product against a scenario without such a plan.
The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and

The organization of production is generally regarded as a wholly “economic” activity, ignoring the political function served by the wage-labor relationships in lieu of bailiffs and senechals. In a like fashion, the discharge of political authority is regarded as essentially separable from the operation of the economic realm, ignoring the provision of the legal, military, and material contributions without which the private sphere could not function properly or even exist. In this way, the presence of the two realms, each responsible for part of the activities necessary for the maintenance of the social formation, not only gives capitalism a structure entirely different from that of any precapitalist society, but also establishes the basis for a problem that uniquely preoccupies capitalism, namely, the appropriate role of the state vis-a-vis the sphere of production and distribution.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/01/precarity-a-political-problem.html

DE VRAIES ORDURES \
Chaque année durant les repas de fin d’année, près de 500 000 tonnes de nourriture finissent à la poubelle, soit 40 % des aliments et l’équivalent de 50 € par foyer.  Et 20 000 tonnes de papier cadeau, l’équivalent de 380 000 arbres.  Certes de plus en plus de Français font des efforts : emballages en tissu, sapin « écolo » ou sapin fabriqué avec des rouleaux de papier toilette (la nouvelle mode), restes resservis le lendemain et dons aux associations. Mais les chiffres de la surconsommation sont toujours impressionnants.
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