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EU leads isolated group of countries pushing for global climate action | ‘Axis of obstruction’ stalls progress with poor and middle-income countries reluctant to quit fossil fuels despite peril (www.ft.com)
 

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Indigenous people reflect on meaning of their participation in COP30 climate talks (www.pbs.org)
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UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight (www.theguardian.com)
 

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief

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What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador (www.theatlantic.com)
 

Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future | By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

We don't have to be — the bulk of coal, oil, and gas is still in the ground. There are forests yet standing.

Doom is a choice, and one we can fight against.

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Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis (www.nytimes.com)
 

Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.

If your party can't figure out that it's opposed to Hitler, you're not in favor of the United States.

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Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future | By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. (www.theatlantic.com)
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The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil | For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw. (share.inquirer.com)
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality (www.nytimes.com)
 

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

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Trump’s Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices | In Baltimore, blue collar workers are fighting back, preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future” and defending offshore wind (www.rollingstone.com)
 

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Canada's largest pension fund increases fossil fuel investments (rabble.ca)
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COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém (www.carbonbrief.org)
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Compromises, voluntary measures and no mention of fossil fuels: key points from Cop30 deal (www.theguardian.com)
 

A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Countries agreed to talk about talking about a plan for a fossil fuels phase out. Which is more than has happened before.

Its nowhere near where things need to be.

How billionaires took over American politics in c/politics@lemmy.world
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, COP can only act by consensus, so the fossil fuels industry buys their way into national delegations, and blocks anything meaningful.

BYD officially unveils the 3000-horsepower Yangwang U9 Xtreme in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a vehicle that's being made today, not some hypothetical future that has no pedestrians or other vehicles

In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Sure, but the choice in recent decades has been to leave it as is, or to completely gut it.

BYD officially unveils the 3000-horsepower Yangwang U9 Xtreme in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The thing about horsepower like that is that its complelty useless for the task of moving people; speed is limited by human perception and response time, not something about the engine or car.

Going faster means having a controlled travel environment, like high speed rail

Trump’s peace plan is a demand for Ukraine’s surrender in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Quite literally:

The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff, a real-estate developer with no historical, geographical, or cultural knowledge of Russia or Ukraine, and Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and spends most of his time making business deals

Can we handle the truth on climate? in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Its a gift link so access is free. Didn't hit the registration thing myself but easy enough for you to plug the URL into archive.ph

The EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions, Von der Leyen says ahead of G20 | Euractiv in c/climate@slrpnk.net
How billionaires took over American politics in c/politics@lemmy.world
This study could reshape climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies | The groundbreaking research offers evidence that specific fossil fuel giants drove economic losses for decades. in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that pattern of lies is what resulted in the tobacco industry losing lawsuits.

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