Electric cars are more expensive to buy initially. They then have lower running costs. But the up-front costs of EVs are also falling quickly. BloombergNEF projects that EVs will be cheaper than petrol cars in the next 5 years. transportenvironment.org/wp-content/upl…

If you think public transportation is a money-loser, wait til I show you the spreadsheet on car culture. You will probably want to be sitting down for this.

1/20 Dear friends, I need to draw your attention to something super bad and super important (and it doesn’t originate from Russia for once). Last week the EU has taken a shockingly stupid and damaging decision to close down national corporate registers of beneficial owners 🧵🧵🧵

The annual pay of CEOs is more than 300x higher than that of low-wage workers. But most people believe a "fair" level of inequality should be no more than 7 to 1, on average, while in many countries people want it to be less than 4 to 1. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

A disgrace.

We are living in a house of cards!

New OECD report on tipping points should frighten everyone. “Recent state-of-the-art research shows that important tipping points are already ‘possible’ at current levels of warming and may become ‘likely’ within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5 to 2°C warming…”

Compare the pair Climate protestor protesting inaction simply by hindering traffic for 25 minutes gets 15 months jail Former WA Liberal MP convicted for corrupt activities, hindering corruption probe, tipping off others, gets suspended jail term abc.net.au/news/2022-12-0…

The World Economic Forum used to rank nuclear weapons as the biggest threat to human survival. Now, the #1 threat is climate change. In the 60’s, we drafted a nuclear non-proliferation treaty to keep us safe. Now, we need to do the same with fossil fuels. We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.

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Twitter is not a public town square no matter how many "commitments" to this or that the owner gives. Only a decentralized, open-source system can guarantee that.

#Mastodon will not compromise on its vision of an ad-free, open-source social network. Our actions reflect that. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

I don't want to be on Twitter any more but y'all are talking about #beyondgrowth2023 on here. If you believe in post-growth then stop supporting capitalist social media and get thee over to Mastodon! #BeyondGrowth