In 2020, two of the architects of the Paris Agreement published the book The Future We Choose. Five years later, the future looks particularly bleak. But it’s also become even more urgent we start building our societies’ tomorrow: idoliven.medium.com/reclaiming-our…

Palestinian territories => Crimea => Greenland

Come on, 2025, do your magic.

Yesterday, Poland assumed the EU Council Presidency for the next six months. A helpful overview of the Polish government's priorities: pl.boell.org/en/2024/12/12/…

"countries reported more than 7 million deaths from COVID-19 but the true death toll is estimated to be at least three times higher". I knew one of them and have to wonder how many lives could have been saved without the anti-vax disinformation pandemic. apnews.com/article/covid-…

Do as I say, not as I do: The European Union imported last year more Russian LNG than ever.

Icelandic whaling has long been a hot potato. It involves anything from science to business to geopolitics. It's been the subject of much int'l furor but for Icelanders it seems to be mostly about ethics and a sense of sovereignty.

Going under the radar, in the midst of a furor over an August 2023 meeting between Israel's energy minister and Libya's then foreign minister: more fossil gas.

"For those who have lost everything in climate disasters, the apocalypse has already arrived. ... How bad things get depends on how long we let the fossil fuel industry continue to call the shots" - Peter Kalmus nytimes.com/2025/01/10/opi…

"it’s a testament to how bad climate change has been permitted to get, and how quickly." Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Let this nightmare end and a new, better era to begin.

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"Relocation". nbcnews.com/politics/donal…