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apnews.com Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuels as Earth heats up

From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as Earth suffers from dramatic weather extremes.

Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuels as Earth heats up
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Pour être plus heureux, il suffirait de dire… bonjour à ses voisins
  • Là où j'habite les gens se disent bonjour dans la rue ou à vélo (et j'habite pas dans un patelin de 200 habitants). Je dois exploser mon score de bien être ! (En vrai j'aime beaucoup cette pratique depuis que j'habite ici alors il y a peut-être du vrai...)

    Et bonjour à tous les voisins de c/France :D

  • 'Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
  • European diet can be very much centered around meat too unfortunately, farmers also have a lot of power here. Guess it is still better than the US, but we are part of the problem too.

    I agree that just stopping subsidies and let everything in the hands of market forces won't do. We cannot juste expect things to work better in the current system, it would need many other forces and institutions to develop another type of agriculture and scale down meat production and consumption and make other products more affordable for everyone, it cannot come only from making meat a luxury good.

  • 'Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
  • In France, an ecological politician tried to talk about it recently, now she is receiving hundred of tweets of people taking pictures with huge pieces of meat, very proud of their own stupidity (including other politicians). I observe some changes around me though, in countries (home and host countries) where meat is still very important in the common diet, but far from being large and fast enough unfortunately...

  • www.frontiersin.org Agents of (un)sustainability: democratising universities for the planetary crisis

    As producers and gatekeepers of knowledge, and as providers of education and training, our universities play a key role in the reproduction of unsustainability. This article finds that they are, as currently organised, therefore complicit in frustrating and delaying action to address the planetary c...

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    Uruguay Wasn’t Supposed to Run Out of Water
  • Just doing strange stuff for me right now, telling me I reached my number of free articles and loading entirely again 5 seconds later 😅 anyway someone shared the article in another comment if needed :-)

  • www.nytimes.com Uruguay Wasn’t Supposed to Run Out of Water

    A devastating drought has hit a country that seemed to have abundant fresh water.

    Uruguay Wasn’t Supposed to Run Out of Water
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    What's the best ice breaker exercise for the class that a professor used on your first day of class?
  • I am myself an introvert so I get that very much. The pairing is about trying to diffuse the anxiety. If I feel it is not working well, there are ways to mitigate the issue. For many exercises, interaction can be a nightmare for introverts. I was organising a role play in a master course and I know I would have hated that when I was a student, but I am trying to rely on my own experience to avoid huge mistakes and making people too inconfortable. It is important to read the room but also to experiment to see what works and not!

  • What's the best ice breaker exercise for the class that a professor used on your first day of class?
  • Lecturer here, and I would say it really depends on the setting and the content of the class. I tried different things that worked, pairing students to introduce each other for two minutes, then they have to present each other (small groups). Surveys with menti for large crowds, and I am also answering the questions (mix of personal/content/opinion questions to understand the general atmosphere ok the lecture hall).

    In a summer school, I did something I really liked, the walking exercise. 3 rounds, 3 questions: students have to walk in the room, and when I clap they have to pair with the closest person and discuss the question. Then we share altogether. But again the content of the questions may really depend. The summer school was about transformations for sustainability, targeting PhD candidates. We were asking about an important event explaining why there were studying sustainability, one question was 'what are you good at' and the last one was 'what do you think should be transformed to become sustainable.'

  • www.francetvinfo.fr "C'est l'équivalent d'un salaire" : des clients de fournisseurs alternatifs d'électricité abasourdis par le coût vertigineux de la facture de régularisation

    Des milliers de clients reçoivent depuis quelques semaines leur régularisation de factures d'électricité et la note est parfois très salée. Certaines vont jusqu'à 10 000 euros dans les cas les plus extrêmes.

    "C'est l'équivalent d'un salaire" : des clients de fournisseurs alternatifs d'électricité abasourdis par le coût vertigineux de la facture de régularisation
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    L’Europe ne parvient pas à taxer le kérosène des avions, la France annonce qu’elle le fera seule
  • Bonne nouvelle en soit, maintenant attendons les détails (montant, redistribution, moyens d'y échapper, etc.), et voir si d'autres pays voudraient suivre. Je suis assez pessimiste mais faut dire que les politiques écologiques ça donne pas envie d'être optimiste en général...

  • www.lemonde.fr Liberia set to concede 10% of its territory to Emirati company for carbon credit production

    The pollution rights derived from the conservation or reforestation of nearly 1 million hectares of forests would allow the United Arab Emirates to meet its climate commitments.

    Liberia set to concede 10% of its territory to Emirati company for carbon credit production

    And it continues... It has been showed how damaging these 'partnerships' may be. Offsetting emissions do not address the causes of deforestation, often disrespect the rights and culture of local and indigenous communities, perpetuate unequal exchange mechanisms, among other issues. An example here: https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/impacts-of-oil-and-gas-extraction-and-carbon-projects-on-communities-in-the-saloum-delta-senegal And there is plenty about REDD+ programmes.

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    Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement
  • "Lower class hexbear mob"? Seriously?? Or is it a satire?

    If not, you are using your free speech against others here, showing how superior you think you are. Why couldn't they also express their voice?

  • Opinion. we warned you about this climate emergency. Now it's here.
    www.theguardian.com We warned you about this climate emergency. Now it’s here | Peter Kalmus

    Biden had the last opportunity of any president to keep the world under 1.5C of heating. Instead he is squandering time we do not have

    We warned you about this climate emergency. Now it’s here | Peter Kalmus
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    Le Mali et le Burkina face à la Cedeao : prise de bec et bruits de bottes
    www.jeuneafrique.com Le Mali et le Burkina face à la Cedeao : prise de bec et bruits de bottes – Jeune Afrique

    Les régimes malien et burkinabè considéreraient une intervention militaire internationale, au Niger, comme « une déclaration de guerre » contre leurs pays. Mais quels moyens auraient-ils pour un double-front sécuritaire ? – Jeune Afrique

    Le Mali et le Burkina face à la Cedeao : prise de bec et bruits de bottes – Jeune Afrique
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    Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up, global research reveals
    theconversation.com Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up, global research reveals

    Our research found non-native English speakers face higher rejection rates and 12.5 times more revisions than their native English-speaking counterparts. But there are solutions.

    Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up, global research reveals
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    www.sciencedirect.com Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it

    Scholars have long called out the flaws in academic publishing. However, a nuanced and constructive discussion of this issue is still lacking. We advo…

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    [nouvelle en anglais] Le niger suspend les exports d'Uranium
  • Merci beaucoup ! Je suis arrivée tout récemment sur Lemmy, j'avais commencé sur Lemmy World, mais pour aider un peu la charge, je suis passée sur une autre instance, c'est donc mon deuxième premier post sur cette communauté !

    Pour le partage, de rien :) je n'ai encore rien vu de précis en français la dessus, mais je me suis dit que c'était quand même une nouvelle importante, avec beaucoup de conséquences des deux côtés. De meilleurs articles devraient sortir bientôt. Mais je vois pas mal de gens s'écharper dans les réseaux (je bosse un peu sur ces questions) entre ceux qui applaudissent ce qui se passe dans ces pays qui s'émancipent de la France et ceux qui estiment que c'est se vendre aux Russes. Pas mal de bouleversements en Afrique en ce moment pas que dans les ex colonies françaises, c'est une période importante.

  • What are you Watching? (August 2023)
  • Finished the two seasons of From that are out recently :) more like binged watched them actually 😅 I loved it, I was afraid of watching a modern kind of lost (never really got into it), but it is totally different, and rally my type of sci-fi horror/thriller. The actors are also doing a great job!

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