@MarkTomasovic So while they do reduce roadkill (which is good), let’s stop pretending they solve habitat fragmentation or protect biodiversity in any meaningful, large-scale way.
@MarkTomasovic Wildlife bridges aren’t the conservation miracle people think they are.
They were primarily built to reduce car crashes and insurance costs from hitting large animals like deer — not to “save biodiversity.”
@MarkTomasovic The data reflects that:
•They’re mostly used by common, large mammals
•The species crossing aren’t typically at risk of genetic collapse
•Evidence for real genetic or ecosystem recovery is weak at best
@MikeHudema Saying that makes us sound stupid unless we also say: make urban living affordable and abandon cars in favour of walking cycling and mass transit.
"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.
No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
There's something deeply disturbing about the closure of one of the oldest schools in England, which goes back to AD 631, its roll of headmasters to 1114, and numbers Thomas Paine among its former pupils. Our national educational heritage, sacrificed for an ideological tax grab.
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.
Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.
The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."
An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.
Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.
The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.
No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.
Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.
Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent.
We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting.
The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a future threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️
Trump is more of a British & English patriot than our own current political masters.
Listen and remember why our nation truly is Great Britain 🇬🇧 - despite what the woke naysayers tell you.
The more science advances, the more difficult it becomes to be an atheist.
Look at this: the most detailed image ever of a single human cell.
Your body contains 37 trillion of them.
This is divine engineering.
God’s masterpiece.
I cannot stress this enough:
While the West is destroying classical architectural beauty, Poland is literally building medieval-style castles like this one in Stobnica (Greater Poland Voivodeship) which is basically done:
Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades.
In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%.
Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation.
Earth Day 2026; on a planet where warming is accelerating, Earth loses resilience, 7 of 9 planetary boundaries breached - is a reminder we cannot exclude pushing our "blue dot" along a Hothouse Earth path, drifting towards a less and less liveable home.
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