Don Means

Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/03/21/cli…”Right now, the most powerful people in the world are deeply complicit in the gravest crisis that the world has ever experienced.”

Why seniors are blocking entrances to the four largest U.S. banks washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

@elonmusk where are you?

@larrybrilliant Classic pattern of autocrats. Attack education and critical thinking. Did we ever suspect public libraries would be attacked? Libraries. who want nothing but to help with whatever you ask. And as the daily front line top defender of rights of free expression and private inquiry.

Really? Has it really come to banning 'scientific theory' from being taught in schools? Having watched the evolution of the virus SARS-Cov2 these past 3 years, will the "theory" of viral evolution also be banned? dailykos.com/stories/2023/2…

Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis theguardian.com/environment/20… “Parker agrees there’s now a responsibility to educate. “We have to communicate climate in almost every forecast…” Job has changed. Now an essential service!

The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded | The New Yorker —Please deconstruct ⁦@RobAtkinsonITIF⁩ @billmckibben⁩ hyperventilating? Or extremely serious business? newyorker.com/culture/2022-i…

Forget everything you think you know about seasonal patterns. That future we thought would / might even not arrive much later is here today!

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0… Stand back @RobAtkinsonITIF and let the markets handle this… anomaly.

@PeterDiamandis Connect the unconnected to internet via LEO enabled community hubs/ libraries as critical to humanity’s adaptation to climate driven disasters. Cheapest most effective response. @GigLibraries

If you could tackle 1 massive problem in humanity, what would it be?

It’s a fair and tough question, Rob. Cannot speak for Bill. But unless you believe the situation is not an actual existential crisis, then probably no. Or if you think markets left to themselves will address this, then again not. Do you really?

@RobAtkinsonITIF @cleantechnica @billmckibben Perhaps this will fit in @RobAtkinsonITIF pipe. upworthy.com/astronaut-shar…

@donmeans @cleantechnica @billmckibben If we beleive in pink unicorns we will see them. Sue but after we do they then bill can decry banks. But before that they are protecting depositors

Bill McKibben — HSBC Breaks With Other Banks On Fossil Fuel Financing cleantechnica.com/2022/12/16/bil… via @cleantechnica

@RobAtkinsonITIF @cleantechnica @billmckibben If we stop externalizing true costs to the planet the ROI will improve.

@donmeans @cleantechnica All this proves is that clean tech is not yet cost effective. If it were banks would fund it. We need clean tech innovation not hectoring from people like @billmckibben

Astonaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from space upworthy.com/astronaut-shar… Mission to Planet Earth still unfinished.

Gulp. The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported this week that 60% of workforce inactivity (i.e. people not working) is now due to Long COVID. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@TactNowInfo @larrybrilliant This has massive implications. Accelerated epigenetic aging effect potential for everyone infected.

@larrybrilliant This is the result of let it rip. Reinfections bypassing antibodies, infecting T-cells, dendric cells, & neutrophils leads to senescence. We are aging our immune system yrs per infection which is shortening lifespans, potentially decades w/reinfections. twitter.com/TactNowInfo/st…

Elon Musk Praised By Netflix Co-Chief Reed Hastings – Not exactly faint praise. Who else has ridden to Musk’s rescue? deadline.com/2022/11/elon-m…

@reedhastings Maybe the last moment of hope for what was to come.

"Every 4 years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly & peaceful transfer of power & we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.” - President Elect Trump

Apparently the door only opens.

LEO Technology Could Connect the Unconnected, Although Capacity Questions Remain : Broadband Breakfast broadbandbreakfast.com/2022/12/leo-te…