“So you wipe out every Hamas soldier—then what? You just created a whole bunch of orphans…who are forever traumatized by this without anything on the other side of it… This will be a festering wound, even more so than it has been, for decades to come” newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

To adapt Aldo Leopold, one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives in a world of mass carnage

🚨Drought & extreme heat in Western Australia in 2010/11 led to what's called the world's 1st 'forest collapse'. Now, after a record-breaking hot summer & driest 6 months on record in WA, trees & other flora are dying & ecologists fear an even bigger collapse event
#ClimateCrisis

“The most notable thing about the current apparent acceleration in warming is that it was expected”

'The basic idea that crises happen very fast, almost no one knows what's going on, there are lots of miscalculations because humans are at the centre of it...' Dario Amodei rounds out a bracing interview with a scary book recommendation: The Guns of August nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opi…

Carbon credits are “scientifically, socially and from a climate perspective a hoax” Stephan Singer, Climate Action Network International on.ft.com/4cMJf5b

“The feeling of fighting a losing battle is constant.” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

“You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people’… You can save money by dropping cheaper bombs that obliterate entire buildings and kill families and neighbours as ‘collateral damage’: ‘unimportant people’; ‘stinky losers’ in flip-flops.”

Men come and go as leaves year by year…

'by making 30 relatively simple changes to existing UK taxes, and to the way our tax system is managed, up to £90bn of new tax revenue could be raised a year, almost entirely from those in the top 10% of income & wealth holders in the UK' Richard Murphy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Deep Listening, and Grön Musik fullofnoises.substack.com/p/deep-listeni…

Delighted to receive a proof of Nature’s Ghosts Sophie Yeo HarperNorth

“these settlements without a future offered a foretaste of perhaps the central political issue of our time: how do people live when money has discarded them?”

'the fact is that, asylum excepted, Britain handles immigration very well... If the first wave of post-war immigration came from the Commonwealth and the second from Europe, the current wave is from everywhere.' economist.com/britain/2024/0…