A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you woke up today wanting to present coal, oil or gas as unavoidable and unstoppable, you are helping the CEOs of Shell, Exxon etc make more $$. You should stop doing that; these freaks get enough help from governments already.

Something worth noting is that a 9 gigawatt "off grid" gas plant still buys obscene volumes of gas: more than any other gas plant in the US.

that itself makes gas more expensive for the power plants that are on-grid: raising costs for everyone, albeit less directly

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Me, an astute, observant, and knowledgeable commentator on higher education: “I don’t think people with autism can be successful academics.”

Such a nightmare: cars in Europe keep getting bigger and deadlier. New report here on 'carspreading'. 400 extra kids murdered by car companies and drivers, if the trend continues. Regulate + ban, and prosecute the people choosing the deadlier option.

www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-ki...

China continues to heavily invest in alternative proteins.

Would not be surprising if they replicate their control of supply chains like batteries and solar, but for future protein production

www.straitstimes.com/singapore/sc...

REVEALED: The EU spends hundreds of times more public money on high-emissions beef and dairy than legumes and nuts through its common agricultural policy (CAP) subsidies, according to new figures published today by Foodrise.

Read the new report: foodrise.org.uk/CAPCrossroads/

'What’s the problem? Well, pretty much everything. These aren’t species returned from extinction.'

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social's Dr Richard Grenyer argues that extinction is, for the time being, a symptom of our global economic system ⬇️

In this video, Beth appeals to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) definition of 'de-extinction' as 'the process of creating an organism that resembles an extinct species' 1/n

www.reddit.com/r/deextincti...

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

Going to recode the C. elegans genome to make a direworm

Can't wait to hear what Colossal are going to bring back next. My guess is either cave trolls or half-orcs.

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...