Africa - the entire continent - is responsible for only 3.8% of global greenhouse gas emissions
Vincent Bevins
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Vincent Bevins
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My second book, If We Burn, is now on sale. My first book, The Jakarta Method, still coming out in translations. Please subscribe to North South Notes:
- I was on that bridge today, and while I can only speak for my own experience, I saw: 1) Many Jews proudly marching, and centering their religion 2) The crowd of Muslims and Christians around them responding with love and appreciation every time they did soLondon. Now. This is horrifying. How are Jews meant to stay in the U.K.?
00:00 - Why is Ireland the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the Western world? Why is South Africa the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the whole world? It's not coincidence
- I am mostly alarmed at the constant refrain that we had a "bad year" - that has been the case since like, 2015 now. It seems more likely that our society has entered a period of chronic failure and inhumanity, and that if we want to exit, we have to actually do something about it
- He killed an entire wedding in YemenHappy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.
- The opening sentences of the Washington Post editorial opposing Chile's new constitution โ๏ธ
- ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ "Active shooter drill industry" ๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒActive shooter drills in schools have become a $2.7 billion industry, and new research shows they have almost no value in keeping kids safe and are responsible for an increase in mental health problems for kids, especially younger ones miamiherald.com/news/nation-woโฆ
- A good question to ask: "Why doesn't the world care more about suffering in places like Yemen and Afghanistan?" A bad question to ask: "Why does the world care so much about Ukraine?" This app encourages you to turn everything into a fight, but we can care about the whole world
- Real bad news for countries with water.@VP Kamala Harris: "For years and generations, wars have been fought over oil. In a short matter of time, they will be fought over water."
00:00 - Sounds real bad ! Who was in power when this happenedPresident Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation Wednesday to warn of an โoligarchyโ of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a โtech-industrial complexโ that is infringing on Americansโ rights and the future of democracy.
00:00 - I wonder how much they would have to pay me to not understand this imageunclear what israel is trying to accomplish planting flags in gaza
- Every once in a while, the actual rules of the liberal international order become terrifyingly clear. This shocks people of good conscience in the First World, while billions of others, who do not have the luxury of this ignorance, see awful confirmation of what they already know
- "A woman conducted her aerobics class in Myanmar without realizing a coup was taking place. Behind her, a military convoy arrives at parliament."Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento.
00:00 - In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work
