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Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
This video is incredible.
Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
We have never seen anything like this. Remember that even in Hiroshima some stone houses survived, but most of the buildings were timber and burned down. Of course explosive power used in Gaza exceeds Hiroshima by at least one order of magnitude (10*)
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years" says France's Europe Minister
"Let's get out of collective denial. Europeans must take their destiny into their own hands, regardless of who is elected 🇺🇸president"
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
In 1939, as Hitler's war machine prepared its blitzkrieg across Europe, Madison Square Garden played host to the American Nazi Party, known as the "German American Bund." 20,000 Nazis polluted our greatest city to whip up support for their genocidal aims. 1/
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
Humans continue to argue and fight and kill each other while the planet heats up, storms and heat and famines get steadily worse. What a cosmic failure of leadership at all levels and for decades. At least declare a climate emergency.
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_S…
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
*onderzoek alert*
In de geschiedenis van de aarde is het aanzienlijk warmer geweest - we zitten in een uitzonderlijk koele periode.
Maar:
In de afgelopen 485 miljoen (!) jaar is de temperatuur op aarde nog nooit met zo’n grote snelheid gestegen.
Alarmerender kan niet.
Global Surface Temperatures Are Rising Faster Now Than At Any Time In The Past 485 Million Years cleantechnica.com/2024/09/21… via @cleantechnica
The headline pretty much says it all. A team of climate researchers led by Emily Judd at the University of Arizona and The Smithsonian have combined more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state of the art climate models to determine the Earth’s average global surface temperatures during the past 480 million years, a timeline that begins with with the emergence of multi-cellular, non-microscopic organisms at the beginning of the time period known as the Phanerozoic Eon. The results show that the Earth has been hotter — much hotter, actually — during most of that time and humans first appeared during one of the coolest periods. It also shows that over the past 480 million years, temperatures have never risen as quickly as they are doing today.
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
Did you know Japan has had around 5,000 castles throughout its history- but only 100 remain?
And out of the current 100, only 12 are original...
Let's explore the 12 original remaining Japanese Castles...🧵
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
Dit is het beste stukje over Caroline van der Plas ooit. En ik denk dat heel wat #BBB'ers allang weten dat dit klopt. volkskrant.nl/columns-van-de…
Deze draad.. 😱
Food security and climate change: a critical warning for humanity-
Thread synthesizing peer-reviewed research, current news, market intelligence analysis & more.
#CodeRed #ActNow #ClimateCrisis #foodblogger #foodsecurity #news
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Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
What I mean by this, in plain and simple language, is if we do nothing, the impacts are going to be terrible and catastrophic. Whereas, if we do act appropriately, it means radically changing the system in which we live. There is no future where things remain as they are.
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Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 [𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.
Schande @GemeenteLeiden! Dit moet toch een fout zijn?
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
mRNA vaccine technology was not rushed.
It was in development for over 30 years before COVID-19.
Please stop spreading falsehoods that undermine science that literally saves lives.
Anti-vaccine rhetoric is a top ten global health threat.
Mirthe Valentijn retweeted
Women in Afghanistan are being obliterated—no voice, no face, no existence. The Taliban’s latest decrees are nothing short of barbaric: women banned from singing, reciting poetry, or even speaking aloud in public. Their faces and bodies must hidden from the world.
This isn’t just an Afghanistan tragedy; it is a stain on the global conscience, brought about by our failure to act.
