"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
It is only the #libertarian who says "Don't subsidize them at all. Let the people choose where to spend their own money; do not take it from them at gunpoint and then spend it "for their own good"".
Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.
Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads:
“27 million pounds of chicken
2 million gallons of milk
67 million eggs
That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.”
Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”
A minimalist graphic with a textured white background. In the centre, the sentence “Housing is a right, not a privilege.” is repeated multiple times, forming the shape of a house. The top lines are in red, with the colour fading into black as the repetitions continue downward. At the bottom, the phrase appears once more in bold black text. In the lower right corner, there’s a simple outline of the EU flag with twelve stars in a circle.
Volker Turk, the United Nations' human rights chief, "told a UN Human Rights Council debate on the right to #food that #ExtremeWeather events were wiping out crops, herds and ecosystems, making it impossible for communities to rebuild and support themselves.
Turk said world leaders "perform the choreography of deciding to act and promising to act and then get stuck in the short term".
Jake #Yeston, an editor at #Science magazine, made the point that a broader base of personal histories can improve the process of deciding what scientific issues to work on:
The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli