tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
"The proposed $250 billion in the latest COP29 text us a 30% REDUCTION in real terms from the $100 billion promised in 2009.
Inflation not only makes life ever more expensive for people across the world, but it also allows rich countries to hide the real value of their distant promises.
The reality of the 250 billion commitment for 2035 is that not only is it a fifth of the 1.3 trillion that developing countries need, it’s a 30% REDUCTION from the $100bn that was promised in 2009 in real terms (when inflation of 5% is taken into account).
So rich countries promised a wholly insufficient amount in 2009, failed to fulfil that promise for 15 years, and now are kicking the can down the road by delaying real targets for another 10 years, all while DECREASING the real value of their initial commitment by 30% by the time we get there.
This truly is the great escape from responsibility for the rich. $100 billion in 2009 couldn’t even buy the global south the coffins we would need for the climate trajectory the rich countries had locked us into. $250 billion in 2035 will buy us even less."
"💯 ...sign of our times that a US President repeats the absurd notion that criminal law compares perpetrators to each other.
Gallant & Netanyahu were compared to the demands of law and found wanting...the resulting similarity with Hamas is of their own choosing."
tobychev
boosted
NEW from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Disasters created 26.4m internally displaced people in 2023, the vast majority of these displacements were triggered by floods and storms.
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded at +1.45°C above preindustrial.
1/2
tobychev
boosted
when you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it
tobychev
boosted
We live in the internet age, so how on earth did "ability to google search" end up in the same chronic generational decline as "ability to use a sewing machine" did for our parents???
tobychev
boosted
3 months before the early election 🗳️, just how strong is the #farright Alternative for Germany? My trusty poll aggregator says: 18-19%, after hovering around 17% for months. They are still below the all-time high they achieved a year ago, but ...
tobychev
boosted
This morning #AFSCME3299 has been facing down the cops and the pinkertons head on, and even though their strike has a planned end date and is just two days, the university has made it abundantly clear that they intend to illegally police and surveil their way through every strike from here on out.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
