❌ Extinction Rebellion
✅ Communication, challenges and gentle advocacy
A todos los que están promoviendo en 🇪🇸 España el [Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia](https://www.un.org/es/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day) quiero recordarles, este año otra vez, que en #España,
* [según Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Human_resources_in_science_and_technology), hace dos años ya había más mujeres que hombres «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», que
* [según el INE](https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t00/mujeres_hombres/tablas_1/l0/&file=c02002.px), hace dos años las mujeres ya representaban el 54% de todas las personas «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», y que,
* también según el INE, hace como mínimo seis años que las mujeres ya son mayoría entre los estudiantes matriculados, y entre los que obtienen titulaciones, en _todas_ las áreas de estudio, y eso incluye «ciencias» y «ciencias de la salud» (única excepción: «ingeniería y arquitectura»).
#InternationalWomenInScienceDay #DiaDeLaMujerYLaNinaEnLaCiencia #11febrero #WomenInScience #IDWGS2023
④ #Tolerance:
> _“**Liberals are in their personal lives more intolerant of conservatives than vice versa** across numerous dimensions in the US and the UK. Those on the left are more likely to block someone on social media over their views, be upset if their child marries someone from the other side, and find it hard to be friends with or date someone they disagree with politically.”_
— https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-is-everything-liberal
Sources here, with lots of interesting surveys and charts: https://noahcarl.medium.com/who-doesnt-want-to-hear-the-other-side-s-view-9a7cdf3ad702
② Mental #health:
> _“**White (and especially ‘very’) liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition**.”_
— https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248823825317363714
Possible flaw: [“it's possible that the disparities in self-reported diagnosis are simply or partly a function of white liberals being more likely to seek mental health evaluations”](https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248826478432858112).
① #Marriage and family life:
> _“**Conservatives are more likely than liberals to be happily married**, simply because they're more likely to be married in the first place. […] Ideology predicts marital status among Americans about as well as income or education.”_
— https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-than-money-the-liberal-conservative-divide-in-marriage/
Possible flaw: I suspect age correlates with both probability of being married and with probability of leaning right, so when you look at who's married _today_, some of those (happily) married who declare to be conservatives would have been singles who identified as liberals two or three decades earlier. In other words: perhaps it's not that being a liberal makes you less likely to marry, but that being married and having children moves you closer to conservatism!
3️⃣ Number of animals affected:
You could reduce quite a lot your carbon footprint by replacing all your beef and lamb with chicken and fish (big mammals emit far more CO₂ per kg of protein than poultry and fish). The problem is, then [you would be indirectly responsible for many, many more individual animals raised in industrial farms and killed in slaughterhouses](http://hannahritchie.com/meat-environment-welfare-tradeoff/).
2️⃣ Carbon emissions:
Think you can stick to your steaks and omelettes and at the same time manage to significantly reduce your carbon footprint by “eating locally”? Actually, [transport accounts for a very small fraction of carbon released in food production](https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local) (be it plant- or animal-based).
Also,
> _“most food internationally comes by ship. And, actually shipping is very carbon efficient. You're going to emit 10 to 20 times less CO₂ than trucks per kilometre and 50 times less than flying. Most of your soy or your avocados are nearly always coming by ship and shipping actually has a very, very small carbon footprint.”_
— [Hannah Ritchie](https://www.econtalk.org/hannah-ritchie-on-eating-local/#audio-highlights)
1️⃣ Land usage:
[Crops for human consumption make up only 23% of all agricultural land worldwide, and yet they provide 83% of all calories](http://hannahritchie.com/convergence-nutrition-sustainability/).
Plant-based calories (and proteins) are much more efficient and require way less land and water than meat and dairy.
Oh, so that's why everything's broken!
[Source](http://www.ecosystematic.com/2020/04/29/the-ecosystem-of-wicked-problems/)
My recommended first step towards a saner, more productive public conversation about #drugs: stop talking about certain (legal) drugs as if they were not, in fact, “drugs”
#BasketballAndSports #alcohol #DrugLegalisation #news #media
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