Looks like the article was removed. I suppose this is a great reminder why it’s important to archive a link before posting it, and share the archived link as well.

I agree with your take on many levels. Maybe the percentage looks like it’s a quite higher than 0.05% [Nestlé reports full-year results for 2023], but still not enough to really hurt them. I also agree with what is mentioned at the end of the article:

“It’s a scandalous decision which sends a very bad message about a climate of impunity: Nestlé Waters can deceive consumers around the world for years and get away with it by pulling out its checkbook,”

I think I understand what you mean, but I see things quite differently.

The problem on this planet is this specific form of capitalism we live under.

Humans are the solution to this systemic problem.

Great you mentioned this, so I just edited the title so the point is clear.

Just finished the first episode and I find it very interesting. Crossposting it to Podcasts.

Partially archived link of the article

So you choose to ignore that Israel for almost a year has been committing Genocide towards Palestinians. That this Genocide takes place in OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories), occupied by Zionists that is, for over 75 years. You choose to ignore that a huge part of this Zionist society is totally supporting the Genocide, and many of them even make fun of it on podcasts and social media while plenty of Israeli support this material.

Instead, you want to shift the topic from Genocide and the support it gets, to Hamas.

Please, don’t overestimate the power of Hasbara / Zionist propaganda.

Good point, I changed the title.

This article does use more specific language than “southern hemisphere”, so not too sure what you mean. It also includes several links for further reading in relation to this topic.

Thank you for pointing me towards the right direction, so I found the following link:

Precise, gentle and efficient - The cleanup system has been specially designed and tailored for this purpose. It is four meters deep and designed as a funnel with an opening at the bottom to ensure that fish and other marine life are not trapped when trawling for marine plastic.

Thank you for pointing that out, this part really does not make any sense. Not to sure what I had in mind, so I thought of making an edit with a strikethrough so that the sentence does make sense.

To be honest, I don’t know who’s in the right here, …

The way I see things, it’s pretty clear. In the global south are the countries that suffer the most from the economic activities (to say the least) that come from the global north. Giving these badges to the global south NGOs is important as an effort to balance out how underrepresented these part of the world typically are, even tho they are most affected by actions of others ,namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there. Admittedly, I don’t expect too much out of this specific climate conference due to the intense lobbying that takes place there. I’d love to be wrong on this one and be pleasantly surprised, for sure.

…but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I believe it is important to accept that all media is biased, even if they try to portray themselves as neutral or objective (an easy example would be fox’s fair and balanced sloggan). So I don’t think that bias is a problem by itself, but performing impartiality totally is, and mainstream media do that for several reasons.

Still, I think a journalist or an outlet can be trustworthy, and this relies on their processes. They need to be honest and meticulous in their research (and perhaps something else that I didn’t think of right now).

Edit: The strikethrough

Archived link of the article

This looks like a very interesting project but I’m not sure I understand how the net works so it catches only plastics and not fish. Or are fish caught as well in this process?

If you have a specific one (or more!) in mind could you please share?

I see what you mean, so I need to make the following clarification.

My statement that you quoted is specific to the context of the anthroposcene topic. Not a general one, for all topics.

Ok, tbh the understanding I got from rule 3 is that it was more flexible, in the sense that it says “may be removed”, not “will be removed”, but thank you for taking the time to clarify this.

Archived link of an article from Haaretz:

Israel’s General Strike: Who’s Working and Who’s Not

I understand what you say about the difference of posts and comments.

Reported as a copy/paste of a Mondoweiss article

Not too sure I understand to which rule this report would be based on anyway. And btw Mondoweiss is mentioned at the very top of the article. It’s the same author, different outlets. Not a secret.

Healthcare cooperatives formed by patients, hiring medical practitioners to take care of them and possibly for outside persons as well.

I wonder how is this going? I have limited knowledge on that sort of efforts but it’s a topic that interests me.

I know of some cases of doctors self organising to provide their services. The longevity of the projects Ι have heard of varies. One of them did last for a few years, but I remember the last dentist left told me they got afraid of having their license to practice revoked.

Also in Chiapas the Zapatistas have been doing tremendous work on it. If I remember correctly from last time I checked, they mainly relied on local traditional medicines and had help some conventional doctors. I understand that this example is a totally different to the situation you are describing but I think it is slightly relevant in the broader sense of autonomous health services.