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Liberals from #Germany block groundbreaking #EU law. The adoption of the CSDD was just a formality. And it’s time to recognise basic human rights. So this came as a surprise. And not at all? Yet this lobbying has no clear force since many companies called for this change too. It sounds like a strange bid to gain non-existing voters. Listen to the recent episode of #WohlstandFürAlle: wohlstandfueralle.podigee.io/236-liefe… #valuechains #fairtrade
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Chinatown KL w/ hip book store in an old cinema. #streetphotography #photography #malaysia
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Food for thought. Lame but 🤷🏻‍♂️. #Malaysia—a food paradise. Love the streets. Before our lunar new year visit, I read about the country and how it outplayed #Vietnam re chips. The infrastructure: on another level. The poverty: not so much? #photography
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JNU in Delhi was a place to discuss and breathe. I experienced it in 2012. But Modi. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/1… Bonus: campus art. www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2…
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#KL vibe. Lunar new year down south. Probing a (physical) filter at noon w/ harsh light conditions. A place that smells like sambal and dhal, and where the SkyTrain cuts the horizon in half. Sure, #kualalumpur #malaysia #sea #streetphotography
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“Someone has to suffer, the writer or the reader. But the reader doesn’t want to.” (And thus quits.) I’m re-reading the notorious German grandmaster Wolf Schneider. Precise language can achieve a lot. Yet it’s tough to cultivate. #academicchatter #sociology #sts
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A linkdump on hot climate events, web scams, and Vietnam greeting the dragon

Starting off with an odd one: Big Oil apparently funded climate science since the early 1950s. And it was Keeling himself at the centre. Think Keeling curves and long-term CO2 measurements. But it sounds like a different time. Less evil still, so that Keeling could use this funding for the good. Part of this story is that differences between air pollution and CO2 emissions were much less clear. www.desmog.com/2024/01/3… Newly discovered documents affirm that the automobile and petroleum industries funded early climate science Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956.

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New year celebrations. #Hanoi is full of flowers and colours. Usually there is a grey filter on top. But we had a sunny day! Just a few more days until the moon has turned. #streetphotography #vietnam