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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit a Record in 2019, Even as Coal Fades

Global consumption of coal declined unexpectedly this year, but a surge in oil and gas pushed up greenhouse gas emissions over all.

nytimes.com/2019/12/03/climate

Climate Change Is Accelerating: ‘Things Are Getting Worse’

The acceleration climate change's effects have brought the world “dangerously close” to abrupt and irreversible changes, scientists warned. 

nytimes.com/2019/12/04/climate

We No Longer Expect Privacy. You Can Change That.

Without a comprehensive privacy bill or some meaningful regulation of Big Tech, we’re not going to change the way our data is siphoned away. But we can hope to change what we demand from ourselves and others when it comes to those small, everyday privacy invasions.

nytimes.com/2019/12/03/opinion

I love this post:

"When we first approached hardware manufacturers almost two years ago with this project most of them instantly said “No, sorry, impossible, we can not help you.”. Others warned us, that it could never work, that it was too complicated, “the industry does not do that” and so forth.

And yet here we are, later than we wanted, but we are actually shipping first hardware! It is possible but it comes at a price."

puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

We Can Do This

It’s hard to think of a more alarming news story: The United Nations said yesterday that the world failed to reduce carbon emissions in recent years and was on pace for catastrophic damage from climate change.

nytimes.com/2019/11/27/opinion

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It.

Communities are being ripped apart as prejudice, hate and disinformation are peddled online. Scammers use the web to steal identities, stalkers use it to harass and intimidate their victims, and bad actors subvert democracy using clever digital tactics... How we respond to this abuse will determine whether the web lives up to its potential as a global force for good or leads us into a digital dystopia.

nytimes.com/2019/11/24/opinion

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