Ben Trister @ben@librem.one
Chairperson, Purism, SPC
Lawyer (LL.B, J.D.) and Chartered Director (C. Dir.)
Joined Apr 2019
Human activity threatens 50 billion years of vertebrate evolutionary history
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200603194431.htm #extinction
BBC News: Extinction crisis 'poses existential threat to civilisation'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52881831 #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction
Summers are growing longer due to climate change, while winters are dramatically shrinking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/01/summers-are-growing-longer-due-climate-change-while-winters-dramatically-shrink/ #climatechange #climatecrisis
Today's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels greater than 23 million-year record
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200601194144.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis
Coronavirus Showed How Globalization Broke the World - Greed and globalization set us up for disaster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-globalization.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalization
Economic Giants Are Restarting. Here’s What It Means for Climate Change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/climate/coronavirus-economic-stimulus-climate.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
One million species may go extinct, and one nation may be the cause
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/25/1946478/-One-million-species-may-go-extinct-and-one-nation-may-be-the-cause #biodiversity #extinction
The Climate Case for the Four-Day Work Week
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-case-for-the-four-day-work-week-1843612429 #climatechange #climatecrisis
It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week
https://earther.gizmodo.com/it-hit-80-degrees-in-the-arctic-this-week-1843606717 #climatechange #climatecrisis
Photos That Show The True Size Of The Earth
https://cheezburger.com/11520005/photos-that-show-the-true-size-of-the-earth #space #earth
Contact-tracing app caught sharing location data with Foursquare
https://mashable.com/article/care19-north-dakota-contact-tracing-app-sharing-location-data-foursquare/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5
Canada fines Facebook almost $6.5 million over 'false' data privacy claims
https://www.engadget.com/canada-fines-facebook-almost-65-million-over-false-data-privacy-claims-000524114.html #facebook #bigtech #purism
Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a measure that would let the FBI collect Americans' web-browsing history without a warrant
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-patriot-act-renewal-fbi-web-browsing-history-2020-5 #privacy #security #purism
Big Oil's Climate Plans Don't Come Close to Meeting the Paris Agreement
https://earther.gizmodo.com/big-oils-climate-plans-dont-come-close-to-meeting-the-p-1843418530 #climatechange #climatecrisis
Billions Could Live in Extreme Heat Zones Within Decades, Study Finds
Researchers said that by 2070 extreme heat could encompass a much larger part of Africa, as well as parts of India, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia and Australia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/climate/heat-temperatures-climate-change.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
The World Just Set a Record For the Cheapest Solar Farm
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-world-just-set-a-record-for-the-cheapest-solar-farm-1843163060 #climatechange #climatecrisis
The Lab That Discovered Global Warming Has Good News and Bad News
The good news is that the pandemic shows “science works.” The bad news? Global warming may be far more dangerous than a pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/nyregion/lamont-doherty-earth-observatory-global-warming.html #climatechange #climatecrisis
Facebook's FTC Settlement Is Officially a Train Wreck
https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-ftc-settlement-is-officially-a-train-wreck-1843043631 #libremone #purism #bigtechdebate
Chairperson, Purism, SPC
Lawyer (LL.B, J.D.) and Chartered Director (C. Dir.)
Joined Apr 2019
