Hirom

Sustainability is not typically part of a bank's vocabulary.

But there are terms a bank can understand : systemic risk for the economy, the prospect of fossil fuel investments becoming stranded assets, negative effect on public relation and how it can be a competitive disadvantage if a bank do not attract customers who value human life.

Yes, banks should worry about all these risks. Climate change is a large systematic risk so it make sense to worry about it as well.

Meanwhile, megabanks like Wells Fargo are backsliding on their previous climate pledges and exiting from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a United Nations-backed group that encouraged members to slash their emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

Multiple US banks and entities are backtracking their goals of lowering emissions, wich is the main solution to limit the risks of climate change.

They're setting themselves up, and us collectively, for higher risks of flood, drought, sea rise, ...

This is a good reason to ban hard to recycle, non-dissolvable plastics.

They met their goal: a ban on new licenses for oil and gas.

Yay!

That person's solidarity with a colleague is remarkable and probably worth sharing, but indeed doesn't look like a meme.

Yet I see why one would accept such post in a science-focused community. It's hard to ignore all the attacks on science by US politicians.

Carbon capture doesn't really help meet climate goal. Burning less and less fossil fuels does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrFtReaFMY

DM aren't end-to-end encrypted, so they aren't a good way to send private messages.

I'm using a different instances, but I'd rather admin just turn them off for the time being.

Antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women already is a safe and effective way to avoid HIV transmission to the baby. It's part of standard treatment guidelines https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1701216324003748

So the guy has genetically engineered babies as a potentially risky and certainlycontroversial solution for a problem that already has a safe and non-controversia solution.

Was there any doubt that compost is useful for farming?

This report explains F-35 have no remote control nor kill switch, but depend on US companies for maintenance and parts.

Source : https://interestingengineering.com/military/f35-kill-switch-reports-debunked

Even if an F-35 operator disconnected from the larger Joint Strike Fighter program’s supply chains can keep some number of its jets flying for a period of time through spares on hand and cannibalization, those aircraft would have extremely degraded capabilities.

Source : https://www.twz.com/air/you-dont-need-a-kill-switch-to-hobble-exported-f-35s

EU regulation banned some pigments in 2022 due to risk of cancer. https://www.theblackhattattoo.com/blog/eu-tattoo-ink-ban-what-is-reach-and-how-does-it-impact-tattoo-artists

It'd be interesting to know if the increase risk in this new study appear with recently banned pigments, or if more pigments carry a risk.

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