Another example of government being captured by the fossil fuel industry, in this case the Modi administration in India choosing to pursue legal action against activists, rather than work towards decarbonization.
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🇮🇳 India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks
➥ Nature
"Aditya Mukherjee, a historian at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Dehli, says that changes to the curriculum are being driven by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a mass-membership volunteer organization that has close ties to India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party. The RSS feels that Hinduism is under threat from India’s other religions and cultures"
A panning on the #camera that went well. That river in the middle is what separates #India from #Myanmar. On the right is Myanmar (Chin state) and on the left is India (Champhai state). Circa when a military coup happened and when the situation had cooled down a bit. Was advised not to stay the night on the Myanmar side so crossed the bridge around sunset, stayed in a local hotel, and came back to the Myanmar side during daylight.
"On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy..."
"#Serbia, #Poland and the #Netherlands have also had issues with teaching evolution in schools. In 2017, Turkey dropped it. Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria and Morocco have banned the teaching of evolution completely. In Egypt and Tunisia, evolution is presented as an unproven hypothesis. "
Update: More than 200 people are dead and hundreds more injured, many still trapped, after trains collide in Odisha, #India, according to state officials.
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