#Mexico, #Guatemala, #Belize all experiencing extreme record breaking heatwaves accompanied by widespread wildfires and smoke danger. (Image 1 showing increased risk of heat-humidity stress days as we continue to heat)
Instrument readings:
+1.63ºC 12-month running mean above preindustrial (Berkeley Earth/ERA5 datasets)
+1.3ºC latest 5-year average above preindustrial
Rebecca Solnit wrote: “I don’t know whether these #billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city that’s been my home since 1980 & used their wealth to undermine its diversity & affordability, demonise its poor, turn its politicians into puppets & push its politics to the right. They have produced many kinds of dystopia without ever deviating from the line that they are bringing us all to a glorious utopia for which they deserve our admiration.
By producing such extremes of wealth, tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism, with a few powerful figures accountable to no one. Here’s #ElonMusk, the world’s richest person, who invited in misinformation, disinformation & hate, providing a platform for extreme right-wingers, racists & #conspiracy theorists, while also using his #Starlink#satellite technology first for & then against the Ukrainian military in their conflict with #Russia. ” #SanFrancisco#SiliconValley
3/ (snip) "For a while, Thiel backed the libertarian wet dream known as seasteading, building artificial islands beyond government control. Thiel’s attempt to build a post-apocalyptic bunker in a remote part of #NewZealand’s South Island was rejected, but Bill Gates, now only the world’s 8th richest person, has his own island in #Belize. Oracle’s Larry Ellison, the world’s 4th richest, owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, resort hotels & all, an inhospitable place for anyone who’s not enormously wealthy. Zuckerberg’s private compound covering 1400 acres of Kauai includes multiple mansions & luxury treehouses, plus an underground bunker. (Tech billionaires seem more interested in surviving apocalypse than preventing it.)
You can’t be in favor of both #democracy & #billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, & extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability."
It's not brand new, but after 70 years fighting malaria, I think we can still celebrate the people of Belize's victory over this deadly disease a few months after being certified #malaria free!
#Belize went from 10 000 cases in 1994, to 0 in 2019!
Not only does this mean hundreds of thousands of people don't have to suffer from this – it also means that the resources spent fighting it can now be used for other things. This is way eradication is so important! Congrats!
#Belize suspends diplomatic relations with Israel, it withdrew the accreditation of the #Israeli ambassador and suspended its activities in Israel.
This follows a growing list of South and Central American Nations who have given backlash towards Israel for the aggression in #Gaza, thus joining countries like #Colombia, #Chile, and #Bolivia.
#Belize suspends diplomatic ties with Israel over war attacks on Gaza citing what it describes in a statement as “unceasing indiscriminate bombing in #Gaza” @palestine@israel