Are we all being watched or listened to?

 Listen to this interesting podcast published in The Guardian.

Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone

 The company’s own research reveals that Instagram harms teens, that it can’t control anti-vax misinformation, and that there is a secret double standard for VIPs. In short, the problem with Facebook is Facebook.

Read this interensing article in The Guardian by  Siva Vaidhyanathan

Climate crisis: history will judge failure to act, Johnson says at UN

 Boris Johnson has warned the world’s rich countries that “history will judge”, if they fail to act now to tackle the climate crisis, as US climate envoy John Kerry suggested President Biden was poised to commit more funds to the fight.

At the UN general assembly in New York, the prime minister urged other developed countries to increase their contributions, to help meet the target of $100bn (£73bn) in climate financing set more than a decade ago.

“The world will see, and your people will remember, and history will judge,” he said, underlining the importance of achieving an ambitious outcome to the Cop26 climate talks, which the UK is hosting in Glasgow in November.

Read the whole article in The Guardian.

Volcano eruption in La palma, Spain

 

Volcano_El País

What about the possibility of switching to a 4-day working week?

 Read this interesting article published by IDEAS.TED.COM and see the advantages of this possibility:

4-day working week

Covid: more than 200 leaders urge G7 to help vaccinate world’s poorest

Former PMs, presidents and ministers sign letter saying richest should pay two-thirds of $66bn needed

More than 100 former prime ministers, presidents and foreign ministers are among 230 prominent figures calling on the leaders of the powerful G7 countries to pay two-thirds of the $66bn (£46.6bn) needed to vaccinate low-income countries against Covid.

A letter seen by the Guardian ahead of the G7 summit to be hosted by Boris Johnson in Cornwall warns that the leaders of the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada must make 2021 “a turning point in global cooperation”. Fewer than 2% of people in sub-Saharan Africa have been vaccinated against Covid, while the UK has now immunised 70% of its population with at least one dose.

The plea comes as Johnson faces a rebellion from dozens of his MPs over cuts to the foreign aid budget, which have hit poorer countries and coronavirus research projects.

Read the complete article clicking here: G7 & Covid-The Guardian