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A lot of BS being hurled around here when it comes to #UBI - handing #money is not the only way. Provide basic #housing #healthcare #transportation #education #food #water #energy for free and pay for it with #tax on #income #wealth #inheritance that is steeply #progressive

After that one can assess the need for actually handing out #cash

#democracy #humanrights #justice

Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy

Andrew Yang’s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can’t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives

^{Eduardo Porter (The Guardian)}

I use less than 5L of water to shower in our motorhome and I take a very decent shower. It is all about knowing how to use that water. Likely a shower at home would use over 10 times that. Here is the water consumption in EU on average:

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The average human in Spain consumes in a day as much as we two consume in a week in our motorhome.

Ride With Less videos.trom.tf/c/ridewithless/… :)

#europe #eu #water #consumption #motorhome #vanlife

Behind the curtain.

#photography #water

BREAKING
Greenpeace has upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and ‘returning’ 2000 litres of river slime at the entrances.

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#water #greenpeace #nzpol #fonterra #pollution #toomanycows

Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting

Greenpeace activists have upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ this morning, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and dumping 2000 litres of…

^{Rhiannon Mackie (Greenpeace Aotearoa)}

Sir, I cannot *stand* seeing suffering, but I am--unfortunately-- not in a position to aid financially. However, I've consistently been seeing what a burden it is to find water in #Gaza & other places & I thought of something. I pray you aren't offended by my suggestion.

In the US, early settlers would put barrels outside their homes to collect #Rain #Water. They would use it for washing & could sometimes use the upper portions of collected water to drink from. (1)

A good dog keeping up on fetching practice until someone comes to play.

#dog #dogs #gooddog #smartdog #introvert #play #fetch #water #funny #dogsofmastodon #mastodondogs

A 2023 #SCOTUS decision set the stage for the action by limiting the agency’s power to police #wetlands. In the opinion in Sackett v. EPA, Justice #Alito wrote that the #CleanWaterAct allowed the #EPA to regulate only wetlands with a “continuous surface connection” to a “relatively permanent” body of #water.

But he did not explicitly define a “relatively permanent” body of water. Now, the #Trump admin is describing it as a body of water that flows year-round or during the “wet season.”

#law

The #Trump admin proposed Monday to significantly limit the EPA’s authority to limit #pollution in #wetlands, #rivers & other bodies of #water across the country.

The proposed rule could strip federal #protections from millions of acres of wetlands & #streams, potentially threatening sources of clean #DrinkingWater for millions of Americans.

#climate #wildlife #law #EnvironmentalLaw #CleanWaterAct
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