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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 49m
The global fishing industry kills at least 1 trillion fish every year, even though it produces only about 1% of the world’s food. About half the fish it catches become feed for industrial animal operations, including aquatic ones 🔗⬇️
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 1h
Excellent! Shut them down for good. "What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels," McKenna added. "That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." www.dw.com/en/climate-l...
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Climate leaders called for solar energy for 'everyone, everywhere' by 2030, but is that possible?
Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 2h
"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels," McKenna added. "That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." Solar energy for everyone, everywhere by 2030 www.dw.com/en/climate-l...
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Climate leaders called for solar energy for 'everyone, everywhere' by 2030, but is that possible?
Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 7h
Us humans could and should stop doing those kinds of things. vancouverhumanesociety.bc.ca/posts/fish-f...
vancouverhumanesociety.bc.ca
The inconvenient truth about fish
There is now a scientific consensus that fish feel pain, are sentient, and are far more intelligent than we thought.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 16h
I don't really get why the adults in the room embrace it. thebullshitmachines.com
thebullshitmachines.com
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 16h
"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels," McKenna added. "That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." www.dw.com/en/climate-l...
dw.com
Climate leaders called for solar energy for 'everyone, everywhere' by 2030, but is that possible?
Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 18h
Most everyday people don't own homes.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 18h
Did ChatGPT tell the 252 month old that?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 18h
"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels," McKenna added. "That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." www.dw.com/en/climate-l...
dw.com
Climate leaders called for solar energy for 'everyone, everywhere' by 2030, but is that possible?
Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 18h
We have 5 months to solve the problem once and for all! end-of-fishing.org/en/
end-of-fishing.org
End of fishing
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 20h
No more pipelines, a petition. share.nwmd.social/s/s8yS1oJA
share.nwmd.social
De-list this risky pipeline & tanker project before it's too late
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atomicker.bsky.social @atomicker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy': #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #Renewables #Solar
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Climate leaders called for solar energy for 'everyone, everywhere' by 2030, but is that possible?
Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who is to blame for the crisis? The dealer? Or the user?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Back in the day, In Vancouver, thousands of them would accompany me on my commute to my night job at IBM.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More vegan restaurants please! ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
ourworldindata.org
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is true, I have my appointment booked already as well.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Educated" is doing a lot of work there.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..." www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
unep.org
Methane emissions are driving climate change. Here’s how to reduce them.
This primer explores the causes of methane emissions and how the world can limit the release of this potent greenhouse gas.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Producing meat and dairy is the leading driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
ourworldindata.org
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Probably the biggest difference we can make today is choosing carefully what to have for lunch. ourworldindata.org/carbon-oppor...
ourworldindata.org
What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food?
What are the carbon opportunity costs of our diet? How much carbon could we store by regrowing forests and wild habitats on existing farmland?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What comes next? Hopefully the world learns to wean itself off of fossil fuels.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why spend your own capital when you can borrow money that you never pay back?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
so incestuous all these tech bros
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What about benefiting the customers? Every business is in the business of customer service.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Excellent! Leave it in the ground. It's way past time to move past the fossil fuel age.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the dishwasher
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Less people flying is a positive.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The poor innocent fish are not upset about this news.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
... too bizarre to be discussed in polite company ... bsky.app/profile/nath...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
wat? bsky.app/profile/alan...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So weird. AI is not a sentient being, it does not care about anything. AI does not care about what might "benefit" it nor about what might "harm" it."
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Rumen Methane Discourse Bot @cowburpsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the record: enteric fermentation occurs in the rumen, which is the first and largest compartment of the ruminant stomach. The methane produced is primarily belched, not flatulated. You're welcome.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What about the sentient beings within nature? Should their rights and interests take priority over an abstract concept such as "nature"? Or should the rights of nature override the individual rights of those sentient beings?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
aka: no union job is a bad job
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Enough to offset the emissions from the goats themselves? "The contribution of the small ruminant sector to GHG emissions is equivalent to 474 million tonnes CO 2 -eq." www.fao.org/4/i3461e/i34...
fao.org
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And that doesn't even count the emissions from burning the stuff!
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More on how: ... by regrowing forests and wild habitats on existing farmland ... ourworldindata.org/carbon-oppor...
ourworldindata.org
What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food?
What are the carbon opportunity costs of our diet? How much carbon could we store by regrowing forests and wild habitats on existing farmland?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nor in the corporation sense?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As legal persons corporations have obligations as well as rights. Both those obligations and rights are different from those granted to natural persons. What type of person would nature be? What obligations would it have, and what would the penalty be if it broke the law?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Car? I haven't had one of those in decades!
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And all of that does not include the emissions from actually using (aka burning) the stuff! Oh sorry, I forgot. Not our emissions not our problem, right? Right?
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What Eby is proposing just might land up costing me more if grocers raise prices on the foods that really are essential.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have been tracking my weekly grocery bill and it has not changed significantly in the last 2 years. It averages $50 a week.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is just one problem. Meat and dairy are not essential in the human diet and come with significant environmental and sentient animal welfare costs.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few years ago, on my walk to work in Paris, I’d pass a group of doctors and nurses smoking outside one of Europe's leading cancer treatment and research centers. I don't see them anymore. That seems like progress.
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a silly arguement: "Try making cars, appliances, textiles or homes without plastics."
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Smart move. Worth every penny. thebullshitmachines.com
thebullshitmachines.com
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
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