Rishika Pardikar

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Environment and climate reporter covering science, law & policy | Drilled, Article-14, The Hindu, The Continent đź“ŤBengaluru, India

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Have to say though, I expect little from media that have no real stake in the lives of people who are not their core audience. Expecting New Yorker to investigate the electoral roll mess and the chipping away of the independence of Election Commission of India is expecting too much

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The headline would have made sense if the report was about electoral roll revisions and if it came months ago when Indian media was also investigating and reporting about such issues. Picking this moment when people are fighting back to say "end of Indian democracy" is odd

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Odd headline. Hi @newyorker.com, the cockroach protests are a glimmer of hope for the survival of democracy in India. Millions in the country are suffering under the weight of 12 years of gross incompetence and authoritarian tendencies of the Modi government. Peoples' power and protest = democracy

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Good paper on 'Equitable Transitions Away from Fossil Fuels' (ETAFF). Worth a read in full, especially considering the misconception that equity runs into conflict with ambition and science

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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Australia and Türkiye rely on coal, gas, & oil to generate respectively around 90% & 80% of their domestic energy needs. Australia is also the world’s third-largest fossil fuels exporter. Given such dependencies, how will the #COP31 presidencies tackle the fossil fuel question?

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"It is almost impossible to overstate their desire to avoid responsibility."

@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social to @shainin.bsky.social on his "incriminating account of America’s foreign policy establishment, even as Biden’s top staffers are busy whitewashing their reputations elsewhere in the media."

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Some amount of fossil fuels will remain for a while, no? I doubt any modeller would confidently project "phaseout", as it is commonly understood. But the trajectory of coal is quite clear. With all the electrification in transport, we might see oil also pushed out

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