A new satellite imaging study suggests that forest restoration “isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” — says Prof Tom Crowther at ETH Zürich, who led the research theguardian.com/environment/20…
Jun 13, 2019 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
Many of you shared or read the VICE article '‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ Within 30 Years’ - based on a report from Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, an Australian think tank.
This was misleading & needs some caveats
1. "The "report" is not a peer-reviewed scientific paper. It's from some sort of "think tank" who can basically write what they like," says Prof. Richard Betts of the Met Office Hadley Centre & University of Exeter
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Dec 1, 2018 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labour’
Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who invented the term, says it’s specifically about managing your emotions.
Remembering the kids’ schedules & your mother-in-law’s birthday? That’s just regular cognitive labour. theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“There’s no doubt that the unpaid, expected, and unacknowledged work of keeping households and relationships running smoothly falls disproportionately on women. But that doesn’t make it emotional labor. Organizing to-do lists and planning family Christmases are just labor.”
