Joan Hunter Dunn

@velfille.bsky.social

London and the vast empty spaces of northern Provence.

A “woke” (squints) hedge fund manager, Chris Hohn spelling out the reality “It’s case of decarbonise or die…if you don’t embrace green technologies there will be no jobs because that’s the future…the more we use fossil fuels the more it will drive up prices”

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 4w ago

Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

Elon Musk’s net worth of $1.1 trillion is five million times as large as that of the typical family. The median American household had a net worth of just under $200,000 in 2022, the year with the most recent data available from the Federal Reserve. nyti.ms/4aL8sNH

...and while I'm not an ornithologist by trade, I do know that Cormorant eyes are fashioned in the depths of Oz, and then rolled down rainbows to be collected by elves, and thence lovingly installed by water nymphs on the day of their hatching #birds #facts

Close up of a cormorant, his emerald eye gleaming