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Had a good life: worked hard @ what I do well & was useful (teaching physics); took family t live India 1988. My life: https://xitter.cf/t.co/hlD1Y2yyfg B:1936 Wife Bera died Jy2013

Kawau Isl PB 902 Vic.St W 1142, NZ
Joined May 2007
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⏰ The clock is ticking! We are entering the “official” last hours of #COP27, but we are still without a strong draft cover document📑 As @UN SG @antonioguterres stated “We are at crunch time in #COP27 negotiations” and we have an important question for World Leaders: 🧵
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President @suluhusamia Tourists will think twice before traveling to Tanzania if this is how the government treats indigenous communities #NoMaasaiEvictions in #Tanzania xitter.cf/Jswsenior/status/15353… secure.avaaz.org/No_Maasai_E…
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Thank you @CNN for telling the truth about the Israeli military’s targeted and deadly attack on Shireen Abu Akleh. @zeenasaifi @elizamackintosh @katie_polglase cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeas…
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When Tanzanian President @SuluhuSamia opens @The_EastAfrican this weekend, she will see the voices of 3 million people calling on her to oppose the Maasai evictions. RT the image below, similar to the full-page ad, and let's make sure she sees it #IStandWiththeMaasai
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JUST IN! 24 hours ahead of #IUCNCongress, our hard-hitting ad in the @FT calls on President @EmmanuelMacron to support the goal to conserve at least half the planet. Will he listen to the science, Indigenous people and marginalized communities and vote for #Motion101ForHalf?
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A week or two ago I had my tin pre-anniversary, 10 years (3653 days) before the day that I die: in the fortnight around 15 July 2031. azlyrics.com/lyrics/donmclea… - Next year it will be copper; my list: Tin Copper Bronze Wool Iron Wood Linen Leather Cotton Paper
In 8 days Israel's Prime Minister is set to expand Israel into much of Palestine, which is a state recognized by th United Nations. But Israel's government is simply taking it "Annexation Is a Gross Violation of International Law": Der Spiegel; 12.06.2020: bit.ly/31a9ujB
Thank you, @Jack for standing strong and posting fact-checks on @RealDonaldTrump -- now please do it for everyone who's seen false or misleading content on @Twitter fb.avaaz.org/campaign/en/tru…
Infrastructure spending today will set NZ’s course for decades to come. Have jobs now and invest in future generations by steering NZ towards a more equitable, low-carbon future #JustRecovery #UniteBehindClimate @grantrobertson1 @PhilTwyford @shanejonesmp 350.org.nz/just-recovery-inf…
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View from my window on Kawau Island, Christmas in New Zealand (Pohutukawa tree in flower, upper right of scene: Stockyard Bay, Bon Accord Harbour).
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.@EricHolder: @Microsoft is enabling a brutal occupation by helping Israel surveil Palestinians. Microsoft doesn’t need an investigation to show AnyVision violates its ethical principles & neither should you #DropAnyVision DropAnyVision.org xitter.cf/qwop456/status/1199073…
PETITION Protect the oceans from destructive fishing. Ban bottom trawling on seamounts! greenpeace.nz/89jg88 #NZOverFishing #SaveTheOceans via @GreenpeaceNZ
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This "video" is from early Sep; I hope Ben Noll of NZ's NIWA will provide another. On Newshub's "Sudden stratospheric warming could be 'strongest on record'" newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…
Unrelenting warming in the Southern Hemisphere polar stratosphere. There will soon be impacts to sensible weather patterns as Antarctic air masses become dislodged and head toward the mid-latitudes (e.g. New Zealand).
The fires in the Amazon are consuming valuable areas of forest in the Brazilian and Bolivian Amazon, and in other important ecosystems: updates.panda.org/the-amazon…
Dear @Kankyo_Jpn The African Elephant Coalition gave documents to the 18th Conf of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). I and they ask Japan to support their proposals to strengthen the protection of elephants