Derrick O'Keefe 🌹

@derrickokeefe.bsky.social

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Vancouver-based writer, editor, non-profit worker & volunteer, community advocate, democratic socialist, husband, dad. Candidate for Vancouver School Board.

“That gilded hoard, nominally of great value, lying inert in a basement mocked the earlier conversation about the resources needed to fight climate change. With her, you are always conscious of misplaced priorities, of the time slipping away, of the need to rearrange national priorities and act. Now… Greta Thunberg and the movement she represents give hope that society won’t settle. It won’t settle for worthy statements followed by futile gestures. It won’t settle for countries having plans for 2.8C of warming that they then don’t even meet. It won’t settle for companies that preach green but don’t manage their carbon footprints. It won’t settle for financial institutions who can’t tell whether their investments and loans are on the right or wrong side of climate history.”
Sim says he used AI technology for personal learning, scanning news, tracking global and financial events, following “thought leaders,” and dietary planning.
America, America: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin
“That gilded hoard, nominally of great value, lying inert in a basement mocked the earlier conversation about the resources needed to fight climate change. With her, you are always conscious of misplaced priorities, of the time slipping away, of the need to rearrange national priorities and act. … Greta Thunberg and the movement she represents give hope that society won’t settle. It won’t settle for worthy statements followed by futile gestures. It won’t settle for countries having plans for 2.8C of warming that they then don’t even meet. It won’t settle for companies that preach green but don’t manage their carbon footprints. It won’t settle for financial institutions who can’t tell whether their investments and loans are on the right or wrong side of climate history.” - Mark Carney, “Value(s)”