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Global Policy Challenges 🌐 Nations debate #ethicalstandards, #privacy concerns, and the #societalimpact of #AI, seeking a balance between #innovation and #regulation.

Regulation and Responsibility ⚖️ Lawmakers craft policies to ensure AI is #transparent, #fair, #accountable, while preventing #misuse or #harm through AI.

Competition and Collaboration 🤝 #Countries and #techgiants compete for #AIleadership, but also recognise the need for global cooperation.

👉 AIPolitics.EU
👉 @ai #news

AI Humanoid Robot
eicker.net · AI Politics: Frameworks or Rules for Artificial IntelligenceAI Politics explores how governments, organisations, societies create frameworks or rules for development, deployment, use of artificial intelligence.

Countries must prevent harm to the climate system and tackle fossil fuels to ensure the right to life.

"...The international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution."

"The unanimous opinion covers a wide range of matters under international law. It says states are liable for all kinds of activities that harm the climate, but it takes explicit aim at fossil fuels. It says that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through the production and consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies, “may constitute an international wrongful act which is attributable to that state”.

"The court said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was a precondition for exercising many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#climate #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #harm #consumption #reparations #restitution #justice #law #HumanRights #Pacific #RightToLife

The Guardian · Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rulesVon Isabella Kaminski

Clearing rainforest for cattle farming is far worse for nature than previously thought, finds landmark bird survey

"In the largest ever survey of rainforest birdlife, scientists have discovered that deforestation to create pastureland in Colombia is causing around 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously estimated...We found that the biodiversity loss caused by clearing rainforest for pastureland is being massively underestimated.”
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cam.ac.uk/research/news/cleari
#meat #food #deforestation #cattle #pasture #biodiversity #birds #harm #pastoralism #plantations #LoggingAndLandclearing

Savanna hawk is a widespread species that invades formerly forested areas after clearance
University of CambridgeClearing rainforest for cattle farming is far worse for nature than previously thought, finds landmark bird surveyIn the largest ever survey of rainforest birdlife, scientists have discovered that deforestation to create pastureland in Colombia is causing around 60% more

Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
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theconversation.com/overtouris
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

Fortgeführter Thread

But the #legislation that #Republicans passed through the #Senate Tuesday stands apart in its #harm to the #budget, analysts say. Not only did an initial analysis show it adding at least $3.3 trillion to the #NationalDebt over the next 10yrs—making it among the most expensive bills in a generation—but it would also reduce the amt of #tax #revenue the country collects for decades. Such a shortfall could begin a seismic shift in the nation’s fiscal trajectory & raise the risk of a #debt #crisis.

Many class action lawsuits related to data breaches get dismissed for lack of standing when plaintiffs cannot show concrete injury or imminent harm. Or when they do allege concrete harm like fraud or IDtheft, they may have trouble showing it was due to that specific #databreach and not any of a gadzillion other breaches that have occurred.

In Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, the lower court dismissed the suit because it didn't think the plaintiffs made a clear enough showing of tracing the harm to the breach.

The appellate court reversed and remanded.

After that, the case settled for more than $1M.

databreachtimes.com/healthcare

"...each fish can experience up to 22 minutes of intense pain..."

Do you assume agony isn't significant just because YOU aren't the one feeling it?
That's societal psychopathic indifference and it perpetuates cruelty for profit and habit.

Animals are not about quotas, stock, flavour or profit. That is the vocabulary of an entrenched war machine against animals living their natural lives.

If you link fishing to relaxation or sport, how will you feel when you realise the misery you caused?

We can thrive AND not ever inflict harm on animals.
Think. Observe. Empathise.
Enjoy exploring the alternatives, being the difference.

In many instances it isn't the animal flesh you are addicted to. It is the preparation/social ritual or the flavours you enjoy with it.
So move the flavours and rituals to non-harming alternatives.

sciencealert.com/fish-suffer-u

ScienceAlert · Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of WaterEach year, a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water, typically destined for our plates.
#Fish#Fishing#meat

"Bigger cars
mean bigger costs for everyone else. Larger vehicles – no matter how they are powered – generally impose bigger costs on society than smaller cars."

"Now, SUVs and light commercial vehicles comprise almost 80% of the market. Four in five new vehicles sold in Australia today are an SUV, ute, van or light truck. Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer."
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theconversation.com/drivers-of
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadDamage #harm #TrafficJams #congestion #Bellingen #SpacialJustice #pedestrians

A quotation from Chamfort

To enjoy and to give joy, without harming either oneself or anyone else, that, I think, is all of morality.
 
[Jouis et fair jouir, sans faire mal ni à toi ni à personne, voilà, je crois, toute la morale.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 319 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/159…

#quote#quotes#quotation