ℹ Considering how many weapons have been adapted for the use by #Ukrainian aircraft – AGM-88 #HARM, #StormShadow / #SCALP missiles, #JDAM guided bombs – can it be done to #APKWS to make them usable by Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters

https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/apkws_rockets_can_be_used_by_mig_29_to_shoot_down_shahed_136_drones_hypothetically-7872.html

Live on an unlivable planet?

In the face of the deepening climate crisis, the UN Committee specified obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

“Children worldwide have been leading the fight against climate change; calling on their governments and corporations to take action to protect the planet and their future."

“This new General Comment marks a vital step forward in the recognition that every child on Earth has the right to live in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Governments must now take urgent action to address the global environmental crisis in order to breathe life into these inspiring words,” says David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment."

"General Comment No. 26 specifies that States are responsible not only for protecting children’s rights from immediate harm, but also for foreseeable violations of their rights in the future due to States’ acts — or failure to act — today.
Furthermore, it underlines that States can be held accountable not only for environmental harm occurring within their borders, but also for the harmful impacts of environmental damage and climate change beyond their borders. Particular attention is to be paid to disproportionate harm faced by children in disadvantaged situations."

"The 196 States that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child are urged to take immediate action including organizing the phase out of coal, oil and natural gas and shifting to renewable energy sources, improving air quality and ensuring access to clean water, transforming industrial agriculture and fisheries to produce healthy and sustainable food, and protecting biodiversity."

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/un-committee-rights-child-calls-states-take-action-first-guidance-childrens-rights
#children #rights #FossilFuels #pollution #heatwaves #harm #disasters #FailureToAct #UN #governance #biodiversity

Ethics of Charity - SciPhi by Answers In Reasonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ome2KYVGsk#charity #ethics #harmful #harm #wellbeing #donating

for #AiR #answersinreason #sciphi #atheism #atheist #tiktok #platosrave #pre-streammix #mix #dj #djwizardsleeve #morality #ethicsandmorality #moralphilosophy #answer #answers #philosophy #book #reading #theist #theism #sciphilive

Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime
New laws to criminalise environmental destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime
#Ecocide #StopEcocide #law #crime #destruction #logging #LandClearing #deforestation #harm #pollution #climate #EcologicalCrisis #biodiversity

A new ecocide law in Scotland. Such a law would establish a specific crime for causing mass environmental damage.

"In 2010 she ( barrister Polly Higgins), launched a campaign for ecocide to be recognised as an international crime, saying that it “leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind. Where such destruction arises out of the actions of mankind, ecocide can be regarded as a crime against peace.”

"The draft law defines the offence as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts”.

“..Scotland is so known for its absolutely beautiful landscapes and its beautiful nature. There’s an emotional connection people can make with this law in Scotland.”

“Criminals who are damaging Scotland’s precious natural environment do not fear the law, and that must change."

https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/campaigners-back-proposals-for-ecocide-law-in-scotland
#Ecocide #war #crime #lawless #criminals #environment #harm #destruction #biodiversity #climate

#MomsforLiberty is a #hateGroup, and a #terrorist organization. It's just that simple. They are dedicated to using weaponized #disinformation and outright #lies to actively #harm the #LGBTQ community. Their goal is the #eradication of #gay and #trans people, and a cultural shift in which the LGBTQ community is shunned and demonized in #society. Their benchmark for success is a growing rate of #suicide among gay and trans people. These #monsters are #evil.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/moms-for-liberty/

@verolynne What has labels and what not solely depends on #Lobbyism, not on actual #harm!

https://heated.world/p/the-environmental-terrorism-of-police?r=39z3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#EnvironmentalTerrorism: The data not only shows yet another example of #racist and often #deadlypolicing in Los Angeles, Kite said; it reveals a pointed example of how #racistpolicing furthers #climate and #environmentalinjustice in America. “They might seem separate, but they are all tied together because of the way that #oppression and root #harm works,” she said.

#AbolishThePolice #surveillancecapitalism #StateSanctionedViolence #NeighborhoodsArePrisons #environmentaljustice #DisposablePeople #capitalismiskillingus

https://metropolismag.com/profiles/how-can-we-decolonize-design/

Driving #displacement, #forced #relocation, #enslavement, and #environmentaldestruction, the “myth of #technological #progress” was “a bad #romance for most,” she observed. In #Decolonizing #Design, she provides a primer to help #dismantle these legacies of #harm- Dori Turnstall
#TragedyOfEnclosure #CooperationEconomics #sharingculture #EcosystemBenefits #comanagement #TakeDownTheFences

Shake-up at top psychiatric institute following suicide in clinical trial https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/08/shake-up-at-top-psychiatric-institute.html #InformedConsent #ClinicalTrials #Nonmaleficence #researchethics #Retractions #Suicide #Fraud #Harm

PSA for all #PhD peers especially those in #PublicHealth and related areas.

Similarly #credentialed #peers calling you out for #HarmfulRhetoric #minimizing #Covid to people asking for #help online who don’t know any better—that critique is not harmful rhetoric. It might have #harmed your #feelings or your #ego but it is NOT the same as the actual #harm you are causing by using your credentials to encourage ppl to harm themselves bc you think they have #anxiety and can’t check your #ableism

Top Arkansas psychiatrist accused of falsely imprisoning patients and Medicaid fraud https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/top-arkansas-psychiatrist-accused-of.html #FinancialSettlement #StateMedicalBoard #MedicaidFraud #MentalHealth #Unethical #Crimes #Harm #Laws

A duty of care bill
“would impose a duty on decision-makers not to make decisions that pose a material risk of harm to the health and wellbeing of current and future children in Australia. Climate and biodiversity will be the things that we get judged on by young people and future generations.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/31/pocock-seeks-to-impose-duty-of-care-on-australian-government-over-climate-harm
#expansion #FossilFuels Sustainable #Coal #harm #Beetaloo #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #care

Supervisees’ Perspectives of Inadequate, Harmful, and Exceptional Clinical Supervision: Are We Listening? https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/supervisees-perspectives-of-inadequate.html #superviseeexperiences #clinicalsupervision #traineedevelopment #Inaction #Harm

We could overcome the #harm caused by ending #AffirmativeAction for #minorities in the #college admission practice by just not giving preferential treatment to students from high #income families.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4115968-students-from-very-wealthy-families-overrepresented-in-elite-colleges-research/
#Students from very #wealthy #families overrepresented in #elite #colleges: #research

#IAmDB

How AI is learning to read the human mind https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/how-ai-is-learning-to-read-human-mind.html #Surveillance #Technology #Privacy #Rights #Harm #Help #AI

Future of the human climate niche
and
Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Future of the human climate niche
"All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). "
"We show that in a business-as-usual climate change scenario, the geographical position of this temperature niche is projected to shift more over the coming 50 y than it has moved since 6000 BP."
"Global warming will affect ecosystems as well as human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth in many ways."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

Quantifying the human cost of global warming
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche."
"The worst-case scenarios of ~3.6 °C or even ~4.4 °C global warming could put half of the world population outside the historical climate niche, posing an existential risk"
"The ~2.7 °C global warming expected under current policies puts around a third of the world population outside the niche."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6

#AdaptationInSitu #climate #mitigation #ClimateJustice #Injustices #ethics #food #crops #livestock #mammals #pests #pathogens #disease #mortality #HighTemperatures #hotspots #exposure #FossilFuels #harm #ParisAgreement #HumanClimateNiche #niche #home

Drones are disturbing critically endangered shorebirds.
Yet another threat to shorebirds along the coastline - habitat destruction, dogs and boats

"Drone disturbance can interrupt birds as they rest or feed. It can even cause them to avoid some locations altogether. This is particularly concerning for species such as the eastern curlew, which migrate thousands of kilometres to breed."

'Regulating drone use near critical shorebird habitats will help us to avoid exacerbating population declines, while still allowing the use of a valuable tool, where appropriate."

https://theconversation.com/drones-are-disturbing-critically-endangered-shorebirds-in-moreton-bay-creating-a-domino-effect-209391
#endangered #shorebirds #conservation #harm #disturbance #Birds #Drones #gadgets #technosphere #sky

Santa Monica’s Headspace Health laid off dozens of therapists. Their patients don’t know where they went https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/santa-monicas-headspace-health-laid-off.html #UnprofessionalConduct #Poorqualityofcare #Incompetence #Abandonment #LegalIssues #Unethical #Fidelity #Ethics #Harm

Nigel B. v. Burbank USD (Cal. Ct. App. - July 3, 2023)

Although student-plaintiff had been injured during PE touch football game, the primary assumption of the risk doctrine did not apply because his participation was mandatory.

#Law #LawFedi #Football #DodgeBall #Bullying #PhysEd #Negligence #Tort #School #Education #sports #AssumptionOfRisk #Breach #Harassment #Harm

https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B317548.PDF