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Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks? - Inside Climate News (insideclimatenews.org)
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A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Give them a voice? Those scientists have been screaming about it my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The articles posted in this community are literally the most important things we should all be reading and paying attention to as a species. Where are the subscribers? Why are we shouting into the void here? What can I do to help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not subscribed but I check the community on my Local feed and read the articles regularly as a slrpnk.net member. This community might be in a unique spot where it is a relatively large community on an instance where many instance members chose this particular instance for content like this, so they access it via the Local feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think I am following what impact accessing via Local feed would have, vs any other way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean to say that I am viewing the content without contributing to the total number of community subscribers, and if many others are accessing the community as I am, then the subscriber count underestimates the community's reach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think I understand how you feel, in the sense I had a similar despair when I first landed in this community. Then I took a look around in this instance and found the slrpnk wiki page. Even just reading it was soothing for me, in a realistic way. If you feel like, take a look at it.