The solution to this problem is to figure out credible reasons to justify the number of indian military personnel, and the expenses of maintaining this relationship. Once you do that, reveal the details, and they lose leverage to push through this issue. /1

And that means owning up to why Indian military assistance is needed. This requires large national conversation about the threat of Islamic extremists in the Maldives, explain the dangers and the opportunity cost of an attack etc. /2
People will except we'll reasoned decision making. And the public already has a frame of reference to indian military assistance from November 3rd 1988. So none of this is new or a surprise. /3
What is being weaponised is this imagined spectre of loss of autonomy for the country by collaborating with indian military on national security issues. This is an easy problem to solve. /4
The solution is merely laying out how national autonomy is maintained in such a national security collaboration. It's not like the Maldives can defend itself from any foreign military invasion anyways. /5
The country's independence and autonomy is maintained not through military force. It's maintained through relationships. This needs to be unpacked and explained the people to convince the public over national security collaboration. /6
This problem with Islamists hiding behind political facades and agitating the government and public don't go away until you take away what they are weaponizing against the government. This problem won't go away until it's solved. /7
I hope you all make the right decisions and move past this issue. @ibusolih @MohamedNasheed @MariyaDidi @CDFofMNDF @HCIMaldives @IndianDiplomacy @MDPSecretariat 8/8 #SecularMaldives #FikuryInqilab
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EVs DO NOT EMIT MORE PM

Recently @OECD published a report about particulate matter (PM) from road transport. Newspaper headlines blared that electric vehicles where worse than combustion vehicles. That conclusion was wrong according to the report itself.

Let me show you.


The report (published december 7) can be found here:
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It's main point is well taken: as cars get cleaner, fine particles emitted by brakes, tires and road surfaces will become more important.
The table comparing electric and combustion engines is on page 92. I took averages of low and high values to get the graph in the first tweet.


I merely took the averages. To get this.


I think it is a terrific report that pulls together a LOT of literature on fine particles that cars spew into the air and that make us sick.

We have ignored this problem for too long, and there's more here than simply exhaust!
It's out! The @EU_Commission winter economic forecast for 2021 ๐Ÿ“Š
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ +5.6% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท +5.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท +5.6% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ +4.7% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡น +4.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น +4.1% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ +4.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ +4.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช +3.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด +3.8% GDP
๐Ÿ’ถ +3.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ +3.7% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท +3.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป +3.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช +3.4% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น +3.2% GDP

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช +3.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ +3.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ +3.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ +3.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ +3.1% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ +2.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ +2.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ +2.7% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช +2.7% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช +2.6% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น +2.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น +2.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ +1.8% GDP

Vs๐Ÿ“ˆ 2020:

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ -11.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท -10.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡น - 9.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท - 8.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น - 8.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท - 8.3% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น - 7.6% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น - 7.4% GDP
๐Ÿ’ถ - 6.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ - 6.3% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช - 6.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ - 6.2% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ - 5.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ - 5.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ - 5.7% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ - 5.3% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช - 5.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด - 5.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ - 4.9% GDP

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ - 4.1% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป - 3.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ - 3.5% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ - 3.1% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ - 3.1% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช - 3.0% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช - 2.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช - 2.9% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ - 2.8% GDP
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น - 0.9% GDP

Commissioner @PaoloGentiloni says the forecast is based on the assumption that restrictive measures to contain the #coronavirus will be eased in the second quarter of 2021.

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