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Doctors Without Borders is fighting to save refugees in the Mediterranean, but Italian authorities are blocking their efforts. How can we stand by as lives hang in the balance?

 

Campaign group’s newest report underlines the scope of the ad and PR sector’s ongoing relationships with fossil fuel companies.

 

Tensions continued to ratchet up in the Middle East on Monday with reports of hundreds of retaliatory Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and strikes in Gaza including on a refugee camp, UN humanitarians said.

 

“Let’s be clear. A vote for this bill would further support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” said Rashida Tlaib.

 

“CCS is a technologically unsound and economically unviable scheme, perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry…”

 

Palestinian history and geography were scrubbed from Israeli schoolbooks a decade ago, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.

 

Deaths have been reported in Romania, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

It seems to me you are missing the point.

This is a political suicide. I cannot say that I am for this approach but what I see is a form of protest (and maybe what I think about it is another topic). What is striking to me is that this US-backed Genocide is taking place for almost a year, and due to despair americans are even killing themselves as a form of protest.

And of course there are other forms of protesting. People try to influence politicians in so many ways so the US stops providing guns and arguments attempting to justify it.

 

The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023.

 

“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like the article was removed. I suppose this is a great reminder why it's important to archive a link before posting it, and share the archived link as well.

 

Israel, Hezbollah and other Lebanese groups have exchanged more than 9,613 attacks between October 7 and September 6.

 

If we see fascism as a system of authoritarianism under the rule of a dictator with disdain for democracy and pluralism of any kind, even other species; an insatiable desire for control that delivers a deleterious effect on those oppressed; and a fetish for righteous nationalism, then I do not think it is a leap to see our exploitative relationship with Earth – call her Gaia, call her Mother, call her home – as part of an ongoing agenda of a global fascist regime that for centuries has waged war on the environment. Money is the dictator.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just finished the first episode and I find it very interesting. Crossposting it to Podcasts.

 

Human activities now account for two-thirds of all methane venting to the atmosphere – and our efforts to staunch the flow are not yet bearing fruit.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

This article does use more specific language than "southern hemisphere", so not too sure what you mean. It also includes several links for further reading in relation to this topic.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for pointing that out, this part really does not make any sense. Not to sure what I had in mind, so I thought of making an edit with a strikethrough so that the sentence does make sense.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I don't know who's in the right here, ...

The way I see things, it's pretty clear. In the global south are the countries that suffer the most from the economic activities (to say the least) that come from the global north. Giving these badges to the global south NGOs is important as an effort to balance out how underrepresented these part of the world typically are, even tho they are most affected by actions of others ~~,namely the countries that got upset, or companies that come from there~~. Admittedly, I don't expect too much out of this specific climate conference due to the intense lobbying that takes place there. I'd love to be wrong on this one and be pleasantly surprised, for sure.

...but the article definitely feels like it’s taking a side, and the editorialized title makes that bias worse.

I believe it is important to accept that all media is biased, even if they try to portray themselves as neutral or objective (an easy example would be fox's fair and balanced sloggan). So I don't think that bias is a problem by itself, but performing impartiality totally is, and mainstream media do that for several reasons.

Still, I think a journalist or an outlet can be trustworthy, and this relies on their processes. They need to be honest and meticulous in their research (and perhaps something else that I didn't think of right now).

Edit: The strikethrough

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago

Great article, I didn't know about this effort. I have to admit, at first it did not make any sense to me, since it took me almost half the article before remembering that gas in the US, is what is called petrol in other english speaking places, and is definitely not related to natural gas.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago
[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From the link you provided, it looks like in 2021 it was 4.2 not 7.5. Apart from that, this approach sounds too speculative to me, since the production comes from 2021 and the CO~2~ emissions quota from 2023. In the Drax chart it shows a decline in TWh produced from 2017 to 2021 (btw 2021 is also the year they retired coal). Still, assuming from this trend that their production few years latter continues to decline is something I would consider too risky to do.

  • 2017 -> 14.9
  • 2018 -> 11.7
  • 2019 -> 10.2
  • 2020 -> 7.5
  • 2021 -> 4.2

The Ratcliffe chart has so many fluctuations till 2021 that I couldn't dare guess what their 2023 production was.

  • 2017 -> 2.6
  • 2018 -> 3.2
  • 2019 -> 0.7
  • 2020 -> 0.1
  • 2021 -> 0.8

If I find the 2023 numbers, I'll add a comment or edit this one.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Even tho Drax uses only biomass and its CO~2~ emissions are 4 times higher than Ractcliffe's which uses coal, I think it is also important to mention that Drax can produce twice as much electricity in comparison to Ratcliffe. Still terrible news from the 2023 report, just saying.

Drax Power Station

Its generating capacity of 3,906 megawatts (MW),

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

the station has a capacity of 2,000 MW

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

The problem is in the system that allows these people to be in power. Even if this one is out of the picture there is a list of others waiting to take their turn.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Turkey has used Embargo & water shortage: Water as weapon:

In 2015, Turkey started to use water as a weapon against Rojava by holding back the water on the rivers which flow from Turkey to Syria through the dams it has been building over the last twenty years.

See also:

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg has established the first town twinning in Germany with a northern Syrian town

On 20 September 2017, the district parliament (BVV) of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg endorsed the proposal to enter into a town twinning with Dêrik in northern Syria. At the time, this was unique in Germany.

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