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mondoweiss , 3 months ago to palestine group

UN expert: Israel is engineering famine in Gaza

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/un-expert-israel-is-engineering-famine-in-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

lowqualityfacts , 3 months ago to random

That explains a lot.
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GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

But sure, let's talk about political hit jobs on Biden's memory.🤦🏻‍♀️

Via Acyn:

Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay your bill!

breadandcircuses , 4 months ago to random

This little blip in time from around 1850 until now, when humans had access to seemingly unlimited energy that fueled massive industrial expansion along with a population explosion, clearly cannot be sustained. Something has to give.

After a short but meteoric rise, with most of it occurring across only a few generations, our modern complex industrial society soon will come to an end. That appears all but inevitable.

Degrowth cannot prevent the end of industrial civilization. In fact, it’s not even intended to do that. Instead, degrowth aims to replace what was with something better, more just, more equitable, and more sustainable.

If begun quickly and achieved successfully, degrowth may provide a soft landing for our children and our grandchildren, sparing them the horrors of a hard collapse. Not to say the path will always be easy or comfortable, but looking squarely at our options, there can be only one sensible choice:

Degrowth now.

See -- https://www.ecowatch.com/degrowth-economics-environment.html

#History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

breadandcircuses , 5 months ago to random

Most people like seafood. But if they knew about the huge environmental cost in obtaining their servings of shrimp, scallops, cod, or sole, they might not enjoy it so much...

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More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor, scooped up in huge nets. These nets, called bottom trawls, catch millions of tons of fish worth billions of dollars each year. But they also damage coral, sponges, starfish, worms, and other sand-dwellers as the nets scrape against the ocean bed. Environmentalists sometimes liken the practice to strip-mining or clear-cutting forests.

According to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, bottom trawling may be even worse than many people thought. Dragging nets through the sand isn’t just a threat to marine life. The study found that stirring up carbon-rich sediment on the seafloor releases some 370 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide every year, roughly the same as running 100 coal-fired power plants.

“I was pretty surprised,” said Trisha Atwood, a watershed scientist at Utah State University and the paper’s lead author. The findings, Atwood added, suggest that restricting bottom trawling could have “almost instantaneous benefits” for the climate.

The paper follows a study by some of the same scientists published in the journal Nature in 2021 – one that drew a lot of media attention as well as criticism from other researchers who thought its results were way off. In 2021, Atwood’s team found that bottom trawling unlocks more carbon from the seafloor than all of the world’s airplanes emit each year. But they couldn’t say how much of that carbon ended up in the atmosphere heating the earth and how much of it stayed in the water.

So that’s what they set out to do in the latest study. The team used fishing vessel data to map regions where trawlers have disturbed the seabed — like the North Sea off the coast of Europe — and applied ocean circulation models to estimate how much carbon dioxide flows from the sea into the air. They found that more than half of the carbon set loose by trawling makes its way into the atmosphere — and does so relatively quickly, within less than a decade.

“The most important finding here is that these emissions are not negligible,” said Juan Mayorgas, a marine data scientist at the National Geographic Society and co-author of the paper. “They are not small. They cannot be ignored.”

The world’s oceans are sponge-like in their ability to absorb carbon, soaking up a quarter of all the carbon dioxide that humans spew into the air. In fact, a lot more carbon is stored in the sea than in all the soil and plants on Earth. But until recently, little attention had been given to how much the oceans emit. “We know the oceans aren’t a closed system,” Mayorgas said. “At the same time the ocean is absorbing CO2, it’s emitting it.”

Most climate goals and policies don’t take emissions from sea-based activities like trawling into account. Atwood and Mayorgas said their study could help change that. “Now,” Mayorgas said, “countries can put all the information on the table and say, ‘Here’s how many jobs trawling produces, here’s how much food it produces, here’s how much carbon it’s emitting.'”

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://grist.org/food/bottom-trawling-damages-seafloor-source-carbon-emissions/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

breadandcircuses , 6 months ago to random

The nation of Azerbaijan gets two-thirds of its revenue from oil and gas, one of the highest percentages of any country in the world... which makes it a perfect place to hold the next UN climate summit! Am I right?

"Oil-reliant Azerbaijan Chosen to Host COP29 Climate Talks"

SMH

See -- https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/12/09/oil-reliant-azerbaijan-chosen-to-host-cop29-climate-talks/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual