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An ex-marine engineer artificer with the Royal Navy. Where I became aware of the mass of waste, floating around our oceans. I was a Guardian with WWF(UK), but I realised, the big NGOs were part of the problem, not the solution. They were helping to 'Greenwash' corporation's image, while allowing them to continue with their destruction of nature. The Forest Stewardship Council and the Certified Sustainable Palm Oil schemes, have not stopped the continued deforestation.

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'Aid agencies call out Israel’s lies over starvation in Gaza
The Unrwa agency said that only “181 aid trucks per day” had crossed into Gaza in April' https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/aid-agencies-call-out-israels-lies-over-starvation-in-gaza/?mc_cid=01d5c1d775

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'70 Iranian drones taken out by US naval forces in the Mediterranean: Report
American naval forces shot down about 70 Iranian attack drones launched towards Israel, US broadcaster ABC News reports.
One unnamed US official said a Navy destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean also downed an undetermined number of ballistic missiles fired by Iran.
Other than American military assistance, Israel says France also helped during the attack, and Jordan said it took out projectiles fired over its airspace.'
So the as well as the defend the maniacs, what does that say about our politicians? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/14/israels-war-on-gaza-live-blasts-sirens-as-iranian-missiles-intercepted?update=2835872

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'London Palestine protesters say movement has politicised them
It wasn’t a national demonstration, but the Palestine Solidarity Campaign said over 80,000 still poured onto the streets' https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/london-palestine-march-13-april/?mc_cid=7ec19bb912

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'Berlin police raid and shut down conference opposing Gaza genocide. On Friday afternoon, the German capital of Berlin witnessed scenes reminiscent of the era of the Nazi regime. Hundreds of police officers terrorised an anti-war congress, which was directed against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in order to disperse and ban it after two hours.' https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/13/kxav-a13.html

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'60 Israeli Bombings Hit Gaza Over the Last 24 Hours' https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/60-Israeli-Bombings-Hit-Gaza-Over-the-Last-24-Hours-20240412-0007.html?utm_source=planisys&utm_medium=NewsletterIngles&utm_campaign=NewsletterIngles&utm_content=14

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'UK civil servants ask to stop working on Israel arms exports' https://www.thenational.scot/news/24232731.uk-civil-servants-ask-stop-working-israel-arms-exports/

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'Israel could push for a much wider war after airstrike in Syria
The bombing of part of the Iranian embassy in Syria is a clear provocation by the Israeli state' https://socialistworker.co.uk/what-we-think/israel-could-push-for-a-much-wider-war-after-air-strike-in-syria/?mc_cid=a4daacbf75

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Let's assume that at some point in the near future our society makes the smart choice of turning toward degrowth. Yay!

That still would mean, however, that a certain level of heavy industry will be required. We can't feed and house and clothe and provide health care for eight billion people without producing at least some steel and some plastics. That's just reality.

So, what are the best alternatives for rapidly reducing carbon emissions while also managing to keep everyone alive?

This article offers some intriguing ideas --

"How To Escape From The Iron Age"
➡️ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/

I know very little about the steel industry, so I’d be interested if there are experts here who can comment on what's suggested.

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@breadandcircuses 1st off, how to I see, the other replies to your post? As for the article itself, I think he is missing some technical points. His mention of arc furnaces, he mentioned the electricity coming from solar, wind or atomic power. Aluminium production uses electricity, and the plants are sited close to either large hydro-plants or nuclear plants. Such as the Wylfa nuclear power station in Anglesey. Which had problems, even before commissioning. The electric arc furnaces, are usually for smaller batches of specialist steels. Of the type needed in nuclear and thermal power stations, as well as CCS and hydrogen plants. He determines that solar and wind have a larger steel intensity, than nuclear and thermal. When nuclear, especially requires tonnes of reinforced concrete and specialist steels in their construction, plus all the infrastructure, to transmit electricity, the large cooling water system, refuelling and nuclear waste handling. Then there is the fact, large thermal plants, cannot be suddenly started or shut-down, so continue to burn fossil-fuels, even when there is low demand. With nuclear, even when shut-down, the cooling systems have to remain running to stop a melt-down. As for wind, such as the blades, a UK was developing blades constructed from bamboo. But, because of a lack of commitment by Blair/Brown's Labour Government, the company was taken over by foreign company.

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I noticed another article scolding “doomers” for doing it wrong. It says we shouldn’t make people sad or angry about what capitalist industry is doing to our climate and environment. The article claims a better approach is to give people hope, and emphasize positive steps they can take like planting a tree or riding a bike.

Well, sure, those things are good, and I encourage them. But even if everyone who reads this post or sees that article stops driving a car in favor of bike riding and also cheerfully begins planting trees, that still will not make any significant difference in altering the trajectory of climate breakdown.

The problem we face is much bigger than your carbon footprint or mine. And whether you feel happy or sad after reading this, that certainly will not affect the motivation of the oligarchs who own our society. Their only concern is to make more money and gain more power.

Of course you and I should take appropriate individual actions (drive less, fly less, buy less, etc.), but we also should recognize that while those actions are important, they are not sufficient. Because what we need is system change.

That will not be easy, but it’s essential.

To get a comprehensive level of system change — which is the only kind that offers any true hope of avoiding complete disaster — we must remove all those currently in power, including the billionaires who control the politicians, and replace the current system with a different one.

We must end capitalism and commence degrowth.

Yes, this is a big ask. But we're talking about life or death here, literally. So it's a bold choice we must make.

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@breadandcircuses I remember being at a Unilever presentation, at an IET event. There was some TV person, who said, that those of warning of catastrophic climate change. That we should not scare the children! A quarter of a century later, we are witnessing the effects catastrophic climate change and Unilever is still pushing its 'greenwash'.

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One of the major worries about climate tipping points is that it’s impossible for anyone, even the smartest of scientists, to say with any certainty how soon each of them might be reached or what will happen then.

Might one tipping point trigger another?

Yes, probably, but we don’t for sure which ones or exactly how. And we can’t really predict the timing or the magnitude of positive feedbacks and cascading effects, when multiple tipping points could overlap and reinforce and possibly amplify each other.

It’s not the fault of the scientists. They’re doing the best they can with the evidence and the tools they have. But it’s all quite unpredictable because they have never been in this position before. No one ever has.

What capitalist industry and commerce has done just in the last three decades, pumping nearly a trillion tons of CO2 into the air, has no precedent. Never before in Earth’s history has so much carbon dioxide been added to the atmosphere over such a short period of time.

Because human lifespans are short, 30 years may seem like a long time to us — but in geological terms, that’s merely the blink of an eye. On such a scale, it’s literally as if we have detonated a bomb.

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@breadandcircuses What I could not see from the Our World in Data CO2 emissions, is a breakdown of average emissions per person for each country. There is a big difference between the USA and China or India.

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@breadandcircuses The other issue, not depicted in the charts, is embedded carbon. The USA and Europe off-shored their production to Asia. Hence the dip in emissions from the USA and Europe. Combined with an increase in emissions from Asia, especially China.

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'Gaza : Israeli army uses Palestinian civilians as human shields in its operation in Shifa Medical Complex and its vicinity'
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6239/Gaza-:-Israeli-army-uses-Palestinian-civilians-as-human-shields-in-its-operation-in-Shifa-Medical-Complex-and-its-vicinity

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'Greenland Cascading 30 Million Tons Per Hour' https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/greenland-cascading-30-million-tons-per-hour/

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'The speaker ignoring Diane Abbott at PMQs shows the political class just want to use her
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is under fire' https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/03/13/pmqs-hoyle-abbott/?__s=2ouzu90zefy2xseef5bw

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'450,000 join London Palestine march as Israel prepares for Rafah invasion' https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/london-palestine-march-9-march/

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It's not parody. It's not The Onion.

This is the actual world we live in now...

"Mystery Billionaire Buys Apocalypse-Ready Bunker Surrounded By Fire Moat"

In a dystopic but perhaps unsurprising turn, the ultra-wealthy are investing in fortified shelters like never before. Mark Zuckerberg’s purchase of a 5,000-square-foot bunker beneath his Kauai ranch has set off something of a buying frenzy, with the global elite seeking refuge from future threats like armed conflict, cyberattacks, and climate change.

But it’s far worse than just bunkers: Al Corbi, president of Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments, is overseeing the creation of custom designs for the uber-rich that go far beyond traditional shelters. His most ambitious project to date is an island fortress with a 30-foot-deep lake surrounded by a flammable liquid moat, water cannons for aerial threats, and a whole lot more, set to be completed in 2025.

FULL STORY -- https://www.dmarge.com/mystery-billionaire-buys-apocalypse-ready-bunker

patricktsudlow ,
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@breadandcircuses All utterly useless, because food and potable water will be scarce and you cannot eat money! 😀

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Visual history, Israel/Palestine 1920-1940s and other periods [pinned].

patricktsudlow ,
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@oatmeal @israel @palestine They also attacked British targets including the attack on the King David Hotel, killing British women and children. Despite this the UK Government supports the Zionists!

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