A map showing where Europe’s peatlands are located. Many bogs, fens and mires are concentrated around NATO’s borders with Russia and Belarus. Map colours show percentage of peat cover per soil mapping unit. From https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-defense-kyiv-ukraine-nato-eu-bogs-poland-war-germany/
And oh boy do we have peatlands to rewild!
A Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win!
#biodiversity #defence
Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
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It makes me think of the post I saw a couple months ago that said “if libraries were suggested now, we’d have right wingers making death threats to people trying to advocate for them” and that’s about as real as you can get I think
Eher progressiv denkende Menschen sind einfach zu vernünftig. Ich kann mir durchaus vorstellen, dass einige die Grünen gewählt haben, damit die stärkste Partei werden.
Die Leite verwechseln Wirtschaftsnähe mit Wirtschaftskompetenz. Immer schon
Welche Sorte Lack säuft eigentlich jene Mehrheit der Baden-Württemberger*innen, die der CDU die größte Wirtschaftskompetenz zutraut? Oder andersrum: Warum glauben so viele Leute, dass sie irgend etwas davon hätten, wenn Reiche reicher werden?
Dafür hab ich Instagram 😂
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
Iranian Light crude, with its 33-36° API gravity, 1.36-1.5% sulfur content, yields gasoline & diesel with minimal processing—unlike heavier Venezuelan Merey (16° API) or lighter US WTI (39-40° API)
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
Illustration im harten schwarz-weiß Stil von silouettenhaften Männern vor schwarzem Himmel, die um ein lodernd brennendes Dieselfass herumstehen. Textzeile: Union und AfD eint die fixe Idee, es reiche, alle Vernunft rituell in einem mit >>Ausländer, Arme und Bedürftige raus!<< beschrifteten Dieselfass zu verbrennen.
Vernunft zeigt sich darin, das eigene Tun entlang der gegebenen Umstände so zu richten, dass es zu einer Verbesserung führt –zumindest keinen Schaden anrichtet. Deswegen meint Vernunft zwangsläufig Achtsamkeit. Union und AfD eint die fixe Idee Vernunft wäre die rituelle Verbrennung von Achtsamkeit.
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
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Wer Erdgas als Brückentechnologie bezeichnet, sollte sich wirklich mal überlegen, ob er über eine Brücke gehen möchte, die von Putin oder Trump bewacht wird bzw. im Falle der Golfstaaten gerade in Flammen steht. Im empfehle, die Abhängigkeit von Erdgas zu reduzieren.
Even worse, it is forced upon us by the fossilists themselves. Destroying
lives and the planet just for their profits.
The Hill United CEO: Airfare likely to rise as jet fuel prices surge United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned this week that soaring jet fuel prices tied to conflict in the Middle East could soon push airline... . 4 hours ago Aerospace Global News Airfares could rise as Iran conflict drives soaring fuel costs and flight detours Airlines face rising jet fuel prices and costly rerouting around Middle East airspace after US-Israel strikes on Iran, and may raise... . 1 day ago BBC Surge in jet fuel prices could push up air fares, analysts warn Disruption to supplies from the Gulf, in the wake of the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, has pushed the cost of aviation kerosene up by... . 1 day ago Українські Національні Новини (УНН) War with Iran triggered a sharp rise in fuel prices in the US УНН Economy ✎ Gasoline prices in the US rose by 11% due to the conflict with Iran and oil at $90. This creates political risks for... . 15 hours ago Simple Flying Airfare Warning: United CEO Says Ticket Prices Will Rise ‘Quickly’ As Fuel Costs Skyrocket As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, airlines brace for the impact on their pocketbooks, with United CEO warning of rising...
Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS
Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history.
THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.
Auf dem Foto eine Buchhandlung von außen, auf einer roten Markise steht BUCHLADEN ZUR SCHWANKENDEN WELTKUGEL. Daneben ein Hauseingang mit vielen Plakaten, z.B. für ein AFD Verbot und Aufklebern, über der Eingangstür ein großes, weißes Schild, darauf steht „Freizügigkeit für alle Menschen! Abschotten & Abschiebungen sind tödlich.“. Neben der Buchhandlung sitzt auf einem roten Kasten eine Skulptur aus Schrottabfällen.
Gestern den Buchladen zur Schwankenden Weltkugel besucht, sehr freundliche & gut sortierte Buchhandlung, die gerade viel Solidarität erlebt 🙂!
Mordor is rising.
Wir haben als Mitarbeiter eine Genossenschaft gegründet, die eine PV (600 kWp) aufs Dach gesetzt hat und der Firma den Strom verkauft. Zuerst in Dortmund, dann Bad Kreuznach und Worms; inzwischen über 1400 kWp. mageno-solar.de
My global decarbonisation pathway, built on www.climatewedges.com It deploys 20 wedges to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
An infographic showing the 36 strategies that can deliver at least a wedge of mitigation. It explains the scale of deployment each one needs, across the electricity, industry, buildings, transport, and land use sectors.
There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise.
There are six trillion.
Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways.
Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
App: climatewedges.com
What would your pathway look like?
I suppose Trump's Middle East War is a combination of "Drill, baby, drill" and "Burn, baby, burn".
The skyline of Tehran has a small shaft of light to the west. But the rest is darkness, shrouded in black cloud from burning oil depots and refineries
Daybreak brings only more night in Tehran. A city blackened by burning oil.
Hospitals, schools, aid centres, freshwater desalination plants and now fuel storage depots.
These are all the sites you would target if your wish was to perpetuate a genocide.
(📸 Al Jazeera)
NEW: Watch this report just in from CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen. It is raining oil in Tehran this morning.
A city of 10 million is being actively poisoned.
(🎥 CNN)
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Deshalb engagieren wir uns bei den Teachers for Future Germany genau dafür, dass Lehrkräfte empowert werden, Rückgrat zu zeigen und treiben die Politik an, dass sie die Lehrkräfte stärkt.
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