Ireland could be on the hook for €4.5 billion to guarantee a European loan to pay for Ukraine’s general budget and war industry. Why aren’t Irish media talking about this?

#austerity #neutrality #climate #climatecollapse #peace

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-frozen-assets-loan-ukraine-russia-war-finances/

Here’s how EU capitals would divvy up Ukraine loan backstop under €210B frozen assets plan

Germany faces the biggest potential bill — €52 billion — for guaranteeing a proposed loan against frozen Russian assets.

POLITICO

#usa #politics #climatecollapse #climate #press #news

Steht da tatsächlich so drin:

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"Wir lehnen die katastrophalen Ideologien des „Klimawandels” und der „Netto-Null” ab, die Europa so großen Schaden zugefügt haben, die Vereinigten Staaten bedrohen und unsere Gegner subventionieren."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

The Guardian
#climatecollapse
AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care. | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/#
AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care.

The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.

The Nation

3. “It’s really sped up in recent years, which surprised me. Our climate is moving in a new direction, after being relatively stable in the past 10,000 years."

"It" being: rising temperatures in new england.

"climate moving in a new direction after being stable...": = #climatecollapse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/new-england-warming

New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds

Pace of area’s temperature rise, outpaced in US only by Alaskan Arctic, apparently increased in past five years

The Guardian

2. #climatecollapse:

"The Arab region is being pushed to its limits by intense heatwaves and severe droughts, as it warms at twice the global average."

"Pushed to its limits": i.e. the limits beyond which human civilisation isn't really possible there.
https://www.ft.com/content/8e4d3ea5-4b51-499a-9788-65a0ccd71b6e

Client Challenge

Now, the mask has fallen, simply look around, you can see people on their knees, the #deathcult is marching us straight into #climatecollapse, endless wars, and digital enslavement.Why? https://hamishcampbell.com/why/
Why? – #OMN (Open Media Network)

2. And we're likely gonna always be underprepared when decades of neoliberalism encounter a future of #climatecollapse in which being prepared actually matters:

"Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/global-heating-and-other-human-activity-are-making-asias-floods-more-lethal

Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal

Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms

The Guardian
adamgreenfield@social.coop made this book,
and if you can you probably oughta read it.
#anarchism #mutualaid #directaction #climatecollapse #socialecology

Hypothesis: the more affected rich societies are by #climatecollapse, the more they become irrational assholes.

"More than 700,000 homes across the ten Councils governed by #ReformUK are projected to face medium or higher flood risk by mid century."
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/drowning-in-denial-one-in-five-homes-in-reform-uk-heartlands-faces-flooding-in-25-years/

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years

Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

Yorkshire Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism