"The fate of man is to have grief, when he does not reach his goal and when he has reached his goal." Nescio
Environmentalist, believer in degrowth, also a social democrat. Former student of Politics and Economics but most of all Philosophy.
Our world is deeply unjust, but I'd rather change it today then wait for tomorrow.
Finite understandings of an infinitely complex world will lead to different views. Let's enjoy that and not fight it.
#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal. Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Scores feared dead after torrential rain and floods in Spain. Officials say at least 51 people have died in south and east of country but death toll is expected to rise.#Spain #Valencia #Floods
NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Chad Leader
Ecocide generally goes without consequence.
Fighting ecocide doesn't. Last year 196 people were murdered for protecting their environment. Let us remember, and join, their struggle.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/missing-voices/
"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air. This produced as much carbon as the average person in the world would in 300 years.""
Georgia elections:
The discrepancy between exit polls and final “results”(?) is certainly suspicious
@Akshay With 14 million people on the run, and 8.5 million of those starving, Sudan should be as acute as other wars.
But it isn't. Because none or the 'big baddies' (US/Russia/China) are involved. And so it doesn't match people's simple narrative of the world.
Same as with the Yemeni civil war...
Dear colleagues around the world,
As you may know, the Netherlands has, since this summer, been governed by a radical right-wing administration with an agenda reminiscent of Orbán's Hungary.
Meanwhile:
“14 million people forced to flee their homes…
8.5 million people who are facing emergency levels of food insecurity, and 775,000 others who are facing famine-like conditions.”
…RSF fighters have committed “systemic sexual crimes, burned houses and properties, and attacked health care facilities along with systemic looting and forced displacement,””
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-military-rsf-famine-cholera-9b6028ccef2c9cce3d65fd4ee64ee916
A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal Friday by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF, came as the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces rampaged through villages and towns in east-central Gezira province, looting and vandalizing public and private properties, according to a doctors’ union and a youth group. Dozens of people were reported killed. Chaiban says the war, which erupted in April 2023 between the military and the RSF, created “one of the most acute crises in living memory.”
Pauline von Hellermann
(moving) APOD
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Elia Ayoub (he/him)
Aral Balkan
Akshay
Marc van Oostendorp