1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Commerzbank (608 million), Landesbank LBBW (455 million), Landesbank Hessen Thüringen (306 million) and DZ Bank (264 million dollars) follow far behind... * Resources | consumption | Earth Overshoot Day Earth Overshoot Day Debt brake for the environment The "Earth Overshoot Day" for Germany has been reached today: the resources for 2024 have already been reached after four months...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    remain unburned in conventional deposits. But which of these deposits are still allowed to be exploited and which are not? “The allocation of fossil resources that remain to be mined is a morally and politically controversial issue,” the researchers state. Countries with rich oil or gas reserves will not voluntarily leave their resources unused. Therefore...

  3. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    assets. Barbara Schuster from the Momentum Institute Austria also points out the above-average contribution to global warming by the super-rich: “Fair taxation would release the resources that we urgently need for socially just climate policy.”... * China | Wind energy | Competition horror scenario of wind power "China pushes a button and in Germany...

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    (61,7). But it is still unclear whether the third largest military budget automatically translates into the third strongest military potential on earth. Much depends on how effectively the new resources are used and whether Germany will permanently spend at least two percent of its gross domestic product on armaments. In any case, the window of opportunity for this seems to be both domestic and foreign policy...

  5. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Feasibility easily combines upgrading and climate protection. Why this is an illusion - and how society is being remilitarized. Eternal growth in a world with finite resources is an illusion that many of us grew up with. The goddess of light decorated the old power plants. In the name of revitalized progress, we happily continue to consume and...

  6. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    also not appropriate. This discussion is a waste of time. What technical reasons speak against the proposals? Producing your own atomic bomb would take decades and consume incredible resources. You can't just buy uranium and then quickly build something like that, you need very special technology that isn't even available on the Internet. There is also the question...

  7. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    (RND). “We have made this a focus of the fight against right-wing extremism and will now intensify this even further.” The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has already significantly expanded its relevant resources and capabilities for financial investigations over the past year and a half, said Faeser. "We look closely at which circles are at work here: from the Identitarian Movement to...

  8. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    This represents an enormous challenge, especially logistically, with Germany and the Bundeswehr playing a central role. [...] In fact, it is anything but normal when all resources are being put into armament and preparation for a possible war with Russia, while hardly any effort is being made to get out of the current spiral of escalation...

  9. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    According to the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), this amounts to 7200 liters per person per day and for the whole of Germany to 219 billion cubic meters per year. In times of dwindling drinking water resources worldwide, it seems advisable to take a closer look at hidden water consumption. Global water resources and our consumption. But it is not just the amount of water that is crucial...

  10. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    ... * Recycling | plastic | Tetra Pak | Deposit Deposit on milk drinks in single-use plastic bottles from 2024 German Environmental Aid is calling for this to also be extended to drinks cartons. Success for the environment, resources and recycling: From January 1, 2024, a deposit of 25 cents will be charged on milk drinks in single-use plastic bottles. Beverage cartons are not affected - with fatal consequences: 34 percent are incorrectly...

  11. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    the list that has existed since 2012. Doñana had been there since 2015. Founded in 1948, the IUCN's mission is to “… protect nature and ensure that all use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.” Ten of its 150.000 volunteer scientists worldwide have been studying Doñana's condition for the past two years. “According to the review...

  12. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia en Pickering Incidents On December 10, 1994, an accident involving a loss of coolant occurred. The Senate Standing Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources called it the worst accident in Canadian history (June 2001). The emergency core cooling system was deployed to prevent a core meltdown... Nuclear power accidents by...

  13. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    flared gas daily in their oil and gas fields, The Guardian reported last Friday. This is explosive in several respects. Firstly, flaring is a waste of resources, harmful to the environment and climate and can in most cases be avoided with appropriate technologies. Secondly, Adnoc committed to ending routine flaring 20 years ago...

  14. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    ultimately only gloss over the brutal forms of exploitation and robbery that drive them forward. We are dealing with a well-known colonial pattern here: cheap resources (including green energy) flow freely from the global south to the rich north, while Fortress Europe puts up walls and fences to keep people from...

  15. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    cluster at an optimum temperature of 13 degrees Celsius average temperature. Largest economies at 13 degrees Celsius Scientists have repeatedly pointed out the distribution struggles over scarce resources such as water or grain, which can no longer be moderated in multi-ethnic societies with weak state structures and a lack of social security and in...

  16. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    - just a Remington portable typewriter over a hundred years old... * Last generation | Climate Crisis Contra Climate Strike: Disruption for Future! The Fridays climate strike is just wasting resources, they have failed. FFF need the tactics of Ende Gelände and Last Generation. What we in the climate movement don't like to admit to ourselves: We are also becoming more and more part of...

  17. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    has so far been completely dependent on imports - the majority comes from China and South America. But that doesn't have to be the case, because there are also rich lithium deposits in Germany. Some of these resources are found in minerals from the Erzgebirge, while a second, larger lithium source is in the Oberreingraben. The warm deep water there contains up to 190 milligrams of lithium per liter. Would you...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    expanded: This year there was a new contract. BRUSSELS taz | Niger is of much greater strategic importance internationally than Mali or Burkina Faso. This is also due to its mining resources. According to World Nuclear Association data, Niger was the world's sixth largest uranium producer in 2022, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, Australia and Russia. Its at 311.000 tons...

  19. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    remain if 1,5 degrees are targeted. The new IPCC boss Jim Skea recently pointed this out. However, energy companies continue to exploit fossil resources almost unabated, as two current studies show. The new report "The Dirty Dozen" by energy expert Steffen Bukold analyzes the strategies of European oil and gas companies, including Shell,...

  20. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    increasingly shifted to less distant areas and into their own country, where they are most economically productive, taking all costs into account. At the same time, the plundering of resources and the ecological burden on our planet would be somewhat reduced. The human contribution to global warming would decline. Investments and money could also be saved: airports would have to...

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