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Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
It becomes clear: small deviations can really blow you away. Two degrees Celsius more for my body is killing me, two degrees Celsius more for the earth's atmosphere is a catastrophe. Only a nasty little “m” makes all the difference between climate protection and climate pollution. And whether the UN Security Council meets or the Uncertainty Council is decided by the upshift key. Like little...
the chain reaction. So it becomes more susceptible to cracks and breaks. So, given all the Methuselah reactors, you have to ask yourself when the next major reactor disaster will occur. March 29 Peace Movement | Easter march | Double standards: Peace marches and war: Peace movement in trouble As long as the aggressor was called NATO or the USA, it was always clear to the peace movement who was good...
Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany
grew up. The goddess of light decorated the old power plants. In the name of revitalized progress, we happily continue to consume and - within reach of war and environmental catastrophe - feed on the beneficial illusion of freedom. And as usual, they are putting a strain on the planet with a civilizational optimism that borders on stubbornness. Until the foreseeable end. Fossil fuels,...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
Human rights. The radicalization of the party can be traced from Höcke's position in the AfD... * March 12, 2011 (INES 3) Akw Fukushima II Daini, JPN Wikipedia Chronologie_der_Katastrophe_in_Japan_von_2011 Due to the great Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 and the subsequent tsunami An automatic shutdown occurred in all four reactor blocks at the Fukushima-Daini nuclear power plant (Fukushima 2)...
to be achieved by 2050. Conservatives and the right are moving together Despite these differences in Europe's right-wing camp, it is undisputed among experts that a shift to the right in the EU Parliament would be a catastrophe for climate policy... * Sea level | tipping point | Ice melting Climate expert on tipping points: “The risk is unacceptably high” The climate crisis is driving ice melting. Sweet dew water...
Civilians, according to a statement from the State Department. Riyadh called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to "prevent Israel from causing an impending humanitarian catastrophe." [...] A military offensive in the city on the border with Egypt is considered highly problematic. The town, which had around 300.000 inhabitants before the war, is now said to have...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
and the military advocate the doctrine that you have a better chance of freeing the hostages if you put more pressure on Hamas, which, by the way, I think is outrageous. The catastrophe with the 21 soldiers was the fault of Israel itself, because they tried to plant mines in these buildings, which were then blown up. Hamas has a...
is far from perfect, but their survival proved the West right. [...] Liberalism was actually a good thing... The double perversion... but then two catastrophes occurred: Catastrophe 1: Liberalism was replaced by Anglo-Saxon neoliberalism (Reagan, Thatcher). While the free market economy used to be embedded in the welfare state, today...
at. The nuclear facility is only 70 kilometers as the crow flies from the epicenter of the quake. Both units of the nuclear plant have been out of operation since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. The disaster once again demonstrated the vulnerability of nuclear power plants in Japan to earthquakes and raised new doubts about their recommissioning... IMHO Nuclear Engineering International (NEI) writes about the earthquake and the...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
Problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... * January 6, 1981 (INES 3) La Hague nuclear factory, FRA In La Hague there was a fire disaster in a waste storage facility with graphite elements and uranium metal, a worker was exposed to increased radiation. (Cost approximately US$5,4 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Nuclear Power PlantsPlag La...
Environmental Prize. What Otto found, among other things: In many cases, it is not primarily climate change, but many other factors that are to blame for an extreme weather event becoming a catastrophe - a lack of warnings, poor preparation or such an unequal society in which some groups are much more affected than others other. These days Otto is publishing...
Washington are affected by this. Due to climate change, more and more people are having to give up their places of residence. Last year there were more internally displaced people worldwide due to weather-related disasters than as a result of violence or conflict. When you think of climate change, you might first think of desertification in Nigeria, which means that many farmers have to flee to the next larger city. Or to the...
will influence Israeli or American policy in this conflict. But I still want to put my assessment on the record so that when historians look back at this moral catastrophe, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history. What Israel is doing to the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza – with the support of...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
Greenhouse gas levels, while the countries' National Commitments (NDC) submitted under the Paris Climate Agreement are closer to three degrees than 1,5 degrees... * Catastrophe | World Climate Conference | COP28 | Carla Hinrichs climate talk on "Hard but fair" Hinrichs: "We are being ripped off" "Groundbreaking", "phenomenal" and "historic" is the disaster fund that was set up at the beginning...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
“Non-violently against the nuclear power plant in Hamm-Uentrop!” Article: “EU and Mercosur – that is pure exploitation! The planned free trade agreement destroys livelihoods” Book reviews: “Crisis, catastrophe, collapse - hope?” - "Camus: Wisdom without a slotted spoon" Dear readers! “Green” hydrogen: colonial energy? - No thanks! The consequences of the climate catastrophe and the...
in Africa for failed America's eternal wars have led to a 75.000% increase in terrorist attacks. America's global war on terror has had its share of stalemates, disasters and defeats. In more than 20 years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts expand from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021...
has given: Washington and Moscow are only one step away from a direct conflict. The Doomsday Clock "now stands at 90 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before," according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Russian Duma has pushed ahead with plans to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
Alarm triggered, emergency shutdown activated. Some fuel elements that had just been loaded melted. Since the cooling system was still functioning at a quarter of normal levels, there was no major catastrophe. Only small amounts of radioactivity escaped from the building. Cleaning the building took a year, after which the reactor was put back into operation. The event was deemed an accident...
to put a new nuclear power plant into operation. The leader of the smaller government party Lega also suggested a location: his hometown of Milan. Italy had already withdrawn from nuclear energy after the Chernobyl reactor disaster. The last nuclear power plants were taken off the grid after a referendum in 1990. As a result of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Italy was also...
spread. People became ill with cancer and chronic diseases. [...] However, it makes no difference to human health whether the increased radioactivity comes from the Chernobyl reactor disaster or from the nuclear weapons tests in the 1960s and 1970s, said the scientist from the German Steel Protection Office mentioned above. Nevertheless, it raises a new...
