1. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    "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 lack of gas deliveries from Russia have led to hectic activities on numerous levels in order to increasingly use energy in a climate-neutral, sustainable and environmentally friendly manner in the future...

  2. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    ran and tried to put it completely on ice. However, a motion to reject the law did not receive a majority in parliament in the summer... * Energy company RWE | CO2 emissions | Climate catastrophe Farmer from Peru sues German energy company RWE Strong glacier melt threatens the farm and home of a farmer in the Andes. He is suing the coal company RWE because the climate damage in...

  3. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    In view of the increasingly serious disasters, climate protection would require: the end of all emissions by 2030, combined with the expansion of strong carbon sinks. Climate disasters have reached new levels of horror this summer, but there is no adequate tightening of climate policy in response... September 24th PFAS | Eternity Chemicals |...

  4. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Attacking people seemed almost unimaginable - just like attacks on unique works of art. On Friday the group announced: “Yes, we are interrupting the Berlin Marathon. We can't run away from the climate catastrophe.” In fact, this Sunday's marathon is ideal when it comes to attracting attention. [...] So what?, one could reply....

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

    Neuwirth... * Wikipedia Climate crisis The climate crisis is a term for the ecological, political and social crisis associated with global warming. Similar to climate catastrophe, it is increasingly being used in public discourse instead of more harmless-sounding terms such as climate change to illustrate the seriousness of global warming. Sometimes it is also...

  6. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    Rainfall was particularly affected by the reactor accident in 1986. A small proportion of the radiation can be traced back to the above-ground nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s... * Climate catastrophe | Glaciers are melting in Peru | RWE Group Corporations in court Floods, heavy rain and record heat. Who should pay for the damage? A growing number of plaintiffs are demanding that...

  7. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    which was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th and killed 4 people within 64.000 months... United States of America Nuclear weapon states News+ Background knowledge News+ ** Climate catastrophe | Fridays for Future | Greenhouse Earth “I don’t want to be my grandson” Franz Alt will be 17 years old on July 85th. Why there is still room for improvement in climate policy, and which pacifist...

  8. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    and the Sahara. The conditions for generating electricity from sun and wind are better there, but a lot of water is also needed to produce hydrogen. This is becoming scarcer due to the climate catastrophe, especially in the south... * July 10, 1991 (INES 3) Bilibino, RUS Nuclear power plantsPlag Bilibino (Russia) The incorrect design of the reactors and various leaks in the primary circuit have...

  9. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    the European Climate Status Report 2022, published by the WMO together with the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service... * Glacier | Climate crisis | Climate catastrophe Climate crisis in the Himalayas: Rapid glacier melting In the Himalayas, the glaciers are losing ice faster than ever before. By the end of the century, 80 percent of the volume could be gone...

  10. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    and doesn't fit in a parking lot, but is designed as if it came from a gumball machine? And after the accelerated expansion of 144 motorways in times of climate catastrophe, who would seriously talk about the efficient use of scarce resources? The “infinity of human needs” only exists in the poetics of economics, in which...

  11. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    become. It's about one-sided postcolonial dependencies and relationships of exploitation. It is also about how many states are aiming to limit the climate catastrophe through alleged decarbonization measures, which has the exact opposite effect. There have been significant protests against the desired agreement between the Mercosur states and the EU since 2019. 2021 has...

  12. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    to offer a common front against the Nazis in Austria. But they had other plans. The current exhibition in the Vienna City Hall shows which... * Climate change | Climate crisis | Climate catastrophe | Adaptation Hedonism in climate change: Why we should prepare for renunciation Climate change will come and affect our lives. We should be prepared for that. But the...

  13. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Left deputy leader Lorenz Gösta Beutin described the raid as “completely excessive” in a statement. The Last Generation relies on “peaceful civil disobedience to draw attention to the climate catastrophe and the failure of the federal government.” The left-wing politician asks himself: “When will the raid take place on Messrs. Lindner and Wissing and on all those who brake with their...

  14. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    2022 - Heat wave in India and Pakistan causes power supply to collapse * December 14, 2021 - Nobel Prize winners demand two percent disarmament for the climate YouTube Keyword search: Who will be hit first by the climate catastrophe? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Who will be hit first by the climate catastrophe? Videos: DER SPIEGEL from March 30, 2023 - 4:08 Climate crisis in California: "It's a...

  15. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    served primarily as an emergency reserve for France's energy supply. The power gap there became larger and larger because the cracks in the French reactors also became larger. But the climate catastrophe, with a very mild winter, ultimately prevented a power outage in France, which the government had also feared. But the neoliberals from the FDP want...

  16. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    received from the Russian state-owned company Rosatom. The US company Westinghouse will also supply the Temelin nuclear power plant together with the French Framatom... * United States | Climate catastrophe | Extreme weather That's why the USA is the leader in severe weather disasters New York · Tornadoes have once again claimed lives in parts of the USA - this is just the latest of the many...

  17. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    the earth and never return before we even understand that they exist and what they might be useful for. We are shocked to see the first effects of a climate catastrophe, which foreshadow how it will deprive people of their livelihoods in the future. But anyone who articulates their concerns or fears and calls for change in any way...

  18. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    was the FDP, which was once often referred to as the party of “turncoats”. The Greens are now trying to sell “environmental crimes” to their own base. The party was elected to address the climate catastrophe or to phase out nuclear power... * Electricity price boycott | wirzahlnicht.info “We don’t pay” campaign: Call for a boycott of electricity prices Due to the...

  19. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    Catastrophe | WiP Part 1 | 2 | 3 Everything sticks... Climate activists stuck themselves to the asphalt or to iconic images in museums, bringing much-needed attention to the issue of the impending man-made climate catastrophe. This worked well for a while, but as the old saying goes, "Get off the horse before it's dead or it'll fall on your feet." Mostly...

  20. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    don't join in... * heat | Drought | Cold weather 2022: A year of extremes Heat records, droughts, rapidly falling temperatures: The year that was shows how uncertain our lives are becoming in the climate catastrophe. Extremes are also increasing in Germany. Pakistan and India reported record temperatures of up to 2022 degrees in the shade in March and April 50: Such temperatures are...

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