1. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    einen gemeinsamen Auslöser: den durch die ständig steigende Erderwärmung verursachten Klimawandel. Dieser macht sich nicht nur in der Natur auf katastrophale Weise bemerkbar, er zerstört auch Volkswirtschaften, Infrastrukturen und bedroht die politische Stabilität. Der ehemalige UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-Moon bezeichnete diese Gemengelage einst als „unheilvolles Gebräu“. In derselben Rede sagte...

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

    preisliche Auswirkung auf den Strommarkt", teilte Norbert Zösch, Geschäftsführer der Stadtwerke Haßfurt, am Donnerstag im Umweltausschuss des bayerischen Landtags mit. Atomkraftwerke hätten volkswirtschaftlich gesehen sogar die größten Erzeugungskosten, hieß es zudem in der Stellungnahme des Verbraucherservice Bayern. "Lediglich durch die staatliche Subventionierung konnte Atomstrom zu...

  3. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Pressefreiheit, für die sich die Grünen schon immer und vehement eingesetzt haben. Im Fall Assange aber sind sie weitgehend verstummt... * Japan | Bruttoinlandsprodukt | Konjunktur Weltgrößte Volkswirtschaften Japan fällt hinter Deutschland zurück Auch Japan steckt in der Rezession. Weil der Yen so schwach ist, fällt das Land in der Rangliste der größten Volkswirtschaften zurück - womit...

  4. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    bizarre mixture of verbal exaggeration of the topic, combined with striking technical errors. Climate policy is not voodoo. On the contrary, it is almost trivial how one can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economy. The state has three levers for this. Firstly, it can subsidize, i.e. with a lot of money, the conversion of factories, infrastructure, the car fleet and...

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

    For example, tensions between Hindus and Muslims in Central Asia are more likely when rainfall is heavier and destroys crops. It is no coincidence that the world's largest economies with robust conflict management are clustered in a temperature optimum of 13 degrees Celsius average temperature. Largest economies at 13 degrees Celsius...

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

    disguises rather than reveals how high our investments in this ministry are in historical comparison. He notes that Pentagon spending represents a smaller share of the national economy than it did in Eisenhower's time. This is true, but irrelevant. There is no reason why Pentagon spending should keep pace with overall economic growth...

  7. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    specialized international think tank Ember recently published. But what does that mean and whose politics is it due to? According to Ember, at least 107 of the 205 economies surveyed peaked in fossil fuel use in their power plants five or more years ago. Since then, most people have increasingly met their electricity needs with renewable energies...

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

    the supply of products that are produced nearby or in the wider area increases. Jobs would increasingly be relocated to less distant areas and to one's 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...

  9. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    China wants to double wind and solar capacity in three years. Coal remains a problem, but China could achieve its climate goals five years earlier than planned. As the world's second largest economy, China is the world's largest energy consumer and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. But China is also the largest and fastest-growing producer of renewable...

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

    To take measures that primarily correspond to the interests of the rich states and their businesses, but have little or no consideration for the development of the affected economies - often with the result that the poverty of the population even increases. Examples include the Argentine crisis (1998–2002) or the largely inconclusive...

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

    However, governments and representatives in many EU countries followed an irrational nuclear myth and influential lobbyists. Climate Reporter°: Mr. Schneider, Germany, as the EU's largest economy, is finally phasing out nuclear power. Neighboring countries, on the other hand, want to build new reactors: France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, as well as a number of other EU states. Is the...

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

    recommends. The geopolitical strategy pursues the following goals: Geostrategic sanctions should – as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock threatened – “ruin” Russia so that “it cannot get back on its feet economically for years.” They are intended - as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin divulged - to weaken Russia to such an extent that it leads to something like an invasion of...

  13. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    “EU resolutions contribute to accelerating the expansion of renewables in Europe,” said BEE President Dr. Simone Peter. “The expansion of renewable energies in all sectors is the basis of a modern economy and the only answer to fossil-nuclear supply crises. Now the final edges of the instruments have to be sanded and the measures decided on have an effect.” “The...

  14. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    are categorically and drastically underinsured worldwide. Accidents such as those that the nuclear industry has already caused in many cases, including the disasters in Fukushima or Chernobyl, result in ruinous economic damage. The fact that this very technology should now be included in the EU taxonomy, i.e. in the catalog of criteria for eligible business in the sense of sustainability...

  15. Newsletter XIX - April 25th to 27.04.2021th, 25 - News+ April XNUMXth - MiK prepares for important battles to come

    As a rule, the investment in the affected nuclear facility is completely lost. Costs for emergency measures, for repairing the accident damage (as far as possible) and economic costs (for example due to additional cancer cases) can exceed the operating profits generated up to that point many times over. No one insures these risks...

  16. Newsletter XVIII - April 20th to 24.04.2021th, 20 - News+ April XNUMXth - Expert predicts further nuclear catastrophe like in Fukushima

    As a rule, the investment in the affected nuclear facility is completely lost. Costs for emergency measures, for repairing the accident damage (as far as possible) and economic costs (for example due to additional cancer cases) can exceed the operating profits generated up to that point many times over. No one insures these risks...

  17. Oct. 20, 2016 - Joint statement on the billion deal

    pass on to society the costs and risks arising from their activities. The aim of enforcing this principle is also to ensure that economic sectors whose economic costs exceed the economic benefits to be achieved cannot prevail over other solutions that are better from the perspective of society as a whole. The European...

  18. Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. since 2011

    pass on to society the costs and risks arising from their activities. The aim of enforcing this principle is also to ensure that economic sectors whose economic costs exceed the economic benefits to be achieved cannot prevail over other solutions that are better from the perspective of society as a whole. more... *...

  19. THTR Circular No. 115 August 07

    and not just from green crackpots, but also from short-sighted economic managers within the nuclear industry. When the THTR-1989 in Hamm was finally shut down in 300, there was economic damage that exceeded anything that the sabotage of the Transrapid magnetic levitation train would cost us." (2) But after seven years of red-green "eco-mania" (Büso) and "pessimism about the future “...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 105 March 06

    in Hamm. Minister Thoben stopped briefly on the driveway to the venue to receive the memorable Christian Democratic leaflet with the following title: "'Moose' test for economic energy competence". Certainly a tough nut to crack for economist Thoben in view of party political and energy policy blinders. Tutoring in Mainz would be a real...

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