Environment Archives - Page 14 of 28

17Jan

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, USA

What If Nuclear Deterrence Fails?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Headline photo of an atomic detonation by FEMA/Wikimedia Commons. “Long live deterrence to dissuade nuclear attacks” blasted the headline on Gwynne Dyer’s December 6, 2021 column in The Hill Times. And then came this subheader: “It’s not absolutely foolproof, but it has protected us all from nuclear war for 75 years.” There is just one obvious problem with this statement. In order for deterrence to work, it has to be absolutely 100 percent foolproof. The consequence of it being less than that is beyond catastrophic. It could amount to the end of life on earth as we know it. That’s one hell of a gamble. And it’s a gamble that is not morally defensible on any level. It’s one that should never be taken. As we wrote on the...

World’s Top 2021 Climate Disasters Cost Nearly $200 Billion

5Jan

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, USA

World’s Top 2021 Climate Disasters Cost Nearly $200 Billion

"Climate change will bankrupt us, and along the way, we will lose so much more than money," said one activist in response to the new figures. JON QUEALLY A new report out Monday shows that 2021 continued the trend of annual climate devastation worldwide that is costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars as planet-heating emissions unleash exactly the kind of damage scientists have warned about for decades. "The costs of climate change have been grave this year, both in terms of eye-watering financial losses but also in the death and displacement of people around the world." The new report by Christian Aid—entitled "Counting the Cost 2021: A Year of Climate Breakdown"—analyzed the 15 "most destructive climate disasters" around the world over the last tw...

India Faces Highest Labour Loss Due to Climate Change, Says Study

4Jan

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, India

India Faces Highest Labour Loss Due to Climate Change, Says Study

Study found that with rising heat and humidity levels because of climate change, options for moving outdoor labour to cooler hours will dramatically shrink, leading to significant worldwide labour losses. Newsclick India is one of the countries to have experienced the highest loss in labour due to global warming, according to a recent study led by Duke University researchers. The study, which was published in Nature Communications on December 14, 2021, projected that economic losses associated with this lost productivity could reach up to $1.6 trillion (Rs 1.6 lakh crore) annually if warming exceeds an additional 2 degrees Celsius relative to the present. The study found that with rising heat and humidity levels because of climate change, options for moving outdoor labour to ...

Conflict and Climate Change Drive Water Crisis in Syria

17Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, Syria

Conflict and Climate Change Drive Water Crisis in Syria

Northeastern Syria is experiencing its worst drought in nearly 70 years, with rising temperatures and erratic weather exacerbated by tensions with Turkey. Daniela Sala, Bart von Laffert, Shaveen Mohammad Olive farmer Ahmad Mahmoud Alahri has lost around 3,000 trees due to drought this year The September sun is setting over the old olive grove as Ahmad Mahmoud Alahri walks pensively from tree to tree. The 52-year-old breaks off a piece of dry, dead wood and drops it on the dusty gray ground. "My brother and I once planted 8,000 trees here. There were not just olives, but also lemon trees and grape vines," he recalls. "When the 'Islamic State (IS)' cut off our water to make us compliant, and then 3,000 of our trees died, we thought: 'it can't get a...

Why Internet Itself is a Major Environmental Problem

17Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment

Why Internet Itself is a Major Environmental Problem

If the internet were a country, it would be the sixth biggest user of electricity. Robin Scher The paradox of combating climate change is that the extent of the emergency extends far beyond the actions taken by individuals to mitigate the climate crisis, yet collective action is what is most required to address this issue. There are so many examples of this dilemma—from recycling to how power is being generated, to what people should consume. In each case, broad-based action is required to shift the dial, and while it might seem insurmountable, every little bit counts. A great example of this sentiment in action can be found in the growing field of eco-friendly web design. In a 2013 study, the internet’s annual carbon footprint was measured...

UNHCR: Conflict, violence, climate change drove displacement higher in first half of 2021

15Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment

UNHCR: Conflict, violence, climate change drove displacement higher in first half of 2021

People fleeing the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek shelter in the town of Sake, May 2021. UNHCR immediately began providing assistance. © UNHCR/Guerchom Ndebo The trend in rising forced displacement continued into 2021 – with global numbers now exceeding 84 million – as more people fled violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, according to the Mid-Year Trends report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The report, for January-June 2021, showed an increase from 82.4 million at end 2020. This resulted largely from internal displacement, with more people fleeing multiple active conflicts around the world, especially in Africa. The report also noted that COVID-19 border res...

The “Brigands” Regroup in Basilicata: Italians Rise Up Against New Nuclear Dump

14Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, Italy

The “Brigands” Regroup in Basilicata: Italians Rise Up Against New Nuclear Dump

BY: LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Photo by Tony Vece. The brigand songs hadn’t started yet, although there were faint early flickers and crackles coming from a small camp fire. Lights glimmered from inside a distant tent as our escort led us through crowds milling nearby, briefly allowing a television reporter a hurried interview, his deadline already long gone by. It slowly began to dawn on us then, as we were ushered to sit at a table beneath a hand-painted banner proclaiming “No to Nuclear Waste” that this was a press conference. The rows of seats in front of us were filled to capacity. There was a quick introduction and then we were handed microphones and urged to talk. We were in Scanzano Jonico in Basilicata, possibly Italy’s least-known Southern province. Valentina, a Gre...

13Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Nablus: Nazi Colonizers Cut 600 Trees

Illegal Nazi JEWISH colonizers cut, Saturday, at least six hundred olive and almond trees owned by Palestinians in Deir Shafar village, west of the northern Nazi occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Nazi’s illegal JEWISH colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the colonizers invaded farmlands in the al-Harayeq area west of Deir Sharaf, before cutting at least five hundred olive and almond trees. He added that the lands are close to the illegal Shavei Shomron colony, which was built on stolen Palestinian lands, Daghlas also said that the Palestinians managed to rehabilitate their lands and prepare them from planting five years ago, after being denied access to them, and planted them with olive and almond trees. T...

Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’

3Dec

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, Politics, United Kingdom

Energy crisis: how imperialism manufactures ‘shortages’

The monopolists are too busy vying for advantage to worry about the effects of their machinations on the lives of the workers. Lalkar writers It is not a physical shortage that has created the present energy crisis but the prioritisation of profits over contingency preparations or any rational planning of supply and storage. The present global energy crisis is not fundamentally to do with shortages in the supply of gas, oil or coal. Whilst fossil fuels are a finite resource, a fact which is to be reckoned with in any rational energy plan, the reality here is that there is still a superabundance of such fuels, whether held in reservoirs or yet to be extracted from beneath the earth’s surface. The current man-made shortages are entirely a consequence of the i...

30Nov

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Environment, Politics

Coral and the Great Global Warming Lie

By Luke Perry • The Daily Sceptic Corals occupy an exalted place in the climate tablets of doom. These photogenic little critters find themselves on the science obit pages on an almost daily basis. In fact, their demise has been grossly exaggerated for political purposes. There may not be too much certitude in climate projections, but at least we can hang our hat on one scientific prediction – the little fellows will be around for another 500 million years. Their demise of course is projected from the bleaching that occurs when they expel symbiotic algae in reaction to sudden changes in water temperature. The changes occur due to natural weather oscillations, often around the El Nino event. These occur on a regular basis and once localised conditions have been stabilised, the c...