“Honduran authorities should thoroughly investigate the killing of Luis Alonso Teruel and determine if it was related to his work as a journalist […] The Honduran government must end the impunity that has prevailed in the killings of journalists for so many years by conducting a swift and credible investigation that identifies all of those…
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En brøkdel af sidste uges økokrig på Twitter
3. søndag i advent (lidt forsinket).
The Russians this week
Anden søndag i advent 2023: Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China “It raises allegations that must be treated with the utmost seriousness by government … The government has a responsibility to say when it first knew of these allegations, what action it and the regulator took and to provide assurances…
Klimakrisen er mange kriser
Første advent 2023: Tre links fra uge 48? Climate change is also a health crisis — these 3 graphics explain why “People are dying from heatwaves caused by climate change every year” Wenjia Cai, Tsinghua University in Beijing Amnesty International: Menneskerettighedsbeskyttelse forudsætter fuldstændig og retfærdig udfasning af fossilt brændsel Læs selv rapporten. Ruslands invasion i…
The Ohio toxic chemicals train derailment
Er Taiwan det næste Ukraine?
Næppe. Ikke 1:1. Men… læs SEBASTIAN STRYHN KJELDTOFTs reportager fra Taiwan. »Fastlandsfiskerne [Kina] bruger ekstreme metoder, som dræber de små og yngre fisk og ødelægger fiskenes habitater. De bruger elektrofiskeri og gift til at fange fiskene, mens de samtidig ødelægger vores [taiwaneseres] fiskenet«. Chen Kuo-Chiang Et spøgelsesagtigt skær hænger over Taiwan. Er det et forvarsel…
Klima farligere end krig
klimaforandringerne og deraf følgende kampe om ressourcer og jord har spillet en rolle i 40 procent af de interne konflikter på globalt plan de seneste 60 år Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen, CARE Øget konflikt efter USAs tilbagetrækning fra Afghanistan bekymrer ikke direktør for nødhjælpsorganisationen CARE Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen. Det gør til gengæld “tørken, oversvømmelserne og fødevareusikkerheden,…
War on Brazil?
September 2019, Anders Theis Bollmann asked readers of the Danish newspaper Information if they could ever envision going to war for the climate. To illustrate his case, he used Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil where the rain forest was burning. imagine that research showed that the burning of the Amazon was so violent that it would cause…
Conflict in The Uninhabitable Earth
Acclaimed, critiqued and depressing for its bleak prospect for the future of a humanly habitable biosphere (and the liberal economy as we know it), The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Google Books, Goodreads) has a short chapter on climate conflict. The more recent of the sources for that chapter have not all…
Charges against founder of Wikileaks threaten press freedom
Despite certain blemishes, Wikileaks has contributed with disclosures of incredible value to the public. Some of the charges raised at the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 11th April 2019 in London constitute an attack on the free press, says experts and NGOs. The parts of the charges that are under criticism are, particularly,…
“Environmental breakdown could trigger … economic, shocks [like] the global financial crisis of 2007-08”
This is a Crisis: Facing up to the Age of Environmental Breakdown by UK based Institute for Public Policy Research is a meta study that links environmental degradation to economic costs. From the increase in floods, loss of topsoil, accelerating climate change, collapse of species populations, lack of diversity everywhere; to increases in migration and…
Add ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ to your watchlist
New documentary gives a more than likely answer to who killed Dag Hammarskjöld.