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The Ohio toxic chemicals train derailment

Posted on 15th February 2023 by Benno Hansen
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Er Taiwan det næste Ukraine?

Posted on 25th July 202222nd August 2022 by Benno Hansen

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…

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Klima farligere end krig

Posted on 8th May 20211st August 2021 by Benno Hansen

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,…

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War on Brazil?

Posted on 22nd May 202022nd May 2020 by Benno Hansen

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…

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Conflict in The Uninhabitable Earth

Posted on 11th May 201911th May 2019 by Benno Hansen

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…

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Charges against founder of Wikileaks threaten press freedom

Posted on 13th April 201913th April 2019 by Benno Hansen

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,…

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“Environmental breakdown could trigger … economic, shocks [like] the global financial crisis of 2007-08”

Posted on 13th February 201913th February 2019 by Benno Hansen

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…

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Add ‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ to your watchlist

Posted on 27th January 201927th January 2019 by Benno Hansen

New documentary gives a more than likely answer to who killed Dag Hammarskjöld.

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Week 52 & 1: Pamela Anderson rules

Posted on 6th January 20196th January 2019 by Benno Hansen

Pamela Anderson is nominated for quote of the year: I do not think the poor should pay for climate change. Yet it is the poor who are paying the biggest price. Some say that the protesters in France protested so they could continue polluting the planet. But I do not think this is true. They…

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Week 51: Merry Christmas

Posted on 25th December 201825th December 2018 by Benno Hansen

During the first eleven months of 2018, almost five thousand people were killed and almost 29 million people affected in climate breakdown incidents, The Guardian recounts in an informative graphic. Islamic State has systematically wrecked the environment from territories they have fled. It’s yet another war crime, actually. “The worst thing is when you destroy…

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Week 50: Minerals and morals in demand everywhere

Posted on 16th December 201816th December 2018 by Benno Hansen

Supply of neodymium, terbium, indium, dysprosium, praseodymium, other rare minerals – and silver – must grow twelvefold by 2050. Else the demand for production of solar panels, rechargeable batteries and other technologies needed for sustainable energies is not met. Furthermore, Europe and USA are overwhelmingly dependent on China, especially, as well as Turkey and Australia…

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Week 49: Climate change and final frontiers

Posted on 8th December 20188th December 2018 by Benno Hansen

It’s COP24 times, so… The New Zealand military is preparing. Climate change will be one of the greatest security challenges for New Zealand Defence in the coming decades […] The links between climate change are indirect but demonstrable … [the impacts] will require more humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief, stability operations and search and rescue…

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