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Month: November 2018

Week 47: Climate change creates poverty, alerts the armies, and a fake Black Friday picture

Posted on 26th November 201826th November 2018 by Benno Hansen

The climate crisis poses a constant threat to global security. This is a threat that we face, not years from now, but today. We owe it to our brave soldiers on the front lines, and at the ready at home & abroad, to recognize this threat & act to solve it. https://t.co/kXmTueR7Ry — Al Gore…

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Week 46: Killing for irrigation, divide and conquer in the jungle, sitting in the streets

Posted on 18th November 201818th November 2018 by Benno Hansen

The water supplying many of Kyrgyzstan’s farmers flows from Uzbekistan. Rarely there is enough for everyone. The water comes from glaciers that are disappearing. “During the summer time, there are daily conflicts over irrigation water […] They are usually between villages, sometimes inter-ethnic and people have killed each other over irrigation water.” Tynar Musabaev, executive…

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Week 45: Deadly air pollution, deadly drought, deadly climate

Posted on 11th November 201811th November 2018 by Benno Hansen

New calculation: Air pollution causes more than 500,000 premature deaths in Europe every year. Although it might feel like we heard this accounting of subjective violence before. What also bears repetition is that climate change creates conflict and that the Middle East risks a water wars. His body was bloodied, swollen, and just lying there……

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Week 44: Forced migration, civil disobedience, and political killings

Posted on 4th November 20184th November 2018 by Benno Hansen

My handful of primitive news collecting helpers have unceremoniously done their work for another week. So, I bid you welcome to a short summary of the highlights produced by yours truly over a blended Scotch in a dark and quiet Sunday evening hour. A large group of desperate Central Americans are walking towards the US…

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markamesexiled Mark Ames @markamesexiled ·
20 Nov

EU using Azerbaijan dictatorship to launder its Russian gas supplies. Russia gets its gas revenues, EU gets its winter gas at a premium, a premium worth paying because it allows them to continue pontificating. Europeans are whacky.
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Russia’s Gazprom will supply Azerbaijan with up to 1 billion cubic metres of natural gas this winter, Moscow’s Kommersant reports, saying the deal will relieve domestic demand and help Baku meet its commitment to export more to the EU and other Western nations.

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theredlinepod The Red Line - Podcast @theredlinepod ·
15 Nov

WE'RE HIRING 💼💼

The Red Line is currently expanding our research and analysis teams here at the show.

So if you have a mind for geopolitics, and want to work one-on-one with ambassadors, analysts, and security experts, we would love to hear from you.

https://www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/3354920920/detail/

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1 Nov

Enormous emissions gap between top 1% and poorest, study highlights https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/01/polluting-elite-enormous-carbon-dioxide-emissions-gap-between-poorest-autonomy-study?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667286667

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theredlinepod The Red Line - Podcast @theredlinepod ·
24 Oct

THE GREEN LINE << PART 2 >>

HOW THE CHINESE MILITARY IS PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE 🇨🇳🇨🇳

Climate Change has become THE make or break issue for the Chinese government, and the effects are already threatening internal security, and regional alliances.

https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/how-the-chinese-military-is-preparing-for-climate-change-the-green-line

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petergleick Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 @petergleick ·
22 Oct

Weaponizing water in the Russia-Ukraine wr.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/how-water-has-been-weaponised-ukraine-2022-10-22/

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