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A formidable pro-nuclear propaganda
A formidable pro-nuclear propagandaAge to do - March 03, 2023
This is the best-selling book of the year 2022: The Endless World. Problem: this comic is a real propaganda tool for nuclear energy.
The success of the comic strip Le Monde sans fin is both excellent and very bad news. For good reason: this book is both excellent and very bad…
The excellent is in the first part, in which the designer Christophe Blain illustrates with humor and talent the words of Jean-Marc Jancovici, highlighting our dependence on the energy system. The authors recall in particular that there has never been an energy transition since the beginning of the industrial era: to wood was added coal, then oil, gas, hydroelectricity, before the arrival of nuclear and renewable energies.
Result: by multiplying the sources, we have multiplied our energy consumption. We would thus have become sorts of Iron Man who are unaware of each other, with at our service superpowers offered by the machines that we have at our service. Or even moguls surrounded by hundreds of invisible slaves: a tractor offers the labor force of 600 humans, an airplane is equivalent to the power of a million people.
To limit climate change, we must drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, even though almost all of our activities depend on it. And it's not just about air travel: the hospital alone would also represent 5% of the French carbon footprint.
The book does not address issues of wealth sharing, public services or the advertising essential to the consumerist model. According to the very debatable vision that it conveys, our standard of living would depend on only one parameter: our energy consumption. If it drops, goodbye health, leisure, retirement, hello great migrations, wars, famines...
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The 10 greatest environmental victories of the decade
The 10 greatest environmental victories of the decadeMr Globalization - Feb 19, 2023
The fight to save planetary ecosystems is difficult and often in vain.
It happens however that by dint of stubbornness the militants end up wresting some resounding victories from the public authorities.
We retrace the ten greatest successes of the last decade.
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Senator Diana Ivanovici Șoșoacă: the earthquake was caused
Senator Diana Ivanovici Șoșoacă: the earthquake was causedQactus - Feb 12, 2023
Speech by Senator Diana Ivanovici Șoșoacă in the Romanian Parliament on February 8, 2023 on the earthquake in Turkey, and swings everything.
Romanian Senator Diana Lovanovici speaking in Parliament on the uses of HAARP technology in Turkey.
"Fools play like God and they think they've won the game..."
“Warning to the psychopaths of the world: if you need people to die, we need you to perish too” “…an eye for an eye”
Translation of his message: "It is imperative that all nations, peoples of the world, rise together, awaken from everyday comfort and carelessness and as in 1848, begin the struggle for liberation from the yoke of psychopaths, lunatics who steal our happiness and the beautiful world in which we live. Therefore I urge all who still want to live in a world of God, not Satan, I urge you to rise up to fight, to a global revolt to free us all and destroy these enemies, for right now we are in self-defense. »
"The balance sheet of the earthquake in Turkey is currently 21043 dead and 80097 injured"
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The “balloon” mess: Lies galore
The “balloon” mess: Lies galoreInternational Network - Feb 09, 2023
If the U.S. government, including the president and the Pentagon, were telling the truth, the week-long incursion of Chinese balloons into U.S. territory proved to be one of the most effective spy missions ever attempted against US air and missile defenses in recent memory.
If the Chinese government was telling the truth and the balloon was nothing more than an “unmanned civilian airship” out of control due to force majeure, the result is exactly the same. It is also the same result if the Chinese lied and the balloon was a military intelligence operation.
And if American officials lied, hid what they knew about the balloon's mission, the conclusion remains the same: the balloon revealed to the enemies of the United States the fundamental weaknesses of the United States' war against Russia and China. . ; and also to American allies in the Ukrainian battlefield, Japan, Korea, Canada and Australia to see for themselves.
The public record is slow to be released on what exactly happened when the giant balloon entered the airspace between the Russian Kuril Islands and the American Aleutian Islands; then entered US territorial waters and made landfall over Alaska, then Canada, then the United States again.
Published maps available in US media have all been distorted by projections and estimates based on weather data and observations reported to the press by people on the ground.
Precise data on flight path, speed, electronic signals to and from the airship and evidence of control (or lack of control) over its operations are military secrets – American, Chinese, Russian.
However, it is not necessary to open them to draw several conclusions. For the moment, and in the absence of more evidence, the following is a handful of certainties validated by the probabilities.
This is the test that American juries do to convict in cases of fraud.
The first certainty is that the balloon was detected by US military and civilian trackers long before it reached US territorial waters off the Aleutian Islands (Alaska).
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“Too many beehives in town”. When Helping Bees Disappoints Them
Mr Globalization - Feb 01, 2023
Bees in town? We see this phenomenon developing more and more in urban areas and, above all, in companies. But if the insertion of hives in the city started from an ecological intention aiming to protect pollinating insects, it is today very contested.
“If the bee were to disappear from the surface of the globe, man would only have 5 years to live”. This quote from Albert Einstein takes on its full meaning in the current environmental context. It also alerts to the importance of these insignificant insects for many of us, but ultimately vital to the survival of human and non-human species, as well as their ecosystems. How can such small living beings be of such magnitude in the face of the climate crisis we are going through?
Bees are our allies
Pollinators contribute directly to food security, the UN reminds us via its program for the environment. If this category includes animals such as monkeys, birds or rodents, it is especially known for insects.
According to beekeeping experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: 75% of global food production depends on pollinating insects. Although the wind promotes pollination, between 60% and 90% of wild plants require the help of pollinating insects, such as bees, in order to reproduce. And to speak the economic language of our current models, according to the NGO Greenpeace, pollination represents 265 billion dollars of service rendered in the world.
In fact, the global production of honey per year amounts to around 1,6 million tonnes, with around 81 million active hives around the globe (May 2019 report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES)).
If these figures are impressive by their scale, they are partly explained by a historical phenomenon of the insertion of bees. The latter, contrary to what one thinks, does not date from yesterday, because in the Middle Ages, already, the human exploited the hives in town. In recent decades, particularly due to global warming, many scientists are sounding the alarm on the urgency of conserving biodiversity. It is therefore in an ecological approach that the phenomenon of integration of bees has resumed and is increasing.
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Danger. Consolidation of the electric car market is coming!
Danger. Consolidation of the electric car market is coming!Insolentiae – Jan 18, 2023
Tesla has just launched a price offensive with price reductions of up to 8.500 euros on the Model 3 in France.
Why such discounts?
Because it is a 17% drop in selling prices that we are talking about for the flagship vehicles of the Tesla brand.
So what's going on?
We spoke with David Jacquot about my analysis of the situation which is not insignificant in my opinion.
What Elon Musk has just done by embarking on the price war is to launch… the consolidation of the electric vehicle market and this will be hard on many manufacturers.
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The environmental struggles targeted by the Ministry of the Interior
Mr Globalization - Jan 17, 2023
This strange habit of the French “security services” of communicating, without appearing to do so, about their intentions, once again sounds like a test for a new repressive salvo.
On Tuesday, December 20, at the start of the warmest Christmas holidays ever recorded, the newspaper Le Parisien published the good pages of a mysterious report by Territorial Intelligence, "leaked" on purpose, under the noisy title The worrying radical shift of environmental activists. Faced with this open announcement of the criminalization of environmental activism, the only one capable of stopping the bulldozers of deadly capitalism, Les Uprisings of the Earth wrote a forum and a call for solidarity that Mr Mondialisation supports and relays.
This "radical turn" of ecologists would therefore be the result of the hidden maneuvers of a group of "ultra-left" recently converted to the environmental cause, slyly concealed under the sign "Les Uprisings of the Earth", and not the sign the radical nature of the situation in which we are all caught up to our necks.
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Fertile Disobedience - website
Fertile Disobedience - websiteFertile Disobedience - Jan 12, 2023
Fertile disobedience is a movement whose absolute will is to preserve living beings and regenerate ecosystems when they have been degraded; this by all means.
Three fundamental pillars anchor the philosophy of fertile disobedience:
- Integrate in Nature
- Aggravate the territories
- Do not wait for laws to change to act
The human species is not condemned to degrade the environments that shelter it.
We can all become guardians of the Living.
And precisely, we invite you to become its guardians.
“A day will come when our society will be judged not by the way it has dominated nature, but by how wild it has been able to safeguard. »
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France — Advice for resisting the authorities in light habitats
France — Advice for resisting the authorities in light habitatsNew World - Jan 12, 2023
More and more people who live in light habitats or who plan to do so, are asking questions about potential administrative threats and the appropriate means to respond to them.
Before starting to get to the heart of the matter, Jonathan Attias summarizes the law and its application. Before 2014, there was no real statute that explained what light housing is. Since the ALUR law, the notion of “removable residence” has been defined. It is a habitat that has no footprint, in other words that has no foundation, with no size limit. Contrary to what we imagine with the term "light habitat", we can quite have space and a yurt of 50 m2 for example.
The ALUR law also determines the legal framework that applies to the removable residence, through the STECAL (sectors of limited size and capacity) which are areas within the local urban plans that can derogate from the building areas. traditional to allow light housing to be installed there.
Before 2014, STECALs could only be determined by the town halls. Since the ALUR law and the latest territorial reforms, things have become more complex: if you want to put a STECAL in a municipality, you have to go through a departmental commission, the CDPENAF, and come to an agreement with the whole of the surrounding municipalities, within the framework of the local inter-municipal urban plan.
All those who go knocking on the door of a town hall to ask for help should not expect it to open its arms to you, because it has lost its right of decision. On the other hand, she has earned the right to denounce you.
“City halls today are deprived of this right to decide. So it's not worth asking them for permission because it embarrasses them."
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The entourloupe of energy saving certificates
Age to do - Jan 06, 2023
Thank you for the bicycle boost and My free bulbs, but the financing of the energy transition by energy saving certificates raises questions in democratic matters.
We are too few to know the operation of this device, managed by companies, which we finance each year to the tune of several billion euros.
900 bikes repaired in less than 000 months (6): the “bike boost” scheme is a hit. It must be said that it is quite simple to take advantage of this "voucher" of 1 euros to have your bike repaired. All you have to do is go to a bicycle dealer with your bike, your ID and your smartphone (50), and presto! Faced with the success of the operation launched on May 2, the government announced that it would triple the dedicated envelope, bringing it to 11 million euros. In September, he again announced an extension of 60 million euros. In December, the device is extended until March 20, and the envelope increased to 31 million euros. It's no longer an envelope, it's a suitcase!
But where does the money come from? Is the government showing political courage by redirecting public spending in favor of cycling? No way. It is the end consumers of energy, that is to say you and me, who pay for the bicycle boost, each time we fill up or turn on our radiator. The trick has a name: the system of energy saving certificates. A formidable "thingy" specially created to finance the policy of controlling energy consumption. We will try later to explain in detail the operation of this gas plant, but for the moment, it is enough to present the principle in its large widths to understand the maneuver. To reduce the energy consumption of individuals (3), the State requires energy sellers (EDF, Engie, Total, petrol stations, etc.) to financially encourage consumers to invest in energy efficiency. To do this, energy sellers will simply pay part of household investments: bike repair to avoid having to take the car, attic insulation to not push the heating, etc. Example with the “bike boost”: six energy suppliers, including Total and Auchan Energies, contribute to a fund. It is with this fund that the bicycle dealers are paid for the repair of the bicycles.
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Energy saving certificates: how does it work?
Age to do - Jan 06, 2023
What is this contraption financed by individuals, but managed by companies? We try to explain energy savings certificates, which turn energy savings into a commodity listed on the stock exchange.
With energy saving certificates (CEE, or C2E), the State requires energy sellers (EDF, Engie, Total, petrol stations, etc.) to financially encourage consumers to invest in efficiency energy. To do this, these sellers have the possibility of financing funds, such as that of the “bike boost”, or of directly financing the work of individuals, or even of paying intermediaries to do it for them. But this is the heart of the gizmo: the state does not require companies to devote so many euros to these “incentives”. That would be far too simple! On the other hand, it asks them to justify the energy savings that individuals will make thanks to this financing, by presenting the State with a given number of ESCs… But how to account for energy savings that have not yet been made! ?
You think it's impossible? Well, we have to believe not: technocrats – advised by industrialists – did it! Thus, a state-of-the-art boiler will save so many kWh for 20 years even if we do not know what it is replacing. You buy 30 m² of insulation? We do not know if the insulation was properly installed, or even if it was actually installed, but we assess the energy savings generated by these 30 m² of insulation purchased. Thus, all the products and services concerned by the energy saving certificates have been counted in kWh saved. As for the bicycle boost, the energy savings “created” thanks to a repair at 50 euros is equivalent to 10 MWh, because we will take our car less…
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Letter to my son
International Network - Dec 24, 2022
My son, Friday, instead of going to high school, you participated in the demonstration for the defense of the climate and the saving of the planet.
You can't imagine how proud I was to see you involved in such an essential cause. Deeply moved by so much maturity and nobility of soul, I was totally won over by the relevance of your fight. Also, I inform you that I have decided to be unfailingly supportive and, from today, to do everything to reduce the carbon footprint of the family.
So, to start, we'll get rid of all the Smartphones in the house. And then also television. You won't mind, of course, if your console suffers the same fate: it's said to generate polluting electronic waste that poisons the rivers of Southeast Asia.
