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Tony Sage, CEO of Critical Metals Corporation, which is developing one of the world’s largest rare earth assets in Greenland, said ice melt on the island had done the mining company “enormous favors” from a logistical standpoint.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/greenlands-melting-ice-is-clearing-the-way-for-a-mineral-gold-rush.html
[#]mining #Greenland #ClimateChange
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We live in a sick world.
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"The climate catastrophe that is already upon us is fundamentally a threat to our health. (...) I realised that the best thing I could do for the health of my patients was to try in any way I could to peacefully resist this great evil which is being inflicted on us by oil companies with complicity from governments, insurers, banks, lawyers, and all those who support them." -- Patrick Hart
https://novaramedia.com/2025/01/07/first-working-gp-sent-to-prison-for-peaceful-climate-protest/
[#]ClimateChange #JustStopOil #activism
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Haha, on point, First Dog on the Moon!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/dec/18/and-what-do-you-want-from-santa-this-christmas
[#]capitalism #anticapitalism
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When we think about our daily lives and we navigate our world, we tend to have what I call the mirage of regularity. And it's very easy to be seduced by this because things unfold in these highly predictable ways. And because of this, we start to think, "Okay, the world is controllable." This is, however, a mirage.
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-- Brian Klaas, "Why does it feel like the world is falling apart?"
https://youtu.be/TLm6dC34gYk
[#]collapse
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“The energy transition is a slogan but not a scientific concept,” explains [French historian Jean-Baptiste] Fressoz. “It derives its legitimacy from a false representation of history. Industrial revolutions are certainly not energy transitions, they are a massive expansion of all kinds of raw materials and energy sources.”
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https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/01/02/Reality-Check-Energy-Transition/
[#]EnergyTransition #renewables #ClimateChange
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The Brookings Institute identified countries like Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Italy, the Czech Republic and Serbia, as some of the countries whose exports to Kyrgyzstan have surged following the Russia-Ukraine war. As such, they could potentially be continuing to do trade with Russia through Kyrgyzstan.
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https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/09/30/taking-care-of-business-how-kyrgyzstan-became-moscows-middle-man
[#]Russia #sanctions
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Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024 and almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-gas-transit-supplies-gazprom-7775fea34a7be9723b991d835a7ebd6f
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Timothy Snyder expects that Trump’s soon-to-be home, the White House, will be a stage for uncomfortable and damaging discord between the president-elect and his most powerful ally, the world’s richest man.
"This is kind of like the 1990s in Russia. You have the doddering, rich-but-not-very-rich president [Boris Yeltsin], surrounded by more youthful, more active, ambitious oligarchs. That’s the kind of scenario America is in."
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/01/elon-musk-donald-trump
[#]Trump #Musk #uspol
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Ahh, to be an optimist.
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Overall, a majority of people (71%) believe that 2025 will be a better year than 2024. According to Ipsos, optimism levels have fluctuated between 75% to 80% over the past decade.
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infographic-the-countries-most-optimistic-about-2025/
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"The Hardest Thing was Living Through a Time when We could've Turned this Around"
💔
https://youtu.be/OePbsWVW8nY
[#]ClimateChange #collapse #JustStopOil
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"When Trucks Stop Running, America Stops"
Quite a scenario: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/978-3-319-26375-5_1 Always amazes me how brittle and vulnerable these systems are.
Trash piling up since day one. Empty store shelves by day two. Industrial production halted by day five. Clean water gone after two weeks. Total blackout after a month or two.
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It brings home a hidden truth which bears repeating: Everything in our homes, everything in our stores, got there on a truck at some point.
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[#]collapse
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Modern techno-industrial society is afflicted by human exceptionalism, the beliefs that H. sapiens is not really an ‘animal-like-the-others’, that human behaviour is determined by socio-cultural factors (nurture), and that humans are therefore somehow exempt from the laws of nature.
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https://medium.com/@alysion42/overshoot-cognitive-obsolescence-and-the-population-conundrum-1fd29de848ee
[#]overshoot
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"After decades of rapid growth, many Chinese millennials and Gen Z people feel that the opportunities that were available to their parents no longer exist, and that working hard no longer offers guaranteed rewards."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/24/what-is-neijuan-china-viral-buzzword-laptop-bicycle
[#]China is more similar to the western nations than it cares to admit, speedrunning economic development, including all the problems of capitalism.
Chinese #economy could work better for the Chinese people, but the leaders don't want to give up any power.
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A couple hundred North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine have been killed or wounded during battle in the Kursk border region, a senior military official said Tuesday.
The official didn’t provide details on exactly how many have been killed, but said the North Korean forces don’t appear to be battle-hardened, which contributes to the number of casualties they’ve had.
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https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-ukraine-casualties-kursk-russia-a1207ba61ded5061f721ffa0f0650851
[#]Russia #Ukraine #NorthKorea #war
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What does it really mean to live in balance with nature? Historical Native American answers to that question were incredibly complex, often contradictory and basically have no resemblance to anything you were taught in school.
(...)
Despite their reciprocal view of nature and their gift economy with the land indigenous people across the contiguous United States managed their environment in fundamentally anthropocentric ways.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLizvrhbOU
[#]sustainability #indigenous
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Russia’s unleashing of the Oreshnik experimental ballistic missile on Ukraine was a propaganda operation designed by the Kremlin, the military, and intelligence agencies to reignite fear in Kyiv and Western capitals that had grown accustomed to Moscow’s nuclear saber-rattling.
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Realistically, it would take years to mass-produce the Oreshnik given the bureaucratic inefficiencies and lagging innovation that plague Russia's defense sector.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/03/exclusive-kremlin-stages-oreshnik-propaganda-blitz-as-nuclear-threats-lose-their-potency-a87206
[#]Russia #propaganda
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Russia's central bank said on Wednesday it would stop foreign currency purchases in order to ease pressure on the financial markets after the rouble weakened beyond 110 to the U.S. dollar, down by one-third since early August.
Sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia's third-largest lender, Gazprombank, which handles the energy trade, were behind the rouble's sharp fall.
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/russian-rouble-down-by-one-quarter-since-early-august-2024-11-27/
[#]Russia #economics
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Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, has confirmed that mutual agreement was reached with Ukraine on the exhumations of Polish victims killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two.
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https://www.pap.pl/en/news/polish-fm-confirms-mutual-agreement-ukraine-volhynia-victims
[#]Poland #Ukraine #WorldWar2
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In my own mind I’ve moved on quite far from the utopia of The Dispossessed to the semi-utopia of Always Coming Home, where I did try to make it simply a lifestyle. (...) What I took from the Indians was, essentially, running your lives without a central government and using consensus as the basic mode, which you can’t do in a big society, it’s a matter of numbers.
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https://lithub.com/ursula-k-le-guin-on-racism-anarchy-and-hearing-her-characters-speak/
[#]UrsulaKLeGuin #anarchism
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