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solo@slrpnk.netOPto World News@lemmy.world•Statement on the situation in Iran | IAEAEnglish22·8 days agoThank you for your input. Even tho I find this to be totally faisable, from what the cradle article provides, I cannot verify much:
- fars looks like it’s an Iranian outlet I personnaly don’t know if I can trust or not, regardless of mbfc
- the informed sources are not named
- I didn’t manage to find the documents mentionned*
Apart from that at some point it mentions that Grossi said in Times of Israel that “We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this.”, but it is about Iran stealing Israeli documents.
Anyways, if you or anyone has more on this, please share.
Edit: *I mean deducted, or something
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Five geoengineering trials the UK is funding to combat global warming2·19 days agoI have noticed that The Conversation has articles that I consider to be great and others that I find to be the opposite. Unfortunately, for me, this one is in the later category.
In this one, mainly they talk about how the technologies will work, about money and the urgency to use this tech. The real urgency is to start phasing out fossil fuel globally. Also, they don’t talk about the unintended consequences, the too many known unknowns, and let’s keep in mind there are uncountable unknown unknowns in geoengineering.
More info:
solo@slrpnk.netto Global News@lemmy.zip•Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries1·23 days agoCoincidentaly, I also posted this article but after reading it a second time, I decided to delete it because I found it was very problematic since it says very contradictory things. If I misunderstood something, please point it out to me.
Examples of contradictions:
Over 99% of the almost 1.89m tCO2e estimated […] is attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza.
[…] 50% [of CO2e emissions] were generated by the supply and use of weapons, tanks and other ordnance by the Israeli military (IDF), the study found.
- And there is this graph claiming that most emissions by sector come from Gaza aid delivery (trucks).
solo@slrpnk.netOPto World News@lemmy.world•Macron calls recognising Palestinian state a 'moral duty', says Europe must harden stance on IsraelEnglish291·23 days agoI would say, it’s much longer than 40 years.
This is what the United Nations, use as starting point:
Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, […]
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•I’m Facing Prison for My Climate Activism. Here’s Why: I’d planned to block the taxiway at Manchester Airport by glueing my hands to the tarmac.8·27 days agoSorry, but what are you talking about? Who is he? What jets?
Maybe take a look at the article?
solo@slrpnk.netOPto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Suriname president vows oil bonanza won't hit carbon-negative status3·27 days agoYes, I see many parallels between your example and Suriname’s. And I don’t see how the people can benefit from this drilling. Even if he keeps his “vow” to give some money to the people, the local environmental devastation will be too vast for a country that is quite small. Meaning, I cannot see a scenario in which people would actually benefit from the drilling activities.
solo@slrpnk.netOPto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time6·1 month agoI think the rest of the article (just below the graph you added) gives a decent overvue on how the situation is, and includes some equaly decent projections. It looks like there is a possibility that they have peaked, and will plateau or hopefully will diminish emittions. Still, no certainty that this is a trend, or that it will continue.
And June is a month to keep an eye out to see how its new electricity pricing policy for renewable energy will be.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•5 ways we’re making progress on climate change132·1 month agoEconomic growth makes us all better,
No. Economic growth under capitalism is the problem. Capitalism requires infinite growth on a finite planet, and this is what got us here in the first place. So this is not a sustainable economic system.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds2·2 months agoLet’s not forget an important factor: within the span of 30 years.
I spent too many hours yesterday trying to find the relevant info without taking this into consideration.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’1·2 months agoI totally tried and then decided to ask here.
The closest thing I managed to find was saying that 16.3% of adults worldwide have wealth of 100k to 1m, in 2023 [source: Global Wealth Report 2024 by UBS, see The global wealth pyramid at p23] but this is not what the article says.
Somebody suggested the World Inequality Database but on this topic, the results come by country and/or stats.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’1·2 months agoThank you very much but it looks like they don’t have what I am looking for. I followed several path in More Indicators and Other Indicators but everything that comes out is by country and/or percentages and at my most hopeful moment I got:
This indicator has no data for this selection. Please select another one.
Anyways, thanks again!
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’11·2 months agoI know that in the article they mentions €42,980 and I appreciate carbon brief. Still, I tried to find in the study itself how they calculated it, but somehow I didn’t manage to. This is why I asked for another link.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’11·2 months agoDo you have a decent link to corroborate that?
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’18·2 months agoDo you have any decent link that supports this?
I didn’t manage to spot in the study itself, how they calculate this number. If anyone has, please share this part.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds61·2 months agoI don’t think so. I have the impression that the introduction part was talking in general, mainly because it says The amount varies by location and local wage trends, and then it talks about the US, specifically.
Appart from that, in page 23 of the Global Wealth Report 2024 by UBS in The global weath pyramyd 2023 it also says saomething similar, that 16.3% of adults have wealth in USD of 100k to 1m.
Did I get something wrong?
Edit: At the bottom of the investopedia article, they have the sources and since they only have references about the US, I believe I can safely say that I my assumption that the intro was talking about the entire world was wrong.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds2·2 months agoThe calculations in the site you linked is more of a creative accounting approach for feel good purposes. Nothing serious there imo.
solo@slrpnk.netto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•World's wealthiest 10% have contributed to two-thirds of global warming since 1990, study finds1410·2 months agoPartially, I agree your conclusion, but I believe some clarifications could help on the math part, because minimum wage will never put you in the top 10% of world income.
From investopedia 2024:
How Much Income Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, 10%?
Individuals in the top 10% earn at least six figures annually. In some areas, those in the top 1% must make over $1 million per year, while in others, the threshold is lower.
The problem is
The problem is capitalism with its embedded goal of growing profit. It took capitalists some time and a lot of propaganda to convince people to shift to single-use plastics instead of reusable containers (i.e. glass bottles for milk). It is not profitable for this
economicwasteful system of production to change back, and it doesn’t need to, because this system is backed by governments all over the world. So, the solution can only come from a systemic change.
I also think that the Israeli attacks are related to Iran’s nuclear program but I don’t think they are related to this alleged leak. Here is a 25 min long al jazeera podcast for more on this:
Why is Israel attacking Iran now?