FROM this week’s news ON: the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on this topic. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Note: in my “from the news” posts, quotes are shown italicised and blue, my comments are in a different shade of blue, and “good” items are shown in green. I have loosely grouped the posts where such seemed reasonable, but that is subjective (i.e., my opinion - others are free to disagree), and challenging, as some posts belong in multiple “groups”.

Froom this week’s news on the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues (note: I may continue to add links for a few days, possibly up to a week, after these are published), noting that at least some issues will not have made it into the news that I see: 

• “‘My jaw dropped’: Annie Jacobsen on her scenario for nuclear war”   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/annie-jacobsen-nuclear-war-scenario   “The danger of nuclear war is as immediate as ever but it has faded from public discourse, which is why Jacobsen, now a journalist and author, felt driven to write her new book, “Nuclear War: A Scenario.” [Torva, 26th March, 2024, ISBN 978-0593476109; Penguin; Apple; Amazon]   ...   The scenario is based on known facts concerning the world’s nuclear arsenals, systems and doctrine. ... an ICBM strike against North Korea would have to go over Russia, and that Russia’s early warning system is beset with glitches, an especially worrying fact when combined with the knowledge that both the US and Russia have part of their nuclear arsenals ready to launch at a few minutes’ notice.”   Some of us have never forgotten the risk   

• “A Republican victory in 2024 is a “free market” death sentence for humanity”   https://theaimn.com/a-republican-victory-in-2024-is-a-free-market-death-sentence-for-humanity/   “One of the most important reasons to watch American politics this year is that a Trump victory will push the world faster towards catastrophic climate heating.”   

• “Australia should prepare for 20-year megadroughts as the climate crisis worsens, study finds”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/05/australia-megadroughts-climate-crisis-global-heating   “Australia’s soil to become net carbon emitter and threat to climate goals, report says”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/03/australia-soil-carbon-emissions-sequestration-report-net-zero   

• “States reject Dutton’s push for nuclear power”   https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2024/04/05/nuclear-states   Good   
  

• “Groups Pressure Ottawa to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads in Public Facilities”   https://www.desmog.com/2024/03/28/ottawa-ban-fossil-fuel-ads-canada-action-ecology-ottawa-shawn-menard-horizon-ottawa-cape/   “An upcoming city policy review offers the best chance to drop “fundamentally misleading” ads designed to appeal to policy makers and consumers”   but   “Fossil Fuel Advocates Spread Disinfo About Canada’s False Advertising Bill”   https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/09/fossil-fuel-advocates-spread-disinformation-about-canadas-false-advertising-bill/   “A Canadian MP has proposed a ban on deceptive fossil fuel advertising inspired by the anti-tobacco movement”   and meanwhile   “Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry”   https://www.desmog.com/2024/03/27/report-environmental-defence-fossil-fuel-subsidies-canada-government-carbon-capture-justin-trudeau/   

• “Lithium Batteries for EVs need to be produced in Socially Responsible Ways”   https://www.juancole.com/2024/03/batteries-produced-responsible.html  

My links for activism post may aid any activism you may decide to do on any/all of these. If you do, don’t get too fixated on specific instances of problems - important though they may well be: take a moment to also consider the broader issues these incidents and groups of incidents may suggest/reveal.

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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