Around the mid-nineteenth century Marx said that philosophers had hitherto endeavoured to understand the world; and that it was time to transform it. Seventeen decades later, this idea screams in our ears.
Put in another way: there is no solution to environmental problems within the capitalist model
1 – Introduction
2 – Environmental management by capitalists and their employees
3 – Climate change - causes and effects
a) Ineluctable absence of human interference cases
b) Historical and current impacts of capitalist development
c) Environmental management as done by multinationals and their employees
From the deplorable current progress to future progress for the benefit of al...Fernando Alcoforado
This article shows that the progress made by humanity throughout history has produced not only benefits, but also several harms that need to be eliminated in the future. This article proposes the bases for a new progress for humanity that produces only benefits that will only be realized with the implantation of a new political, economic and social order of society at the national level, the ordering of international relations at the global level and the promotion of sustainable development.
Preliminary study of the relationship between new risk factors and traditiona...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Feng KONG1,3, Peijun SHI1,2,3, Shao SUN1,3, Man LI1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology of Beijing Normal University, China; 2Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China; 3Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management of Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China
This presentation tells about how climate change is happening due to the population and its impact on the environment in terms of ecological impacts etc.
HOW TO SAVE THE HUMANITY OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WARS DEVASTAT...Fernando Alcoforado
This article whose theme is “How to save humanity of social, economic, environmental and wars devastation in the 21st century” aims to propose the adoption of strategies capable of facing three devastating crises that threaten the future of humanity in the middle of the XXI century. The first crisis is related to the economic and social damage produced by capitalism that will culminate in its predictable end in the middle of the 21st century, the second crisis concerns the worsening of the environmental damage produced by capitalism in the 21st century with the depletion of natural resources, the emergence of new pandemics and catastrophic global climate change, and the third crisis may result from the worsening of conflicts in international relations produced by capitalism that may lead the world to face the multiplicity of localized wars and even a new world war in the 21st century. This article presents the necessary strategies to save humanity from social, economic, environmental devastation and wars in the 21st century, supported by in-depth research on the development of capitalism and its future, on the degradation of the environment and its harmful consequences, as well as about the wars that broke out in the history of mankind and may break out in the future.
From the deplorable current progress to future progress for the benefit of al...Fernando Alcoforado
This article shows that the progress made by humanity throughout history has produced not only benefits, but also several harms that need to be eliminated in the future. This article proposes the bases for a new progress for humanity that produces only benefits that will only be realized with the implantation of a new political, economic and social order of society at the national level, the ordering of international relations at the global level and the promotion of sustainable development.
Preliminary study of the relationship between new risk factors and traditiona...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
Feng KONG1,3, Peijun SHI1,2,3, Shao SUN1,3, Man LI1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology of Beijing Normal University, China; 2Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China; 3Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management of Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, China
This presentation tells about how climate change is happening due to the population and its impact on the environment in terms of ecological impacts etc.
HOW TO SAVE THE HUMANITY OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WARS DEVASTAT...Fernando Alcoforado
This article whose theme is “How to save humanity of social, economic, environmental and wars devastation in the 21st century” aims to propose the adoption of strategies capable of facing three devastating crises that threaten the future of humanity in the middle of the XXI century. The first crisis is related to the economic and social damage produced by capitalism that will culminate in its predictable end in the middle of the 21st century, the second crisis concerns the worsening of the environmental damage produced by capitalism in the 21st century with the depletion of natural resources, the emergence of new pandemics and catastrophic global climate change, and the third crisis may result from the worsening of conflicts in international relations produced by capitalism that may lead the world to face the multiplicity of localized wars and even a new world war in the 21st century. This article presents the necessary strategies to save humanity from social, economic, environmental devastation and wars in the 21st century, supported by in-depth research on the development of capitalism and its future, on the degradation of the environment and its harmful consequences, as well as about the wars that broke out in the history of mankind and may break out in the future.
Life-support: The Political Ecology of Urban Air (Presentation)Stephen Graham
Humans, increasingly, manufacturer their own air. In and around the three-dimensional aerial environments within and above urban regions, this manufacture of air reaches particular levels of intensity. For a species which expires without air in two or three minutes, this anthropogenic manufacture of air is of incalculable importance. Curiously, however, urban air remains remarkably neglected within the political-ecological literatures. Accordingly, this paper suggests a range of key themes which a political ecology of urban air needs to address. These address, in turn, the links between global warming, urban heart-island effects and killer urban heat-waves; urban pollution crises; the paradoxes of urban pollution; horizontal movements of polluted air; the vertical politics of urban air; the construction of vertical condominiums structures for elites; the vicious circles that characterised air-conditioned urbanism; heat-related deaths of workers building air-conditioned structures in increasingly hot climates; and, finally, the growth of large-scale air-conditioned environments.
Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
This path breaking model was the first that showed the interrelationship between different growing systems of the world, and how in the process of achieving infinite growth, finite natural resources would be depleted forming a Limit to Growth. Increasing pollution and loss of agricultural land would also affect growth and welfare.
What purpose do the economy, energy, or environment serve?Anupam Saraph
Address to the Pune International Centre Conference on:
Energy, Environment and Economic Growth: Emerging Challenges on 22-23 January 2021
Are we addicted to the economy? Have we forgotten it is the environment that gives life, not the economy? Do we recognize that energy, green or otherwise, will not protect the planet, or create reverence for the sacred, or care and respect for the community of life?
From Limits to Growth to the Growth of Limits: responsibilities of highly and...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
GRF One Health Summit 2012, Davos: Presentation by Bron Raymond TAYLOR, University of Florida (USA) & Rachel Carson Center (Munich), United States of America
Michael P Totten GreenATP: APPortunities to catalyze local to global positive...Michael P Totten
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy.
Life-support: The Political Ecology of Urban Air (Presentation)Stephen Graham
Humans, increasingly, manufacturer their own air. In and around the three-dimensional aerial environments within and above urban regions, this manufacture of air reaches particular levels of intensity. For a species which expires without air in two or three minutes, this anthropogenic manufacture of air is of incalculable importance. Curiously, however, urban air remains remarkably neglected within the political-ecological literatures. Accordingly, this paper suggests a range of key themes which a political ecology of urban air needs to address. These address, in turn, the links between global warming, urban heart-island effects and killer urban heat-waves; urban pollution crises; the paradoxes of urban pollution; horizontal movements of polluted air; the vertical politics of urban air; the construction of vertical condominiums structures for elites; the vicious circles that characterised air-conditioned urbanism; heat-related deaths of workers building air-conditioned structures in increasingly hot climates; and, finally, the growth of large-scale air-conditioned environments.
Slides of talk presented at various forums on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome published in 1972. This book was one of the earliest scholarly works to recognize that the world was fast approaching its sustainable limits. Forty years later, the planet continues to face many of the same economic, social, and environmental challenges as when the book was first published.
This path breaking model was the first that showed the interrelationship between different growing systems of the world, and how in the process of achieving infinite growth, finite natural resources would be depleted forming a Limit to Growth. Increasing pollution and loss of agricultural land would also affect growth and welfare.
What purpose do the economy, energy, or environment serve?Anupam Saraph
Address to the Pune International Centre Conference on:
Energy, Environment and Economic Growth: Emerging Challenges on 22-23 January 2021
Are we addicted to the economy? Have we forgotten it is the environment that gives life, not the economy? Do we recognize that energy, green or otherwise, will not protect the planet, or create reverence for the sacred, or care and respect for the community of life?
From Limits to Growth to the Growth of Limits: responsibilities of highly and...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
GRF One Health Summit 2012, Davos: Presentation by Bron Raymond TAYLOR, University of Florida (USA) & Rachel Carson Center (Munich), United States of America
Michael P Totten GreenATP: APPortunities to catalyze local to global positive...Michael P Totten
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy.
l̂̂̂ î;The environmental revolution has been almost.docxSHIVA101531
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The environmental revolution has been almost
three decades in the making, and it has changed for-
ever how companies do business. In the 1960s and
1970s, corporations were in a state of denial regard-
ing their impact on the environment. Then a series
of highly visible ecological problems created a
groundswell of support for strict government regu-
lation. In the United States, Lake Erie was dead. In
Europe, the Rhine was on fire. In Japan, people were
dying of mercury poisoning.
Today many companies have accepted their re-
sponsibility to do no harm to the environment.
Products and production processes are becoming
cleaner; and where sueh change is under way, the
environment is on the mend. In the industrialized
nations, more and more companies are "going
green" as they realize that they can reduce pollu-
tion and increase profits simultaneously. We have
come a long way.
fer to as its carrying capacity. Increasingly, the
scourges of the late twentieth century-depleted
farmland, fisheries, and forests,- choking urban pol-
lution,- poverty; infectious disease; and migration-
are spilling over geopolitical borders. The simple
fact is this: in meeting our needs, we are destroying
the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
The roots of the problem-explosive population
growth and rapid economic development in the
emerging economies - are political and social issues
that exceed the mandate and the capabilities of any
corporation. At the same time, corporations are the
only organizations with the resources, the technol-
ogy, the global reach, and, ultimately, the motiva-
tion to achieve sustainability.
It is easy to state the case in the negative: faced
with impoverished customers, degraded environ-
ments, failing political systems, and unraveling
societies, it will be increasingly difficult for cor-
Strateqies for a Sustainable World
But the distance we've traveled will seem small
when, in 30 years, we look hack at the 1990s. Be-
yond greening lies an enormous challenge-and an
enormous opportunity. The challenge is to develop
a sustainable global economy: an economy that the
planet is capable of supporting indefinitely. Al-
though we may be approaching ecological recovery
in the developed world, the planet as a whole re-
mains on an unsustainable course. Those who
think that sustainability is only a matter of pollu-
tion control are missing the bigger picture. Even if
all the companies in the developed world were to
achieve zero emissions by the year 2000, the earth
would still be stressed beyond what biologists re-
porations to do business. But the positive case is
even more powerful. The more we learn about the
challenges of sustainability, the clearer it is that we
are poised at the threshold of a historic moment
in which many of the world's industries may be
transformed.
To date, the business logic for greening has been
largely operational or technical: bottom-up pollu-
tion-prevention programs have saved companies
S ...
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law - IntroductionGraciela Mariani
Synopsis
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.
Publication: Crises and Opportunities in Changing Times; The African Dimensio...Africa Cheetah Run
In Africa we have different favorite crises of values, pandemics, population growth, economic chaos, energy paradigm change, financial speculation, gaps in education, cultural pasteurization, poverty prevalent in the world, hunger and lack of access to such prosaic a luxury as clean water. However with time the crises and opportunities change with time in an African dimension.
On Hypermodern Regenerative Economics and Hyper-Local Regenerative Food Syste...TravisDriessen1
Explores the nature and forms of Hypermodern cooperative systems, regenerative economics, and Bioregional Food Systems Planning as new models of civic engagement and their effectiveness in solving wicked problems such as climate change.
Today, June 5th, is celebrated the World Environment Day, instituted since 1972 during the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm. This date, which was chosen to coincide with the holding of this conference, has as its main objective to draw the attention of all spheres of the world population to environmental problems and the importance of preserving natural resources, which until then were considered by many, inexhaustible. This Conference, which became known as the Stockholm Conference, initiated a change in the way of seeing and dealing with environmental issues around the world, in addition to establishing principles to guide environmental policy across the planet. Despite the great advance represented by the Stockholm Conference, this date cannot be commemorated due to the degradation of the environment across the planet and the threat of climate change that may occur until the middle of the 21st century and put itself at risk survival of humanity.
On Hypermodern Regenerative Economics and Hyper-Local Regenerative Food Syste...TravisDriessen1
Explores the nature and forms of Hypermodern cooperative systems, regenerative economics, and Bioregional Food Systems Planning as new models of civic engagement and their effectiveness in solving wicked problems such as climate change.
Center and Periferies in Europe – The inequalities dinamics since 1990GRAZIA TANTA
Globalization is as old as humanity and its acceleration by capitalism has generated immense inequalities. No social or political struggle to combat inequality has any seriousness or validity if it does not have as its ultimate objective the end of capitalism.
1 - Summary of capitalism’s recent evolution
2 - Possible alternatives for peripheral states
3 - The formation of inequalities in Europe - 1
4 - The formation of inequalities in Europe - 2
5 - Notes for a solution
Module 2 Critical Thinking Assignment
Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flow
Problem 2-1: Preparing Financial Statements
Information below is for Buraydah Manufacturing, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 20x1 except where beginning of year numbers indicated. All amounts in SAR unless otherwise stated.
Accumulated depreciation
2,817,000
Sales
5,826,000
Accounts receivable
233,000
Interest expense
237,000
Cost of goods sold
2,672,000
Short term notes payable
195,000
Income taxes
366,600
Inventories
967,000
Common stock
428,000
Dividends paid
120,000
Cash
986,500
Marketing, general and administrative expenses
1,678,500
Long term debt
5,844,000
Fixed assets (property & equipment)
7,218,000
Accounts payable
395,000
Other assets
862,000
Depreciation expense
422,000
Retained earnings at beginning of year
419,600
Number of shares of common stock
1,000
Using the information above:
1. Prepare an income statement in good form
2. Prepare end of year balance sheet in good form
3. Calculate net working capital
4. Calculate the debt ratio
Using an additional column for each financial statement:
5. Prepare a common sized income statement
6. Prepare a common sized balance sheet
Problem 2-2 Preparing Statement of Cash Flows
Given the following information, prepare a statement of cash flows.
Dividends
15
Increase in common stock
22
Decrease in accounts receivable
24
Increase in inventories
35
Operating income
80
Increase in accounts payable
25
Interest expense
25
Depreciation expense
12
Increase in long term debt
48
Increase in fixed assets
33
Income taxes
17
Beginning cash balance
20
Assume all amounts are in 000's SAR.
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Transforming Cultures
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From Consumerism to Sustainability
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SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT
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STATE O F TH E WO R LD
Advance Praise for State of the World 2010:
“If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as
consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our
environmental troubles under control. But it’s also
going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful
lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume
in all the best ways!”
—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and
The End of Nature
“Worldwatch has taken on an ambitious agenda in
this volume. No generation in history has achieved a
cultural transformation as sweeping as the one called
for here…it is hard not to be impressed with the
book’s boldness.”
—Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank
“This year’s State of the World report is a cultural
mindbomb exploding with devastating force. I hope
it wakes a few people up.”
—Kalle Lasn, Editor of Adbusters magazine
Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human
cultures and Earth’s ecosystems. Left unaddressed, we
risk global disaster. But if we channel this wave, intention-
ally transforming our cultures to center on ...
Presentation for lecture at Georgetown's Center for Security Studies analyzing the long range geopolitical, economic and business impacts resulting from climate change.
Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Clim...Matthew Nisbet
March 27, 2014 presentation sponsored by the Science and Technology Studies Program, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia.
In this presentation, I review three distinct groups of prominent public intellectuals arguing for action on climate change. I discuss how these individuals establish and maintain their authority, how their ideas and arguments spread and diffuse by way of the media, and how they shape the assumptions of global networks of activists, philanthropists, journalists, and academics. Then, for each group, drawing on their main works, I describe how they define the social implications of climate change and the barriers to addressing the problem, their vision of a future society and their favored policy actions, their outlook on nature and technology, and their views on politics and social change. In the conclusion, I discuss the need for investment in media and public forums that strengthen our civic capacity to learn, debate, and collaborate in ways that take advantage of different discourses, ideas and voices.
Ecology Against Capitalism by Christopher PickeringRatbag Media
Crisis NOT caused by: human nature, modernity, industrialism, economic development
Problem = social relations of CAPITALISM
Environmental problems can be overcome without abandoning prospect of human progress
Fundamental social change to make sustainable relations to environment possible
Today, June 5, is celebrated World Environment Day established since 1972 during the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Despite the great progress which represented the Stockholm Conference, this date can not be celebrated due to the degradation of the environment and the threat of climate change that could jeopardize the very survival of humanity.
Similar to Capitalist delusion and climate drift 1 (20)
Ucrânia – Uma realidade pobre e volátil.pdfGRAZIA TANTA
1 - O que é historicamente a Ucrânia?
2 - O discreto papel dos EUA na manipulação da classe política ucraniana
3 - A demografia da Ucrânia; um país de …sucesso
As desigualdades entre mais pobres e menos pobres.docGRAZIA TANTA
Os países com grandes saldos positivos no comércio externo são a Alemanha, a China e a Rússia; os que acumulam grandes deficits são os EUA e o seu acólito Grã-Bretanha
Balofas palavras em dia de fuga para as praias.pdfGRAZIA TANTA
1 – MRS em seu esplendor no último 10 de junho
2 – A deificação de Portugal é uma elevação sem conteúdo
3 – O habitual verbo oco de MRS
4 - MRS e a arraia-miúda
5 – Periferia geográfica e de conhecimento
União Europeia – diferenciações nos dinamismos sectoriais.pdfGRAZIA TANTA
0 – Preâmbulo
1 - Agricultura, floresta e pesca
2 - Indústrias extrativas, transformadoras, produção e distribuição eletricidade, gás…
3 – Construção
4 - Comércio por grosso, retalho, transportes, alojamento
5 – Informação e comunicação
6 – Actividades financeiras e de seguros
7 – Actividades imobiliárias
8 – Actividades de consultoria, científicas e técnicas, administrativas e serviços de apoio
9 - Administração Pública, Defesa, Educação, Atividades de saúde humana e apoio social
10 - Actividades artísticas, de espectáculos, recreativas e outras de serviços, dos agregados domésticos e de organizações e entidades extraterritoriais
Sumário
1 - O BideNato em construção
2 - A Europa do futuro
3 - A decadência europeia tem a cara de von der Leyen
4 - As mudanças geopolíticas das últimas décadas
0 – Introduction
1 – Without an economy, there is no thriving military power
2 - US military proliferation on the planet
2.1 - East and Oceania
2.2 – Europe
2.3 - Middle East
2.4 – Africa
2.5 – America
3 – USA, a fated evildoer
EUA – Um perigo enorme para a Humanidade.pdfGRAZIA TANTA
1 – Sem economia não há poder militar pujante
2 - A proliferação militar dos EUA no planeta
2.1 - Oriente e Oceânia
2.2 - Europa
2.3 – Médio Oriente
2.4 – África
2.5 – América
3 – EUA, um predestinado malfeitor
A NATO na senda de Hitler – Drang nach Osten.pdfGRAZIA TANTA
A actual fascização dos poderes, brota, sob formas descuidadas e enganosas, de uma “informação” que se propaga, com superficialidades ou mentiras e, aceites por gente acéfala, com vidas precárias, desatentos manipulados pela grande maioria dos media que, na sua grande maioria, são infectas lixeiras. Ninguém se deverá admirar se a escalada militar conduzir a uma guerra devastadora na Europa, tomada como arena de treino do Pentágono.
2201 a precariedade suprema no capitalismo do século xxiGRAZIA TANTA
Vivem-se tempos em que se chama democracia a uma rotatividade de gangs políticos que parasitam os orçamentos; em que a precariedade no trabalho e na vida campeia perante sindicatos amorfos; em que uma gripe ...
Speculative electricity prices in the EUGRAZIA TANTA
Summary
1 - Electricity prices in the EU - 2016 (2nd semester) and 2021 (1st semester)
2 – The tax puncture widens the inequalities inserted in the prices
3 - Remuneration and electricity prices
Eleições em portugal o assalto à marmitaGRAZIA TANTA
As leis são teias de aranha pelas quais as grandes moscas passam e as pequenas ficam presas”.
(Honoré de Balzac)
No dia 30 de janeiro do ano corrente, um conjunto de pessoas, na generalidade de fraca valia cultural, técnica ou ética, apresentam-se para um concurso eleitoral...
Os especulativos preços da energia elétrica na ueGRAZIA TANTA
1 - Preços da energia elétrica na UE – 2016 (2º semestre) e 2021 (1º semestre)
2 – A punção fiscal amplia as desigualdades inseridas nos preços
3 - Remunerações e preços da eletricidade
Human beings, servants of the financial systemGRAZIA TANTA
1 - The uncontrolled expansion of the financial system
2 - The power and size of the financial sector
3 - Financial sector liabilities and their evolution
4 - Financial liabilities and minimum wages
Seres humanos, servos do sistema financeiroGRAZIA TANTA
1 – A expansão descontrolada do sistema financeiro
2 - O poder e a dimensão do sector financeiro
3 - Os passivos do sector financeiro e a sua evolução
4 - Passivos financeiros e salários mínimos
1 - A concorrência entre conferências
2 - Ataque judicial ao futebol. É a sério?
3 - O encravado Cravinho e os "casos" que, na tropa, são mais que muitos
4 - Marcelo, o Grande... e o próximo carnaval eleitoral
5 - Rendeiro e as instituições da paróquia
6 - Nota enviada a P--- sobre o militarismo e a NATO
7 – O domínio do eucaliptal
8 - Múmia falou!
9 - A reunião virtual da NATO foi um espetáculo…
10 - Medina e Moedas, a mesma luta, o mesmo lixo fedorento
UNDERSTANDING WHAT GREEN WASHING IS!.pdfJulietMogola
Many companies today use green washing to lure the public into thinking they are conserving the environment but in real sense they are doing more harm. There have been such several cases from very big companies here in Kenya and also globally. This ranges from various sectors from manufacturing and goes to consumer products. Educating people on greenwashing will enable people to make better choices based on their analysis and not on what they see on marketing sites.
Willie Nelson Net Worth: A Journey Through Music, Movies, and Business Venturesgreendigital
Willie Nelson is a name that resonates within the world of music and entertainment. Known for his unique voice, and masterful guitar skills. and an extraordinary career spanning several decades. Nelson has become a legend in the country music scene. But, his influence extends far beyond the realm of music. with ventures in acting, writing, activism, and business. This comprehensive article delves into Willie Nelson net worth. exploring the various facets of his career that have contributed to his large fortune.
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Introduction
Willie Nelson net worth is a testament to his enduring influence and success in many fields. Born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas. Nelson's journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of the most iconic figures in American music is nothing short of inspirational. His net worth, which estimated to be around $25 million as of 2024. reflects a career that is as diverse as it is prolific.
Early Life and Musical Beginnings
Humble Origins
Willie Hugh Nelson was born during the Great Depression. a time of significant economic hardship in the United States. Raised by his grandparents. Nelson found solace and inspiration in music from an early age. His grandmother taught him to play the guitar. setting the stage for what would become an illustrious career.
First Steps in Music
Nelson's initial foray into the music industry was fraught with challenges. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue his dreams, but success did not come . Working as a songwriter, Nelson penned hits for other artists. which helped him gain a foothold in the competitive music scene. His songwriting skills contributed to his early earnings. laying the foundation for his net worth.
Rise to Stardom
Breakthrough Albums
The 1970s marked a turning point in Willie Nelson's career. His albums "Shotgun Willie" (1973), "Red Headed Stranger" (1975). and "Stardust" (1978) received critical acclaim and commercial success. These albums not only solidified his position in the country music genre. but also introduced his music to a broader audience. The success of these albums played a crucial role in boosting Willie Nelson net worth.
Iconic Songs
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Acting and Film Career
Hollywood Ventures
In addition to his music career, Willie Nelson has also made a mark in Hollywood. His distinctive personality and on-screen presence have landed him roles in several films and television shows. Notable appearances include roles in "The Electric Horseman" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), and "Barbarosa" (1982). These acting gigs have added a significant amount to Willie Nelson net worth.
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Capitalist delusion and climate drift - 1
Around the mid-nineteenth century Marx said that philosophers
had hitherto endeavoured to understand the world; and that it
was time to transform it. Seventeen decades later, this idea
screams in our ears.
Put in another way: there is no solution to environmental
problems within the capitalist model.
Summary
1 – Introduction
2 – Environmental management by capitalists and their employees
3 – Climate change - causes and effects
a) Ineluctable absence of human interference cases
b) Historical and current impacts of capitalist development
c) Environmental management as done by multinationals and their employees
1 – Introduction
Humanity has, since its remotest times, left marks on the planet. But they never,
however, had the scale and depth of present times. And the effects of this intervention
are, today, shown to be disastrous and extremely dangerous.
Studies on the subject abound and for decades, in various societies, groups and
institutions have emerged that point to the damage caused by capitalism, although
most of them treat capitalism as a given, as something external and compatible with
environmental changes. In fact, even if there was no awareness of environmental
changes, as has happened up to fifty years ago, there are many reasons to promote
the extinction of capitalism and the fight against its pseudo-alternatives.
As the image below demonstrates, the well-known neo-liberal capitalism, the "socially
responsible" capitalism – credible only for reasons of propaganda or faith – sustainable
capitalism or capitalism with a human face, has the same face, the same smell and a
lot of capacity and patience to persuade anyone who has the mind of a child of less
than five years age. Recently, in Davos, the moguls of capital assembled, always open
to using any ideological mishmash so that everything remains the same.
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Capitalism corresponds to the accumulation of capital, growing and unstoppable,
marching from crisis to crisis, from war to war, from destructing to constructing, or to
construction to be destroyed; with the necessary degree of destruction of human lives.
To accelerate this accumulation – insufficient if based only upon the production of
goods and services – the capitalist system has developed the financial artifices that,
through multiple and linked speculative operations on commodities essential to
Humanity, as well as numerical fantasies, allow the generation of large capital gains.
These operations, which benefit from the necessary support of the globalized political
classes or the nation-states, generate a fragile dynamic, the halting of which leads to
ruinous reversals to financial capital itself, to enterprises producing goods and services,
where human beings are located and, in particular, to the base, overwhelmingly
composed of workers, ex-workers or unemployed. The latter constitute the said
majority of 99% of the Humanity1
which, on the other side, has the nefarious 1%, of
bankers and speculators, holders of great wealth and the highest strata of the political
classes.
In this delusion, people are worth little and are disposable, from work or life, whether
they are anti-capitalist, neutral or ignorant of what capitalism is; they are and will be
victims whenever this situation is favourable to the march of accumulation; and the
permanently inhabited areas (oecumene) as well as the atmosphere or the oceans, will
be treated the same.
No area of human life is exempt from conditioning or being driven by capitalism;
nothing and no one today can escape its insane drift. Hence there is a huge danger for
Humanity (the current 7,200 million human beings) since the difficulties, the poverty,
the social deconstructions and the conflicts are immense; disasters that will not
diminish if human population reaches 9,600 million within thirty years. This despite it
being known, given today's technologies, that the planet can guarantee decent living
1
The marked and objective antagonism between the 99% of humans and the 1% of large capitalists and the high
levels of the political class was popularized by the horizontal mass movement Occupy Wall Street, in 2011.
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conditions for 12,000 million, according to UNESCO calculations from 1999.
Symbolically, the question is: the stock market or your life.
In this context, all the piecemeal, segmented, approaches to reality fall short, as has
been said recently, and their integration, the generation of synergies, is necessary,
setting outside, as declared enemies, capitalists and the political classes, which are
managers – factually or potentially – of the State’s apparatuses, and whose functions
are to flatten the ground for the attainment of accumulation of capital, and the vigilance
or pitiless repression in order to subdue the crowd.
2 – Environmental management by capitalists and their employees
Capital accumulation causes collateral damages such as the production of more or less
toxic waste from homes, factories or hospitals; but always in increasing amounts and
with more complicated and expensive management. Lethal waste from nuclear power
plants is prone to take 10,000 years to disappear; meanwhile they drift around, pushed,
and relocated to unstructured and poor countries. Toxic gases circulate freely,
generated in power stations that burn oil or coal, or by the engines of automobiles,
trucks, boats or airplanes, instruments of the segmented production inherent to the
relocations, vital to generate higher rates of profit, besides tourism. The integration of
chemicals into human, animal, and plant nutrition has poorly studied or under-
estimated implications, but increases business profitability. Abandoned waste from
mines contaminates water and soil. The essential logistics chains for the movement of
goods from anywhere to everywhere feed businesses, lower wages, living and working
conditions, in order to respond to a consumerism induced to generate profits, and a
fleeting well-being purchased on credit. The impacts resulting thereof in aquifers, rivers
and seas are evident. All this and more, because of a supreme fixation on the abstract
growth (of GDP) which, in a more technical and political way, is translated into
accumulation of capital, to be later redistributed.
More media-appealing than pollution – although this one is more palpable, visible,
better known, and clearly originated in the neglected human performance – are climate
changes, with a global scope, more immune to spatially restricted interventions or to
the isolated action of groups of people, state, national, regional or local institutions;
and, above all, there is no consensual acquis in the area of cause and effect
relationships.
This global reality tends to be monitored by governments or in international fora, where
technicians, scientists, NGOs, politicians, members or consultants hired by large
multinationals cross. The interference of States and multinationals guarantees
situations of bastardization and bias of experiences and conclusions drawn from
scientific works; having behind them reasons related to stupid nationalisms, the fixation
in subordination to the logic of profitability, value creation, and profit-making, for the
benefit of shareholders.
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From this promiscuity a culture broth ensues that is not aggressive and even
cooperates with the action of those states and multinationals. Within the logic of
capitalism and armed with the absurd belief that States and political classes exist to
help peoples, there are groups that focus on a mania inherent to capitalism – growth –
as if admitting that once the disease is cured the world will live in peace and eternal
bliss... in capitalism.
3 – Climate change - causes and effects
There is a great diversity of views on climate change, its causes and the rhythm at
which it is happening. The IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points
out the human causes as the most important, but there are researchers who consider
mostly natural causes. Everything points to the need to consider a cross between
human causes, on the one hand, with others, inherent to the planet and its relation with
the surrounding space.
Among scientists, there is a need to address deficiencies in the measurement methods
used and/or weaknesses in the data collected. This justifies the commitment to
compilation of climate data for longer periods, in order to make the global circulation
model (GCM) more robust, with a search for greater consistency with the results
obtained through simulations.
Current knowledge about the climate2
is quite insufficient and uncertain. The main
factors used for this end are based on cycles of 3.36 years and 22.6 years, taken
independently and which, being very short, allow for proportionally large variations.
The first of these cycles is related to the ENSO - El Niño-Southern Oscillation , which is
based on the irregular variation of winds and the surface temperature of the eastern
Pacific, that affects the climate, mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas, causing
there high atmospheric pressures in parallel with low pressures in Indonesia. These
high pressures and heating through the El Niño take turns with the cooling that
accompanies La Niña, their whole being called the Walker circulation.
The second cycle is related to the Hale sunspot cycle, that is to say, with variations in
sunspots, which are associated with strong magnetic fields and whose cycles are
irregular, the possibility of predicting them and relating them with the temperature of the
Earth being very difficult. And this is in spite of it being known that the Earth's magnetic
field deflects a substantial part of the radiation coming from the Sun.
Additionally, the effects that a millenarian cycle resulting from the conjunction of the
Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, and the specific influence that, in addition to the Sun,
enormous planetary masses – such as those of the two planets – exert on the Earth
can also be considered.
2 We closely follow the article "Identification of the driving forces of climate change using the longest instrumental
temperature record" published in the renowned journal Nature, assuming our limited knowledge in these scientific
matters https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46091
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It is also known that the Earth has a slight oscillatory movement relatively to the Sun,
partially compensated by the attraction of the Moon, and that this oscillation causes
changes in temperature, in a cycle estimated to last 41,000 years.
Volcanic eruptions (see below) release CO2
into the atmosphere but that tends to be
absorbed by the rocks and included in the Earth's crust; and, within a span of millions
of years, is melted into the magma of the Earth's interior from which it returns to the
atmosphere through volcanic eruptions. And, in this case, the negative human
interference, with accelerated deforestation and CO2
emissions through, namely,
industrial activities and transportation, in addition to the irrational use of the automobile,
is evident.
Those pointing to the preponderance of non-human causes can establish three types
of reasons for this effect:
Undoubted scientific calculations, some of which are truly applicable, as
mentioned before;
As instruments of countries in an accelerated process of capitalist development,
anxious to recover from their historical backwardness in this process, especially
China and India (see below the energy consumption), covering up their
responsibilities behind nonhuman causes;
And a third case, made of the articulation between the energy’s great
multinationals that, allied with the political classes of their countries, try to hide
their responsibilities behind the ineluctable changes emanating from the planet
itself and its positioning within the solar system. This situation is, therefore, in all
things similar to that stated in the previous point.
a) Ineluctable absence of human interference cases
In 939/40 the Icelandic volcano Eldgja had the largest known eruption in the last
two millennia and caused a particularly cold summer in the northern hemisphere;
and this was used in Iceland for the burial of the "ineffectual" pagan gods,
favouring the adoption of Christianity3
. Its poisonous sulphur dioxide emissions
were equivalent to 33/78 million tons and are estimated to have caused a cooling
of 0.7º/1.5o
on the northern hemisphere, making it the second coldest summer in
1500 years.
Reports of the time, German, Irish, Arab, and Chinese, refer to very cold winters
with frozen rivers and lakes during the epoch following the eruption of the Eldgja;
the Nile presented an abnormal low flow in reaction to the aerosol effect; there
have been breaks in agricultural production, caused by the cold, with run-away
3
The new gods, however, did not free the Icelanders from the catastrophic eruptions of the Hekla in 1300; nor from
the black plague in 1350; or from the imprisonment of Reykjavik’s inhabitants, taken as slaves by Moorish pirates in
the seventeenth century...
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starving soldiers and peasants in Sicily, Italy, as well as in present-day Benelux,
Germany and parts of France and Switzerland, and also in Baghdad and the
Maghreb. In China, very bad agricultural years were followed by floods caused by
the upstream thawing that followed the extraordinary snowfalls. The
spring/summer drought in the following years was particularly severe in the Atlas,
northern Alps and eastern China, where it is known that there were many
thousands of deaths (this topic is technically developed here).
More serious than that of the Eldgja was the eruption of the Toba in Sumatra some
70,000 years ago – the most violent in a two million years interval – that caused
successive and cold winters (drops of 10o
C in the temperature) and the near
extinction of the human species.
The so-called Little Ice Age lasted from the 13th to the 17th centuries, though there
were still cold peaks in 1650, 1770 and 1850, apparently as a result of a
breakdown of solar storms. At that time, the Thames froze in 1607 (the first time)
and 1814 (the last); in 1780 the ice allowed passage on foot between the islands of
Manhattan and Staten, in New York; and Iceland was surrounded by ice in 1695.
In the fifteenth century, there were no longer Scandinavians in Greenland, one of
the causes being the migration of the Inuit to the south, beset by cooling.
Throughout this period human causes with any expressiveness, can hardly be
found. In 1783/4 another Icelandic volcano – the Laki – caused a cooling of 1-2o
C.
In 1883, Krakatoa’s brutal eruption caused the lowering of the temperature
(approximately 1ºC) for years, following the dust and ash surrounding the Earth;
and, in the immediate moment, generated 36,000 dead, with the noise of the
explosion being heard 5,000 km away. After some time (very small in geological
terms), its effects dissipated and today, after more than a century, only the
memory remains.
In 2014 the Bandarbunga volcano in Iceland began a six-month period of activity
and emitted more pollutant gases – sulphur dioxide – than the whole of Europe in
three years. Already in 2010 the Eyjafjallajökull had caused the closure for a week
of the airspace of twenty European countries, due to the emission of ashes; and
therefore had more media attention, since it affected the march of business... in
the midst of the financial market crisis.
In the examples mentioned so far, there is always a demonstrable cause for the
known effects; when there are no such conspicuous elements, things are much
more complicated. Currently, calculations point to 140-year cycles of great volcanic
activity in Iceland, with the emission of toxic gases that certainly impact the
planet's temperature.
Whether or not the regularity of 140-year cycles in volcanic activity is true,
volcanoes have been major active agents in the climate configuration, causing
warming with the emission of CO2
and other greenhouse gases; or causing cooling
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by sending into the atmosphere ash and aerosol droplets that reflect the sun's
rays, preventing them from reaching the surface of the planet.
These facts show a plan of causes-effects that until now have been leading to an
approximate return to the situation previously known; in fact, there has never been a
homogeneous variation of temperature for the planet. Any synthetic measure of
climate change is based on dispersed data in geographic space and time, with the
introduction of averages and deviations in statistical forecasting models. However, any
synthesis of these localized, crossed and weighted data, each with high ranges of
randomness, leads to another variable which, being global, will reproduce a larger
interval, where the parameter chosen as an indicator of this synthesis will lie. This
fallibility has led, for example, that the catastrophic predictions, years ago, of experts
such as Lovelock have failure materialize.
b) Historical and current impacts of capitalist development (see the second part of
this text, to be published)
Capitalist development, in particular after the Industrial Revolution, took place in
completely oblivious way to the impact of the production of goods and services to
the market (such as wars) and, secondarily, to meeting peoples’ needs; a process
which includes deforestation, a process that accounts for 30% of greenhouse gas
emissions, as much as the global transportation activity. And yet, the reduction of
forest space continues, in the name of progress; in Amazonia, for the production of
soy or establishment of pastures, a new impetus being expected with the
Bolsonaro4
government; and in Gabon or Borneo for the planting of palm trees that
will supply the "markets" with palm oil.
In the last century the planet has warmed more vigorously due to industrialization,
even in processes of "democratic" distribution through relocation; as a result of the
growth of the circulation of vehicles of all the kinds of transport and to the human
activity in general. The forecasting models – with some inconsistency margin,
given the narrowness of the period of time concerning the collected data – say that
we should already have entered a new cooling era; however, effects that are more
related to warming continue to preponderate, resulting in a higher incidence of
hurricanes and droughts, with effects on animal and plant life.
The shrinking of low-lying islands in the Maldives or the Andaman, the effects on
corals of the acidification of marine waters, major environmental disasters such as
the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, the creation of uninhabitable areas in Chernobyl
or Fukushima... will have little relation with climatic oscillations inherent to the
planet. Its responsible lies not with the Earth but with the homo economicus,
focused on the maximization of yields and profits by time interval.
4
In the annual period beginning in August/2012 the Amazon lost 5843 km2 of forest and the murdering of Indians
already in Bolsonaro consulate is not a good omen; neither for the environment nor for the natives.
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In Siberia, permafrost shows the effects of the slight warming that is being felt and
reminds us that a few millennia ago – time, in geology and climatology has a
different dimension from that which so afflicts Papalagui5
– there were mammoths
in Siberia, a river ran through Petra, Pasargadae or Persepolis were large cities
inserted in green areas, etc. In addition, there are clear cases of human
intervention such as the extinction of the lions in the Middle East, the aurochs
grazing in the Iberian Peninsula, the European monkeys, now reduced to those
resisting on the rocky cliffs of Gibraltar, in addition to the shameful extinction of the
Caribbean natives and of the Brazilian coast, the Eastern USA...
c) Environmental management as done by multinationals and their employees
A third case is the covering of big multinationals responsibilities in climate drift – in
collusion with the political classes linked to them – endorsing the causes of climate drift
to the natural dynamics of the planet itself and its positioning in the solar system. And
to this smokescreen, there is a strong contribution of the neoliberal theology, as we
shall further specify:
In the actions and positioning of the political classes there is the presence of the
induction of belief in their virtues, in their commitment and sacrifice for the well-
being of the people, necessarily coming from free private initiative, the source of all
Goodness. In the political classes it is appreciated that people are passive
collaborators, taxpayers, voters, compulsive consumers, debtors, spectators, and
patriots but never define their own destinies or take any initiative that dispenses
with the existence of the political class. Never ever!
5
Reference to the personage of the book Papalagui by Erich Scheurmann “… a collection of speeches by a Samoan
aborigine chief from Tiavéa on the island of Upolu, deals with the speeches of a Tuiavii and describes his vision of
the European in a pre-World War I period ... Papalagui is a Samoan term that translated literally means the one who
pierced the sky, an allusion to the white man, or, the European.” Adapted from the Wikipedia article (TN).
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Within these attitudes of states and political classes is the logic that each person
ought to individually seek solutions to problems that are collective, within the scope
of the ideological and political directive decreed by Thatcher, in the early days of
neoliberal subversion – "there is no such thing as society". This tirade leads to
directly leaving to the sacrosanct private initiative those collective problems of
which the state exempts itself; or placed before individuals and families that will
directly support the costs of problem solving6
.
Thus, anyone wanting to refuse plastic food will have to pay more for healthy food
because the said neoliberal State only wants the market to work, with a "healthy"
competition between plastic food and healthy food; it being known that the first,
less judicious in the choice of ingredients, with more massive production and
advertising-induced, will be the first choice7
.
The use of solar energy at the domestic level is relegated to the competence and
will of the family nuclei, whose investment will be greater, because equipment
suppliers will be able to exploit the atomization of their customers to apply higher
prices; in the Portuguese case, without the State waiving the VAT charge... at the
maximum rate. The alternative is the use of majestic energy supply companies
which, although incorporating a share of renewable origin, will be able to include in
the invoice regular increases in prices, with the VAT bond coupled, among other
charges; those do not exist when families directly capture the solar energy.
Probably because the "raw material" extracted from the sun is increasingly
expensive…
The global discourse is not restricted to wait with benevolence for the family
initiative to emerge. But points to each individual as the culprit of all evils; be it
through the increase of the public debt or deficit, lack of competitiveness, pollution,
climate change, through their small current and everyday actions. Who does not
remember, in Portugal, during the time of the troika, the speech of "we have spent
beyond our means"? The plural “we” is downright offensive to the overwhelming
majority of the population!
In order to brush off this guilt (well contained in Christian eschatology), families
must re-equip their homes, replace the lamps and the car, buy food labelled bio...
which, by the way, is a more expensive alternative... all of which is in blatant
contrast with stagnant or shrinking incomes, in the name of crisis, recurrent in
political speeches. This applies to those the market considers to be competitive
and qualified (rich), as well as to those who are considered ear marked to heavy
and disqualified tasks (poor).
6
Even if the problems are real idiocy. Years ago, a well-known ecologist association advised families to put out the
small lights distributed throughout the Christmas tree whenever they left home. The energy savings are... huge!
7
In Portugal, the recent tax on sugary drinks has been aimed at obtaining tax revenues tolerable by the
plebs - and that the manufacturers will proceed to include in the prices without any difficulty. However,
anyone standing in the supermarket queues still has at hand’s reach a bundle of treats, full of sugar and
dyes, to entice them, children in particular.
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This higher cost is, simultaneously, a punishment to those careless, polluting
individuals who do not invest enough in green technologies. This discourse on
energy-saving and healthy practices feeds more sophisticated "markets" and more
expensive goods and pushes into consumption and indebtedness; which is by no
means a contradiction. These solutions make the industry and the financial system
smile and have positive effects on GDP; how convenient…
Far worse is something that the media and the political classes are silent about, so
that multinationals and large energy companies can continue to pollute with
impunity, avoiding technological changes and investments that would impact the
profits and value of their shares. That is why it is good to know who has greater
responsibility for climate change8
.
o In 1988/2015 the CO2 emission was 833 Giga tons. Slightly more than all the
emissions between the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and 1988.
o In the same period that began in 1988, the 100 largest companies engaged in
fossil fuel production promoted 71% of industrial emissions of greenhouse
gases; and among them, 25 private companies, state companies or countries
accounted for 51% of the emissions. The top ten and their contributions are:
1 China (Coal) 14.32%
2 Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) 4.50%
3 Gazprom OAO 3.91%
4 National Iranian Oil Co 2.28%
5 ExxonMobil Corp 1.98%
6 Coal India 1.87%
7 Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) 1.87%
8 Russia (Coal) 1.86%
9 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 1.67%
10 China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) 1.56%
o These data are not disclosed by the corporate media. The large global and
national institutions that manage energy production cannot be penalized – with
regulations and taxes – because they would reach the stock market’s diffuse
interests and the price levels of the already volatile oil market. They are not only
too big to fail but also untouchable, because a financial crisis, of trust in the
functioning of the capitalist system, is something that the financial system, the
very rich, the speculators and the political classes do not want at all.
8
According to “The Carbon Majors Database” – Report 2017
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In parallel with the G20 summit in 2017, a report was issued9
revealing the role of
States in supporting big capital, contrary to the scholastic thinking that the State
fulfils the satisfaction of the common good. Well, this support for fossil fuels is four
times higher than that given to renewable energy, as you can see from this extract
of published data (annual average in 2013/15, in millions of dollars).
Clean
Energies
(a)
Fossil
energy (b)
(b) /
(a)
times
South Africa 229 352 1.5
Germany 2357 3461 1.5
Saudi Arabia. 13 1276 98.2
Australia 524 152 0.3
Brazil 1165 2985 2.6
Canada 171 2953 17.3
China 85 13532 159.2
South Korea 92 8907 96.8
USA 1271 6008 4.7
France 650 609 0.9
Great Britain 172 972 5.7
Italy 123 2149 17.5
Japan 2657 16466 6.2
Mexico 235 288 1.2
Russia 0 1092 -
Regarding multilateral financing through development banks, the situation is less
severe.
ADB (Africa) 132 166 1,3
ADB (Asia) 935 674 0,7
ERDB (Europe) 919 1012 1,1
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TALK IS CHEAP: HOW G20 GOVERNMENTS ARE FINANCING CLIMATE DISASTER
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EIB/BEI (Europe) 4011 3485 0,9
I-A DB (Inter-Americ.) 532 151 0,3
The World Bank Group 2428 3228 1,3
And the global situation shows what we have said above, that the financing of fossil
energies is clearly preferred to clean energies, with the high patronage of the political
classes, managers of the sanctified State.
“The problem of today’s world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, and idiotic
people are full of certainties” – Bertrand Russell
(to be continued)
Soon, Capitalist delusion and climate drift - 2
This and other texts in:
http://grazia-tanta.blogspot.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/durgarrai/documents
https://pt.scribd.com/uploads
Grand Total 18739 71781 3,8