Russia is a fascist, terrorist oligarchy on the verge of collapse.
China is a dictatorship with free hand to do genocides at home (Uygurs, Tibet etc) because they have nukes.
South Africa is almost a failed state, where due to corruption people only have electricity a few hours a day and where a separatist movement in the only functional province is growing everyday.
India is sliding fast into a nationalistic hindu dictactorship as well. Although praised for being the biggest democracy in the world, its flaws are growing constantly under Modi.
And what does Brazil want to do with this bunch? Didn't Bolsonaro damage its image enough?
Iran and Ethiopia want to join? Wow, it can always get creepier.
Wow a war and brutal invasion is opening opportunities for criminals, nazis and the like. Who could have guessed? This only agravates Russian crimes. Russia is a terrorist state and yes, promoting war has all these other consequences as well, it promotes violence, lawlessness etc a bump neonazi can suddenly actually do something useful by defending civilians. Again, Russia's fault. That's the message here, Russia is doing incredible damage to Ukraine, stop the war and leave NOW.
Big sports events are a mad circus, all cost, no benefit is the rule. It's extremely rare that a country/city benefits from a sports events, if ever. Sometimes people point out renovations done to cities that were useful, but those renovations could have been done without the excuse of the games. Building sports infrastructure with a single event in mind is prone to disaster, and don't mention all the corruption behind. It should be FIFA or the Olympics making the bids, not the cities/countries..
Big sports events are a huge pain for residents and taxpayers. And actually it didn't have to be that way, with sensible demands many cities in the world could easily host them without extra works and expenses.. they're a finantial disaster by design.
Hope others will learn from Victoria and take their bids back. I'm looking at you, Portugal (WC 2030).
This video helps to understand so much about America, definitely a must watch and must act afterwards. These parking laws are totally absurd, even for businesses, everyone looses except for asphalt companies.
People should boycot China for their treatment of Uyghurs and Tibetans, and there's so much to boycott... From Israel is just too easy for the average consumer, in fact the difficulty might be finding something made in Israel.
A country is entitled to demolish bridges in their own territory. How can that be terrorism? Grow up Russia, or better, diminuish please, you're better smaller.
Electric cars were never the solution. Public transit, shorter commutes, telework , liveable cities and neighborhoods with all the essentials at walking distance is what we need. And if your particular life circumstances force you to have a car, either keep what you already have or if you need to buy one, buy a small EV. There's nothing green about a giant Tesla.
Although many people on the left in general don't like to admit it, I do believe that some radical actions can be counterproductive to your cause, especially if your cause depends on convincing people from other sides of the political spectrum. This is valid for environmentalist or LGBT acceptance etc you need to get more people on board, not to repel the moderates.
That said, the difficulty is to find the right balance. And some radical action by fringe groups can help moderates to be more easily accepted by the mainstream. I would expect environmentalism to be now so ingrained in mainstream politics in Europe that some more radical actions wouldn't jeopardize the main cause.
But, far-right politics is going up everywhere in the continent and they're eager to profit from some small radical actions. We're still very far from any form of "ecoterrorism" but we already see them echoing the word.. European elections next year will be crucial, the risk of the EU giving a sharp turn right, with the EPP siding with the far-right is real. And that would be a catastrophe for our environment.
A quick history review could help you understand why far-right is scary and it should be to everyone, even proud national patriots.. far-right tends to leave a nasty trail behind and often a smaller country to be proud of, it tends to degenerate into a suicidal death cult. Again, history helps to understand.
I first heard this number at a conference by a PhD expert who studies these issues. But I never went looking for the exact origin, because I didn't find it so hard to believe (given the context).
Certainly there are some specific conditions that freeze that decomposition and that might not always be present. This article mentions the lignin effect, that delays decomposition in anaerobic conditions, but no specific reference to lettuce. Can't open other articles that seem more directly related.
Russia is a fascist, terrorist oligarchy on the verge of collapse.
China is a dictatorship with free hand to do genocides at home (Uygurs, Tibet etc) because they have nukes.
South Africa is almost a failed state, where due to corruption people only have electricity a few hours a day and where a separatist movement in the only functional province is growing everyday.
India is sliding fast into a nationalistic hindu dictactorship as well. Although praised for being the biggest democracy in the world, its flaws are growing constantly under Modi.
And what does Brazil want to do with this bunch? Didn't Bolsonaro damage its image enough?
Iran and Ethiopia want to join? Wow, it can always get creepier.