Still no independent investigation of what happened at the Druze town in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights. The world is still waiting for the other shoe to drop, i.e. the full Israeli military response. Meanwhile, this piece provides basic information about the Heights. TO CLARIFY: I am NOT putting forth Al Jazeera as a totally trustworthy media out. Is is a relentless promoter of the 4IR Agenda in all ways, be it health care, digital IDs, and digital money, social impact investment,…. The Qatari government which sponsors and funds it is one of the world's leading promoters of 4IR.
What is the Golan Heights and who controls it? The rocky patch of land, which under international law belongs to Syria, is where the latest tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have exploded.7/29/24.
Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah are locked in a tense standoff after a rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams killed at least 12 people, many of them children playing football, and wounded 30. The Israeli military accused Hezbollah of carrying out Saturday’s attack, an allegation denied by the group. Israel has fired a series of missiles into Lebanon since then despite growing international calls for restraint amid fears of an escalation into a full-blown war. At the centre of this latest tension is a patch of land 1,800sq km (700sq miles) in size that has long been a flashpoint in the Levant: the Golan Heights. [That’s less than twice the size, area wise, of New York City]
What is the Golan Heights?
The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south of Damascus. It is bordered by the Yarmouk river in the south and the Sea of Galilee in the west. The Golan is spread over rugged basalt rock. The hilly land is fertile, and the volcanic soil grows apple and cherry orchards as well as vineyards. The region has vital water sources that feed the Jordan River, including the Hasbani River, which flows from Lebanon and through the Golan. [This water is being diverted by the Zionist state for its own use, far away]
Who does the Golan Heights belong to, and who controls it?
The United Nations recognises the region as a part of Syria. However, during the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the Golan Heights. It currently controls 1,200sq km (463sq miles) of the western part of the region. Almost immediately after the Israeli military occupied it, Israeli settlements began to grow. Today, more than 30 Israeli settlements are in the area, where more than 25,000 Jewish Israelis live.
A UN-monitored buffer zone separates Israeli-occupied territory from the remaining part that is still under Syria’s control. Majdal Shams is in the northeastern part of the Israeli-occupied territory.
Who are the Druze?
While Israel’s seizure of the Golan led to an exodus of many Syrians living there, about 20,000 members of the Druze community still live there. The Druze are an Arab and Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious community that resides in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. After Saturday’s attack, Israel was quick to declare that the fatalities were of Israelis, but many of the Druze people attacked do not hold Israeli citizenship and are Syrian nationals.
Israeli forces have also clashed with the Druze in the occupied region. In late June 2023 when Druze protesters demonstrated against the construction of wind turbines in the Golan, [ !!! ]they were met with Israeli tear gas, sponge-tipped bullets and a water cannon. Under Israeli law, Druze Israeli men are required to serve in the military.
Has Syria ever tried to take back the Golan Heights?
Yes but without success. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syria attempted to take back the Golan Heights but failed to do so. In 1974, the UN got involved, deploying peacekeeping forces in the area after Israel and Syria signed an armistice. The Security Council established the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) the same year as it tried to maintain a ceasefire and creating a ceasefire buffer zone in the area. As of April, 1,274 UN personnel are deployed in the Golan Heights. In 1981, Israel formally declared its annexation of the Golan Heights.
What is the world’s position on the Golan Heights?
• Besides the United States, no country formally recognises Israel’s annexation of the region. All other countries consider the Golan to be Syrian territory occupied by Israel,
• In 1981, the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights, calling on Israel to rescind its imposition of Israeli law on the plateau. It declared Israel’s rule over Golan “null and void and without international legal effect”.
• In 2019, the US, under then-President Donald Trump, recognised Israeli sovreignty over the Golan Heights. The recognition still stands, even under President Joe Biden’s administration.
And, are the media looking away from growing signs of a worsening economic crisis, both in the US and world-wide? Some interesting analysis here. His basic conclusion: Watch what the banks do, not what they say!!
Banks Know a Crash Is Coming, Most Powerful Indicator Is Signaling U.S. Recession – George Gammon, Kitco News, 7/27/24. An hour and 14 minutes.
"Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, interviews George Gammon, an investor, macroeconomics expert, and host of The Rebel Capitalist Show. Gammon warns that the world’s most powerful economic indicator is signaling a recession. He adds that the banking crisis is far from over, noting that we are just in “the middle innings.” Gammon shares his insights on the latest macro data & the Federal Reserve. He also outlines his own economic outlook, giving a glimpse into what he is doing with his own portfolio, weighing in on Treasuries, gold, silver, and Bitcoin.”
My comments. The indicator he speaks of is an inverted yield curve, short term debt instruments are priced at higher interest rates than long term ones. This is not a case in itself but a reflection of factors such as a drop in the M2 supply, indicating banks are not lending, are instead hedging to guard against losses. Also, 40% of US consumers are having problems paying their monthly costs. Lots of sharp analysis and debunking of “reassurances” by mainstream commentators and official spokespeople, The banking crisis which erupted in the 2008 meltdown and accentuated by massive money expansion in 2019-20 has never never solved. Even briefly touches on “fragility of global economic system” and numerous global crises and instability in the US political picture. Trapped by a basic belief in capitalism, and thus an inability to see the roots of the crisis in the very structure of the capitalist system, i.e. a lack of a Marxian (Marx-informed) analysis. Also blind to the very real ecological crisis and and material world crises in the supplies of energy and raw materials. But well-above-average for a within-the-system analyst.
And, What Left? looks at a longer-range factor in the global economic structure, the scramble for Africa’s “treasures. First of two parts, with this one looking at the scramble from 1885 to World Wars One and Two. Part 2 next week will look at the present scramble.
The First "Scramble for Africa,” What’s Left?, 7/27/24. 61 minutes.
"In part 1 of a 2 part series, What’s Left? begins our examination of the New Scramble for Africa which is taking place now by looking at the 1st scramble for Africa which takes place roughly from (1830 - 1950). Looking into this had a number of surprises for us which we share with our audience. Check us out!"
My comments. Thanks lot for this, Alex, Andy and Kenny, excellent discussion. Everyone contributed well.
I wish to particularly note what Kenny said about "white people" not being the only ones capable of acting in evil ways, capitalism messes up everyone, starting with the people where it emerged first, Europe. What Andy said about each of the industrial revolutions and how the associated technology of each has accelerated the destruction of human communities and the levels of exploitation. And what Alex said about how none of the nation states involved in the general global scramble for Africa and the rest of the world are "good guys" on "our side.”
On both parts 1 and 2, I highly recommend Ellen Meiksins-Wood's article on "Eurocentric Euro-centrism” regarding what Kenny said, how capitalism is not particularly simply because it emerged out of Europe. Meiksins-Wood's article is here
Regarding the present scramble, i recommend interviews by Jesse Zurawall (on his show "Perspectives") of Isa Blumi regarding the role of the BRICS nations in facilitating the exploitation of Africa
June 24, 2023.
Isa Blumi on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell - 24 June 2023, 56 minutes.
"GUEST OVERVIEW: Isa Blumi, as a historian of the Islamic world, the Ottoman Empire, Albania and Yemen, serves as Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University I
Within the show, a discussion of how much is made of China forgiving debt owed it by Zambia and other African nations, when in fact that debt has already been repaid over and over via resources extracted and labor power exploited. Thanks to modern technology, China’s enterprises as a group are better able to exploit Africa than European/American-based imperialism was capable of before the mid ‘9os. The island of Borneo is undergoing major ecocide as the rainforest is being cut and replaced by the likes of palm oil plantations. India is being industrialized on behalf of the Empire, as China was 30-40 years ago. Prime Minister Modi is becoming a major global player, is now head of the G20 for a year, wants to bring in the African Union. He is a protege of Israeli once-again-premier Netanyahu.
And, and August 9., 2023.
Isa Blumi on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell - 9 August. 56 minutes.
The focus was on the coup in the central African nation of Niger, where the ruling head was ousted and arrested by a military junta. Wagner Corp, the Russian military contractor, has been called in by the Junta to help manage the situation. Its head has made it seem as if this is a move by Niger toward Russia and BRICS, but the governments of the US and France don’t seem too upset, though for now uranium exports have been halted.
The West African CFA franc is the currency used by eight independent states in West Africa which make up the West African Economic and Monetary Union, and this includes Niger. It is linked right into the French Central Bank. Senegal is experiencing rioting, in response to mounting social dissatisfaction, as has been the case in Niger. The entire region has seen traditional trade routes disrupted by regional political developments since the 1990s, including the dismemberment of Libya.
Algeria’s government is not cooperating with the West, making noises of moving towards BRICS. The media, both mainstream and “alternative,” are stating that Africa as a whole is pivoting toward Russia. The first are alarmed, the second are delighted. But the very notion doesn’t fly. Russia and China have in fact been playing a totally reactionary role in Africa, acting as agents of global capital in facilitating ever higher levels of exploitation of both the resources as well as the people. Here. i had a disagreement with Blumi, who asserted that in the old days, at least the Soviet Union and China, even under Deng, helped Africans resist the world market. The record is of both of those entities facilitating the world market’s operations in Africa since the early ‘70s.
And, Riley Waggaman spends a half hour or so answering many questions about his life in a Russian village relatively near St Petersburg.
Answering your Russia-related questions while grilling in my yard. Edward Slavsquat, 7/28/24.
[Audio file, 33 minutes, a few technically rough spots]
Hello.
I hope you enjoy this special audio dispatch, in which your correspondent attempted to answer questions that were asked in … May. Better late than never.
Have a serene Sunday.
— Riley
P.S. — I have included a few photographs to help you better visualize the groundbreaking research going on right now at the Edward Institute.
And, how energy and materials shortages are driving the growing crisis of the global capitalist industrial system
B (The Honest Sorcerer), 7/29/24. First part, before it spazzes out.
Labor productivity has nothing to do with labor. It was rarely a question of an average worker devising a clever way how to make more widgets per hour. Instead, productivity gains made during the past two centuries were mostly coming from machines producing stuff faster and replacing more and more workers. (Thereby making it appear as if an average worker who could keep their job suddenly became able to produce ten times as before.) As long as energy and raw materials — needed to build and operate those machines — were cheap, this approach predictably resulted in higher profits, ultimately replacing almost all highly skilled manual labor with automatic production lines and robots. This trend is about to end though.
Mainstream economists, mired in their fantasy world populated with infinite GDP growth, monetary theories, interest rates and stock markets are wholly unequipped to see what’s coming. As the energy cost of energy production keeps rising, using more electricity or fossil fuels to increase labor productivity will soon become impossible. The process, in economic terms, can be described by the extraction of resources becoming more and more expensive with each passing year for producers. Afraid of not being able to sell their commodities at a high enough price to sustain operations, mining companies began to defer new investments, and turned towards buying up each other’s assets instead. The lack of investment in resource extraction — while being an awesome news for conserving Nature — however, has a broad implication on everything we do.
To make matters worse, almost all resource extraction activities require fossil fuels — from mining lithium, copper or nickel, to refine said metals and to shape them into solar panels or electric vehicles. The energy density of coal oil and gas, together with the high heat and carbon atoms they provide for the necessary chemical reactions to take place, simply cannot be replaced with electricity, not at any meaningful scale at least (1). Sorry, but no carbon — no industry. The steady rise of energy demand when it comes to fossil fuels has thus sounded the death knell to the year-over-year growth in labor productivity — in every area of the economy. The ever-increasing amount of drilling, shoveling, piping, refining, water pumping etc. needed to keep the same amount of coal oil and gas flowing to the market, have started to cannibalize energy which otherwise could’ve been used elsewhere. Again, viewed through a neoclassical economics lens, none of this seems to be problematic. ‘We just need more funds, and all of our energy woes will be solved! And if not, then who cares, we just outsource these activities and become a service economy of lawyers and investment firms, and buy everything we need on the market.’
While this might sound convincing, and can even make GDP statistics look great, the high salary earned by a corporate lawyer has very little to do with real productivity gains. You see, at the end of the day, lawyers still spend their money on real stuff: real cars, real houses, real gadgets—made from real resources and by expending real energy. As more and more energy gets diverted to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels and minerals on a global level, though, the ‘real’ economy turning these resources into stuff will find itself in an ever fiercer competition for energy. Permits to access the grid, for example, are already denied in many cases. This can only lead to one thing: shortages and rising prices. Everywhere.
A quick glance at the wind and solar power industry tells it all. You see, “renewables” are not the slightest bit renewable: they are just another material intensive way to convert sunlight and wind into electricity… And those materials still come from a fossil fuel powered pipeline of mines, smelters, cement kilns, cargo ships, trucks and cranes. It is exactly this high material and fossil fuel footprint which makes them a losing proposition when it comes to the “energy transition”. To make matters worse still, ore grades (or the ratio of metal to rocks in mines) are falling as rich deposits deplete and get increasingly replaced with ever poorer ones. As a result metal production, too, (not just fossil fuels) will require more and more energy, labor and machines with each passing year.
It’s no wonder then, that "the electricity demand for Chile’s copper production is expected to increase by 53.5 % between 2015 and 2026, although the planned increase in copper production over that period is only 7.5 %"
And this is just electricity. Combined with a similar energy demand increase of coal oil and gas extraction (all vital inputs to making copper), the question of labor productivity increases simply becomes moot. The relentless rise in energy demand throughout the entire supply chain of “renewables” from fuel to metals will eventually negate any engineering feat aimed at real productivity gains… And while adding robots and automated production lines to the mix surely increases the amount of solar panels made per worker, it also adds a considerable amount to the kilowatts consumed during the process — making energy return on investment worse still. Trouble is, the very same is true for every technology we use, as all require metals, concrete, oil and gas — the essential building blocks of this civilization. (Yes, that includes nuclear reactors and fusion, too.) So, should we ever succeed at making hydrogen atoms fuse in a commercially sustainable manner (about which I’m extremely doubtful) we would still have to face the issue of an exponential rise in energy demand when it comes to building those reactors.
Mind you, the process of depletion has no practical upper limit. As mine after mine is being depleted, ever poorer and poorer deposits must be ‘developed’. And while we sure have a lot of copper, niobium or what have you in Earth’s crust, if extracting the necessary amount to build a fusion power plant would require us to tear down an entire mountain range, it would still make us bankrupt in energetic terms. (Beyond a certain point in the process of resource depletion, a new power plant will eventually require more energy to build and maintain than what it could possibly return.) More importantly, though, taking this path would also lead to a rapid destruction of whatever life remains on this pale blue orb.
We have, as a result, found ourselves in a productivity trap, where further gains would require a disproportionate increase in both energy and resource use. Without making steps to increase productivity, however, both resource extraction and manufacturing could soon become unviable. As rich deposits of both fossil fuels and metals deplete, and the energy required to continue the extraction of Earth’s bounty will surpass our energy supply, it will become impossible to continue civilization as it is. So what gives? …….
And, one more study on the resources requirements of “clean energy."
Increased demand for metals and minerals needed for clean energy transition puts 4,000+ species at risk, finds study, University of Cambridge, 7/26/24.
New research has found that 4,642 species of vertebrates are threatened by mineral extraction around the world through mining and quarrying, and drilling for oil and gas.
Mining activity coincides with the world's most valuable biodiversity hotspots, which contain a hyper-diversity of species and unique habitats found nowhere else on Earth. The biggest risk to species comes from mining for materials fundamental to our transition to clean energy, such as lithium and cobalt—both essential components of solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars. Quarrying for limestone, which is required in huge amounts for cement as a construction material, is also putting many species at risk.
The threat to nature is not limited to the physical locations of the mines—species living at great distances away can also be impacted, for example by polluted watercourses, or deforestation for new access roads and infrastructure. The researchers say governments and the mining industry should focus on reducing the pollution driven by mining as an "easy win" to reduce the biodiversity loss associated with mineral extraction.
This is the most complete global assessment of the threat to biodiversity from mineral extraction ever undertaken. The results are published today in the journal Current Biology. "We simply won't be able to deliver the clean energy we need to reduce our climate impact without mining for the materials we need, and that creates a problem because we're mining in locations that often have very high levels of biodiversity," said Professor David Edwards in the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences and Conservation Research Institute, senior author of the report.
He added, "So many species, particularly fish, are being put at risk through the pollution caused by mining. It would be an easy win to work on reducing this freshwater pollution so we can still get the products we need for the clean energy transition, but in a way that isn't causing so much biodiversity loss.” Across all vertebrate species, fish are at particularly high risk from mining (2,053 species), followed by reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. The level of threat seems to be linked to where a particular species lives and its lifestyle: species using freshwater habitats, and species with small ranges are particularly at risk.
"The need for limestone as a core component of construction activity also poses a real risk to wildlife. Lots of species are very restricted in where they live because they're specialized to live on limestone. A cement mine can literally take out an entire hillside—and with it these species' homes," said Ieuan Lamb in the University of Sheffield's School of Biosciences, first author of the report. The bent-toed gecko, for example, is threatened by limestone quarrying in Malaysia—it only exists on a single mountain range that planned mining activity will completely destroy.
To get their results, the researchers used International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) data to see which vertebrate species are threatened by mining. By mapping the locations of these species, they could investigate the types of mining that are putting species at risk, and see where the risks are particularly high. The researchers discovered that species categorized as "vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered" are more threatened by mineral extraction than species of lesser concern.
Watercourses can be affected in many ways, and water pollution can affect hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of rivers and flood plains. Mining sand as a construction material, for example, alters patterns of water flow in rivers and wetlands, making birds like the Indian Skimmer more accessible to predators. Mineral extraction threatens vertebrate species populations across the tropics, with hotspots in the Andes, coastal West and Central Africa, and South-East Asia—which coincide with high mine density. For example, artisanal small-scale alluvial gold mining in Ghana threatens important bird areas through environmental mercury pollution.
Global demand for metal minerals, fossil fuels and construction materials is growing dramatically, and the extraction industry is expanding rapidly to meet this demand. In 2022, the revenue of the industry as a whole was estimated at US $943 billion. Biodiversity underpins the protection of the world's carbon stocks, which help to mitigate climate change.
The study focused only on vertebrate species, but the researchers say mining is also likely to be a substantial risk to plants and invertebrates. "There's no question that we are going to continue to mine—our entire societies are based on mined products. But there are environmental tensions embodied in our use of these products. Our report is a vital first step in avoiding biodiversity loss amidst the predicted drastic expansion of the mining industry," said Edwards.
"Wildlife is more sensitive to mining in some regions of the world than in others, and our report can inform choices of where to prioritize getting our minerals to cause the least damage to biodiversity. Future policy should also focus on creating more circular economies—increasing recycling and reuse of materials, rather than just extracting more," said Lamb.
And, record heat in one of the US’s hottest places.
Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink, Gabrielle Canon, 7/25/24.
Hot air wafted through the heavy, gold-lined doors of a Las Vegas casino as they opened, offering a reminder of a disaster quietly unfolding outside. Even though the sun had just set on an evening in mid-July, temperatures were yet to dip below 100F (37C). Spawned from a paved-over oasis in the Mojave, this desert metropolis has always been hot. But a string of brutal heatwaves this summer has pushed Sin City to a deadly simmer.
It’s hard to tell from inside the cool, cavernous buildings that line the Las Vegas Strip, which have become unwitting refuges from the summer elements. Tourists willing to enter labyrinths of slot machines and blaring pop music, shops and shows can spend hours lost in an alternate world, away from the sun. For the 2.3 million people who call this valley home, the dangerous elements are harder to ignore. When temperatures climb, shadeless streets are hot enough to cause second-degree burns in seconds.
This June was the city’s hottest on record. In July, things got even worse: the city experienced a record seven days at 115F or higher and set a new all-time high of 120F. The heat is just a signal of what’s to come. Temperatures in Las Vegas are rising faster than almost anywhere else in the US. Meanwhile, Clark county, where Las Vegas is located, is bursting at the seams. The region is among the fastest-growing metro areas in the US. Roughly 2 million people have moved here over the last 50 years, with nearly a million more expected by 2060. [This is as water sources across the Southwest are drying up!]
To accommodate them, the county has thrown its support behind a federal bill that would open up 25,000 acres of the surrounding desert for housing and commercial development. The county also has plans for a new airport, slated for completion in 2037, that would pave over thousands more acres of arid landscape near the California border. ………[SNIP]
Ending this edition, an encounter Guy McPherson had with a member of the public, via email.
Guy McPherson, 7/29/24.
My email address is publicly available. It is easily found at GuyMcPherson dot com. I’m beginning to think that’s a bad idea, based on the information that follows and the many exchanges similar to what follows. From Bill comes an email message that led to an exchange of email messages that consumed far too much of my time. Bill starts innocently enough with this message: “Professor this is the last summer? Thanks”
I receive more than 200 email messages each day. As a result, I seldom spend much time on any given message. My response to Bill’s question: “No” Bill responds: “but didn’t the professor say that in 2025 the last human would be here? I think so” My response is cryptic, as usual: “The scientists I quoted were mistaken.” In this case, I’m referring to Professor James Anderson at Harvard University and, much more recently, Professor Jennifer MacKinnon at the University of California-San Diego and the Scripps Institute.
Professor James Anderson became well-known for leading the research team that discovered the so-called hole in Antarctic ozone as a result of chlorofluorocarbon emissions. Anderson was quoted by Forbes on 15 January 2018 after he delivered a presentation in Chicago: “The chance there will be permanent ice in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero.” More than three years later, Professor MacKinnon was quoted in CBS News on 23 April 2021 upon release of a peer-reviewed paper in Nature Communications for which she was the lead author. She indicated the Arctic Ocean would be free of ice in 2022. She was mistaken, obviously. If she or Anderson were correct, you would not be watching this video or reading the attendant script. They wouldn’t exist.
Back to Bill and my cryptic responses. As I indicated, the scientists I quoted were mistaken. Bill responded with “How do you know this if the year 2025 hasn’t arrived yet? So it might not happen in our lifetime?” I ignored this message. Later the same day, the badgering from Bill continued: “Professor, what are the projections now? What does the data indicate now?” My response was longer than Bill deserved: “99.9% chance of human extinction by 1 January 2030. As I’ve told you many times, an ice-free Arctic Ocean could come sooner. When it does, then we’re all dead shortly thereafter. Follow my work to prevent wasting my time with irrelevant questions.”
Bill was not pleased with my response. In addition, he demonstrated that he does not follow my work closely: “In your work, I have not seen any video changing the 2026 projection. All the videos I have seen are based on this projection, not 2030.” I replied “My work is freely available. You could pay attention.” I included a link to a video released on 18 April 2024 and titled “Best. News. Ever.”
Bill’s response included polite language, as usual. However, you can probably tell why it went to the Crazy file in my email messages: “Sir, I stopped believing in your work, when it reaches 2030 it will postpone until 2035 and it will always postpone. At this time, many scientists have signed a document stating that there is no anthropogenic climate change. Why would you alone be right? The proof that you are wrong and your prophecy is not fulfilled, history shows that time is the enemy of false prophets, in addition to that you have science against you, the Arctic has never had so much ice. This is leftist propaganda. Only you are enlightened, other scientists don’t know anything.”
Never mind the poor grammar and the failure to follow my freely available work. This latest comment is typical for people unfamiliar with the process of science. I ignored it. Life is too short to argue with idiots. As George Carlin said: “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
It’s worse than indicated by this single email exchange. When I am invited to speak publicly on tour, the person issuing the invitation receives an email message from one of a dozen people pointing to blog posts calling me terrible things. The same happens when I am asked to interview on a corporate media outlet. In both cases, the invitations are immediately retracted. This has been going on for more than half-a-dozen years. With the exception of these shadowy email messages, I have never been accused—much less taken to court—as a result of any criminal activity on my part. If I were I guilty of the activity of which I’m accused, I can assure you I would have been hauled into court.
This is not about me. It’s never been about me. This is about keeping the masses in the dark about abrupt, irreversible climate change. As a result, the outcome will be much worse than it would have been with fully informed people. Nobody likes surprises. The biggest surprise in the history of Homo sapiens is headed our way. It could have been prevented.
[NOTE: Most people in the “freedom” community believe that human-driven global runaway warming is a hoax created by the world’s elites as one more way to legitimate their implementation of 4IR measures of surveillance, control and austerity. It’s as if their use of the information indicating the warming IN ITSELF indicates that it is a hoax. This shows an inability to think one’s way our of a paper bag! ]
Yeah but... 888 days of carpet bombing in Ukra$ne and 280-odd days of carpet bombing Gaza have NOTHING to do with our hazy skies? Thousands (if not millions) of tons of things that go boom have NO effect on weather, health and other living things? How come no one studies that?
PS: Been to the Golan Heights. The Druse are correct. It was a stray Iron Dome missile that murdered their kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo5tNv8ZHlM
PPS: Thanks again for making me think.