No such firepower in the area since WWII...

If this is true, no wonder the EU has done so little to try to bring about peace.

The EU is directly attempting to undermine the Århus Convention, again stressing UVL's clear lack of interest in neither the rule of law, nor to protect the fundamental rights needed to have a strong democracy where citizens are well informed and organised. Shameful behaviour by the #EU. #ACCC

Short revisit to Bali. Did my best to avoid disappointment. Seems nothing has been learnt over the 28 years since I first visited. Fantastic culture and environment tarnished by terrible infrastructure planning and overexploitation. So bad. So sad.

Support to Ukraine in terms of percentage of GDP per capita up until August 2025. Guess where a new informal defence alliance has already emerged. Source: www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...

Who is it that: 1. Doesn't care about the loss of lives and the other costs of war? 2. Is desperate to leave a legacy in line with national historical big men of blood and expansionism? 3. Cannot accept the existence of a rules based world order with equally sovereign nations? 4. Uses doublespeak?

Strange how some people entirely ignore the causes of unrealised potential in Africa.

Democracies have clear weaknesses in dealing with intergenerational risks.

"What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death." It assumes rationally thinking and behaving citizens, open to changing to socialist values, and that the political-economic power distribution can be changed.

EU imports from Russia exceeded aid to Ukraine by 124 billion euros -The Swedish Foreign Minister wants the EU to increase pressure on Russia, as the EU currently is helping to fund the Russian war effort (increase the death toll) and prolong the need to support Ukraine.

Wag the dog and getting to the oil reserves would be a double whammy as the shit comes flying in Trump's face.

The global ecotourism market generated a revenue of USD 235.5 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 665.2 billion by 2030.

COP 30 was a complete shit show. I doubt this can continue as there is still so much science denial, huge fossil industry influencing, and indifference to the chances of developing countries to adapt, nor to comply with a wide range of new indicators to report on, dishonestly snuck in. What a waste

Le dessin du jour pour @vert.eco

The preliminary Gaza Genocide death and injury toll. Weeding out embedded Hamas terrorists had a catastrophic result. Independent tribunals sort out the blame game. In these rotten times of dishonesty and fact denial, any opinion will have you vilified. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...

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"The world is suffering from a dizzyingly long list of increasingly severe problems that stem from extreme and growing economic inequality: climate change, extreme poverty, food insecurity, disinformation, and threats to democratic freedoms."

By turning CO₂ into concrete, building society’s infrastructure becomes an act of climate stabilisation. Paebbl makes advanced carbon-storing construction materials to help make this a reality.

"[C]oncentrated wealth grants the ultra-rich disproportionate power over economic and political systems. Economic inequalities translate into political inequalities, limiting citizens' access to justice and voice in policymaking..." Media controlled by the wealthy shape public debate and politics.

European military might and new alliances can not come fast enough. But it needs to be a shared burden across the EU. If impossible, a stand-alone alliance with the willing is needed. France is definitely on it. The Nordics would not hesitate.

Spectacularly ignorant proposal in a country of great corruption being at war: "the president [should...] set Ukraine on a proper path of greater transparency, and to compensate for diminished support by engaging with and transferring significant authority to a team that enjoys public confidence."

Francesca Albanese, who on Tuesday told reporters at a European Parliament event that the EU’s latest push to get involved in Gaza was too little, too late. “Nothing has been done,” she said. “They should have been at the discussion table when the destruction of Gaza could have been prevented.”

It is common sense, the Trump Regime says.

The EU must seize Russia’s frozen assets, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard says, arguing that any other solution would be unfair to Ukraine’s biggest backers.  🔗 politi.co/4a3GuNH

Excellent advancement of sustainable protein production! By altering genes in a fungus, the efficiency of energy and water use increased massively while also increasing the availability of the protein to human digestion. #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Protein scitechdaily.com/crispr-super...

If anyone has the power to influence an aggressor of war, the expectation is that what is fair for the aggressor will be treated with much less respect than the demands of the defender. This assumes that international law matters to the influencing power. Not sure it does. p.dw.com/p/53udd

EU has made a fool of itself by slapping tolls on iron products/materials from Norway. The free movement of goods is guaranteed in the EEA treaty as a fundamental principle. Next time EU talks about the importance of the rule of law, know that it is mostly hot air. www.efta.int/eea/policy-a...

Dom uteblivna reformerna för entreprenörskap och bostäder, plus svag infrastruktur-, miljö- och klimatpolitik gör Tidöalternativet svårt. Nu överger man även principen att permanenta kostnader inte skall lånefinansieras, som t ex ökade kostnader för försvaret. Riktigt dumt. Calmfors har reagerat.

"Could the EU risk billions of euros on a failed cause, while forfeiting leverage in postwar negotiations?- -- The EU is hedging its bets, quietly preparing for multiple outcomes. The longer the war drags on, the more likely unity fractures and realism overtake idealism."

Based on data from 2020, it is estimated that 35.000 people die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year in the EU. It is not developing in the right direction, so these numbers can be expected to be much higher now. Southern and South-East EU is really bad. Avoid hospitals! #AMR #MRSA

NORWAY IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!! 🤪🤪😃😃😃😃🍾🍾🥂⚽️⚽️⚽️🎆 They beat Italy TWICE in qualifications and won their group.

While China and India buy most of the crude oil exports, the EU is the biggest LNG importer with equally large gas imports via pipeline. While we pay for Ukraine to fight the attacker, we also enable the attacker to continue. In other words, we help increase Ukraine's death toll and our own costs.

Greenpeace asks for stricter global regulations. Since there is no global governance system to address global problems, they ask for effective national implementation of globally agreed regulations. I welcome Greenpeace to have a look at national corruption and rule of law indexes.

Tolerance is confined by criminalised and socially unacceptable behaviour. But since Police is always underfunded, and violent crime is always prioritised, it is de facto only social norms and courage to uphold them that limits tolerance. Where there is no courage. Well...

Question: How many countries with serious corruption levels, implementing the prevailing anti-corruption recommendations over the last two decades, have managed to reduce corruption? Any? What countries?

This woman is simply incredible!

So, Europe can expect the US to blow up things in the name of Antifa terrorists? How much would these countries need to pay to stop the US? If not, blow up agreements to the EU tariff and increase a few hundred percent? This man is a pest to the world. A boil on the international order.

The spoils of the King's office need a safe haven a.d. An obvious kickback. Not sure the Swiss share the King's use of transparent corruption, though.

Good market for air purifiers in southern Europe.

The idiot: We need to focus on growth and well-being, not restrictions to production. The realist: If decarbonisation fails, how to fund adaptation? The cynic: A better future situation does not pay now. Generation alpha: Die young, fuck the old! The brainy: God have mercy!

En GD som upprepat medverkar till att sänka förtroendet för en svensk myndighet ska sparkas! #Skatteverket

"'billionaire brain': a profound incapacity to see the world from other people’s point of view." As decarbonisation is likely to fail due to the political influence that comes with economic power, switching to improvement of human welfare alone would need to discount systemic collapses. Possible?

Winter is coming to #Gaza and #Ukraine. A humanist ritual is to sing about compassion, mercy and reprieve. If only it had any power.

"A million threatened species? Thirteen questions and answers" Written by Dr. Andy Purvis more than seven years ago. As we cross more tipping points, the extinctions are expected to accelerate in the coming decades. From 1500 to now, about 900 species have been extinct.

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 11, 2025 ~ The end of ice. "They are scientifically uncertain, technically infeasible and environmentally risky. All would prove enormously costly and require new global governance structures and unprecedented political consensus..." www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "If, as now seems likely, crucial Earth systems cross tipping points and suddenly collapse, the effects on human life, let alone the survival of other life forms, would destroy the smooth and steady progress he foresees." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...