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RT has live streaming of the Champ Elysee protests.
A lot of aimless meandering and very few flags or banners, but periodic singing of the Marseillaise.
Just to widen the discussion – the organisations funding Tommy Robinson.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march
Imagine if China arrested Ivanka Trump and put her on trial for some of her dubious business dealings.
Could we call Meng Wanzhou the first POW in this trade war.
So we can’t take Bill Gates or George Soros money….that is a shame…but what if they established a British-based foundation to stream their cash through?
Not up on proper grammar, so with or without the not, i think it means much the same, ALB.
There is always the question of brevity when it comes to a pamphlet. A whole book can be written on the topic but there are two nationalisms as unionism and separatism. Our blog has been keen to highlight Fortress Europe, a pan-European nationalism exhibited by various anti-migrant Eastern European governments particularly those migrants that are not Ukrainian/Moldovian or whatever…white Christians in reality. We also point out that some seaparatist movements are based on we are alright jack and no longer seek to subsidise our poorer neighbours (Catalan and Scotland)
I have to applaud and commend the effectiveness of Stephen Fry’s video.
With the U.S. eroding over 1 billion tons of soil in our agricultural systems today, the biggest challenge for the next agricultural generation will be finding the answer to rectify that problem, according to an associate professor of animal science at Michigan State University, Jason Rowntree
Looking at the U.S. Department of Agriculture erosion laboratory data, Rowntree said that 1 billion tons of soil erosion calculates to 2 trillion pounds of nutrients, and is equivalent to 40 million semi[trucks] loads of soil per year.
“If you compare the soil we erode to the amount of grain, corn, beans and hay produced in the U.S., the amount of soil we erode through our production dwarfs the amount of corn, beans and hay we produce each year. The No. 1 export in U.S. agriculture is not the grains we produce, but the amount of soil we are eroding. It is something we know we could do better,” he said.
Rowntree is interested in grass finished local beef production systems. “In my work, I do a lot more grass finishing than I do grain,” he explained. “I am not opposed to grain finishing livestock. I do a lot of work looking at local and regional food systems. I use things like herbicides and fertilizer, but I use them as tools in my toolbox versus crutches that have to keep me going in my production system.”
Managing grazing land will be a much bigger concern in the future
A related article on WW which makes useful reading on the Commons
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1230/competition-and-cooperation/
Are we really sure that what made people vote leave was the economic argument? I very much doubt that. I recall it was more nationalistic chauvinist xenophobia.
And if there is another referendum, even if the politicians and media make the economy the central focus of the campaign – are we sure people will simply vote from their original prejudices – anti-foreigner.
So perhaps the next referendum, if there is one, is the appropriate time for an issue of an anti-nationalist pamphlet rather than one on protectionism and free trade which would, of course, feature a chapter in an analysis of nationalism.
It’s not me honest – it’s the news
<p class=”story-body__introduction”>Climate change has significantly boosted the chances of having summer heatwaves in the UK.</p>
A Met Office study says that the record-breaking heat seen in 2018 was made about 30 times more likely because of emissions from human activity.Without warming, the odds of a UK heatwave in any given year were less than half a percent. But a changing climate means this has risen to 12%, or about once every eight years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46462014
It ain’t half hot, mum
Another link for background reading
“The French don’t want crumbs, they want a baguette.”
Further to an earlier post, this quote echoes the urgency
“With this year’s growth in emissions, it looks like the peak is not yet in sight,” said Professor Corinne Le Quere, from the University of East Anglia, who led the analysis. “To limit global warming to the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, CO2 emissions would need to decline by 50 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero by around 2050. We are a long way from this and much more needs to be done because if countries stick to the commitments they have already made, we are on track to see 3C of global warming.”
More bad news
Rising sea levels could become overwhelming sooner than previously believed, according to the authors of the most comprehensive study yet of the accelerating ice melt in Greenland.
Run-off from this vast northern ice sheet – currently the biggest single source of meltwater adding to the volume of the world’s oceans – is 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and increasing exponentially as a result of manmade global warming, says the paper, published in Nature on Wednesday.
Almost all of the increase has occurred in the past two decades – a jolt upwards after several centuries of relative stability. This suggests the ice sheet becomes more sensitive as temperatures go up.
“Greenland ice is melting more in recent decades than at any point in at least the last four centuries, and probably more than at any time in the last seven to eight millennia,” said the lead author Luke Trusel, of Rowan University. “We demonstrate that Greenland ice is more sensitive to warming today than in the past – it responds non-linearly due to positive feedbacks inherent to the system. Warming means more today than it did even just a few decades ago.”
“At some point, sea-level rise will be too fast for us to adapt to, so we really have to avoid this situation by reducing emissions,” said the study’s co-author Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University. “I think this is one of the many wake-up calls that we have had in the last few decades. It clearly links manmade global warming to sea-level rise.”
A booming global market for cars has helped drive CO2 emissions to an all-time high in 2018, say researchers.
The main factor in the near 3% rise has been coal use in China, driven by government efforts to boost a flagging economy. China, the world’s largest emitter saw emissions rise an estimated 4.7%.
At UN climate talks in Katowice, the lead researcher Prof Corinne Le Quéré, from the University of East Anglia, told BBC News that the rise in China was down to government activity.
“For the past two years, the Chinese government has boosted the economy and the economy is based on construction and heavy industry, coal and steel. When you boost the economy you actually see a rise in emissions,” she said
But emissions from cars, truck and planes using fossil fuels continue to rise in all parts of the world
Renewables have also grown this year, but are not keeping pace with the CO2 rise.
The research, carried out by the Global Carbon Project (GCP), says that this year’s “strong” rise is projected to be 2.7%.
That’s much bigger than 2017’s 1.6%. This will worry scientists as they had seen CO2 emissions relatively flat for the three years before.
