Climate crisis

Rainforest on Sumatra

Pageviews: 118 The last paradise on earth The Leuser ecosystem on Sumatra - a name that makes the hearts of nature conservation enthusiasts beat faster and should sting at the same time. Because here, on 2.6 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest, is the last place on our planet where tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos live together in the wild. Three times larger than...

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The EPP and environmental protection

Page views: 75 „It has taken decades to fight for our protection laws. Let's not allow them to be quietly abolished because conservative parties - such as the European People's Party, the sister party of the CDU/CSU - want to exploit the majority situation to abolish good and important protection standards.“Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. Open letter to the EU Commission Plenary Chamber of the European Parliament in Brussels,...

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Climate policy under capitalism

Page views: 85 In the podcast „99 ZU EINS“, the „Gruppe Widerspruch“ discusses the topic of climate policy in capitalism in episode 546. The thesis: The climate crisis can hardly be effectively combated with the current form of capitalist states and economies. Instead of „yet another moral appeal“, there is a well-founded and systematic criticism of the underlying mechanisms of the economy, state and international politics....

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Nestlé food or no food

Page views: 100 And suddenly it's food or no food: Nestlé food or no food So. This article and the research into it will be exciting. For medical reasons, I am no longer dependent on receiving my tube feeds by bolus (syringe), but via the PEG pump. My previous tube feed, restoric® supportiv S Vegan from Vitasy, which I have been very happy with for years, has unfortunately...

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Cool spherical energy storage units

Page views: 67 Underwater revolution for the energy transition Imagine huge hollow concrete spheres at the bottom of lakes or oceans, each the size of a house, produced in a CO2-neutral way and waiting to store surplus electricity - and that is precisely the principle behind spherical energy storage systems. They are considered one of the most exciting innovations for the energy transition and could revolutionise our electricity...

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Africa: safaris and good business

Page views: 79 Review of the ARTE report on green colonialism Well, okay, it was planned as a review. Nobody could have guessed that it would get so out of hand. Or did they? Who would have thought that a documentary about safaris would tear me apart so much because it's just awful to see that not a single form of nature conservation works. Unlike what you think now, but...

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Time was up

Page views: 106 Video recommendation: University of Cologne - „Dr Mark Benecke // Time is up: Heat, floods, species extinction“ 🌐 https://youtu.be/MubKjrWCg5w The video was published on YouTube on 27 June 2025. As part of the kick-off event for the „Sustainability Days 2025“, the Sustainability Working Group was able to attract a very special speaker: Dr Mark Benecke, who is a criminal biologist, specialist in forensic entomology, author and...

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New picture, new... new discussion

Pageviews: 75 It's time for a new profile picture again. Which I actually think is quite successful, so I like it. I've been writing about the climatic effects, impact, morals and ethics as well as the legal classification of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in art and journalism for some time now - without AI - on a...

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