‘It’s Sellafield or nothing’: what life is like growing up in the shadow of Europe’s oldest nuclear site Young people in Whitehaven on England’s north-west coast rely on the power plant for everything from jobs to civic investment. But for those who see their future elsewhere, options can be limited … Sellafield, Europe’s largest nuclearContinue reading “Europe’s oldest nuclear site, global renewable energy, leaf blowers, planetary health diet and greenhouse gas emissions”
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Good things that came out of Cop30
Beyond the negative headlines, some truly good things came out of Cop30 Some commentators have called Cop30 a failure. An attempt to insert plans for a route to the phaseout of fossil fuels into the legal text was stymied, consideration of how to improve countries’ emissions-cutting plans was put off till next year, and althoughContinue reading “Good things that came out of Cop30”
Around the Israel-Iran war 2025
Trump’s Yemen Ceasefire Leaves Israel Alone Against The Houthis At the beginning of May, mere hours after Israel retaliated against a Houthi missile strike on Tel Aviv airport with airstrikes in Yemen, President Donald Trump announced a surprise ceasefire with the group, halting a two-month American air campaign. Israel took a direct hit from aContinue reading “Around the Israel-Iran war 2025”
The world being pushed to the edge of global war
The last few months, we have seen that there are more conflicts in the news. The Daily Telegraph even had the headline “The long peace is over: welcome to a new era of war, chaos and destruction”. Andy Walton of the Christadelpian Weekly World Watch finds it almost certain that those conflicts going on atContinue reading “The world being pushed to the edge of global war”
2nd half of February American farces
On February 14, JD Vance, the US vice president, has warned that the loss of British values poses a greater threat than Russia in his landmark address to the Munich Security Conference. European leaders had descended on the German city with the intention of discussing an end to the war in Ukraine, but MrContinue reading “2nd half of February American farces”
Around Cop29
The global oil and gas industry has made a trillion dollars annually in pure profit every year for the last 50 years. There’s no sign of that ending soon. Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud, told the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh last month: “We will monetise every molecule of energyContinue reading “Around Cop29”
America and Britain’s dual role and Syria going to have to be able to make themselves less dependent on past meddlers
Throughout the last 3 decades, we could see how America and Britain had two faces, not shy of providing resources against certain regimes they saw an obstacle to their own interests. From 1979 to 1989, the United States (along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) armed and financed the Afghan Islamist fighters known as the mujahideenContinue reading “America and Britain’s dual role and Syria going to have to be able to make themselves less dependent on past meddlers”
Israel-Palestine drama needs more attention
For months, we have been confronted daily with acts of war that do not go through the bracket. As spectators of the terrible war crimes, we get the impression that the International leaders are keeping their hands in mind and do not want to see what Israel has been up to for several years. WeContinue reading “Israel-Palestine drama needs more attention”
In the news the Second week of December 2023
Looking at the news of the second week of December 2023
Palestinians facing bombardments in greater intensity than all of the previous wars combined
Israel lacks the political flexibility or pragmatic imagination needed to build common grounds, firstly with the Palestinians and secondly with the Arab states, upon which an end to this continuous series of crises could be built.
Some View on the World 