Personnaly, I found it very funny to read this specific sentence. Thank you for reminding it to me!

like a sort of evil lemon

Thank you for posting this. I have to admit dw’s approach disapointed me, but it was a great opportunity to get a glipse at where they are heading with this topic.

In this video DW tries to present itself as they neutrally display facts but imo they are not. They present a story that is in favor of the deep sea mining industry. They have the advocates of the industry saying their profit-based arguments, but they go unchalenged, and in the same time don’t provide the full picture.

They are talking about the green energy “transition”, even tho the actuall problem is that we are going through a tripple plannetary crisis. Currently we need to learn more about the ocean in order to conserve it. Since only 0.001% of deep seafloor has been visually observed, it would literaly be impossible to do deep sea mining and protect the ocean in the same time, just because we don’t know enough about it. So the argument used by industrialists, that it is cleaner than land-mining is simply based on nothing.

Not only that, they never even mentioned that these nodules produce oxygen without photosynthesis [wiki, paper]. And of course this oxygen is extremly important for the ocean ecosystem as a whole.

Maybe. The important thing is to participate in this boycott. After that, it’s ok do all the silly things in the world!

The answer to this is a bit nuanced since solarpunk is not a political movement per se. Still, to reply to your question as best as I could say through political approaches like social ecology and anarchy, but I wouldn’t want to restrict it.

For more on this, check out the 2 links in my previous comment.

I only watched a few minutes of this video and stopped because it is too ill informed about solarpunk. Maybe it gets better, but the intro made me think that it is not worth my time.

Solarpunk is on the anticapitalist spectrum. The projects portrayed in this video as solarpunk are most certainly not. They are part of the greenwashing of eco-capitalist approaches.

Edit: If anyone would be interested to understand what solarpunk is and were it stands, andrewism would be a good starting point

So, again, what are they trying to argue here? The only environmentally responsible option is to leave Gaza destroyed?

From the study itself (4. Discussion & 5. Concluding remarks), this is not what I got. On the contrary, it seems to me like they try to make some calculations/estimations/evaluations so that this is something that takes place.

The point of this study, to my understanding, is to calculates some of the aftermath of this ongoing genocide, concerning debris, carbon emissions, time frames, and implications for rebuilding. No?

Is this supposed to sway eco conscious genocide supporters?

This is not the way I understood this article. It seems to me it is one more argument for the case of continuous ethnic cleansing for so many decades.

If we agree that

most frequently, however, the aim of ethnic cleansing is to expel the despised ethnic group through either indirect coercion or direct force, and to ensure that return is impossible,

then by bombing all buildings, homes and infrastructure, they force people to go somewhere else and in the same time restrict them from coming back, since there is nothing to come back to.

So in this study, they actually measure the not coming back for decades part

Edit: I did several edits. I stop now.

It looks like this project is one of those that take into account marine life and try to have minimal impact on it.

For more on this, see section Key Environmental Issues:

MeyGen Tidal Energy Project

I haven’t read the report itself, just the abstract. There it looks like they ackgnowledge other parameters, but their main focus in this one is around depopulation in Japan.

Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan

Irrespective of human population increase or decrease, biodiversity losses continue among most species studied mainly because of change in agricultural land use, either due to urbanization, disuse and abandonment, or intensification.

I also think that the Israeli attacks are related to Iran’s nuclear program but I don’t think they are related to this alleged leak. Here is a 25 min long al jazeera podcast for more on this:

Why is Israel attacking Iran now?

Thank you for your input. Even tho I find this to be totally faisable, from what the cradle article provides, I cannot verify much:

• fars looks like it’s an Iranian outlet I personnaly don’t know if I can trust or not, regardless of mbfc
• the informed sources are not named
• I didn’t manage to find the documents mentionned*

Apart from that at some point it mentions that Grossi said in Times of Israel that “We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this.”, but it is about Iran stealing Israeli documents.

Anyways, if you or anyone has more on this, please share.

Edit: *I mean deducted, or something

I’m a bit confused because the title claims that windfarms are habitats, and in the article itself it says:

“We’re trying to understand whether these animals are actually using the wind farms as habitat, or whether they’re being displaced by them,” says Annemiek Hermans, PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research.

Here is a very interesting story about baboons in less than 4 minutes.

Dr Robert Sapolsky and the Keekorok Baboon Troop

I have noticed that The Conversation has articles that I consider to be great and others that I find to be the opposite. Unfortunately, for me, this one is in the later category.

In this one, mainly they talk about how the technologies will work, about money and the urgency to use this tech. The real urgency is to start phasing out fossil fuel globally. Also, they don’t talk about the unintended consequences, the too many known unknowns, and let’s keep in mind there are uncountable unknown unknowns in geoengineering.

More info:

• Key reasons to oppose geoengineering | Geoengineering Monitor
• geoengineering@slrpnk.net

The following ideas are not exactly what you ask for, but maybe they are worth considering?

1. I don’t know what operating system you use, but for me old computers is how I got into linux. Linux Mint is very easy to install and to use, so it prolongs the life of perfectly good machines that are too old to be updated by proprietary software. Personally, I was doing most updates so that the laptop is as functional as possible for the longest time, and I was always doing the secuity ones. A few years back a friend gave me a 2006 laptop and it worked kind of ok with an old version of mint, it was just very slow. This one was given to another friend who didn’t have any.

2. Depending on where you live there could be a makerspace, or a relevant collective that could use them, or parts of them.

3. If they are not working anymore, you can use the parts to do crafts: jewleries, pins, fridge magnets, keychains, light fixture, wall decoration, photo frame, book holder are a few possibilities.

Coincidentaly, I also posted this article but after reading it a second time, I decided to delete it because I found it was very problematic since it says very contradictory things. If I misunderstood something, please point it out to me.

Examples of contradictions:

Over 99% of the almost 1.89m tCO2e estimated […] is attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza.

[…] 50% [of CO2e emissions] were generated by the supply and use of weapons, tanks and other ordnance by the Israeli military (IDF), the study found.

• And there is this graph claiming that most emissions by sector come from Gaza aid delivery (trucks).

According to this article, it looks like most emissions come from Israel’s IDF

Over 99% of the almost 1.89m tCO2e estimated to have been generated between the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack and the temporary ceasefire in January 2025 is attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza.

I would say, it’s much longer than 40 years.

This is what the United Nations, use as starting point:

1917 – 1947: British mandate

Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, […]

Please, stop using the tactic of whataboutism. Meaning, this paper is specifically about Israel’s war on Palestine, so let’s talk about this post, and not everything else instead.

Edit: I need to correct my comment, since this paper is about

• Israel - Palestine
• Israel - Iran
• Israel - Lebanon
• Israel - Yemen