"Iran still wants revenge for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani:"
Then we'll want revenge for their revenge. Then they'll want...
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"Yet the Democrats in Washington still want to negotiate with this terrorist state."
Talking is better than fighting. We're negotiating with the Russians right now.
Brittney Griner meets with US officials in Russia as White House works to secure her release
"As we have said before, the U.S. government made a significant offer to the Russians to resolve the current unacceptable and wrongful,...
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"The whole world is destabilizing before our very eyes,"
Maybe we should have started working on climate change in '98, or kept working on renewables back in '81.
"If kindness and comfort are, as I suspect, the results of an energy surplus, then, as the supply contracts, we could be expected to start fighting like cats in a sack"
Georgw Monbiot
Main Topic: Dealing with a Polycrisis World
Dear Diary. Do many of you remember the story of Heracles and the Hydra? The Lernaean Hydra was a monster in Greek mythology. It had many heads and every time someone would cut off one of them, two more heads would grow out of the stump. Eventually Heracles overcame this beast but with a lot of effort involving some ingenuity.
Similarly in our modern world, ever since the advent of modern weapons, commerce and industrialization beginning in the 19th century, it seems like every time a big problem is solved, two problems pop up. For example, horses for transportation were dropped in favor of the faster and much more efficient internal combustion engine automobiles. A long-term problem solved? Nope…the two heads of environmental degradation and fossil fuel governmental corruption were grown in place of horses despite humanity experience much greater ease to get from points A to B.
We are now living in a polycrisis world with multiple threats coming at our civilization and personal wellbeing from just about every direction. Off hand, some of the biggest as of 2022 are the climate crisis, the covid pandemic and its supply chain disruption adding to inflation, Putin’s insane war against Ukraine leading to worldwide fuel shortages and energy inflation, and the rise of fascistic authoritarianism, which is a threat to democracy.
The following Financial Times article touches on all of these subjects and shows why we have been walking on proverbial eggshells for quite some time. It’s a good read (article not copied due to copywrite rules, but can be accessed here):
ft.com
Opinion Global Economy
Welcome to the world of the polycrisis
Today disparate shocks interact so that the whole is worse than the sum of the parts
Extreme Temperature Diary- Wednesday November 2nd, 2022/ Main Topic: Dealing with a Polycrisis World – Guy On Climate |
