Deborah Kalte
@kalte.ch
Political scientist with experience in political consumerism and conducting surveys
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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“Zusammenfassung: Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde.” www.zeit.de/politik/2026...
Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde Europas
Die Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.
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Rahmstorf: “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
Insane satellite imagery. This is the change from May to July. Europe has cooked. (🎥 Colin McCarthy)
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
What’s happening in our oceans right now will affect every one of us. I wrote a long-read article in Forbes explaining why. If you want to understand what the graph below really means for your future, I recommend reading it. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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One of the biggest misunderstandings of politics in our time is that the Left has become all about identity politics. The opposite is the case. The Left has (nearly everywhere) completely given up on shaping, representing, and mobilizing identities. Instead, the far right has successfully done it.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3w ago"The right rarely starts with ideology. It starts with identity. It starts with the feeling that somebody understands your frustrations. Agreement comes later. The right isn’t just building audiences. It’s building participants. It isn’t trying to persuade. It’s trying to join them."
We absolutely cannot normalize wildfires everywhere and excess deaths from heatwaves. It’s going to get way worse as long as we keep burning fossil fuels.
At least 12,000 excess deaths in Europe's June heatwave: AFP analysis
At least 12,000 excess deaths were recorded across nine European countries during June's heatwave, national statistics indicated, a toll that could yet rise as more data is released, according to an…
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These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
The silence of most European governments about these heatwaves is confusing. As if this was only ‘weather’ that just so happens. Denial comes in so many flavours.
💧 No doubt you've noticed the humidity: a remarkable 45% of 854 cities across 30 European countries have broken, or are expected to break, their all-time Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) record. WBGT is a measure of heat stress and the body’s ability to cool itself through sweat evaporation. (2/6)
It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it
Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · last mo.The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Maybe this should have been the cover for Anti-fascist Economics!?
Man muss kein träumerischer Klassenkämpfer sein, um die gleichzeitige Existenz eines Billionärs und 673 Millionen hungerleidender Menschen als pervers zu empfinden. Erst recht, wenn dieser für Kürzungen von Hilfen für die Ärmsten mitverantwortlich ist. Dafür reicht ein Mindestmaß an Anstand.
The @republik.ch wins on 22 of 23 counts. Was that one item really worth the Streisand effect of this court case?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoPalantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine ft.trib.al/TS7SOJp
The Trump administration wants to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Trump administration is trying to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests | Charles F Sams III
The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable
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Going through a box of old slides I found this view of the Mer de Glace taken from the terrace at Montenvers on a family holiday in August 1976. I'm the teenager by the railing carrying a small backpack. I had no idea of the amount of change that would take place here in my lifetime.
📄Out now 📄: 90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲
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Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead. Chart via @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social
Habe zuletzt viel darüber nachgedacht, wie wir den Fokus auf Vermüllungskrise und Biodiversitätskrise lenken können, wenn uns doch der Blick auf die Klimakrise schon abhanden kommt www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Forscher warnen: Das größte Erbe der Menschheit wird Müll sein
Textilienberge in der Wüste, kilometergroße Plastikstrudel in den Meeren, Abfalldeponien an Land, Atommüll-Lager unter Tage: Müll ist allgegenwärtig. So sehr, dass er aus Sicht von Forschenden buchstä...
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Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.
“To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me” - Dr. Levke Caesar, co-lead of Planetary Boundaries Science Lab
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
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