Notices by Richard Michael Blaber (rmblaber1956@mastodon.social)

https://www.dw.com/en/ecuador-wildfires-trigger-national-emergency/a-70815597.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/the-exile-of-mosab-abu-toha-how-a-gazan-poet-was-forced-to-flee-his-home.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/31/shell-investments-in-renewable-energy-drop-spending-budget.

@breadandcircuses Capitalism will end itself - but a lot of us, I'm afraid, are going to be ended with it. Our entire technological "civilisation" is destined to collapse, & the future global human population will, so I believe, be very, very much smaller than it is now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/northern-gaza-israel-depraved-campaign.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/shaban-al-dalou-burned-alive-israel-gaza.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/gaza-doctors-testimonies.

@breadandcircuses Given that during the Pliocene Epoch, 3.5 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 was at 425 ppm, as now, global warming was at 3 Celsius, & sea-levels were 20 metres (over 65 feet) higher than at present, with everything else more-or-less the same (the Sun was actually marginally less luminous), but for the absence of cooling aerosols in the Pliocene atmosphere, we are SCREWED!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/children-die-malnutrition-rafah-famine-gaza-israeli-troops-aid-strip.

@aral I don't think I need to respond to this - except by advising you to read Aristotle's Prior & Posterior Analytics.

@aral Your argument is false, in logic. If there is no justification for supporting genocide - & there ISN'T - those who DO support it must still say why they do so. They must justify themselves (or try to do so) - not the genocide.

@incitatus Well, if climate protesting is "terrorism" or "extremism", why not "socialism"? If dear Suella gets her way, it'll soon be illegal to be anything other than a climate-change denying Tory!

https://theconversation.com/how-the-laws-of-war-apply-to-the-conflict-between-israel-and-hamas-215493. This is an answer - by a Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, American University, Robert K. Goldman - to any & all who maintain that Israel's siege of Gaza is lawful under international law: it ISN'T! It is, in fact, a flagrant breach of it, & constitutes a war crime, as does its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. The actions of Hamas are also war crimes. I say again: TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT!