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Climate justice & Rich people who do not want to share
2022 came to show once again what a huge gap there is between people who have next to nothing and people swimming in money. The latter have seen their wealth grow exceptionally this year as their energy shares soared.
This year, we could see how warfare brought a lot of damage to people and nature. Our earth also had a lot to endure because man did not do much to stop global warming.
Climate justice is about creating a better future for all of us. It’s about giving everyone the ability to live a life of dignity, joy and safety. This better world is possible, but only if we all fight for it.
We have to recognise that there is a very small percentage of extremely rich people whose interests side with and profit from our collective destruction. The fossil fuel execs, the billionaires, the Rishi Sunaks only make up an absolutely tiny percentage of the population. We cannot let them dictate whether we live or die. We cannot let them force millions of us in the UK and billions of us all over the world into struggle, multiple crises and instability just so they can continue to be outrageously rich as a result of the work being done by the many. We outnumber them.
We have to fight back and demand more. We have to support unions striking for better conditions for all of us.
The fight against the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis has to be connected. We have a whole world to win if we come together rather than letting those who don’t have our interests at heart divide us.
Enough is Enough is a campaign to fight the cost of living crisis.
We were founded by trade unions and community organisations determined to push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing – and a society run only for a wealthy elite.
We can’t rely on the establishment to solve our problems. It’s up to us in every workplace and every community.
You can join the Enough Is Enough campaign here
You can find mutual aid groups to support here
A guide to finding a climate group here
A guide on why we need unions is here
Drought
Who knows, July and August will be recorded as the warmest and driest months in Europe since records began.
One can only hope that now, with all the fires and other natural disasters that are coming to our regions, there will be a greater awareness that something must be done to combat global warming.
Grass grows patchy in bristling brown spikes (if it grows at all). The smooth-complexioned face of land now cracks under unrelenting heat. Fields once flush with fruits go barren, pleading through parched throats and chapped lips that no kiss of water or answered prayer has yet come to soften, for August doesn’t care about religion or rain dances.
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FOWC, W3, dVerse. I took inspiration from Timothy Price.
An Open Letter to the People Who Are Trying to Kill Us
Please try to see past the ugly words by the young woman Riya Dani when reading this open letter. It is an open cry that testifies to the despair of young people about the reality that many government leaders do not want to see. The composer of the open letter wants to bring her cry for discussions of Society, Environment and Science
It is more than necessary that the call to action is spreading all over the world!
Since it is already a quarter past midnight, it is understandable that some people are losing their faith in the leaders and want to stamp their feet hard in order to get a more hopeful result in time.
Let us all stand up and raise our voices!
The world grappling with the ruinous results of Climate Change, everyone is talking about adopting sustainable strategies, but,
Are we doing enough?
We had high expectations from COP26 – they met, some slept.
All they did was preach the same words we have been screaming for years!
“It’s Doomsday! We need to change” “To preserve our future! We need to Change” “Rise above the politics! We need to Change!“
They pledged and promised and pleaded with people to change.
All these talks of change paint a very optimistic picture but,
Are we doing enough?
The trash that we produce keeps mounting, much like your promises.
The coal isn’t going anywhere, and the emissions being released keep breaking records.
The heat is breaking records, the fires are breaking records, the rains and floods and droughts are breaking records.
So, are we doing enough?
We shift to metal straws and…
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Us and climate change – We can do much more than we think
Already some decades now, people are confronted with unpredictable weather situations and getting to see how glaciers melt, countries have to battle either droughts or floods. This year, Belgium and Germany got so hard hit, thousands of people have lost their houses and private goods. Also, this summer we could witness, with brutal clarity, a world of lush forests, bountiful croplands, liveable cities, and survivable coastlines under threat.
For sure we on our own can not change the situation in such a way that we can turn back the clock and get better weather again. The climate crisis is too big to tackle alone.
The problem with our society is that most leaders and citizens are more concerned about earning and saving as much money they can do.
Do you know, you too, even when you think you are just a tiny spot in the ocean, can get the stone rolling to bring the necessary changes to avoid further global warming. We cannot stay at the sideline. We should talk about the situation with as many people as we can and push our politicians in the right way so that they shall dare to act for the world, which can not speak for itself. Our leaders must have the courage to act now to limit climate change and protect nature.
Though there are still lots of people who do not want to see it, science is clear:
we are damaging our climate and destroying our biodiversity.
We not only have to see the signs, it is very important to respond to the signs and take action! Practical steps right now!
After the lockdown, we may face now shortages in the shops. This might be a blessing in disguise encouraging us to plan for an end of year celebration focused on people rather than lots of food and presents. Think about what you most enjoy about celebrating Christmas, are how you can contribute to the sustainment of our planet in the Holiday Season.
On Saturday 6th November there is the Global Day of Action. Midway through COP26 it is not a bad moment to let your voice be heard. The politicians coming together in Glasgow have to know citizens are concerned with what happens to our planet and how we want them to take the necessary measures now, to do something against global warming and the need to protect people from the disasters of nature, like droughts and floods. If we do not call that global warming to a halt, that climate change shall bring a lot of people to lose their habitat and being forced to find other places to live so that we shall have a huge increase of climate refugees.
At home, you can contribute with sorting, buying local and ecological (bio) products, making an effort not to use chemicals and unnecessary products. It is already a first step in the right direction when you try to reduce the ecological footprint. When you love to eat meat, think about certain animals suffering needlessly in factory farming. Avoid buying meat of animals in cages. Also, remember that by reducing meat consumption, you can help to reduce methane gases in the air and animal waste in the environment.
Demand your politicians that we, the richer nations and businesses, should act justly in response to the climate crisis. They are the ones who can push the negotiators at the COP26 in the right direction to make it work this year, to come to the right decision protecting our planet and its citizens! Ask your politicians that they invest money into proven solutions, green jobs & clean, renewable energy for everyone.
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Find also to read and to do
Cop26 presidency run from within the UK Cabinet Office
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Preceding
Health Ranger apocalypse warnings already given in 2012
How to make sustainable, green habits second nature
Vatican meeting of mayors talking about global warming, human trafficking and modern-day slavery
Republican member of Congress from Arizona to boycott pope’s address over climate change
Building a low-carbon world: the sixth industrial revolution
UK Politicians willing to tear up decades of environmental protections
Africa’s human existence and development under threat from the adverse impacts of climate change
A dangerous turning point – Earth facing the collapse of everything
155 million people across 55 territories suffering from severe food insecurity
Earth’s pandemic and T-shirts for young people
Four ways to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises simultaneously
Streams caused by temperature differences
Time for world to ‘grow up’ and tackle climate change, says Boris Johnson
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Additional reading
- Reducing effects of environmental disasters
- Going for sustainable development
- The Climate Crisis and the Need for Utopian Thinking
- Challenges of the Post-Pandemic period
- Today’s thought “Allowed to have dominion over the universe” (January 02)
- Bijbelvorsers Blogging annual report and 2015 in review
- Sign of the Times and the Last Days #2 Wars, natural disasters, famine and false Messiahs
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Time for world to ‘grow up’ and tackle climate change, says Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson might have had very strange ideas about CoViD and about global warming, sometimes stepping in the footsteps of Donald Trump. But it seems he might have changed after he himself was infected by the coronavirus.
Boris Johnson calls for the world to “grow up” and addresses the threat of climate change to the future of humanity. It looks like the British prime minister, at last, has become convinced mankind has behaved like a reckless teenager with planet Earth, trashing its home in the “infantile” belief it will not have to suffer the consequences.
The UN Cop26 climate change summit which the UK will host in Glasgow in November must be “the turning point for humanity”, when the world must show it can limit temperature rises and prevent the planet becoming uninhabitable.
Streams caused by temperature differences
Andreas Kluth in The Day, a daily newspaper covering a 20-town region in eastern Connecticut, in his guest opinion piece writes about weather disasters spanning the globe this summer, looking at the many infernal fires in California and Greece, deadly floods from Germany to China, heat waves from Canada to Siberia that according to him
are really just nature’s shots across our bow.
That becomes clear if we absorb the recently published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the United Nations that assesses the state of science on global warming. He writes:
No matter what policies we adopt − and obviously we should aim for good ones – the weather will keep getting more catastrophic more often.
A lot of people would agree with the fact that even when we are so progressed in science, there is still what we do not know.
Part of what makes the overall problem of climate change so psychologically daunting is that there’s so much we know, but so much more that we know only partially, and even more that we have yet to understand at all.
We know perfectly well, for example, how coal-fired power plants pump carbon dioxide into the air – bad. We only partially understand how the thawing permafrost could release enough methane on top of the greenhouse gases we’ve emitted to cause additional, sudden and terrifying spikes in warming – really bad. And we have yet to figure out exactly how all this would affect the earth system as a whole, and in particular the massive currents of air and water that have made the world a familiar habitat to us.
One current of particular concern is the polar jet stream, a group of winds that whips at enormous speeds around the Arctic from west to east (owing to the earth’s rotation) at a height of six-to-10 miles up in the atmosphere. Another is the Gulf Stream, a vast oceanic conveyor belt that makes warm water from the tropics flow northward on the surface until it cools and, around Iceland, sinks down and heads back south.
One thing these streams have in common, with each other and the many other currents all around the world, is that they’re caused by temperature differences between the hot tropics and the cold poles. Another thing they share is that, in their own ways, they protect or nurture us humans.
The complex swirls of the jet streams tend to blow away pressure systems that could otherwise kill us on the ground with storms and floods and heat. If these streams blow less hard, or more weirdly, or not at all, those meteorological danger domes just hover in place without moving, until they discharge their payloads on us. Although the details aren’t clear yet, scientists believe this partially explains why the floods in Germany, the heat waves in North America and forest fires in Greece and Turkey turned into such doozies.
Changes in the Gulf Stream work more slowly but are just as consequential. It’s already known that the current is at its weakest in a millennium. There are many reasons, including torrents of freshwater pouring in from melting ice and bloated rivers (freshwater is lighter than saltwater and prevents cooling water from sinking) and shrinking temperature differentials between south and north as the Artic heats up. A new study in Nature suggests that the whole Atlantic circulation and convection system may “collapse” altogether.
Read more about it: If jet or gulf streams collapse, we’re in for it
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6 years after the Paris Agreement
Through the Paris Agreement in 2015, the international community agreed to keep global temperature rise this century well below 2.0°C degrees above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C. The 1.5°C threshold is important because beyond this, so-called “tipping points” – positive feedback loops where global warming causes a permanent shift in earth systems, locking in further warming – become more likely.
The IPCC climate change report brings forward when scientists expect to reach 1.5C to the mid-2030s, at which point tipping points such as lose of artic sea ice, larger-scale die-offs of coral reefs, and thawing of the methane-rich permafrost become much more likely.
Increased CO2 will have dire long-term effects
Another core concept in the IPCC report about climate change is the long-term effect of increased CO2 in the air. The Earth takes time to adjust to increases of CO2 in the air, and the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) estimates how much the earth will warm with a doubling of the amount of CO2 in the air. This is important because CO2 has increased from its pre-industrial level of around 280 parts per million (ppm) to an estimated 415 ppm today, with a predicted doubling of CO2 in the air around 2060.
Recent research predicts the increase in global average temperature with a doubling of CO2 in the air to between 2.6-4.5C. The difference between 1.5C short term, and between 2.6C and 4.5C longer term may seem small at first glance. However, the difference between 1.5C, 2C, and 3C is the difference between average droughts lasting two, four or 10 months per year, and the difference between 6%, 18% or 68% (for an increase to 4.5C) means invertebrates globally losing their habitat. These longer-term trends are in addition to the extreme weather we have witnessed across Europe and the US over the past two months.
> Read more about it: New climate change report shows need for urgent action – here’s how leaders can act
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Are the European floods linked to the climate crisis?
Almost certainly. Scientists have long predicted climate disruption will lead to more extreme weather, such as heatwaves, droughts and floods. Human emissions from engine exhaust fumes, forest burning and other activities are heating the planet. As the atmosphere gets warmer it holds more moisture which brings more rain. All the places that recently experienced flooding – Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, London, Edinburgh, Tokyo and elsewhere – might have had heavy summer rain even without the climate crisis, but the deluges were unlikely to have been as intense.
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There has not yet been an attribution study for the latest floods in Europe because the analysis takes several days.
Please continue reading: What is causing the floods in Europe?
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Investigating how climate affects intense rainstorms across Europe, climate experts have shown there will be a significant future increase in the occurrence of slow-moving intense rainstorms.
The scientists estimate that these slow-moving storms may be 14 times more frequent across land by the end of the century. It is these slow-moving storms that have the potential for very high precipitation accumulations, with devastating impacts, as we saw in Germany and Belgium.
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Professor Lizzie Kendon, Science Fellow at the Met Office and Professor at Bristol University, said:
“This study shows that in addition to the intensification of rainfall with global warming, we can also expect a big increase in slow-moving storms which have the potential for high rainfall accumulations. This is very relevant to the recent flooding seen in Germany and Belgium, which highlights the devastating impacts of slow-moving storms.
“Our finding that slow-moving intense rainstorms could be 14 times more frequent by the end of the century under the high emissions RCP8.5 scenario, shows the serious impacts that we may expect across Europe if we do not curb our emissions of greenhouse gases.”
The study findings are relevant to climate mitigation and adaptation policy in Europe, with specific implications for future flooding impacts, the design of infrastructure systems, and the management of water resources.
Currently, almost stationary intense rainstorms are uncommon in Europe and happen rarely over parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Accurate predictions of future changes in intense rainfall events are key to putting effective adaptation and mitigation plans in place to limit the adverse impacts of climate change.
> Extreme Storms Will Be More Likely In Europe Research Shows
Earth’s pandemic and T-shirts for young people
We at the Belgian Christadelphian office have passed a certain age, so that it would not be appropriate to walk on the street with a T-shirt. As elders, we tell the visitors in our churches about the task we as human beings have when living on this planet. We talk about our responsibility and the task God has given us. But we do know the majority of inhabitants of this planet are not believing in God and are mostly concerned about gaining as much money as possible, whatever the cost may be.
The last few months, lots of people were very worried about the Covid-pandemic, but for years there has been another big virus circling around us, which most people seem to ignore. Though for more than a decade, several of the Boom generation with the millennials and the Generation Z have been writing essays, articles and making posters for awareness about global warming and cried out into the world to save our planet. Because that planet is getting very ill. People have used and wasted earthly resources, if nothing. In our so-called ‘civilised’ countries most citizens were and are not concerned about the pollution they cause.
For us the time of publicly protesting and going on the streets, protesting for this and that, may be gone or not so appropriate.
But for young people, we would like to introduce some very interesting clothing and tote bags with a different angle. We are namely very concerned about the world where we and our children and grandchildren but also next generations have to live in. Therefore, we do find it five past twelve to call on all the responsible people to use their senses and to do something against the horrible state we have brought our planet. We cannot sit still and do if global warming does not exist.
Everybody can use his own voice to bring awareness to others. A T-shirt is a wearable message board that can pull the attention to our planet and to what we have to do about it. The world needs to change as we are currently hurtling towards climatic changes that will alter the way the planet is configured. This will certainly be to the detriment of humanity if not cause its extinction. Crazy you may say but 99.99% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct so just because we can walk and talk and use a smart phone does not mean that we will not go the same way.
Scientists and philosophers don’t in general want to be celebrities but it is important that we listen to what they have to say because they offer the only way out of this current crisis. So enjoy our range and change the world at least in one tiny way, an environmentally friendly piece of clothing. {Scientist and Philosopher}
It is not bad to have a look at their products to make others aware of this dramatic situation.
> A collection to highlight the need for us all to stop and think. > Think
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- Rapid Climate Change Makes It Hard for Butterflies and Moths to Adjust
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- Why Polar Bears are on The Verge of Extinction
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- Seabird Salvation
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Wat is de Green Deal?
Europa wil tegen 2050 het eerste klimaatneutrale continent zijn. Dat is goed voor de volksgezondheid, onze levenskwaliteit en de economie. Hoe we dat gaan doen? Dat staat beschreven in de Green Deal die de Europese Commissie heeft uitgewerkt.
Routekaart voor een duurzame economie
In de Green Deal is de weg naar een duurzame Europese economie uitgestippeld. Het is een nieuwe groeistrategie waarin alle sectoren aan bod komen: vervoer, energie, landbouw en gebouwen, staal, textiel, chemie, …
In de Green Deal zijn verschillende maatregelen opgenomen:
- Een Europese klimaatwet
- Een biodiversiteitsstrategie voor 2030
- Een actieplan voor een circulaire economie
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Meer informatie hierover vind je op de website van de Europese Commissie.
Duurzame mobiliteit
Een belangrijk onderdeel van de Green Deal is duurzame mobiliteit. Europa moet de uitstoot van auto’s en andere vervoersmiddelen meer en sneller beperken. Een kwart van de broeikasemissies in de EU wordt veroorzaakt door vervoer. Tegen 2050 moet die uitstoot met 90 % dalen.
Hoe gaat Europa dat doen?
- Verschillende vervoersmiddelen inzetten: meer vrachtvervoer met de trein of boot
- Prijzen die in verhouding zijn met de milieu-impact: subsidies voor fossiele brandstoffen stopzetten, rekeningrijden in EU invoeren, …
- Meer alternatieve brandstoffen: in 2025 zullen ongeveer 1 miljoen laad- en tankstations nodig zijn voor de 13 miljoen emissiearme en –vrije voertuigen op de Europese wegen
Wil jij ook je steentje bijdragen?
Elk van ons draagt mede de verantwoordelijkheid voor hoe het verder met ons klimaat verloopt.
Iedereen kan zelf bijdragen aan de besparing van energie en het verminderen van uitstoot van schadelijke stoffen.
Met de aankoop van producten kunnen wij er op toe zien zo weinig mogelijk vervuilende stoffen te gebruiken, zoals het verpakkingsmateriaal verminderen en plastiek te vermijden.
What Did We Do?
Not even night
brings relief from the heat.
What have we done
when pools boil
in lands where
forests have been slain?
Climates gone haywire
ice caps melting
waves of water wash
life away, pollution the norm.
What have we done?
Across the globe, people
gather to find solutions
to the destruction greed
has caused. Join their voice
start the change wherever you live.
Plant a tree, save water
stop buying that which
contributes to the loss
of this earth’s resources.
Each of us can make a difference.
A Sequoia Adventure: The Captivating Forest of Dreams
When human beings keep denying global warming and shall not be willing to do something against the climate change, then lots of our world its beauty and grandeur, shall be lost for ever.
Let us make sure that more people come to know the beauty we have to protect and safeguard for future generations.
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To remember.
- places in nature to captivate the soul
- Sequoia National Park tucked high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains = a sacred, enchanted place > inflame the imagination in the most stoic of souls.
- Giant Sequoias = mammoths of wood = most massive trees on our planet + many over 3,000 years old + standing steadfast + resilient through all problems between nations that came and went > cfr. Roman Empire > All of the power, dominance, influence, + hubris of a great empire rose + fell in a short span of this tree’s life
- spiritual experience calls one to contemplate the meager existence of our own lives + to reflect on the nature of time + the circle of life.
- to give us a great heaping dose of humility.
- to turn our perspectives upward + outward, + to find peace in the giant flowing river of space & time.
- Sequoia acorn = only about two inches by one inch + containing a little over 200 seeds => potential to become a giant forest in time, outliving many generations + entire civilizations of people.
Some places I wander into in nature captivate my soul in special ways, not just for their beauty and grandeur, but because they whisper into my very being and offer me something that we all need a heavy dose of from time to time, humility. Sequoia National Park was that special place that I recently visited. Tucked high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, it is a sacred, enchanted place that can inflame the imagination in the most stoic of souls. It is a place of wonder and magic that can hardly be put into words, only quietly and humbly felt in the presence of these wondrous ancient giants, the Sequoia trees.
The Giant Sequoias are the most massive trees on our planet. They are almost incomprehensible to behold, staring up from the base of these mammoths of wood. They grow up to 40 feet in diameter, stretch up to…
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Just a thought for this month of Changing colours in Western Europe
The North and West of Belgium may look like a country full of bricks, full of houses with here and there some green trying to stay straight and alive. Where there can be found trees and fields the landscape is changing to red, yellow and golden colours. In the little gardens we may have mushrooms are the living proof we are in fall.
From the Schmidlin Family Farm we hear that at their place, in the Pacific Coast Range of Northern Oregon,
Fall seemed to only last a week this year in the Pacific Northwest.
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the vibrant hues of the trees as the leaves turned from greens to wild splashes of color was only in full display a short while.
Storms that came in from the ocean sent wind and rain driving sideways at times. They lashed at the vegetation and ripped the tender stems of the leaves right off the trees that are drifting into slumber in preparation for the cold ahead. {From Vivid To Bare}
For the moment in Belgium we did not receive our portion of Autumn storms, but the temperature indicators do not seem to know where to go, one day cold the other day warm (? 17° C) for the time of year.
This year in Flemish Brabant the trees started already becoming brown in July (because of the water shortage for two years already), though in the South of France in September we could find lovely green colours and later in October them starting to give way to red, yellow and gold. They want to show the world they are strong and not yet willing to give away the crown they may be in the sky. Whilst mother earth cries unto them they sing their song in the wind, calling for memories and tricking us into lovely walks in nature.
At some places in Europe the birches are master of the surroundings. At the Muir of Dinnet National Nature Reserve it won’t be long until they lose their leaves, so the park strongly advise to get out there now – or we’ll miss the best autumn colours!
Loch Kinord has been looking especially pretty with the yellow birches. There’s just something about reflections on water that makes things extra-beautiful. {Golden Autumn Days – Muir of Dinnet NNR}
How long did we looked forward to sunny and warm days, and how quickly they are gone. Though at for some years, at certain times in Belgium it looked like we only had two seasons, a wet one and a wetter (and colder) season. With global warming we are treated with more extremes, hotter days but also more heavy winds and rainstorms. Some parts in West Europe receive in a few hours the amount of water which would normally fall there in three months. Without any concession, the water takes everything it can grab and drags it along into the depths or miles further to throw it on one large scrap heap. Cleaning up is all what rests for those who could survive the sudden torrent.
Is it not water then there are the flames which love to lick the earth and get tourists flee their resorts of rest. That way the flames get those fleeing people thinking about the drought and how they too are responsible for what is going on with nature which seems to have lost its wheel.
Is it the slow speed by which this year wants to announce the coming Winter, that I may be feeling a little bit down? Or is it my awareness that mankind has not treated his surroundings very well? Is it me feeling like man has lost his connection with mother earth or not willing to take care of it any more?
Though Fall brings us such magnificent colours and when we look at the many blogs and at Instagram, we are treated with an incredible world of magic. But that magical colourful world is something which seems to be far away from the industrialised economical world of West Europe. Most people not receiving enough time to go to the parks and to enjoy the changing nature.
The trees call out and reach to the people down there. But they do not seem to hear or seem not wanting to see. Even when youngsters already for months call those in charge of governments to become aware that we should turn our way of life and have to make serious measure to protect our earth.
Let those voices on the streets in the big cities know that their honest cry is heard, by those who can live in that beautiful nature, which seems to be strangled by industry and by profit-seeking investors. The trees may be leaning in close to encourage another and want to give the people who live around them the lovely sweets of a year of pride standing high above the earth and streaming water. Now
it’s as though
Heaven itself conjoins with Earth. {Encouragement}
Is it not that the youngsters of today could also need some encouragement? Or should they become the driving force to get those older people coming to change their attitude of life? Perhaps the roles have to be switched and in this age it have to be the younger ones to bring the older ones to the senses?
It is just my (feeling down) thought for today.
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Find some Autumn reflections and lovely pictures at
- Encouragement
- Golden Autumn Days – Muir of Dinnet NNR
- virginia hikes: Mount Pleasant loop, October 24 2019
- Fahnestock Flora
- Spectacular Color along the Parkway
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- Air-conditioning treath and HFCs extremely powerful heat-trappers
- Global watershortages and Worsening food security conditions
- June – July 2019
- Stepping forward with public commitments for Making different sectors carbon neutral by 2050
- Reducing effects of environmental disasters
- After the Summer-holiday thinking even more about God’s creation
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65 mayors and top representatives from some of the world’s most prominent cities — including New York, Paris, Stockholm, and Tehran came to the Vatican, whilst the London major send his cat.
Both Tuesday’s workshop, titled “Modern Slavery and Climate Change: The Commitment of the Cities,” and a Wednesday symposium on “Prosperity, People, and Planet: Achieving Sustainable Development in Our Cities,” will be hosted by the Vatican’s Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and underwritten by an Italian donor.
The meetings are cosponsored by the United Nations.
Francis told the mayors at a Vatican summit on climate change and human trafficking that he placed great trust in the United Nations to bring about a good agreement.
Pope Francis said he has “a lot of hope” that negotiators at Paris climate talks will reach an ambitious agreement to reduce global warming.
But he also wants U.N. nations to prioritize fighting both human trafficking and the exploitation of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The Vatican is angling to make sure the U.N.’s new Sustainable Development Goals, to be finalized in September, address the problems of human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did express his discontentment concerning the European Union leaving Italy in the cold. That country can impossibly deal on its own with waves of immigrants coming from North Africa. The EU must come up with a Europe-wide immigration policy.
De Blasio, whose grandparents emigrated from Italy to New York, said he was
“deeply troubled by the lack of action by the European Union and the way that Italy has been left to fend for itself very unfairly.”
The African-American Birmingham Mayor William Bell had a very personal reason for being at the Vatican’s conference on climate change and human slavery.
Today, he told his fellow mayors from around the world:
“At the time of my birth, I was born into a society in Birmingham, Alabama, that existed as a close cousin of slavery called segregation.”
and continued:
“Segregation was designed to exploit individuals and groups based on race and race alone. It was for the economic purpose of cheap labour. It was to control society. It was to control human beings.”
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