By Michael E. Mann | August 16, 2024
The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.
(Michael E. Mann is presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at The University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author with Peter Hotez of the forthcoming book Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. His most recent book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis.)
December 3 webinar hosted together with the Asia-Europe People's Forum a webinar on Military Spending & Global
(In)Security to discuss how current levels of military spending condition
our global emergencies. Speakers include: Michael T. Klare, Binalakshmi
Nepram, Tarja Cronberg and Walden Bello, and moderators will be Jordi Calvo
and Corazon Valdez Fabros.
The webinar coincides with the presentation of the book edited by GCOMS
coordinator Jordi Calvo "Military Spending and Global Security.
Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives", published on
November 26 by Routledge. The book gives context to the discussion at
hand, reflecting on why people are not well served by nation-states when
they continuously seek to out-compete one another in the size and
destructive powers of their militaries. The webinar deals with the
scope of military spending around the world, while explaining how militarism
is linked with conflict and security threats, and how military spending
further prevent us from adequately dealing with global problems such as
climate change or the covid-19 pandemic.
A Wired article 2019. Nuclear war doesn't have to be big to devastate the world, inducing years of famine and climate catastrophe alongside all that death and radiation.
Robocks föredrag 2015 med referens till bl a Vladimir Alexandrovs forskning om nukleär vinter. Wikipedia-artikel om Alexandrov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Alexandrov
Future of Life institute 31 Oct 2016
Robock: It’s really hard to get people’s attention, though. It’s a really depressing topic. When I’m asked to go give a talk somewhere I say I want to talk about this. “Well, could you maybe talk about something else?” And, as Mark Twain said, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. It’s really hard to listen to this, it just hurts and people pretend it doesn’t exist and somebody else is going to take care of the problem. But I work a lot on global warming, which is a real problem that’s threatening us, much more slowly than this, it’s not instant climate change, it’s gradual climate change. We’ve got to solve this nuclear problem so we have the luxury of worrying about global warming.
Jan Öberg 25.9.19: "...entire systems approaching existential breakdown – and not because of foreign adversaries but because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique: systems so worn out and tired (of itself, too) that the don’t have the energy needed for re-vitalization.
By M.V.Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, 7 Nov, 2018. Ottawa is pushing a new smaller, modular nuclear plant (SMR) that could only pay off if mass produced.
Chomsky: "It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their history – whether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we know – and are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster. Similar observations hold for the other huge issue concerning human survival, the threat of nuclear destruction that has been looming over our heads for 70 years, and is now increasing."
"Phil Radford was arrested with six other Greenpeace activists who unfurled a giant banner from a construction crane in Washington D.C. near a state-department meeting of ministers from the largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations. Inside the Major Economi
Le président Sarkozy n’a-t-il fait de l'exportation de la technologie nucléaire française une de ses priorités diplomatiques et commerciales ? Si la conférence de Copenhague débouche sur un traité (peu probable) ou des engagements politiques fermes sur le
Terrapower. 13 February 2010. "Today we are always refueling the reactor so lot of controls and lots of things that can go wrong," Gates said. "That is not good. With this, you have a piece of fuel, think of it like a log, that burns for 60 years and it
"Our latest work (this link includes all our recent papers and PowerPoints) shows that even a "small" regional nuclear conflict could have severe global climatic effects, and that there are still enough nuclear weapons in global arsenals to produce nuclea