Avainsana: climate
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Climate justice and global carbon tax – no free ride in climate matters
People are in a very unequal position in relation to climate change. The carbon footprint of others is ten thousand or even a hundred thousand or a million times compared to other people. For example, the emissions from Amazon’s major owner Jeff Bezos’ short space trip correspond to the annual carbon emissions of all the…
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An activist is not a criminal – Arctic peatlands are at danger and telling that to the public is the right thing to do
Wednesday 25.9. a Swedish environmental activist group Återställ Våtmarker, together with Elokapina/Extinction Rebellion Finland, smeared the columns of the Parliament building with red water-soluble plant-based paint in Helsinki to highlight the destruction of the environment by Arctic peatlands. So the columns were smeared with paint, which could be washed off almost immediately. In a democracy…
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Biodiversity
22 nd May the international UN Biodiversity Day was celebrated. Biodiversity means the diversity of nature. It can be measured as genes, species or different biotopes and ecosystems. Creator or Nature, however you think of it, has created an incredibly diverse and colorful patchwork of ecosystems full of different species. The biosphere covers the entire…
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Global village, a bit fly and diversity – systems and synergy
When two things interact with each other, a system is created. The system of two components is the simplest possible system, for example the Earth and the Moon form a system where they affect each other with their attraction. Compared to this, our entire Solar System is a very complex system with millions of components.…
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The use of nuclear weapons is an absolute limit that Putin cannot cross – the world’s biggest colonialist and 6375 nuclear missiles
The war in Ukraine is about Putin’s Russia’s desire for expansion, aggression and imperialism. In its propaganda, Russia falsely blames the united democratic ”West” and ”globalists” for the conflict. Putin believes that he represents a pluralistic conservative world and that he is fighting against the ”degenerate American West”, whose hallmarks are e.g. liberalism, which is…
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Extreme weather is already commonplace – we need to increase society’s resilience and capacity
Climate warming is based on the fact that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases at the molecular level absorb the sun’s heat. Due to the spatial shape of the molecule, solar radiation energy creates potential energy between atoms as they move away from each other. This is released as movement energy and the movement of…
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