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Shortage and high prices mean #hunger #starvation #death + trade deficit leading to currency depreciation forcing higher interest payments depriving necessary expenditure on #health exactly when #aid has been gutted.
www.ft.com/content/3634...
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Can this be called what it is - a #genocide perpetrated by the #US #Israel on #poor countries of the world who depend on the #MiddleEast for #fertilizer necessary for #agriculture #food production?
More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.
creating this situation where the #war in #Ukraine and #Iran is causing #oil #gas prices to rise and driving the entire #world to embrace #cleanenergy
We must prevail over the assholes!
#climate #climatechange
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Pull the lens wider - the rise of #BernieSanders in 2016 followed by the #GreenNewDeal movement in 2018 which led to the #IRA by #Biden probably forced #China to accelerate manufacturing and deployment of #solar #batteries #EV
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Lots of new connections. Hence, a re-introduction to a hopeful story, "A New Faith," available to read online or download (EPUB and PDF) for free at: tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #women #climate
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Blurb - Alia, a precocious police detective, is feverishly hunting the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in the city of Sequoia located within the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.
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The city was, specifically, created for millions of climate refugees in the aftermath of a catastrophic heat wave. Then the second one happens. The only similarity between the two victims threatens the very future of Sequoia. The killer is willing to go to any lengths to avoid capture.
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As Alia races against time to save the city, she discovers a deadly secret which turns her life upside down. Will she solve the two murders? Will the city survive?
#booksky #books #book #novel #story #fiction #hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #women #climate #mystery
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From the back flap -
A fair bit of global warming is already baked in even if we manage to quickly bring down future GHG emissions. The effects of climate change are being felt in catastrophic ways in many places around the world.
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How we adapt to those impacts will be a major preoccupation for the rest of our lives and beyond. Adaptation would require efforts to help people survive in their existing homes and/or help people relocate to more habitable environments.
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In this novel, set in the near future, I explore a world in which a large number of people move away from dangerous places to a safer one. In an era of draconian restrictions on migration, this story attempts to explore several challenging questions -
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will the climate migrants be allowed to settle down in relatively safer places? How many will be allowed to do so? Who will be allowed? Under what conditions? How will the migrants cope with the massive transition? Will they take the good and bad aspects of their current lives to the new land?
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Or will they develop new ways of peaceful living? Will the rest of the world allow them to live in peace?
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#Author bio -
For more than two decades, I have worked in the field of #environment, #energy, and #climate change. I have drawn on a variety of disciplines such as science, engineering, economics, politics, and law.
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I have served in different roles including analyst, communicator, trainer/lecturer, facilitator, and advisor. I have authored numerous journal articles, technical reports, and book chapters.
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Comparable novels -
Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”
Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”
Steven Markley’s “The Deluge”
Jens Liljestrand’s “Even if Everything Ends”
Amitav Ghosh’s “Gun Island”
Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”
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When all the chapters were published, I made it all available for free to the public. And that helped. A LOT! Many readers tried out and some may have even finished it. A request for the latter - please write a short review.
tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #book #fiction #solarpunk
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#subscription sucks. I know - I tried it with my first #novel "A New Faith". It was just $1 per month when I published 2-3 chapters each week. Didn't work except a few kind folks.
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This could be a powerful idea - the #poor nations of the world figuring out how they will deal w/ #climatechange w/o having to waste time w/ the rich nations. Of course, the decent rich nations (and/or their states/provinces/regions) can join this group.
coveringclimatenow.org/projects/a-b...
"80–89% of the world's people want their governments to take stronger climate action. They have been a silent majority, but also a silenced majority."
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #media #socialmedia #journalism
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is just a remarkable change - #worldbank is now touting #industrial #policy instead of #markets
Wow!! How the world has changed!
#economics #politics #elections #democracy #macroeconomics #microeconomics
www.oecd.org/en/data/insi...
"Bilateral ODA fell by 26.4% to USD 126.4 billion, while multilateral ODA declined by 12.7% to USD 47.9 billion. Within bilateral ODA, grants recorded a much sharper decrease (-29.1%) than loans (-10.3%)."
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In the US, the smaller and poorer states hold disproportionately more power in the #Senate and #ElectoralCollege
Which one is right?
#democracy #elections #voters #power
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An interesting contrast about two #democracies - #US Vs #India : a constitutional amendment proposed in India seeks to expand the legislature and ensure population-based representation. And the southern states (smaller population but wealthier) to oppose it as unfair.
#democracy #elections
www.ft.com/content/b35d...
" #US #oil #exports surged to a record last week as #Asia and #Europe buyers rushed to replace #MiddleEast crude lost because of disruption caused by the #Iran #war '
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
This is how it is done - #US #oil #gas companies bought #politicians for less than $1B in the 2024 #election cycle and have made billions in extra profits thanks to the #war which has also gutted their major competitors in the #MiddleEast increasing their market share
Try as they might, renewables are gaining momentum.
"Last month, fossil fuels generated less electricity than in any March going back at least 25 years, while renewables generated more."
e360.yale.edu/digest/us-re...
It’s a brilliant tax because when they say “but the billionaires will leave” you get to say “they already don’t live there”