water security

Defies logic’

Biden blathers about the “horror of the Shoah” whilst enabling genocide in Gaza…

“My dad taught us about the horror of the Shoah,” Biden explained last month at a Hanukkah celebration, repeating a well-worn tale. “It awakened in me and my brothers and sisters and our children a sense … that this can happen again.”
On other occasions, Biden said his father – a
“righteous Christian” – instilled in him the importance of Israel as a bulwark against threats to the Jewish people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/1/30/defies-logic-the-makings-of-joe-bidens-blank-cheque-to-israel

Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way

Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way | Scientific American

Water is life. That’s why we need to take care of it. Even plentiful water supplies are moot if they are undrinkable. Climate change, pollution and growing populations only add to the urgency of maintaining adequate water supplies and water quality for humanity.

After doing archaeology for 35 years in Belize, focusing on the ancestral Maya, I have learned a great deal about living sustainably with water. I’ve learned that they lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them. We must.

(https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cleaning-water-naturally-the-ancient-maya-way/)

Help Combat the Fossil Fuel and Defence Industries: Save Our Home Planet

“ECOCIDE”

is a word to describe what is happening to our planet; the mass damage and destruction of the natural living world. It literally means “killing one’s home”.
And right now, in most of the world, no-one is held responsible.

It’s time to change the rules. It’s time to protect our home.

We are working, together with a growing global network of lawyers, diplomats, and across all sectors of civil society, towards making ecocide an international crime.

https://www.stopecocide.earth/#

The Cost of Doing Nothing :: or Building Up Resilience In Communities

 

 

In its latest report, The Cost of Doing Nothing, the IFRC presents an analysis showing that if no urgent action is taken now, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance annually due to the climate crisis could double by 2050. Similarly, financial costs could balloon to 20 billion US dollars per year.

 

In contrast with this pessimistic scenario, the report also shows that, if appropriate climate adaptation measures are taken now, these figures could also stabilize, and even drop. By investing in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction – building up resilience in communities, countries and regions at risk – and by improving early warning and anticipatory humanitarian action, the world can avoid a future marked by escalating suffering and ballooning response costs.

 

G20 Big pledge to triple renewables

G20 pledge to triple renewables

JOINT DECLARATION: After months of wrangling, the Indian G20 presidency managed to secure a joint leaders’ declaration this week. The text included a pledge to “pursue and encourage efforts” to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, the Associated Press reported. The global goal, widely understood to mean 11,000 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, is “vital” to keeping 1.5C within reach, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in July. IEA chief Dr Fatih Birol told DeBriefed it was a “good step, but far from enough” (see Spotlight).

https://bit.ly/3RpVE6v