With governments and banksters basically being the same motley outfit, is it strange the system seems running on its last legs? And that the chasm between highest and lowest earners is back to record levels, on a par with the 19th century?#ClimateAction#ForNature
We must work towards fair distribution of entitlement to the earth's purchasable goods. Clinging to gold, once thought to have intrinsic value because it came from the sun, looks to me to be an embarrassing step backwards in evolutionary time.#ClimateAction#VoteBlue
Wading unto the breach and armed with the knowledge of how close capitalism came to a system failure in 2008, they have fired the “big bazookas” of monetary policy, pumping trillions of dollars into the world’s giant pool of money, effectively creating wealth out of nothing.
Creating wealth out of nothing (!) If only. That'll be the day. This of course is the modern economics necromancy, black magic, conjurers tricks. This was a situation that the Fed created not solved. Printing green paper does not necessarily make a society wealthy.#ClimateAction
Only the production of physical goods and services does that. Paper money is only a means of circulation or a unit of account, it is not a source of value. If it were all that would be needed is to print the stuff and give everyone a million Dollars, #ClimateAction
no make that two million, no five million. And of course we wouldn't have to go to work, just sit around and wait for the next helicopter drop.#VoteBlue#ClimateAction
Capitalism didn't come 'close' to a 'system failure' in 2008 - it resolutely failed. The bond markets froze. Without unlimited public guarantee, everything would have been trading thereafter at pennies on the Dollar.#UniversalBasicIncome#ClimateAction#VoteBiden
All of the funny money edifices are about to come tumbling down once again.
It is now impossible to get a 90 per cent mortgage because the lenders know the housing market is about to get a Big hit. #coronavirus#ClimateAction#ForNature
Negative equity all round means nobody but the mega rich can move, which means not buying new furniture, carpets etc.
You would have to be mad to invest in property at least for this year and probably next. #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare#BidenHarris#ClimateAction
"effectively creating wealth out of nothing" Yes and when it is time to balance the books, it is the taxpayer that foots the bill. Nice little scheme they have got. Now is the time to end this daylight robbery and put all banks, reserve and high-street, back into public ownership
But no, they are going to try and lend you even more money so you have to doubly foot the bill for this shambles. #Climateaction
Central banks have pumped money into the economy, but it’s no substitute for democracy
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But democracy doesn't feed people or keep their businesses afloat, especially when it's a democracy subordinated to speculative interests. #coronavirus#ClimateAction
Democracy and morality is dead in the US at the moment.
The life of a wolf is a rough one – in a pack or solo – and there are many reasons a young, healthy wolf could die. She could have been kicked in the head by a deer while hunting. She could have choked on the liver of a raccoon, which happened to a wolf in Yellowstone.
She could have been hit by a car. Or she could have been killed by a poacher.🤬
Gray wolves are covered under both the Federal Endangered Species Act, as well as the California Endangered Species Act
A young female gray wolf bid goodbye to her family, left home and crossed the state line into California to find love.
The scaly-foot snail is one of Earth’s strangest creatures. It lives more than 2,300 metres below the surface of the sea on a trio of deep-sea hydro thermal vents at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. #climateaction@WeDontHaveTime#ForNature
Here it has evolved a remarkable form of protection against the crushing, grim conditions found at these Stygian depths. It grows a shell made of iron. Discovered in 1999, the multi-layered iron sulphide armour of Chrysomallon squamiferum #climateaction@WeDontHaveTime#ForNature
– which measures a few centimetres in diameter – has already attracted the interest of the US defense department, whose scientists are now studying its genes in a bid to discover how it grows its own metal armour. @WeDontHaveTime#ForNature
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Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources😡
Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands😡
Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump😡
The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.
Clean water protections strengthened under the Obama administration have long been targeted by Donald Trump, who has called it a “very destructive and horrible rule”. #climateaction@WeDontHaveTime#fornature
Apparently #Covid19 can live on paper for up to 36 hours, maybe somebody could invent a UV lamps to irradiate letterboxes as the envelope is posted.
In the US there are trials going on of robotic UV lamps which can kill all bacteria in a hotel room after each guest
leaves, they would probably be good idea too for care homes.
Corona just illustrates, what had been visible to the naked eye for much longer. The "rich" west measure the worth of a human life (or rest life) for money for some time now.
From a purely what we could do standpoint, some million of people could be still alive, if we would put
"They have exposed our societies to diseases for which no immunity has yet developed."
Errr... we need to have encountered a disease in order to have had the opportunity to develop immunity to it.
So this does not make the emergence of new pathogens by this route any different to the emergence by any other route even though it may well be accelerating the rate of emergence of new pathogens
I also have a problem with the idea that simply coming into contact with more species is really that significant except perhaps because we have been living in man made protected zones with very little contact with wildlife for some time.
The Con Don and his democracy-destroying brethren in OUR United States of America
is trying to squelch absentee voting because too many people might vote against him. He is threatening to hold funding for OUR U.S. postal service to prevent it.
An absentee ballot doesn't have to be mailed. Voters can drop the completed ballot in a secure, drive in ballot
receptacle at their county headquarters and other designated places in their area.