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The UN sees a climate catastrophe on the horizon but what are they doing about it?

Some UK neighbourhoods are now leafier than national parks, a paint was invented to tackle climate change and more
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The arts can inspire people to engage with the climate crisis. We meet three people driving positive change in UK culture
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It almost seems like environmental issues are being used as an excuse to push for certain policies that would otherwise never see the light of day.

Rod DREHER
The New York Post had a big scoop today:

Rarely are geopolitical events innocently coincidental, as an old saying goes. Let’s look at a few recent upheavals. First we have the renewed pressure on Germany and Europe to abandon the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline from Russia, which the strange Navalny affair and his alleged poison-assassination conveniently gives cover to what would otherwise be an unprecedented backsliding on strategic energy trade.
Then we have the resurgence in armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

During this US Election season we’re hearing a lot of toggling back and forth over the a policy being touted by Democrats as a “Green New Deal” – a radical plan to empty trillions of dollars from pension funds to spend on ‘investing in green technology.’ We’re told it will stop climate change, and somehow save humanity from mass-extinction. But is it really that simple? And who will pay for it?

IMAGE: Iranian supertanker “Honey” seen docked recently at Venezuela’s José Terminal. (Source: TankerTrackers.com)
Antiwar.com reports…

Conn M. HALLINAN
During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing first in China and North India, the “Black Death” (Yersinia pestis) radiated throughout the Mediterranean and into Northern Europe. It may well have killed close to half the world’s population, some 50 million people.
Covid-19 is not the Black Death, but its impact may be civilizational, weakening the mighty, raising up the modest, and rearranging axes of power across the globe.

In January 2018 I advanced the hypothesis that U.S. President Trump understood that the only way to “Make American Great Again” was to disentangle it from the imperial mission that had it stuck in perpetual wars. I suggested that the cutting of this “Gordian Knot of entanglements” was difficult, even impossible, to accomplish from his end and that he understood that the cutting could only come from the other side.