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part 2 of the above posted naked capitalism “series”:
Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/the-u-s-burn-it-all-down-strategy.htmlone link pulled from that text:
Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell Chronicle October 3, 2024Never gave a thought to chocolate before, until I read this article just now (from October last year):
The Bitter Truth Behind Chocolate’s Rising Prices
https://countertalk.co.uk/the-bitter-truth-behind-chocolates-rising-prices/Being a chocolate “person” I was reading the FT a year ago predicting higher prices. (Same for coffee this year.)
Of course if one gets real chocolate from real people it has nothing to do with any consumer product or so-called high-end brands from Turin or French “labels”.
Unless you know the people whose plants provide for the chocolate you are in the dark as info on exploitation goes.
The price hike now is totally a profitmaking scheme by commodity trade markets.In Germany the usual consumer products have doubled in price. So-called fair products less but still major increases.
We are soon back in the era when silk, chocolate or vanilla were luxury items.I never thought I would note with approval any activity by Tony Blair, but I do so now. It is only at the base level of support for the “enemy of my enemy”, but I welcome his recent comments.
I am not surprised that he is being presented as ‘walking back’ in one way or another, his criticisms of NetZero. But the truth is he has put the knife in the ecopath lobby.I suspect the timing is not accidental, I also suspect he had another agenda in his back pocket. I’m also sure that he has been pushing more than mere caution on NetZero for some time, been stymied, but has now got attention off the powers that be in the Labour Party hierarchy. Miliband needs to check his pension plan is neat and tidy.
Following on from the Supreme Court decision defining what sex is, this action brings down another ‘woke’ item in the UK. The climate ecopaths need to rewrite their wills and make sure their funeral shrouds are put in the dry cleaners, this is a serious blow to their nonsense…_
Have studied the document from the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change. The first chapter is where all Tony Blair’s current headlines emanate from. He calls it a “foreword” However, it has all the hallmarks that it might be the last word on the NetZero malarkey.
All he is doing is attempting to replace the more deranged supporters of climate crisis, with less deranged activists.
All the old shibboleths are there, it’s just that this time the article has been run past a Marks and Spencer AI bot.
The way this PR exercise has been handled has blown up in his face, the old memes don’t appear to work anymore. It’s been perceived as an attack on NetZero, not a reboot…_Read for yourselves…_
https://institute.global/insights/climate-and-energy/the-climate-paradox-why-we-need-to-reset-action-on-climate-changeDigger, thanks for the link. I got a little bored about half way through reading it but I’ll finish it another day. I’m not sure what I think of it yet but I did note references to as yet undeveloped tech such as carbon capture/storage, nuclear fusion (as opposed to fission) and AI grid management.
I’m enjoying the weather in London today with a few pints. May 1st, the weather “woke” up. 😎
ps. Couldn’t resist…
