Environment
Thursday 25 April 2024
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“The US gov’t is stunned that Niger is kicking the US military out of the country. Officials from AFRICOM and Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) express alarm that without the airbase in Niger, the U.S. will not be able to assert its ‘interests’ in Africa.”
U.S. officials say that the United States is continuing talks with Nigerien officials, has not withdrawn any of U.S. military personnel from Niger and does not rule out a continued U.S. military presence there. -
“Thanks to Russian security support, ‘Peace returns to the Central African Republic.”
Hostilities in Central African Republic (CAR) are ongoing, with some 10,000 children fighting in armed conflicts among various rebel groups. Russia’s involvement with CAR’s leadership is replete with corruption, misappropriation of natural resources, mass violence and human rights abuses. -
“Free supplies of Russian grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic have made a significant contribution to the fight against hunger in Africa.”
The claim that Russia's 200,000 tons of grain would significantly contribute to fighting hunger in Africa is misleading because of the scope of the hunger problem and because Moscow has worsened the problem by backing out of the Black Sea grain deal. -
“Left: Subway in New York, USA
Right: Subway in Guangzhou, China
But don't worry... U.S. politicians have it under control. They will send Ukraine and Israel billions more while giving illegal migrants free health care. That should do the trick!"
Source: X, Feb 19, 2024The New York City Subway budget is not dependent on U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel. Undocumented immigrants in NYC get free emergency and prenatal health care, everything else is conditional. -
“For the developed countries, historically speaking, they have been polluting much more than the developing countries, they should do more to mitigate the climate change impact.”
The U.N. assesses China’s development rank as high. It’s also one of the world’s top three polluters, the other two being the United States and India. -
“…the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago has been a huge success and is now a widely recognized major international public goods.”
The Belt and Road Initiative has been largely successful in increasing China’s influence on the international stage, yet scientists and environmentalists warn the initiative could have immediate biophysical impacts and cause irreversible environmental damage. -
“President Irfaan Ali, enough of lies and of trying to hide the historical truth that weighs on the dispute over the Essequibo territory, whose only means of resolution, as you well know, is the Geneva Agreement of 1966.”
Guyana is adhering to the Geneva Agreement of 1966 in trying to resolve the dispute over Essequibo through the United Nations International Court of Justice. -
“To say they [Chinese press outlets and social media users] ‘made up or spread disinformation’ is completely unfounded. If anyone was ‘making up or spreading disinformation’, it would be The New York Times, not them.”
At least five organizations that are authoritative in cybersecurity have independently verified that the Chinese government has created a massive network of social media users tasked with sowing discord in the United States. -
Large lightning appears before earthquake in Morocco with unknown causes.
Social media users leverage videos of flashing lights in Morocco, some faked, to falsely pin Morocco earthquake on a U.S. weather weapon. -
“Japan has primarily focused its efforts on sensationalizing the issue of ‘safety of Japanese individuals in China’. … This is aimed at shifting the international spotlight away from the issue of nuclear pollution into the sea. ... This is about Japan committing a harmful act against all of humanity.”
Tokyo’s release of treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has led to acts of harassment of Japanese citizens in China. Meanwhile, scientific studies suggest the release of the diluted radioactive wastewater will have a negligible effect on the oceanic environment. -
"Now, criticism over the government’s lack of precautions and lack of rescue efforts might not be based on facts. For the most part, people are just venting."
Chinese netizens’ criticism is focused on the government’s decision to deliberately open flood gates and spillways causing devastation in seven low-lying flood control zones in Hebei province to prevent rivers in Beijing from overflowing. -
“According to estimation, the average annual emission of carbon dioxide caused by forest fires in China from 2000-2021 was approximately 15 million tons, only account for 0.2 percent of the global forest fire emissions, demonstrating China's responsible role as a major country. "
China is responsible for more than a quarter of global pollution and is the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The low emission from wildfires is not indicative of China’s role in climate change, as wildfires pose the lowest environmental risk in the country.