Catastrophe is upon us – the grim view from Southern Africa
I wonder whether we can still halt our ‘current descent into barbarism’. Is it a war rich against poor?
28 January 2020 — Global Ecosocialist Network
Rehad Desai
The word catastrophe is being used more and more by institutions reporting on the effects of extreme weather in the two regions of Africa, Southern and South Eastern Africa, and of late Australia. The word means a number of things: tragic; fiasco; utter failure; sudden and violent change in a feature of the Earth. All are completely fitting for the situation we now face.
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A Valentine’s Day Poem
Today is Valentine’s Day so here’s a little poem to celebrate it.
Not everybody is naturally romantic. yet, relationships can be loving and fulfilling regardless of that fact. Don’t confuse romance with real love.
Despite not being particularly romantic in the way of bringing flowers etc,. my husband of 54 years shows his love in a million other ways. He’s always here, calls me his best friend, keeps me supplied with coffee, tea, breakfast, and lunch, looks after the garden, and considers me in everything he does. In return, I keep the house and all the gadgets in it clean, wash and iron our clothes, make our evening meal, and also help out in the garden. That’s the type of love I wouldn’t swap for anything.
What is your ideal type of love? Describe it in a comment below.
Cuba in the Struggle Against Coronavirus Epidemic
8 February 2020 — Internationalist 360°
Cuba’s biotechnological industry developed the antiviral recombinant Interferon alpha 2B (IFNrec) to combat viral infections affecting patients with HIV, hepatitis B and C,recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, condyloma acuminatum, as well as various types of cancer. Now, China’s National Health Commission selected IFNrec to fight the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which appeared in the city of Wuhan at the end of last year and as of Friday had left 722 deaths and more than 34 thousand people infected.
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Chinese Doctors Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus
I find this interesting!
Medical workers attend to patients in Wuhan, Hubei province, China Feb. 5, 2020. | Photo: Reuters
Telesur
Cuba produces one of the most potent medicines for the treatment of immunological diseases.
The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is being used by Chinese doctors to treat patients infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has affected more than 28,000 people and has killed 564 patients worldwide.
Since Jan. 25, the ChangHeber Company located in Changchun city has been producing the famous Cuban antiviral, which is one of 30 medicines chosen by the National Health Commission for its potential to cure respiratory diseases.
Currently, IFNrec is applied against HIV-related infections, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, genital warts, and hepatitis types B and C. It is also effective in therapies against different types of cancer.
ChangHeber, Biotech, and Changchun Heber Biological Technology are three companies that have joined forces within…
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The last month of 2016
Again, some reblogging!
This is part of Wollongong Hospital. I took this picture on Sat. 10th of Dec 2016
On Friday, 9th Dec, Peter had been admitted to the hospital. We were allowed to accompany him to this Holding Bay before he went to the operating theatre.
The 9th of Dec was Caroline’s birthday. Since we were not allowed to see Peter for some time, we took the chance to all go out for some lunch in Wollongong, sort of like a birthday lunch for Caroline.
Soon after lunch we went back to the hospital and found out that Peter was doing all right. The procedure had been going as well as expected. (In the meantime we found out that Peter has to undergo the same procedure another time in a few months.)
The following day, Saturday, Caroline and I went to visit Peter in hospital. This was the day when Caroline had…
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Uta’s 2017 February Diary, (continued for the 2nd time)
Another reblog about Peter’s disease
After about two hours in the Day Surgery waiting room Peter was taken to one of the Holding Bays. I was allowed to go with him.
Peter’s things were put at the end of his bed.
Peter had been given a hospital gown to change into. The nurse took Peter’s blood pressure and put some stockings on him.
At 1,15 pm Peter was taken into the Operating Theatre and I had to leave. Peter had had no food and no drink, not even water, since 9,20 the night before! He could have consumed something till midnight, but he chose to go to bed early.
I had had a bit of breakfast before we left at 9 am. I welcomed the chance to go for some lunch when Peter went into surgery. I took a bus down to the Mall and went up Keira Street to the Indian Restaurant where we…
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Uta’s Diary, December 2016
I am sorry to say, Peter is in great pain right now. We ask ourselves is it the cancer that is spreading through his body. A bit over three years ago Peter went to hospital for the first time. This reblog says a bit about this hospital admission in December 2016.
Peter went into hospital on Friday, the 9th, and was allowed to go home on Sunday, the 11th. On Monday Caroline took another day of carer’s leave. This was a great help to us. Peter is going to see his urologist on the 9th of January. An earlier appointment was not possible.
Tuesday and Wednesday were extremely hot days. But Wednesday afternoon there was a change: It became much cooler, and later on it started to rain. It is still raining now, a nice steady rain. After yesterday’s very hot and later on cooler wind, there is no wind today, which makes the rain very pleasant.
Peter and I went to see a GP yesterday. Daughter Monika drove us there. We could not see our regular GP. We both needed a prescription, which another doctor then gave to us. It was no problem. Next week Peter’s GP is back from…
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Paul Kelly – Sleep Australia Sleep
Climate Catastrophe. We are in the Third World War – the War Against Climate Change
Doug Lowe:
“Why are we in a climate crisis? It is a crisis and a catastrophe because we and our governments are not prepared to take the climate emergency action required to re-engineer our economies to defeat climate change now, or tomorrow or maybe by 2050 when it really will be too little too late. They, the scientists, are telling us that even if we don’t build another coal fired power station, the world is still on target to warm by at least 3 degrees C. by the end of this century. And at the 3 degree C level, by the end of the century, coastal cities around the world will have to be abandoned which means 700 million people will lose their homes. Do we need any more reasons to be terrified about the future for our civilization. Well I will give you more reasons… what about this? Even at 1.5 degrees C which is where we are now, we are already seeing that the world, not just Australia, from the Arctic to the tropics is on fire. Hurricanes and typhoons are breaking records for size and destructive power. There is catastrophic flooding on an unprecedented scale. But even small countries like Borneo are encouraging the destruction of their primeval forests together with hundreds of their animal species and replacing them with sterile palm oil plantations. Not only are the forests being destroyed but it is scientifically proven that forests generate rainfall and continuous forests make rivers of rainfall. Destroy the forests and you create rainfall deserts. So what does Brazil do? They chop down hundreds of square miles of the Amazon rain forest every year and these are the lungs and rainmakers of the world. Instead of being custodians of the planet’s precious resources, they and the likes of them defiantly take delight in destroying it. and what do the world’s governments do? They strongly insist on their right burn ever more hydrocarbons to fuel their economies. Every nation insists it has the right to destroy their bit of the planet and it is nobody else’s business. Well – sorry – but it is our business, it is my business, it is your business, and above all it is your children’s and your grandchildren’s business no matter where you are on our small planet it is your business because it is our planet that we are all destroying. And we can and must do something about it. This is what we can do: We can declare war on the governments of the world. We can declare that this is the Third World War against the destroyers of our planet. Every politician who lamely claims that it will cost jobs and hurt the economy is guilty of climate war crimes. Their legacy will be destruction of our civilisation. And that surely is treason. And that is why we are already in the Third World War, The war against the destruction of our civilization. So I ask you: What do governments do when they are under an existential threat of extinction? Think of the Second World War. What did the British government do? Well , they mobilised all of the resources of the country for the war effort. They re-engineered their industries to make them focus on the war. And they succeeded. And so we must. They did not say mmm leave it to 30 years time. Why not? Because by then the British way of life would have been long extinguished just like ours will be, if we don’t do it now. They did it in 6 years. The British with the help of their Allies destroyed the enemy in 6 years. And using some of the world’s huge and wasteful military budget WE can do it again. We can mobilise the nations of the world to win the climate war in 6 years. But to do that – to save our planet, we have to convert our global economy from a fossil fuel economy to an electrical / hydrogen economy and we must do it in 6 years to stop and then to reverse global warming. If every country in the world diverts only 10% of military spending equal to $200 billion US dollars, that will be enough to turbocharge the green revolution. That will be enough money to build sufficient wind turbines in one year to provide enough green electricity to power every household in the USA So how can we force governments to take this action now. There is only one answer and that is people power Governments, even dictatorships can only stay in power so long as allow them to. We can change their minds. We can change their minds by peacefully marching on every city and town centre and parliament building and by filling them with people on the first day of every month until they are defeated. if we do it in our millions around the world together on the first day of every month, we shall win the climate war, the Third World War. Failure is not an option. Failure is the extinction of our civilisation All of the money raised will go to boosting this campaign.”
Climate Catastrophe – We are Already in the Third World War against Climate Change
This is the reason for my crowd funded project. I have made a home produced YouTube video which you can view here:
Unless we pay Google to promote this video it will rapidly disappear from sight amongst all of the others shouting for attention. All of the money raised is aimed at spending at least £1000 per month on making sure it is right at the top of the Google YouTube play lists. That way, you can help to mobilise the people of the world quickly to take action to force governments to act NOW using PEOPLE POWER before it is too late
Everybody is shouting about global warming but the gap between words shouted from the rooftops and action by governments is still a gaping void. Governments are notoriously good at making excuses for doing nothing and notoriously bad at taking the big decisions which are needed to save our planet
So that is why are we in a climate catastrophe. It is a catastrophe because we and our governments are not prepared to take the emergency action required to re-engineer our economies to defeat CLIMATE CHANGE now, not tomorrow or maybe by 2050 when it really will be too little too late.
They, the scientists, are telling us that even if we don’t build another coal fired power station, the world is STILL on target to warm by at least 3 degrees C. by the end of this century. And at the 3 degree C level, by the end of the century, coastal cities around the world will have to be abandoned which means 700 million people will lose their homes.
Do we need any more reasons to be terrified about the future for our civilisation. Well I will give you more reasons… what about this?
Even at 1.5 degrees C which is where we are now, we are already seeing that the world, not just Australia, from the Arctic to the tropics is on fire. Hurricanes and typhoons are breaking records for size and destructive power. There is catastrophic flooding on an unprecedented scale.
But even small countries like Borneo are encouraging the destruction of their primeval forests together with hundreds of their animal species and replacing them with sterile palm oil plantations.
Not Only are the forests being destroyed but it is scientifically proven that forests generate rainfall and continuous forests make rivers of rainfall. Destroy the forests and you create rainfall deserts.
So what does Brazil do? They chop down hundreds of square miles of the Amazon rain forest every year and these are the LUNGS and RAINMAKERS of the world. Instead of being CUSTODIANS of the planet’s precious resources, they and the likes of them defiantly take delight in destroying it.
AND what do the world’s governments do? They defiantly insist on their right burn ever more hydrocarbons to fuel their economies. Every nation insists it has the right to destroy their bit of the planet and it is nobody else’s business.
WELL – SORRY – BUT IT IS OUR BUSINESS, IT IS MY BUSINESS, it is your business, and above all it is your children’s and your grandchildren’s business NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE on our small planet it is your business because it is OUR PLANET THAT WE ARE ALL ARE DESTROYING.
AND we CAN AND MUST do something about it. This is what we can do: We can declare war on the governments of the world. We can declare that this is the THIRD WORLD WAR against the destroyers of our planet.
Every politician who lamely claims that it will cost jobs and hurt the economy is guilty of war crimes. Their legacy will be destruction of our civilisation. AND that surely is treason.
And that is why we are already in the THIRD WORLD WAR, The war against the destruction of our civilisation.
SO I ASK YOU: What do governments do when they are under an existential threat of extinction? Think of the SECOND WORLD WAR. WHAT DID THE British government do?
Well….. they mobilised ALL of the resources of the country for the war effort. They re-engineered their industries to make them focus on the war. They spent hugely on re-directing the nation’s resources to defeating the enemy. AND THEY SUCCEEDED. AND SO WE SHALL.
They did not say mmm . . leave it to 30 years time. Why not? Because by then the British way of life would have been extinguished just like ours will be if we don’t do it NOW.
They did it in 6 years. The British with the help of their Allies destroyed the enemy in 6 years. And using some of the world’s huge and wasteful military budget WE can do it again.
We can mobilise the nations of the world to win the climate war in 6 years. But to do that – to save our planet, we have to convert our global economy from a fossil fuel economy to an electrical / hydrogen economy and we must do it in 6 years to stop and then to reverse global warming.
If every country in the world NOW diverts only 10% of military spending equal to $200 billion US dollars, that will be enough to turbocharge the green revolution and make it happen. That will be enough money to build sufficient wind turbines in one year to provide enough electricity to power every household in the USA
So how can we force governments to take this action NOW. There IS ONLY ONE answer and that is PEOPLE POWER.
Governments, even dictatorships can only stay in power so long as the people – you and me allow them to. We can change their minds. We can change their minds by marching on every city and town centre and parliament building and by filling them with people ON THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY MONTH UNTIL THEY ARE DEFEATED. By peaceful protest if we do it in our millions around the world together on the first day of every month we shall win the THIRD WORLD WAR.
Failure is not an option. Failure is the extinction of our civilisation.
By joining with my project and making a small contribution towards raising enough money to fund a £12,000 Google YouTube campaign we can help to mobilise the Eco Warriors of the world. The more you contribute the greater and quicker will be our success.
Thank you
Doug Lowe
To help promote this YouTube video campaign to a world wide audience please donate now here https://chuffed.org/project/climate-c…
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