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  • xi_simping [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from June 17th to June 23rd, 2024 - Macron's Gambit - COTW: FranceEnglish
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    15 days ago

    UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left

    Droughts and flooding have become so common in some of the poorest places on Earth that the land can no longer sustain crops, the director of the World Food Programme’s global office has said.

    Martin Frick told the BBC that some of the most deprived areas had now reached a tipping point of having “zero” harvests left, as extreme weather was pushing already degraded land beyond use.

    He said that as a result, parts of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America were now dependent on humanitarian aid.

    Mr Frick warned that without efforts to reverse land degradation globally, richer countries would also begin to suffer crop failures.

    The Global Environment Facility estimates that 95% of the world’s land could become degraded by 2050. The UN says that 40% is already degraded.

    When soil degrades, the organic matter that binds it together dies off. This means that it is less able to support plant life – reducing crop yields – and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

    Soil is the second largest carbon sink after the oceans, and is recognised by the UN as a key tool for mitigating climate change.

    “There’s too much carbon in the air and too little carbon in the soils,” Mr Frick said. “With every inch of soil that you’re growing, you’re removing enormous amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere.

    “So healthy soils – carbon-rich soils – are a prerequisite to fixing climate change.”

    Land degradation can be caused by modern farming techniques removing organic content from soil, but also prolonged droughts interspersed with sudden, extreme rainfall.

    Scientists say many extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change.

    While it is hard to link climate change to specific droughts, scientists have said global warming has made certain ones, like the recent one in East Africa, more likely.

    Mr Frick said that in Burundi, in East Africa, months of heavy rain and flooding had damaged 10% of its farmland, making it unusable for the upcoming harvest season.

    He pointed to a UN report, released in March, which found that cereal crops in the Darfur region of Sudan were 78% below the average for the previous five years amid civil war and drought.

  • xi_simping [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Explain bidets for me please.English
    9·
    6 months ago

    How do you not drip back onto it?

    I have only used (and own) asian or japanese style ones and its a little jet that squirts at your puckered pink starfish, water drips back into the bowl

    Do you use paper too?

    Yes, I have a hairy butthole and have to pat dry

    How is it okay for me to use the same one right after Typhoid Larry?

    Like any other toilet seat? I don’t know.

    Doesn’t poo go everywhere?

    No, not for me, anyways.

  • xi_simping [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.nettoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Americans are fucking cowards, dude.English
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    8 months ago

    book recommendation: https://leftwingbooks.net/products/the-global-perspective-reflections-on-imperialism-and-resistance

    Description

    spoiler

    In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were then sent on to various national liberation movements in the Third World. Following their capture in 1989, Torkil would spend six years in prison. In 2016, Lauesen’s book Det Globale Perspektiv was released in Denmark. In it, he explains how he sees the world political situation today, and his thoughts about the future. In 2018, Kersplebedeb Publishing is pleased to release the English language edition of this book, translated by Gabriel Kuhn, and with a Preface by Dr. Zak Cope.

    As Lauesen details, we today live in a world of massive and unprecedented inequality. Never before has humanity been so starkly divided between the “haves” and the “have nots”. Never before has the global situation been accelerating so quickly. The Third World national liberation movements of the 20th century very much triggered the liberatory movements that did manage to emerge in the First World, and seemed for an all-too-brief moment to point to an escape hatch from history’s downward spiral … but for many today that all seems like ancient history.

    The Global Perspective bridges the gap between Third Worldist theory, and the question of “What Is To Be Done?” in a First World context. It is an important contribution towards developing an effective political practice based on the realities of the global situation, avoiding the pitfalls of sugarcoating the situation with the First World populations, or of falling into pessimistic quietism. It bridges the gap not only between generations, but also between theory and practice. As Lauesen says, “It is a book written by an activist, for activists. Global capitalism is heading into a deep structural crisis in the coming decades, so the objective conditions for radical change will be present, for better or for worse. The outcome will depend on us, the subjective forces.”

    para 3 description might interest you. its a really good book, not academic, lauesen clearly articluates his thoughts, ideas and potential solutions in the first world.