Achilleas gioypi @gioypi@qoto.org

Fun little browser game for #climatechange decision-making by the Financial Times: https://ig.ft.com/climate-game/

Note, though, that Fourier proposed the existence of the greenhouse effect (that's its modern name) in 1824.

#til that [Eunice Newton Foote](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote) presented a theory on CO2 increasing the atmosphere's temperature in **1856**!

She speculated that an increased amount of CO2 in some point in history would cause higher temperatures, long before the greenhouse effect was studied.

Of course, she didn't receive appropriate praise for her research, because she was... a woman. 😶

"For years I have been reluctant to compare any dictator to Hitler, or any war to the second world war. The comparison, to me, seemed exaggerated, even vulgar.

But what other analogy is there. With no reason, in an act of pure madness, an old-fashioned air assault has been inflicted on a neighbouring country.

I said that to my Russian colleague, and tried very hard not to show how my voice was trembling. She asked for forgiveness again.

There is a famous phrase “4am Kyiv is bombed”. Every Ukrainian and Russian kid knows it. That’s how the announcement of the German bombardment of Kyiv in 1941 sounded.

And here we are: 24 February 5am Kyiv is bombed by Russia."

by Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

#ukraine

Comparison of studies on the death toll of air pollution.

#airpollution #climatechange

#climatechange
COP26 was just words. And not even good enough as words.

#comic #climatechange

Keith McCoy, a lobbyist of ExxonMobil, unknowingly admitted to #Greenpeace that #Exxon manipulated the public opinion on climate science and used US senators to ensure a future for fossil fuels.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/exxon-admits-capitalism-created-the-climate-crisis?link_id=66&can_id=9fa45eaf1cbfc6b4e65285352e9cd062&source=email-the-not-so-magnificent-seven-global-newsletter-52-3&email_referrer=email_1233437&email_subject=nowhere-is-safe-global-newsletter-53

https://youtu.be/5v1Yg6XejyE

#climatechange

# 12 Months a Slave

### Mandatory military service is nothing less than abuse. Psychological and physical.

In Greece, one of the countries that still hold mandatory conscription for all male citizens, the “service” is now being extended from 9 to 12 months. Despite things getting better since a few decades ago, when folks would serve for two years and nobody would care for any health issues, the system is still rotten. From young adults that just finished school to scientists that work in research, everybody has to pause their lives at some point, in order to be being yelled at by condescending buffoons in the name of freedom. For 12 months. How are you protecting your country’s freedom, by deserting your own? Are not countries made of people? Is a country free when its people are not?

A soldier is never free, that I can guarantee. Not even in times of peace. A soldier must not decide for himself when to talk, where to place his hands, how to sit down, whether to turn his head, when to drink water. Yet, his “superiors” will often refer pompously to him as *a man*, or a person that will become *a man* through military training. *A man* that needs permission to go to the toilet. The irony.

At least, soldiers are getting paid. In Greece, their monthly salary is ~8.60€. That is around 30 cents per day and they must be available 24/7. Not to mention the religious and nationalistic propaganda that comes with the army.

Obviously the military needs huge reforms, since we are cursed to maintain it. To my mind, the abolition of enforced conscription is the first logical step in a civilized society. The level of vain abuse one must endure in the army would not be accepted anywhere in the real world. Still, the public seems to tolerate it, even without real ways for the soldiers to defend themselves.

#Greece #army

[[Original image](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%8D%CE%B6%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82#/media/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF:Evzone_Parliament_Greece_1.JPG) by Everlind, [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), edited by me, it reads “This is not tradition, it’s abuse”]

It’s the 3rd day without tap water and with constant blackouts. The snow is melting now, but they have no idea when the network will be restored. Probably not today, either.

This is neither fun, nor how I imagined Europe of the 2020s…

#Greece