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Two thirds of displaced people are displaced within their own country. 70% of those externally displaced are in neighbouring countries - "closer to home". Europe hosts around 10% of all those displaced, half of which are from a neighbouring country - Ukraine.

RT @gewittrderrosen: “What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs.” htt….

This story, of competition and lack of market certainty, will happen again and again and the transition stumbles on. The West's impasse when faced with losing the war of transition to China is profound. Instead of a plan its stuck halfway between 2 economies, only one w a future.

And another green industry goes down in flames. "The company [which produces 1/4 of the UK's biodiesel] blamed difficult market conditions due to competition from US imports and insufficiently ambitious mandates for biodiesel use in Britain".

For a long time it was assumed that climate activism was a rich-world form of politics. Turns out the wealthier the country, the *less* citizens engage in climate activism and the less they think it will impact them. Its a climate aristocracy.

RT @DrSimEvans: NEW: Getting to net-zero will be much cheaper than thought for the UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says….

If pharmaceutical research was 100% publicly funded and controlled, the result would be a focus not on what was profitable but what was needed, with the resulting savings for healthcare budgets potentially huge. This is your reminder 'innovation' is code for profit protection.

Patents protect the profits of Big Pharma at the cost of millions of lives. "The pharmaceutical industry is facing some of its steepest patent cliffs to date. Drugs worth about $180bn a year are going off patent in 2027 and 2028, representing almost 12% of the global market."

There are 7 existing or proposed data centres in Yorkshire, inc a hyperscale Microsoft centre. Their water usage is huge. Yorkshire is under a hose-pipe ban after the driest spring in 138 yrs.

Obvs the EU is off track, & in response to heavy lobbying is undoing a lot of the proposed regulation. The reason it's both falling short and facing so much capitalist opposition isn't botched policy but the reality of deep global economic stagnation. Stagnation is the core issue

The problem with these sorts of Unherd/Compact pieces is not the criticism of the EUs progress towards net zero but the suggestion that there is a mass movt against climate action. The vast bulk of opposition is *corporate* and petit bourgeoisie, not working class .1/2.

Half of the world's wealth is owned by less than 2% of the world's adult population - just 60 million people. Almost 90% is owned by 680 million people. There are less than 3000 billionaires.

Commodifying children is the logical end point of a system feeding on itself. Capitalism destroys the environment, runs down infrastructure and provokes social crises bc if it was forced to pay for all three it would collapse.

"Experts have raised alarm over the “commodification” of vulnerable foster children as analysis reveals almost a quarter of all foster places in England are now provided by private equity-backed companies making millions of pounds in profits".

RT @LalehKhalili: This is horrific shit, and Tony Blair's staff were working with Israeli genocidaire capitalists to ethnically cleanse and….

RT @jasonhickel: 6. Another way to look at responsibility is in terms of class. This graph shows it's the rich who are mostly responsible….

RT @NateB_Panic: It's really worth being very very clear that a genocide started and people obviously started protesting that and the Briti….

RT @novaramedia: An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people arrested for holding signs saying “I oppose ge….

RT @jelly_pack: Unbelievably grim