Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — A new UN partnership announced on Wednesday [2 February 2022] aims to raise awareness about the environmental and health impacts of microplastics in cigarette butts, the most discarded waste item worldwide.
02/02/2022
The “Kidneys of the Earth” Are Disappearing
Human Wrongs Watch
– This is about Wetlands, which are considered as a natural solution to the global threat of climate change. They absorb carbon dioxide, help slow global heating and reduce pollution, hence they are often referred to as the “Kidneys of the Earth”.
Young mangrove plants, Puttalam Lagoon, Sri Lanka. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS
Specifically, peatlands alone store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined. However, when drained and destroyed, wetlands emit vast amounts of carbon, adds the UN on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, marked 2 February.
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02/02/2022
Damaged Natural Infrastructure Exacerbates Urban Flooding in Brazil
Human Wrongs Watch
In Raposos, a Brazilian city of 16,500 inhabitants, two-thirds of the homes were flooded by the rising waters of the Das Velhas River. The city grew on both banks of the river, between hills, which led to recurrent flooding. CREDIT: Das Velas River CBH
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02/02/2022
Warnings from the Poles
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A New Freely Downloadable Book
John Scales Avery
I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses worrying recent developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic, which warn us of catastrophic consequences if we neglect urgent climate action.
The book may be downloaded free of charge from the following link:
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Diagonal cracks have been observed in Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier, and scientists fear that it might shatter into small pieces like a windscreen.
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02/02/2022
Myanmar: ‘Meaningful Action’ Needed to Stop the Slaughter
1 February 2022 (UN News)* — Marking the first anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the independent UN expert monitoring the country implored States on Tuesday to take more robust action, reiterating his call for an arms embargo to stop the killing of innocent people.
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“Now is not the time for more rhetoric, it is time for meaningful action”, said Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
“The international community must take strong, meaningful steps to cut the junta’s access to weapons, funds and legitimacy”.
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01/02/2022
Who Would Benefit from Russia Going to War with Ukraine?
Russia‘s President Putin holds a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council, via video conference from his Kremlin office, 21 January 2022 | Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News
01/02/2022
The Illegality of NATO
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Recent Threats of War over Ukraine
Russia understandably fears the eastward expansion of NATO. Recently NATO countries, led by the United States, have supplied arms to Ukraine.
There is a threat that the tensions building up in the region will lead to war. Such a development would be catastrophic for the entire world. Against this backdrop, we examine the question of NATO’s illegality.
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01/02/2022
The Global Elite’s ‘Kill and Control’ Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security
Human Wrongs Watch
By Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Robert J. Burrowes
Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’.
In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with truck convoys the latest manifestation of this form of protest.
Unfortunately, while activists mistake these popular mobilizations for effective resistance, the Global Elite’s coup d’état against humanity gathers pace.
Concealed beneath the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, and marketed by the World Economic Forum as the ‘Great Reset’, this coup is designed to utterly transform human society and even human life.
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