Archive for April 20th, 2022

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20/04/2022

The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

MADRID, Apr 20 2022 (IPS)* – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not.

The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark, according to a new UN report. Credit: UNDP

Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, as well as a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, have affected millions of people. Even these days, we are still facing COVID-19, a worldwide health pandemic linked to the health of our ecosystem.

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20/04/2022

Mexico Embraces Gas, Scorns Renewable Energy

Human Wrongs Watch

By Emilio Godoy*

MÉRIDA, Mexico , Apr 18 2022 (IPS)* – At home, Isabel Bracamontes uses gas only for cooking. “We try to prepare food that doesn’t need cooking, like salads,” she says in the southeastern Mexican city of Mérida. | En español
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The Yucatán peninsula in southeastern Mexico has abundant solar and wind resources, but relies on fossil fuels for electricity generation. The photo shows a wind turbine belonging to the state-owned CFE next to a section of the power grid between Cancún and Puerto Morelos, in the state of Quintana Roo. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPS

The Yucatán peninsula in southeastern Mexico has abundant solar and wind resources, but relies on fossil fuels for electricity generation. The photo shows a wind turbine belonging to the state-owned CFE next to a section of the power grid between Cancún and Puerto Morelos, in the state of Quintana Roo. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPS

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20/04/2022

Macron Struggles to Mobilise France’s Muslim Voters after Five Years Attacking Them

Human Wrongs Watch

By Adam Ramsay*

French Muslims say picking between the sitting president and Marine Le Pen is ‘like choosing between plague and cholera’

Celebrations of Eid al-Fitr in Paris, June 2017 | Facebook.com/@Islamforallhumanity

15 April 2022 (openDemocracy)* — Two years ago, Chehneze and her family packed up their home in Rueil-Malmaison, a western suburb of Paris, and moved to Birmingham.

“I felt like I needed a break from France,” the primary school teacher tells openDemocracy.

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