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From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.

Seeing the livestreamed genocide Israel perpetrated in Gaza has had an effect globally, with the call to boycott Israel at an all-time high.

Quiet boycotts, which started in supermarkets nearly two decades ago, have turned into widely used apps that help millions make choices about purchases.

Campus protests and encampments in the US and Canada have led some major education institutions to cut ties with Israeli counterparts, while investments into Israel have dipped, and some of the world’s largest economies have recognised Palestine as a state.

Nearly 50,000 pro-Palestine protests in two years

The BDS movement has identified numerous companies that are considered complicit in Israel’s occupation, human rights violations, or apartheid policies.

 
  • Norway’s $1.6 trillion government pension fund is divesting its $6.8 million stake in French miner Eramet after its ethics council found “unacceptable risk” of severe environmental damage and human rights violations at the PT Weda Bay Nickel mine the company operates in Halmahera, Indonesia.
  • Weda Bay Nickel sits in the Wallacea Biodiversity Hotspot and has already cleared about 2,700 hectares (6,700 acres) of rainforest since 2019, far exceeding its plan, threatening endemic species and risking extinctions before they’re documented.
  • The case highlights growing investor scrutiny over whether nickel for electric vehicle batteries and other clean-energy technologies can be sourced without destroying tropical forests or violating Indigenous rights.
 

Note: Btw I don't endorse this ruling. I just thought it was important news to share

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by solo@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net
 

Edit: I thought of editing the title, as well as mentionning that I didn’t like the tone of this article in the sense that it presents it ok to clear out forest for solar panels, and personally I believe it’s criminal, or something. I just thought it had some important info. And thank you Tobberone for your comment!

The study: Solar Power or Forests? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Forest Land Conversion in the Northeastern United States

 

Financial institutions are lacking safeguards to prevent harms caused by mining the resources needed for the energy transition, analysis of the sector's financing finds

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The answer to this is a bit nuanced since solarpunk is not a political movement per se. Still, to reply to your question as best as I could say through political approaches like social ecology and anarchy, but I wouldn't want to restrict it.

For more on this, check out the 2 links in my previous comment.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I only watched a few minutes of this video and stopped because it is too ill informed about solarpunk. Maybe it gets better, but the intro made me think that it is not worth my time.

Solarpunk is on the anticapitalist spectrum. The projects portrayed in this video as solarpunk are most certainly not. They are part of the greenwashing of eco-capitalist approaches.

Edit: If anyone would be interested to understand what solarpunk is and were it stands, andrewism would be a good starting point

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

So, again, what are they trying to argue here? The only environmentally responsible option is to leave Gaza destroyed?

From the study itself (4. Discussion & 5. Concluding remarks), this is not what I got. On the contrary, it seems to me like they try to make some calculations/estimations/evaluations so that this is something that takes place.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The point of this study, to my understanding, is to calculates some of the aftermath of this ongoing genocide, concerning debris, carbon emissions, time frames, and implications for rebuilding. No?

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is this supposed to sway eco conscious genocide supporters?

This is not the way I understood this article. It seems to me it is one more argument for the case of continuous ethnic cleansing for so many decades.

If we agree that

most frequently, however, the aim of ethnic cleansing is to expel the despised ethnic group through either indirect coercion or direct force, and to ensure that return is impossible,

then by bombing all buildings, homes and infrastructure, they force people to go somewhere else and in the same time restrict them from coming back, since there is nothing to come back to.

So in this study, they actually measure the not coming back for decades part

Edit: I did several edits. I stop now.

 

At an IRE conference panel, experts discussed several powerful tools and innovative techniques for uncovering harmful practices by the global alternative energy industry.

 

Some scholars and activists are raising concerns that Indigenous voices are not being heard amid the debate over whether to host nuclear waste storage facilities.

After the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, all of Japan’s nuclear power stations were shut down while new safety standards were drawn up. Well over a decade on, only 14 of its 54 reactors have been restarted.

 

"This is not a transition. It’s a systematic expansion of all energy sources.”

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I also think that the Israeli attacks are related to Iran's nuclear program but I don't think they are related to this alleged leak. Here is a 25 min long al jazeera podcast for more on this:

Why is Israel attacking Iran now?

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for your input. Even tho I find this to be totally faisable, from what the cradle article provides, I cannot verify much:

  • fars looks like it's an Iranian outlet I personnaly don't know if I can trust or not, regardless of mbfc
  • the informed sources are not named
  • I didn't manage to find the documents mentionned*

Apart from that at some point it mentions that Grossi said in Times of Israel that “We have seen some reports in the press. We haven’t had any official communication about this.”, but it is about Iran stealing Israeli documents.

Anyways, if you or anyone has more on this, please share.

Edit: *I mean deducted, or something

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I would say, it's much longer than 40 years.

This is what the United Nations, use as starting point:

1917 – 1947: British mandate

Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, [...]

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's Diospyros kaki! And your Diospyros blancoi, I don't think I've ever seen them. I'll ask around if we got them around here. Btw, do you find them to be delicious? For D. kaiki I can say some people don't like them. Personally, I like them a lot when they are super ripe, otherwse tbh not so much.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think in english it is called persimmon.

I don't know why, but it's not easy to find this fruit even tho it grows localy. They really are not common, unless you know a tree!

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

She is banned but there is an appeal in place. The court's decision on this appeal will be issued in 2026, so before the next french elections.

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

Yes, you are right. In Oct 2023 they said they won't do military business with Israel. But in 2025:

However, on April 17 as Spaniards geared up for the Easter holiday weekend, the government filed paperwork confirming the deal on the government tenders website. The purchase, worth 6.6 million euros ($7.53 million), includes the acquisition of more than 15 million 9-mm rounds from Israel's IMI Systems, owned by Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA), opens new tab and represented in Spain by Guardian LTD Israel.

It's only only after ~~pressure~~ threats that the government decided to do as they had pledged in 2023:

The decision drew a sharp rebuke on Wednesday from coalition partner Sumar, with one of the groups within Sumar, Izquierda Unida, threatening to withdraw from the minority coalition government.

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