Wartime

Review

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:06:47 GMT

The beginning of recession, no matter how much the "experts" want to deny it in front of everyone.
Economic decline becomes visible slowly but surely, but increasingly obvious.
Another year that shows an old world order and the domination of a certain empire and its lackeys comes to an end.
Needing more or less proto-fascist methods and means to cover it and keep itself up for some more time until all the "important" people have brought their belongings into safety, tells a lot about the state of those countries and "players" who behave like that. And there is only one conclusion to draw from it: Downfall.

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Review

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:29:34 GMT

Escalation continues.
The downward spiral keeps on heading further down.
Consumer prices explode - and polititians behave like fools in trying to combat them.
While actually not really trying to fight them.

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Waldbrände in Südeuropa

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:43:06 GMT

Wenn das, was man bis jetzt - insbesondere in diesem Jahr - gesehen hat, schrecklich und kaum handzuhaben findet, dann warte man mal ab, wenn der CO₂-Austoß aus den Jahren, als die Smartphones auf den Markt kamen, in der Atmosphäre herumgezogen sind und ihre volle Wirkung entfalten (was, laut Angaben, ca. 15 Jahre dauert)...
Da in diesen besagten Jahren die kurzlebige Verschwendung von Ressourcen nämlich erst richtig anfing.
Inklusive der Ausbau des globalen Internets zum Zwecke seiner endgültigen Kommerzialisierung stattfand. (Viele Rechenzentren und Festplatten, die rund um die Uhr laufen, nur damit Leute jederzeit irgendwelche Inhalte abrufen können...)

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Warum die Bahn nicht kommt

Tue, 30 May 2023 10:52:05 GMT

Wenn sich jemand fragt, warum die Bahn als Massentransportmittel, in einer Zeit, in dem aus Gründen der Reduktion von Emissionen, die durch den Transport von Menschen und Gütern verursacht werden, die Rolle eben solcher wieder in den Mitelpunkt rückt (es jedenfalls sollte), so schlecht aufgestellt ist - man werfe dafür einen Blick zurück in die Vergangenheit.
Man erinnere sich an die Mehdorn-Jahre (Ende 1999-2009), in denen die Bahn radikal kaputtgespart wurde, und man erinnere sich an das größenwahnsinnige Ziel, die Deutsche Bahn an die Börse bringen zu wollen.

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Review

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:53:14 GMT

Zeitenwende - but not as the proclaimer intended it.
After disease follow political dislocations; the final results still not fully foreseeable.

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Drought 2022

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:55:18 GMT

Europe dries out this year...
Thank you, people! Thank you for traveling to Majorca every summer, for traveling to Turkey, Egypt and all the other Mediterranian areas, thank you for every cruise trip you ever joined in the last 20 years, thank you for producing and buying all the short-lived stuff and throwing things away before their expiration, thank you for outsourcing and globalized economy, thank you for all the wars in the Middle East, thank you for all the babies you had to get in the last 20 years, thank you for all the crap you've thoughtlessly thrown into nature, than you for all the stuff you have thoughtlessly taken from nature, thank you for valuing everything in money and rating it higher than matter - thank you for coming up and never getting enough!
That's what everyone gets from it!
And there's still way, way, WAY more to get!

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Worlds apart, united in anthropocentrism (together the ruin of the earth)

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 21:39:16 GMT

You know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.

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Liquefied petroleum gas from the United States - and what about climate change?

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:04:10 GMT

Any party going through with either their plans or already having banned imports of Russian oil and gas and replacing it with liquefied petroleum gas from the US - offically call their agenda to "fight climate change" broke and dishonest (if it ever even officially existed at all).
Because transporting LPG with tankers over half of the globe, burning fuel to deliver fuel, there's nothing more harmful to the world climate than this in this aspect of the economy and regarding general supply with common contemporary energy carriers.
Not even talking about needing to make the energy-intensive efforts to first liquefy the gas to transport it and then turn it into gas again, sacrificing additional amounts of energy, when it's reached its destination. And the terminals that have to be specifically created and built in order to execute both jobs.

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Weather changes

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:01:44 GMT

Slowly but surely the weather's habits get a little characteristic of continental climate here over the years... Warm temperatures during the day, but winter coldness during the nights. Larger discrepancies between day and night temperature. - Espcially in spring now. During winter, the differences at times are relatively small.
On top of it, high pressure areas that cover large portions of the European continent and that stay for weeks with barely humidity present, barely any clouds, not even to talk about rain in sight...
And the actual spring and autumn seasons decrease more and more in difference from summer and winter. Whether be that their time stretch or the weather that particularly takes place in them.

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Taking the bubble of a safe life for granted

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:58:54 GMT

Thinking deeper about it, there is a little aspect to point out which surely won’t be irrelevant to the protests against the Covid vaccinations and the conspiracy theories surrounding them all around the world - and in which, bizarrely, these have something in common with the “Fridays For Future” movement:

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Neue Regierung (Merkel ist weg)

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:35:03 GMT

Nun ist es also amtlich - Olaf Scholz wird Angela Merkel in ihrer Position als Kanzlerin beerben.
Mutti ist dann weg in die Rente.

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Schade um das Papier (A shame with the paper)

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 21:41:28 GMT

Eine der sinnlosesten und kurzlebigsten Arten von Verschwendung von Ressourcen: Wahlplakate!

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Anmerkung zur Flutkatastrophe am Rhein

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 21:56:17 GMT

Ein sehr böser Gedanke, der mir kam:
Beim Hochwasser am Rhein können alle eigentlich noch “froh” sein (so makaber es sich anhört), dass nicht dazwischen ein noch laufendes oder ehemaliges Atomkraftwerk von den Überschwemmungen getroffen wurde (so viele wie in der Nähe von diesem Fluss nämlich situiert sind)...
Das wäre nämlich nicht besser gelaufen als in Fukishima.

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Summer doesn't need to toast your mind

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:33:14 GMT

This year, until now, the temperatures for summer have been slowly ramping up.
That's how it's best and how it should be for nature.
Nobody needs desert temperatures of 40°C already at the beginning of June in Central Europe. (Even if some liked to have that because of their having been talked into "needing sun and warmth" for decades by Western capitalist wealth.)

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One year of living with Covid-19

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:22:28 GMT

These days it’s ringing one year with Covid-19 being globally around - and, thinking realistically, the end still can not be foreseen. Although, admittedly, the means against the disease that this new coronavirus causes have grown from that status of “zero” last year.

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Silvester ohne Feuerwerk

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:50:00 GMT

Gestern konnte man nun eine Kostprobe davon erhalten, was Silvester gänzlich ohne Feuerwerk wäre (weil inzwischen politische Forderungen dafür unter dem Deckmantel des Umweltschutzes aufgetaucht sind)...

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Zaghafter Frühling

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 03:06:59 GMT

Ganz profanes Thema: Die Wälder sind inzwischen wieder reichlich trocken... Und im Gegensatz zu den vorherigen Jahren, würde ich sagen, beeinflusst es dieses Mal auch das Grünwerden der Bäume im Allgemeinen.
Der letzte große Regen ist Wochen her - und es wirken nach wie vor die letzten 2 Mangeljahre nach.

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A significant flaw in communist ideology

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:01:38 GMT

A thing that communism in the past definitely didn’t achieve - and which you could consider a task to rack one’s brains about for its adaption to the modern days and to the future: Freeing humans from the need to go working and earning money in order to finance a living.
Communism made the conditions of working takeable, even partly comfortable, for the workers, but it didn’t develop answers for a scenario when the workers won’t be needed anymore - when machines become fully able to replace them or when tasks are finished and needs for goods are covered for a while.
Last but not least, it didn’t develop an idea for when the point in time will be hit that the earth’s human population increases to such numbers that the enhancement of production won’t be good for the nature of the planet anymore as well as there will be no increase in workforce anymore proportional to the population growth because it isn’t needed for covering the demand of goods and services. (Or, in other words: Communism contains no idea what to do in case of human overpopulation - when children start getting born for which there is no task in society waiting for them when they’re grown up.)
If you still base a society upon everybody having a job to do grocery shopping and maintaining a place to live, then this is a major flaw when it comes to the future awaiting mankind now in the 21st century - overpopulation and ecological disasters.

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A long fruitless crusade

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:38:30 GMT

Regarding the zeitgeisty mumbo jumbo surrounding a 16-year-old girl from Sweden named Greta Thunberg, it's always good to remember the past and bring it upon the table: There have been other environmental activists before, acting even more fierce than her and following a recognizable agenda instead of a plain social media hype that still lacks content after months.
One of these people was a Swiss man named Bruno Manser.

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Reduction of population (Bevölkerungsreduktion)

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:13:54 GMT

A little fallacy which gets linked popularly to fascism because it's about everyone's personal reproduction in this: The Nazis never were against population growth and the increase of mankind's numbers itself, they "only" had a problem with proliferation of certain sorts of people. They didn't kill to "create more space for the rest of us which already exists", but for replacing those unwanted sort of humans with people of those kinds which they deemed desireable in their worldview. And that should happen manyfold if possible at best.
So birth control and prohibiting people to have children because the human world population has to shrink in regard to the environmental burden that takes place doesn't have anything to do with fascism in any form.
It's a brutal and uncomfortable truth that even the beloved planned children of the Westerners are also going to contribute their share to polluting the earth and therefore the gesture of "a biological child to coronate one's personal egoism" better gets relinquished.

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The unexceptional truth

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:30:01 GMT

"Wanting to protect the world climate, you have to face one important fact: Economic growth (in the Western world) still and trying to only stop the man-made destruction of nature are two things which don't fit together. They're paths running into opposite directions.
To really turn back the cogs of time in order to spare yourself and future generations the worst means you have to go back towards the living standard of the 70s of the wealthy nations and the world population has to halve at least, if you want every human to have the same wealthy living standard. Nothing going in there anymore with "I want my lovely two kids per relationship" - NO! To say it really evil: At best you even die before you get 40, and at best you didn't leave behind a child until then.
That's how drastic it is.
And the healthier people want to be personally, the less people can walk on earth enjoying it as their lifestyle.
You ask why the animals die out and keep disappearing? Think for a minute: Who conquered the living space that was taken away from them? Who occupies the space they lived in before? Seven and a half billion answers are walking out there. Human species took that territory, spreading like a virus. Where humans live, barely other animals live in anymore.
So... you get it what even more "growth" would mean for the environment, for the nature of this planet?"

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Bone dry

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:58:02 GMT

The first trees already start to wear their autumn foliage this year at the end of July.
Because of drought.

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Waldbrände auf alten Truppenübungsplätzen

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 23:46:44 GMT

Wisst ihr, was die eigentliche, wirkliche Ursache dafür ist, dass solche Großbrände wie gerade in Mecklenburg auf früheren Truppenübungsgeländen entstehen und außer Kontrolle geraten?
Auch das ist ein Nebeneffekt der jahrelangen Sparpolitik bezüglich der Bundeswehr.

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Mehrwegnetze

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:07:09 GMT

Die richtige Idee (seltsam - die DDR wurde dafür mal ausgelacht, dass in ihr keine gratis Einweg-Plastiktüten bei Obst und Gemüse bereitstellt gab, sondern sie diese wiederverwendbaren Netze hatten) - enttäuschend an ihnen allerdings: Wenn man auf die Verpackung schaut, aus welchem Material die Netze oft gemacht sind, ist es wie als wenn man in einem Topf voll Ironie badet oder bei der versteckten Kamera gelandet ist - auch nur Plastik.
Wiederbenutzbares und waschbares Plastik gegen Einwegplastik. Sehr guter Austausch!
Es soll zwar auch welche aus Baumwolle geben, bisher scheint das aber nicht so verbreitet zu sein, denn bisher sind mir solche noch nicht untergekommen. Die wären nämlich eher die bevorzugte Wahl, weil es hier nicht nur um die Vermeidung von Plastikmüll geht, sondern auch darum, dass man nicht selbst Plastik mitisst. Was man nämlich jedes Mal tut, wenn man Lebensmittel konsumiert, die vorher in Plastik eingepackt waren - und das auch bei Mehrwegnetzen aus Plastik.

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Climate strike

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 03:54:13 GMT

Well, what is one supposed to think about that?
Somehow you get the impression like another one of those useless actions humans do, thinking their sit-ins, their stopping to live, their praying and singing stupid songs may impress the Gods to have mercy on them - all while there actually should be to learn that this pilgrimaging to a certain place won't till their fields, won't build them cars or cell-phones or anything else of their dearly-enjoyed modern life that they take as so damn self-evident.
In other words: Boys and girls from schools in the (Western) civilization - if you really want to do anything to help easing the climate disaster, stop quitting school, better go and get quitting wanting a new smartphone for every Christmas or birthday. Better even stop using them completely.
Stop purchasing a new wardrobe just for optical reasons. Stop going vegan for hysteria or hipster reasons - the soy for your meat-replacement products comes from Brazil too, getting shipped over a big ocean.
You really think that using the "angry child wants to get its will and screamingly throws itself upon the floor"-tactics are going to get you anywhere?
Kids, just get real: It really takes to bend over backwards in order to stop the world from spinning for a single second.
And, judging from your ages, there really is to doubt if you actually still care about the subject you make a fuzz about now after a couple of years...

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