Wartime

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.

Winning a war, protecting the world climate, preventing an economic recession from happening, and keeping up the growth - all of this, they want to achieve at once.
While ignoring the technical (im-)possibilities to do so and, even the more, how much these targets altogether contradict themselves and cannot be unified.

Some more big names die and leave the world - like rats leaving a sinking ship?
Or just their time having run out - and it just happens at the right moment to still depart in happiness and not see how the world goes down...

Wishful thinking continues to conquer the human brains all over the world,
narrowing the corridor of their sight - fueling aggression and dogmatic thinking.
Valuing some rules or standards higher than the practice that comes attached to them - and which may require an adjustment of the rules because of their unworldly overidealistic absoluteness that no-one can truly live.

It's almost like the human behavior itself wants to say "we're too many here on this planet to be able to live as lavishly as we want to"...

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.

Darum gibt es heutzutage keine Züge, kein Personal, ein unzureichendes Gleisnetz, keine Elektrifizierung und eine Menge verfallener kleiner Bahnhöfe verstreut über das ganze Land.

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!

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.

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:

It’s that if a civilization reached such technological, scientific and cultural heights and masses of general means and gadgets that it starts to forget the very base it stands on.
It takes the safe bubble it created to live in as self-evident and as the original state of nature.
While actually it’s the most unnatural state of things. And you have to do something for it in order to exist.

For example: The effect of vaccines first becomes noticeable if they weren’t given anymore.
If masses of people didn’t receive them.
As vaccines against the famous diseases you can vaccinate against didn’t exist, people died way earlier than today, they died of way more trivial causes, a lot died before they got 18 years old (high rate of child mortality), and people who survived infections with either a virus or bacteria way more often carried lasting damages away from this (often: early childhood) encounter into their adult lives.
This is still the case in places on the earth where these vaccines aren’t available or too expensive for an average person to get.
So when they were invented and people realized infants as well as themselves stopped getting sick and die from those diseases after they were vaccinated, people became clear of a reason to do this for. - No more getting sick, suffering and dying from crap that can be avoided.

A huge example that people of all ages have a personal benefit from is the tetanus vaccination.
Before that, just a single scratch could lead to this type of infection, which in the end paralyzes the nerve tissue that controls muscles in the body and leads to death.
And it’s barely avoidable as the bacterium that causes it lives in nearly everything. It’s everywhere around you.

So so-called “skepticism” and active refusal and even claims like “vaccination is murder” are actually a call to fall back to these circumstances among the population.
How can anyone be so stupid to want that?
Well, the best answer to this is: Because people aren’t aware of why they can lead such a cozy life. Lack of basic education and a lot of manipulative info from sources that function no better than hocus pocus magical crap made to make money that was sold to people in the Middle Ages are to blame for this.

In common with “Fridays For Future” this state of the mind has: Also the members and agitprop activists of this movement aren’t aware of what the order they raise their claims on comes together from.
For example, they take for granted that smartphones exist, that the internet and their platforms to communicate on globally exist, that they live a life on earth where they don’t need to mind neither money nor material if they get sick of something and can simply throw it away as they please.
But all that first needed to be invented, then needs to be fabricated constantly and then needs to be maintained constantly.
Electricity isn’t produced by the wall because the wall is kind of bored and doesn’t know what to do with its time. It’s produced in a power plant, that power plant needs any type of “fuel” or gizmo that moves another gizmo, whose movement generates the electric energy in the end that they take from the wall socket at home. And that needs to be done constantly, not just whenever you want. - Or you’ll have to accept that electric energy isn’t constantly ready to use.
Means of saving energy for later aren’t invented yet, and as it it looks it will be like with rechargeable batteries: It ain’t lossless and the energy saved will vanish over time when not using it. - Unless you’d save the energy compressed in something material that you can easily store and backlog (that would be fossil fuels like coal, gas and petrol, for example).
Not to forget: A power plant producing electric energy first needs to be built in order to serve the purpose to supply you with electricity in the wall socket.

The self-evidence of the presence of the internet is another issue of that umbrella.
The internet comes together by thousands of servers (and, in a simple sense, “computers”), interconnected with each other, running 24/7 all around the year. If you think that you can only switch these on when you need them, then most of the time nobody will be able to read your crap.
Because these computers keep masses of data ready to access for whoever wants to read them at any time of the day. - All the viewers that checked your stuff in the meantime you slept, worked or were at school, they could do that because someone else keeps your data ready and accessible all the time.
If your data didn’t lie on someone else’s server, you’d have to keep your own computer plugged to the net all around the clock, even when you’re absent and not at home, or nobody could read the crap that you post and pay attention to you.

Thousands of computers running at the same time, waiting for somebody to seek a connection with them with his personal computer or cell-phone - anyone who isn’t stupid gets an idea what kind of huge effort that is to keep up every day?
The internet isn’t “simply there”, it’s a complex infrastructure, like a net of tarred roads that you can comfortably drive on, and to be “there”, it needs to be made to come into existence.
Another thing that you have to keep ready to use and cannot just switch on and off whenever you want to use it yourself. The effort made in order to keep it up has to be constantly the same at all times or it won’t work as well as you know it.

Not even to get started on the third example: Their own lifestyle and the lifestyle of the family they live in...
Their parents go to work daily, in most cases don’t share a car because they’ve got to go to two completely different places, their parents don’t work near their home but in other towns and commute, they want to make it to buy a nice house, own a big car, save money so each of their kids can have a driver’s license and an own car as soon as the kids are legally permitted to drive, want 1 or 2 family vacations each year at least - and they don’t want their kids to miss any trend in order to not be socially excluded among their peers.
Last but not least, they also try to save up money from anywhere, on top, to send their kids to university (like university wasn’t something which you have to have the brains first and you can’t tell that from the first day of a child’s life).
All that until the kids get “aware” (their “Fridays For Future”-type of getting “aware”).
Anyone of them who pointed it out to themselves how much of an ecological footprint that already is until they reach “awareness”?
And that’s not even counting their own behavior in this calculation...

Reduced and collected in a short summary that is: No, kiddo, you’re not going to save the world now by going vegan, eating meat-replacement made from soybeans, peas and wheat!
Which, by the way, doesn’t reduce your footprint very much if they actually come from Brazil, like the beef steaks you ate before. (Anyone who praises the meat-replacement products asked where the substance they’re made of comes from?)

And, talking about “recycling”, how about that you wear the clothes of your elder siblings that are still alright - like poor people do?
Or that you use a technical gadget for 10 years or more? Repair it? Tinker around with it, so it can still be of service with new technical standards? Use it until it literally falls apart?
“Learn from the poor” is the correct motto in this issue, just as a reminder, not holding big public speeches and claim whatever the heck comes to your mind from adults how they shall behave.

By the way, skipping school to march on a rally - do these kids have any idea what kind of privilege they throw away thoughtlessly for just a little stomp on the ground of their inconsistent minds?
Kids in Africa and India and whatever places on earth not as rich as the first world dream of going to school instead of having to go to work and already earn some, so the family, including them, has something to eat and doesn’t need to freeze.
School is like the key to a better life, to more life quality and to a better job - and these kids take it so much for granted that they think they can spare it!!
Not even to speak of that they seem to think school without paying hundreds of bucks for it is a world standard!
If their rallies had a connection to something that went wrong in school, but no... it’s about “pointing the adults at doing something to stop climate change”.
Like - next time they go on a strike because the pocket money is too low...

This is social relations, making a plea, not doing something for a certain objective.
And then formulating one’s plea on a pretty high niveau of prosperity. Leaving one’s own role aside, acting like one doesn’t exist and does nothing wrong, but only all other people.

...You see how both have a similarity here?
Avoiding to mind one’s own base of a living, sect-like structures that want to make everyone convert, but they have very few to really say if you check them in the details.
If you fact-check them or check for doability, you find them two live in a dreamy world made of soap bubbles. Harboring an image of the world that doesn’t correspond with the reality.

When do you encounter such phenomena?
Mostly when a civilization is almost at its end. When people forget what their life as they know it is based on and take it for granted that they can eat grapes all day long (figuratively). And, on the other hand, can afford to dive deep down into their human interactions all day long. Be busy with the “he says, she says” and what is the correct way to worship and appreciate whatever the heck.
Act like their human quarrels are the most important thing in the world, like someone is watching and only waiting to interfere and deliver them from their anger towards each other.

(Someone discovers similarities in this description too?)

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


One of the most senseless and short-lived types of wasting natural resources: Election posters!

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.)

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)...

Man muss sagen, dafür, dass der Feuerwerksverkauf der Ab-18-Ware verboten wurde und lediglich vorher Tisch- und Jugendfeuerwerk verkauft werden konnte, wurde doch noch moderat viel geknallt. In den Straßen in den Stunden zuvor als auch zu Mitternacht. - Wohlgemerkt, gemessen daran, dass niemand irgendwas haben sollte.
Wo die Leute das her hatten - und nein, Polen kommt nicht in Frage; deren "schlagkräftiges" Fabrikat ist ja sehr berühmt-berüchtigt und daher erkennbar -, ist einem etwas schleierhaft. Das kann wirklich nur im Keller vom letzten Jahr gelegen haben - selbst der stetige Aushelfer für alles namens "Amazon" zeigte einem bei Suchanfragen nicht das entsprechende an. Diese Option fällt daher als Quelle auch aus.

Was als Veränderung aber auch spürbar war: Diejenigen, die zu spätererer Uhrzeit in der Dunkelheit überhaupt zum Knallen durch die Straßen zogen, auffallend oft war angeheitertes Gegröhle darunter; sogar eine Vuvuzela und Fußballtröten kamen zum Einsatz. Es wirkte vielmehr als wenn ein Spiel der Nationalmannschaft stattfindet.

Die übliche Geruchskulisse wollte sich zu Mitternacht auch nicht einstellen.

Über den Tag hingegen wirkte es auffallend ruhig. Hier oder da vereinzelt mal ein Knallkörper hörbar.
Für den Tag des Jahres regelrecht gespenstisch; als wenn nichts besonders los wäre, als wenn es ein ganz gewöhnlicher Tag im alltäglichen Mausgrau wäre.

Angesichts dessen, sollte man die Frage stellen: Sollte man es sich gefallen lassen, das Feuerwerk zu Silvester dauerhaft verbieten zu lassen (nicht bloß wegen Corona)?
Viele berufen sich dabei auf die Umwelt und dass es besser für die Haustiere ist, die, angesichts der Geräuschkulisse, jährlich durchdrehen, weil sie nicht wissen und verstehen, was draußen los ist.
Auf der anderen Seite muss man aber auch erwidern: Dieser eine Tag produziert so viele giftige Dämpfe und erzeugt CO2 - wie vergleicht sich diese Menge zur täglichen Pendlerei zur Arbeit rund ums Jahr?
Alles mögliche, was CO2 erzeugen könnte, wird inzwischen in Frage gestellt, ob man sich das noch leisten kann, aber die größten Quellen von stetigem CO2-Ausstoß - Arbeitspendlerei und Wegfahren/Wegfliegen um Urlaub machen -, diese bleiben nach wie vor unangetastet. Und wehe dem, der dies doch tut!

An dieser Stelle nimmt die Problematik eine sehr heuchlerische Komponente an - um nicht zu sagen: Es wirkt auf das bloße Auge, als wenn alle Geschichten über den "Kapitalismus in der Endstufe" doch wahr sind.
Denn, nahezu alles, was den Menschen noch Vergnügen bereiten könnte, wird in Frage gestellt und geliebäugelt, ob man es nicht verbieten oder sehr streng regulieren könnte und sollte.
Doch hingegen Schuften tagtäglich und die Umweltverbrechen, die dabei begangen werden, diese werden hingegen nie ein Thema. Sind quasi wie ein Dogma, das es nicht umzustoßen gilt. Arbeiten soll der Mensch - und das nicht zu knapp -, aber vergnügen soll er sich bitteschön nicht mehr. Es könnte ja alles potentiell gefährlich sein - wohl eher potentiell "gefährlich für seine Arbeitskraft". Der Mensch könnte ja einen Tag nicht zur Verfügung stehen, weil er sich erholen muss... Oder er könnte ja auch nur eine Minute zu viel von seiner Existenz einem anderen Thema widmen als sich abzurackern und verkaufbare Ware zu produzieren.

So etwas hat tatsächlich etwas von "man schafft seine Sitten und Gebräuche ab" - nicht zugunsten der Umwelt, sondern damit ein weiteres Stück des Menschen einem anderen Menschen gehört, der ihn nur als Werkzeug, als Mittel zum Zweck, um etwas bestimmtes zu erreichen, benutzen will, und ihn auf diesen bloßen Zweck reduziert. Dem er als Person völlig egal ist, deren Schlechtergehen er sogar bewusst in Kauf nimmt, so lang nur das für ihn dabei herausspringt, was er haben will.

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.

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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Ein kleiner Irrtum, der gern mit Faschismus verbunden wird, weil es dabei um jedes einzelnen persönliche Vermehrung geht: Die Nazis waren nicht gegen Bevölkerungswachstum und das Wachsen der Menschheit an sich, sie hatten “lediglich” etwas gegen die Vermehrung von bestimmten Sorten von Menschen. Sie töteten sie nicht um für “mehr Platz für den Rest von uns, der schon hier ist” zu schaffen, sondern um diese in ihren Augen unliebsamen und minderwertigen Menschen mit welchen von ihrer Sorte zu ersetzen. Und das sollte, nach Möglichkeit, äußerst zahlreich geschehen.
Geburtenkontrolle und Menschen zu verbieten, Kinder zu kriegen, weil die Weltbevölkerung bei der stattfindenden Umweltbelastung langfristig schrumpfen muss, hat also nichts mit irgendeiner Form von Faschismus zu tun. Es ist eine brutale und unangenehme Wahrheit, dass auch die geliebten Wunschkinder der aktuellen Westler dazu beitragen werden, die Erde weiterhin zu verseuchen, und daher auf die Geste “ein leibliches Kind als Krönung des persönlichen Egoismus” besser verzichtet werden sollte.