“The only way to effectively campaign to halt climate change is to impart a true picture of a capitalism whose insatiable hunger for profit is not only undermining the working and living conditions of hundreds of millions of working people but the basis of life itself. The future of our planet depends on building a livable environment and a movement powerful enough to displace capitalism.”
Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in October 2018 as a movement that aims to use tactics of nonviolent direct action in order to avert the effects of climate change. Since its formation it has rapidly spread to at least 35 other countries, including New Zealand, who have recently carried a few headline-grabbing protests, with the promise of more to come.
Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement are encouraged by the fact that the movement has managed to tap into the sense of alarm over climate change, and mobilised many people not previously involved in protest, and we do not want to undermine the important work that they are doing, but we feel that there is a conversation that needs to be had about some of their demands.
While we support the means of using direct action tactics it is their ends that needs greater examination. Extinction Rebellion is essentially…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
I share these sentiments, quoted from the article: “The future of our planet depends on building a livable environment and a movement powerful enough to displace capitalism.”
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Careening to Nuclear Catastrophe
Trump and his crew, are working hard to keep aged-dangerous reactors opened, in america. They are doing so, in spite of the flooding and hurricanes that destroyed a good part of Houston three years ago, and put half of New Orleans under water last week. There are many beat-up reactors, in areas like this in the USA!
Climate change is much more dangerous than we are led to think. The flooding in Iowa, Nebraska, Louisiana, Arkansas almost set off 4 of the oldest, most cracked and embrittled nuclear reactors in the world in the past weeks and last couple of months. It is due to unprecendented flooding in the mid-west and south.
A 7.1 earthquake in Southern Calfornia, could have set off the Diablo Canyon reactors. The two large earthquakes there, probably did some damage.
If a reactor blows up, all bets are off yet, trump and his crew are dead set on one or more Nuclear Cataclysims Occuring in the United States in the next 3 years! This alone, is the most immediate case for Trump’s expedited impeachment leading to his ouster in 2020.
1. Trump and his Nuclear Industry-Cronies, use and push, for more government money and rate increases, to keep the the worst of the 97 old reactors in america, going when they should be closed.
https://progressive.org/dispatches/ohio-stumbles-trump-nudge-more-nukes-coal-wasserman-190530/
Last week Senate Republicans voted at the urging of Trump to Subsidize 2 of the oldest and most dangerous Reactors in the USA opened at taxpayer and ratepayer expense
2. Trump and nuclear-corporate cronies have successfully allowed the extension of the operating licenses of reactors that are long past-due, to be shut down
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclearpower/u-s-to-extend-nuclear-reactor-lifespans-in-bid-to-revive-industry-idUSKCN1U61YH
3. The Trumpsters are methodically and busily deregulating supervision of nuclear reactors. Reactors that are cracked, have failing cooling systems, inadequate back-up systems. Highly embrittled reactors, are allowed to stay opened, under Trumps strident policies of nuclear reactor deregulation.
4. Trumps NRC chairman killed regulations made after Fukushima to watchdog Reactors in Hurricane zones, flood zones and earthquake areas. Old Beatup Reactors like Diablo Canyon in California and Weatherford in Louisiana, are allowed to stay in operation, when hurricanes, earthquakes and floods hit, instead of temporary shutdowns, till the danger passes.
These old reactors in hurricane zones and eartquake zones are well past their due dates to be shut-down.
5. In the face of what has happened at Fukushima and Chernobyl, Trump and the republicans blocked the closing of two of the oldest and most dangerous reactors in the world in Ohio.
6.Trump and his minions, have struck down rules and regulations, that would have forced the closure of aged reactors in dangerous earthquake, hurricane, and flood zones. Dangerous reactors like like at Diablo canyon or old Gulf coast and Atlantic reactors, that contiuously flood now. Most of the 97 old embrittled cracked reactors in america are well past their due-dates.
America has the most reactors in the world. They are also some of the oldest and, most decrepit-dangerous reactors in the world.
The Nuclear Cartel-Trump team is working hard to extend reactors staying opened and, having less supervision of them. There have been major reactor problems and Nuclear Catastrophes occuring on average, about every 7 years in the world, for 65 years.
The United Sates is the country closest to one or more nuclear Catastrophes in the next few years from major increases in floods, hurricanes, and eathquakes in areas with the the most dangerous reactors in the world, in the USA. The USA has 97 of them. Trump is lessening supervison of all of them.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jul/17/nuclear-industry-push-for-reduced-oversight-gainin/
Trump and cronieas are abrogating regulations for hardening reactors in flood zones and closing them in earthquake zones
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nuclear-industry-pushing-fewer-inspections-plants-n983671
The USA has very significant levels of radionuclide contamination, everywhere. From Hanford, to Rocky Flats, around all of the 97 old rickety reactors across the United States, in the thousands of nuclear waste dumps yada yada yada
American’s are stupid in allowing the insanity to continue, considering what happened at Chernobyl and what is going on at Fukushima.
If a reactor and or fuel pool go’s off in america it will release the equivalent, high-level radionuclide contamination, of 10 thousand or more, nuclear bombs.
The USA, is already a heavily radionuclide contaminated country from sea-to-shining-sea. Kim Kardashian’s baby was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer linked to radionuclides, 2 years after the Santa Susana fires close to where Kim’s family lives.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/07/237799/kim-kourtney-kardashian-visit-nuclear-accident-california
The amount of illness and cancer in the next one or more major nuclear cataclysims, in the USA in the next 3 years, will be noticable and catastropic. The USA is already heavily contaminated from numerous Nuclear Bomb Detonations on it’s own citizens, 100s of thousands of tons of nuclear waste, and numerous nuclear events that have happened in the past 78 years.
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Sadly, Rosaliene, I think a growing number of people are coming to view the climate issue this way.
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