We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Highest inflation rate in 71 years
Consumer price index, October 2022 +10.4% on the same month a year earlier (provisional result confirmed) +0.9% on the previous month (provisional result confirmed) Harmonised index of consumer prices, October 2022 +11.6% on the same […]
Corruption
BBC: Romania protests: Thousands hold fresh rallies after clashes
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy – Germany: The Culprit’s Law
Italy pays reparations for Germany’s Nazi war crimes, while Germany gets off scot-free. The German (“coalition of values”) government has successfully enforced “sovereign immunity” for Germany. Read HERE
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