Good day to remind everyone of the guy who will be feted, mourned, and deified nationally and internationally as a "Grand strategist", "Mr. Realpolitik", 'Statesman", "Great Man of History" etc., etc.,
Everyone knows about the Vietnam war, and what happened in "Indo-China", much less so around the same time what happened in South Asia from 1970-71. Remains one of the toughest books I have ever read.
Activists across #SouthAsia had been loudly warning back-to-back climate disasters can permanently end harvests:
“The agricultural economy in all districts..is now three short crops in succession. Matured rice crops were swept away when the fields flooded in July, but over the next three months (i.e. Jul-Sep), we used to sow and harvest maize. Hopes for both crops are now gone.”
Mass murderer and War Criminal Henry Kissinger is finally dead!
He won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Lê Đức Thọ, for their work in orchestrating a ceasefire in the Vietnam War. Two Nobel Prize committee members resigned in protest. During his diplomatic career, Kissinger was involved in orchestrating and/or supporting the Chilean coup and Pinochet dictatorship (over 3,000 killed); the Argentine Dictatorship (up to 30,000 killed); the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh (3 million killed); and the Genocide in East Timor (up to 300,000 killed).
#Heatwaves have long been known to impact children's learning. But the intensity & duration with which they strike now are leading to much greater cumulative impacts
#ClimateChange is directly causing educational gaps worth years across the world
For policy makers who care about GDP than #education, what happens to the economy when your workforce cant keep up?
This is as true in the west as in the #GlobalSouth
Bangladesh is battling its worst dengue outbreak on record, with more than 600 people killed and 135,000 cases reported since April, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, as one of its experts blamed the climate crisis and El Nino weather pattern for driving the surge....
Paan (Betel Nut Leaf) is a popular Mouth Refreshment in entire Subcontinent, from #Pakistan, #India#Nepal to #Bangladesh
It is also popular in the Middle East, South East Asia and, as far as the Pacific!
" #Pakistan's climate emergency is unfolding like a horror movie where each scene is more frightening than the last. We are constantly lurching from one climate disaster to another, with no time to step back"
On #ClimateChange and the #UrbanHeatIsland effect in developing countries blindly following the American style of "development", personal stories from people trying to cope with these both climate and architecturally magnified heatwaves.
This is what you get when you severely underpay your workers. Also affected are #Gap, #Walmart,#Zara, Inditex, Bestseller, #MarksAndSpencer, Primark and Aldi.
#Levi's and #HnM are among top global clothing brands to suffer production halts in #Bangladesh, a garment union leader said Friday, after days of violent protests by workers demanding a near-tripling of their wages. #LaborUnrest
Meanwhile at the other end of the #clothing#supplychain#workers in #Bangladesh are striking because even the most recent hike in the country's minimum wage (as elsewhere) has failed to keep up with #inflation.
Three companies account for around 85% of the country's garment exports - H&M, Zara & Walmart - and they stand accused of lagging their price agreements & so forcing wages to not keep up with inflation for these workers.
So clearly not wage-push inflation in clothing either then!
Watching the #AmbaniWedding makes me so proud of our last month
On one hand, you have billionaires burning 1000 tons of carbon to fly into an airport granted "international status" to accommodate so many private jets, for a multi-day bash that will release even more CO2 into our atmosphere
On the other hand, Risham & I went up against centuries of tradition to have a one day #ClimateChange themed #ClimateWedding, winning friends&fam over to the cause
🥰 #ClimateDiary
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 8,000 opposition figures in a nationwide crackdown since officers broke up a major rally in the capital a week ago, a report said Sunday. The sweeping wave of detentions comes ahead of a general election due in January....
Editorial in Dawn - Pakistan's oldest English Daily:
"The writing is on the wall. The time for incremental steps is over. The scale of the challenge requires bold, decisive actions that reflect the urgency of the moment."
Tak się zastanówmy, gdy wejdziemy na stronę gdzie kupujemy ciuchy albo do galerii handlowej.
By móc kupić te ubrania często upominamy się o odpowiednie prawa i pieniądze, ludzie, którzy je szyją, tych praw już nie mają.
"Na kilkuset pracowników jest jedno pomieszczenie, które z trudem można nazwać łazienką. To i tak lepiej niż w kolejnej fabryce – tym razem butów. Nie ma tam ani jednej toalety, więc potrzeby fizjologiczne załatwia się na zewnątrz, a mycie zapewnia uliczna pompa. Wszystkie prace, w tym nakładanie śmierdzącego chemią kleju, dzieci wykonują gołymi rękami i bez maseczek. Oblicza się, że udział zarobków w cenie produktu finalnego wynosi 0,5 proc., biznes więc będzie trwał. Tym bardziej że firmy certyfikowane zlecają podwykonawstwo firmom niecertyfikowanym."
Bangladesh's worst ever dengue outbreak a 'canary in the coal mine' for climate crisis, WHO expert warns (edition.cnn.com)
Bangladesh is battling its worst dengue outbreak on record, with more than 600 people killed and 135,000 cases reported since April, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, as one of its experts blamed the climate crisis and El Nino weather pattern for driving the surge....
Somali pirates release hijacked Bangladeshi ship (www.bssnews.net)
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
Bangladesh arrests 8,000 opposition activists (www.brecorder.com)
Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 8,000 opposition figures in a nationwide crackdown since officers broke up a major rally in the capital a week ago, a report said Sunday. The sweeping wave of detentions comes ahead of a general election due in January....