I'd recommend the book Engineers of Jihad. It's precisely the people who wish to change the world and then are denied by external forces (largely the U.S. in this case) that are primed for radicalization.
Also iirc, Bashar al-Assad's father was the one who actually developed the tactic/justification but I'm having trouble finding a source, it's early.
God forbid ... It's not like they're advocating for NATO invading China. Having criticism/doubts of AES does not undermine them, they're not that fragile.
Or when they finally split the gender atom. Radioactive gender everywhere.
Well take a gander at his twitter but lets say he's a fellow traveler of LaRouche. More importantly for this though, degrowth is a bit of a bugbear for him. He complains about it constantly so I wouldn't believe he's being honest about his criticism of Saito.
Leftists and bad slogans, name a better duo. The non primitivist degrowth people are generally pretty alright but those who take it literally are ... scary. Obviously capitalist growth will have to cease, but society needs to be fundamentally reorganized which is going to take a lot of 'growth' in the productive forces. Because people conflate capitalist growth with technological development the arguments for degrowth sound asinine and they dismiss them out of hand.
However I just realized the article is cowritten by Leigh Phillips. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Jacobin would still publish something of his now but its disappointing nonetheless.
Oh yeah that's the fun of dealing with a hypercomplex system. It should help with rewilding efforts but those won't show results for awhile, assuming they're followed through on.
To temper the bleakness a bit, it also means that with the right interventions it would be possible to have similarly drastic positive results.
The eccentricity of Earth's orbit is pretty inconsequential. It's something like a 3% difference between the furthest and closest points, the changes in tilt relative to the sun or the kind of surface exposed to the sun make basically all of the difference.
The sun only heats the top layers of the ocean, like a couple hundred feet iirc, and unevenly at that. It would take a very very long time for all the water in the ocean to reach a true equilibrium (if the sun turned off tomorrow) but it doesn't get to because of the day/night cycle, the seasons, wind and the Earth's actual rotation etc. So that produces recurring ocean currents, which are chaotic in nature, thus leading to the ocean temperature to vary (drastically at times).
This newest warming though I think is largely an unintended consequence of the new bunker fuel regulations in 2020 that drastically reduced the amount of Sulfur in it. The sulfur dioxide produced from all those container ships actually has a cooling effect so really the planet was 'already' this warm, we were just countering it somewhat. It also is what is mainly responsible for acid rain so we can't just pump a bunch of it into the atmosphere.
Having read the article now, its just a run of the mill fearmongering piece for more funding. I don't think we should take them as true believers, obviously some are dumb enough to be but this article in particular doesn't seem to be doing that.
Why are they (or we) pretending that nukes don't exist? There is no direct traditional conflict that will happen, it'll either be proxy wars or nukes.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them thought it was less gay to top a dude than get toped by a woman, cis or trans. They really are returning to (Roman) tradition lol
Oh sorry, to clarify: The 5m one in the article is almost certainly Long March 10. They seem to have decided to make the first stage reusable, contrary to previous statements. It's not clear if that means just the boosters or the boosters and the core but I would guess all three like falcon heavy does. It's also, at least for now, the rocket they plan on sending people to the moon with before 2030 with an Apollo-style lander.
The smaller 4 meter one seems to be for a commercial rocket.
Long March 9 last I saw was still not planned to be reusable until the 2040's but if this recent space push actually turns into a race I'm sure they'll accelerate that.
I know you're just making a comparison but if you actually paid off the national debt you would destroy the dollar.
Which you actually don't want to do unless there's a viable alternative, which there isn't atm.
Really their wealth should be appropriated to build sustainable infrastructure across the globe so we can survive the catastrophe they've created without mass death (or minimize it as much as possible). But if you have the political will to do that then you might as well just push the communism button.