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Além de mandar a carta para a ONU, o governo americano ainda afirmou que não enviará seu secretário de Estado, Marco Rubio, para a reunião do G20 na África do Sul. Oficialmente, o chefe da diplomacia americana alegou que não iria por conta de uma insatisfação do governo Trump com a política de distribuição de terras do governo local.

"A África do Sul está fazendo coisas muito ruins. Expropriando a propriedade privada. Usando o G20 para promover 'solidariedade, igualdade e sustentabilidade'. Em outras palavras: DEI [diversidade, equidade e inclusão] e mudança climática", disse Rubio em uma postagem no X. "Meu trabalho é promover os interesses nacionais dos Estados Unidos, não desperdiçar o dinheiro do contribuinte ou mimar o antiamericanismo", completou.

Ao tomar posse, Trump chamou o acordo de "um roubo". "Não vamos sabotar nossa indústria, enquanto a China polui", disse.

Durante seu discurso, ele ainda debochou da produção de energia eólica. "Não vamos fazer nada com essa coisa de vento", disse. "Vamos economizar US$ 1 trilhão ao sair do acordo", insistiu. Enquanto assinava uma carta para a ONU informando da saída dos EUA, o público xingava a entidade.

EU monitor says global temperatures were 1.75C above preindustrial levels, extending run of unprecedented highs

Climate scientists had expected this exceptional spell to subside after a warming El Niño event peaked in January 2024 and conditions shifted to an opposing, cooling La Niña phase. But the heat has lingered at record or near-record levels, prompting debate about what other factors could be driving it to the top end of expectations.

Kennedy’s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US’s leading health official

After calling for the permanent ‘resettlement’ of all Palestinians from Gaza earlier in the day, Trump said the US would 'take over' and 'own' the Gaza Strip. The US president said he envisioned 'long-term' US ownership of Gaza after Palestinians were moved elsewhere

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What most critics fail to discuss as well is that this world, like any other human world, has been human-made; far from being a product of inscrutable and invincible laws of nature or sinful yet irredeemable human nature, it is, to no small extent, a product of what can only be called the political economy of uncertainty.

The major vehicle of this particular political economy of our times is the escape of power from politics; a flight connived with by traditional institutions of political control, above all by the governments of states, and more often than not actively aided and abetted by them through the policies of deregulation and privatization. The overall result of this process is, as Manuel Castells puts it, a world in which power flows, while politics stays tied to the place; power is increasingly global and exterritorial, while all established political institutions stay territorial and find it difficult, nay impossible, to rise above the local level. After two centuries of the modern effort to tame and domesticate blind and erratic forces of nature and replace them with rationally designed, predictable and manageable human order – it is now the outcomes of human activities that confront the actors as eccentric and capricious, wayward and impenetrable, but above all unbridled and uncontrollable ‘natural’ forces. Societies once struggling to make their world transparent, danger-proof and free of surprises now find their capacity to act hanging on the shifting and unpredictable moods of mysterious forces such as world finances and stock exchanges, or watch helplessly, without being able to do much about it, the continuous shrinking of labour markets, rising poverty, the unstoppable erosion of arable land, the disappearance of forests, growing volumes of carbon dioxide in the air and the overheating of the human planet. Things – and the most important things above all – are ‘getting out of control’. As the human ability to cope with problems at hand grows, so do the risks and new dangers which every new move brings, or may bring, in its wake.

The overwhelming feeling of ‘losing a hold on the present’ is the result, which in its turn leads to a wilting of political will; to disbelief that anything sensible can be done collectively, or that solidary action can make any radical change in the state of human affairs. That condition is seen increasingly as a ‘must’ – a supreme necessity which can be interfered with by humans only at their own peril. We hear again and again that the sole medicine for the morbid side-effects of deregulated competitiveness is more deregulation, flexibility and a yet more resolute refusal to meddle. And in case one remains unconvinced, the clinching argument against resistance is the all-too-tangible absence of an agency powerful enough to carry out whatever decisions may be taken by joint deliberation and agreement. Even those who think they know what is to be done throw the towel into the ring when it comes to deciding who – what kind of an effective institution – is going to do it.

This is why, as Cornelius Castoriadis observed, our civilization ‘stopped questioning itself’. This, Castoriadis adds, is our main trouble. When people accept their impotence to control the conditions of their life, if they surrender to what they take to be necessary and unavoidable – society ceases to be autonomous, that is, self-defining and self-managing; or, rather, people do not believe it to be autonomous, and thus lose the courage and the will to self-define and self-manage. Society then becomes heteronomous in consequence – other-directed, pushed rather than guided, plankton-like, drifting rather than navigating. Those on board the ship placidly accept their lot and abandon all hope of determining the itinerary of the vessel. At the end of the modern adventure with a self-governing, autonomous human world, we enter the ‘epoch of universalized conformity’

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“The fascism that we thought we’d left behind is now the third biggest political force in Europe,” said Sánchez. “And, as President Macron [of France] said only a few days ago, the international reactionary movement – or the international far-right movement that we’ve been warning about for years in Spain – which is being led in this case by the richest man on the planet, is openly attacking our institutions, inciting hatred and openly calling for people to support the heirs of nazism in Germany in the forthcoming elections that will be held in Europe’s most important economy.”