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I thought of sharing this relevant 9 minute video:

Carbon Offsets Don't Work. Here's Why

I think depending on where one lives, their local conditions may be very different. So I don't consider personal experience to be necessarily the best reference on the topic.

I thought of sharing this video because it is from a climate scientist and in just a few minutes many things are clarified imo.

I was under the impression that:

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US accounted for 69% of Israel's imports of major conventional arms between 2019 and 2023.

And that:

In May 2024, the US confirmed it had paused a single consignment of 2,000lb and 500lb bombs over concerns Israel was going ahead with a major ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. But Biden immediately faced a backlash from Republicans in Washington and from Netanyahu who appeared to compare it to an "arms embargo". Biden has since partially lifted the suspension and not repeated it.

From Biden plans to send $8bn arms shipment to Israel - BBC - 4 January 2025

I was not aware of the existence of Shut the System and I like their approach, so I find it's great you included their link to your post @[email protected]

Edit: Did a sort of repost to In Person [email protected]

Thank you very much for your insight!

Once more then. In the picture you see Sasol petrochemical plant.

Sasol's Secunda CTL plant is, as of 2020, the world's largest point source of greenhouse gas, at 56.5 Mt/a CO2,[54] a status which persists during the 2020s, with the complex producing more carbon dioxide than the country of Portugal at the close of 2023

Not too sure how this comment is relevant to the article?

If you just saw the picture, there is something written bellow it:

A garbage dump in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa near the Sasol petrochemical plant, the world’s largest single-point emitter of CO2

Relevant site:

The Forever Pollution Project - Journalists tracking PFAS across Europe

In January 2025, the Forever Lobbying Project exposes the lobbying and disinformation campaign orchestrated by the chemical and plastic lobbies to prevent the ban of these “forever chemicals” in the European Union. Fighting to keep their “chemical business as usual” with misleading, scaremongering arguments, polluting industries are shifting the burden of environmental contamination onto society, threatening the economic stability of European nations.

Working with 18 experts, the project calculated the cost of decontaminating Europe if nothing is done to combat PFAS emissions: the figure is more than €100 billion per year – and a staggering €2 trillion over twenty years.

Thank you. At last something that makes sense to me in this discourse.

No matter how her narrative is now:

In 2015, the younger Le Pen expelled her father from the party after a public clash over her public moderation. “I wonder: Did you really do this?” Le Pen asked herself, according to an account she told French television in 2019. “Because it seemed so insane. But we had no choice. It was either that or the movement would disappear.”

From How Le Pen turned respectable (and why you shouldn't be fooled) - Politico, I think this article is an ok overview (with some issues imo, but not in relation to her father).

There are historical ties between fascist Italy and Zionists.

Archived link from the Israeli outlet Haaretz, 2019:

When Jews Praised Mussolini and Supported Nazis: Meet Israel's First Fascists

Some worrying components of Hebrew fascism are still evident in Israel's right wing, 80 years on

Like many others in the mid-1920s, Itamar Ben-Avi, the son of Eliezer Ben Yehuda – the reviver of the Hebrew language and the editor of the newspaper Doar Hayom – expressed a liking and even admiration for Mussolini and his actions. Unlike other journalists at the time, he longed for a strong, assertive leader in the Yishuv, and found him in the person of Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Another such person – a novice commentator who began his political and journalistic career in socialist circles and at the newspaper of the left-wing Hapoel Hatza’ir organization, and who was by late 1920s writing a regular column for Doar Hayom, titled “From the Notebook of a Fascist” – was Abba Ahimeir. Together with an intellectual who was disappointed in socialist circles, a writer and poet named Uri Zvi Greenberg, and the physician and essayist Joshua Heschel Yevin, Ahimeir established a group of young people called Brit Habiryonim (The Zealots’ Alliance), whose aim was to get the country’s youth to see the light about nationalism.