CO₂ does not control the climate. It never has. It is not the master dial of the Earth’s temperature, nor is it the architect of our modern anxieties.
Carbon dioxide doesn't cause excessive rainfall, droughts, or the collapse of coastal cliffs. Nor is it responsible for the fractures in human society—terrorism, urban violence, obesity or the drug crisis. These are the products of a human civilization that has survived its own annihilation by the narrowest of margins, persisting for 300,000 years largely through a stroke of cosmic luck.
Yet, for four decades, a relentless climate war has force-fed the world a diet of crisis and warming hysteria. It insists that CO₂ is the root of all evil—that it is our fault and it is the gas's fault. But the truth is indifferent: CO₂ doesn't care. It is not demonic. It is not pollution. It is the foundation of life on Earth.
Without it, Earth would be a silent, sterile rock, inhabited only by bacteria. It was CO₂ that empowered cyanobacteria to unlock the miracle of photosynthesis, slowly flooding the world with the 'waste product' we call oxygen. Before this, the oceans were dark with iron, the skies were not blue, and the world was effectively lifeless. We should be thankful for this gas of life, rather than inventing doomsday scenarios to vilify it.
If we look at the true scale of our planet, the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s geology is tectonic continental flow. This slow, majestic dance of crustal plates shapes our continents and redirects the great ocean currents. This is nature at work.
Today, CO₂ is a mere trace gas at 427 ppm (0.04%). While it is a mighty driver for biology, it is at some of its lowest levels in planetary history. During the Cambrian Period, concentrations were upwards of 4,000 to 8,000 ppm. If those massive levels did not trigger an 'irreversible environmental collapse', it is illogical to assume today’s trace amounts will.
Furthermore, water vapor remains the dominant greenhouse gas, reaching concentrations of 40,000 ppm (4%) in the tropics. It is responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse effect, yet it is sidelined in favor of the carbon narrative.
History matters. For hundreds of millions of years, CO₂ has not been the deciding factor in global temperature. Homo sapiens evolved during the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago when Antarctica became entombed in ice. Our entire history has unfolded within the Quaternary glaciation, surviving 100,000-year cycles of icehouse conditions.
Almost every meaningful invention, every empire, and every leap in human progress occurred within the brief, warm window of the Holocene. We have never not lived in an ice age. We have survived global upheavals before, but we may not survive a self-imposed collapse into a new medieval dark age driven by ideological fear.
The word "communist" did enormous work during the Cold War.
It attached to Mosaddegh, who was a liberal nationalist.
It attached to Árbenz, who was a democratic reformer.
It attached to Allende, who won a democratic election.
It attached to Lumumba, who wanted the Congo's minerals for Congolese people.
It attached to Sankara, who planted trees and vaccinated children.
It attached to the ANC in South Africa.
It attached to the PLO.
It attached to striking labor unions.
It attached to land reform movements.
It attached to anyone who questioned whether foreign corporations should control a country's natural resources.
The word did not describe an ideology in these cases.
The word was a termination signal.
Once attached, it authorized removal.
It deactivated the normal rules.
It suspended the democracy promotion, the human rights concern, the multilateral consultation.
It bypassed every stated principle and went directly to the operational response.
Once you were "communist," you were outside the framework of people whose political rights the West was defending.
The label was applied to whoever needed to be outside that framework.
It was the most powerful administrative tool of the twentieth century.
It required no evidence.
It required only attachment.
And the people who attached it are still considered statesmen.
Al riparo della cortina di ferro l'odiata partitocrazia faceva l'anarco-liberismo, poi l'URSS è andata giù e l'UE ci ha portato il comunismo.
Da tardolandia è tutto.
@EntropicBazaar beh, per me il liberalismo è demoniaco. Magari sbaglio, ma ogni volta che ci ho a che fare ( praticamente quotidianamente) ci vedo un demone osceno Quindi...
Diaz Canel, presidente della repubblica cubana, a Plaza de la Revolución il 16 aprile 2026 in occasione del 65° anniversario della proclamazione del carattere socialista della Rivoluzione Cubana:
In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.
He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.
He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.
Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.
The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.
Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.
The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.
By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.
This is the system that exists today.
The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.
The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.
The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.
Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.
The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.
The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.
It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.
You are the customer.
The corridor is where you live.
El hebreo moderno no es el hebreo bíblico, es una lengua reconstruida artificialmente por Eliezer Ben-Yehuda a finales del siglo XIX, con gramática simplificada, fonología alterada y miles de neologismos que no existían en el hebreo antiguo, básicamente n hablante de hebreo moderno no entendería un texto del Primer Templo sin formación filológica específica y los judíos que acabaron en Israel hablaban un montón de lenguas distkntas. El shekel como moneda acuñada no existía en el reino de David. Durante la mayor parte de la historia del antiguo Israel funcionó como unidad de peso. Las primras monedas acuñadas judías son del periodo hasmoneo, siglo II a.C., más de ochocientos años después de David. Que la moneda moderna use el mismo nombre es una decisión de construcción nacional y no una continuidad como se plantea aquí.
Una riflessione dovrebbe portarci a chiedere come, dalla caduta dell'URSS, si è passati dalle "guerre di pace" per "esportare la democrazia" alle crociate anticristiche in cui i genocidi sono dichiarati buoni e giusti per una tirannia di "eletti" dal mercato.
Chiaro?
NON esistono terze vie o quarte teorie politiche: esistono solo l'ordine attuale e la sua negazione.
La sua negazione si chiamava socialismo.
Il resto è vigliaccheria.
Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.
We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.
Costruzione della prima linea della metropolitana di Mosca intitolata a Lenin.
Una squadra di operai durante una riunione.
Anni '30.
(Oggi a sinistra ci stanno i liberal senza testosterone...)
@casacasala Lo spirito "liberale e democratico" del libero mercato non è mai esistito.
Se è liberale, NON è democratico.
Il "libero mercato" è la prevalenza dell'economico sul politico e pertanto è la negazione della democrazia.
Quindi non è "diventata" dittatura, è proprio nata come tale.
I risultati del referendum hanno risvegliato gli istinti razzisti dei cacciavitari contro i meridionali e la prevedibile reazione di questi ultimi.
Voglio ricordare a tutti come stanno in realtà le cose: