THE BEADY ASK’S WHY IS THE EDUCATION OF FEMALE’S SUCH A PROBLEM FOR THE TALIBAN?

21 Wednesday Dec 2022

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Islam Doesn’t Deny Women Education, So Why Does the Taliban?Taliban forces disperse women who were protesting over a suicide bomb attack

The Taliban had stated that women would be allowed to attend schools and universities, as long as classes were segregated.

But after its failure to allow girls to return to schools, many fear that the fundamentalist group will revert to its previous handling of women’s education – by effectively banning it altogether.

Between 1991 and 2006, under Taliban rule, Afghan women were not permitted to go to schools or universities. But in the years following the Taliban’s control of the country, the number of girls in primary school increased from nearly zero to 2.5 million, and the female literacy rate almost doubled to 30% between 2011 and 2018, according to a 2021 UNESCO report.

Although the Taliban claims its policies are guided by Islam, there is nothing Islamic about preventing women from going to school – in fact, it’s arguably un-Islamic.

While curbing women’s access to education has no basis in religion, it’s been firmly on the agenda of this extremist group for years – it was a faction of the Taliban, after all, that shot Malala Yousafzai in the head as punishment for her pro-female-education activism.

But the Quran commands all Muslims, regardless of gender, to read, think, contemplate, and pursue knowledge, and the Prophet Muhammad encouraged education as a religious duty for both males and females.

How then, can the Taliban, which declared Afghanistan an “Islamic” state, prevent women in the country from fulfilling what is otherwise seen as their religious duty?

The answer lies in cultural gender roles that patriarchal – not religious – regimes strive to uphold. Women’s purpose in these societies, according to the men that lead them, are to grow up chastely, marry (rarely for romance), and birth children, while maintaining the household with cooking, cleaning, and other domestic duties.

Their schooling, which could open the door to job opportunities and employment outside of the home, threatens this very traditional mindset.

These cultural attitudes are often masqueraded as religious ideals.

The Taliban’s leaders are well aware that the world’s eyes are on them, particularly watchful of their handling of women’s rights. T

Banning women from education and work is a crime against humanity.

Muslim women clearly have an Islamic right to education.“

Efforts to rebuild Afghanistan in the wake of economic collapse will be undermined completely;

The edict makes Afghanistan the only country on earth to bar half its population from getting a secondary education.

Just recently Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women.

This is a poor smokescreen for their real motivations,  a chilling step backwards for Afghanistan.Afghan female students take entrance exams at Kabul University in October

There are no two ways about it: women must be allowed to work and to move freely, and girls must be allowed to continue to go to school.

The international community has made the right to education for all women a sticking point in negotiations over aid and recognition of the Taliban regime.

They, that is the Taliban should be aware in the first place that none of them would exist without woman.

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THE BEADY EYE’S. 2023 MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG GENERATION. IT WON’T BE EASY AND IT WON’T COST TRILLIONS TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WORLD.

19 Monday Dec 2022

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Your time is now,  to step up to the plate and start taking responsibility for the biggest growth opportunity in human history.

Unfortunately its starts with facing global challenges that are causing and will continue to cause our globally societies to change  radically. 

You don’t have be told that we are on track to a catastrophic 2.7c of global warming.

You don’t have to be told that the population of the world  will be near 10 billion of us by 2050.

You don’t have to be told that as a result the demand for freshwater and food will increase.

You don’t have to be told that it is going to take a substantial portion of the worlds annual GDP to convert to a green sustainable economic system.

You don’t have to be told that the transition will not be orderly while we have I am all right Jack attuites, with profit seeking algorithms, while we have privileged positions and assets harvesting profits by using the current recession fever for overly aggressive job cuts, while we have education at a premium, while we have immigration and countries turn  inwards.

You don’t have to be told that the Ukraine Russian war is showing the urgency to develop new energy solutions.

You don’t have to be told that people world wide must rally to collaboratively research and share Covid -19 vaccines.

You don’t have to be told that companies must stop paying out excessive dividends and share paybacks.

You don’t have to be told that there is a boom of innovations in all technologies, that it must be turned into an interdisciplinary revolution.

You don’t have to be told that old industries and jobs will disappear.

You don’t have to be told that there will be more floods, wild fires, droughts, and conflict are on the horizons.

You don’t have to be told that 80% of world wide agricultural land is using 10% of available freshwater.

You don’t have to be told that we are looking at the disappearance of our polar caps , glaciers,  forests, rivers.

You don’t have to be told that by 2025 over half the world’s population will live in water- stressed areas with rising oceans.

You don’t have to be told that that we needs new materials to build with. Steel responsible for 11% of yours days carbon emissions, concerts 8% plastics 4%

You don’t have to be told that if we do nothing you will see the biggest human migration in world history.  As environmental, political and economic refugee grow to numbers never witnessed in the World.

You don’t have to be told that the Biodiversity of the world is under treat of extinction.

You don’t have to be told that you will most likely be living through these changes.

You don’t have to be told that solutions will not be found in impact start-up but by becoming leaders in business and government.

You don’t have to be told that sooner that later the world will rally to address all of the above.

YOU DO HAVE TO BE TOLD THAT THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS COULD BE TRAGIC AND TUMULTUOUS.

Your response to the megatrends will shape what is meant for human to survive.

Addressing the 60 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases we emit every year, through point – of source will be a multitrillion opportunity and more.

Don’t be distracted.

Every generation has the ability to effect changes, your generation must do so, because the age of technology combined by the current Capitalists Systems will and is  turning almost ever thing in to a product to trade.

There is no reality in the metaverse a “computer generated universe. ”

You have a weapon called the smartphone which ironically is both the cause and the solutions to effect change.

If you want a living world now is the time to use this power, to attack the unsustainable consumerism’s of profit for profit sake.

Bombard their operations with millions of messages to block their activities.

THIS IS ONE LOUD VOICE THAT CANNOT NOT BE ARESSTED.

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THE BEADY OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE COP15 BIODIVERSITY AGREEMENT COMPLEMENTS OF VERT.

19 Monday Dec 2022

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COP15: an ambitious agreement to halt the collapse of life
After two weeks of negotiations, almost all the countries of the world reached an agreement, Monday morning, at the end of the 15th world conference (COP15) on biodiversity. The challenge was daunting: to set an international framework for the current decade capable of halting, and even reversing, the collapse of life.

“It is a historic text which has just been adopted, well I hope it has been adopted. The words of the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevičius, shortly after the final hammer blow of the COP15 on biodiversity, reflect the general incomprehension. A few moments earlier, China – which was co-organizing the summit with Canada – decided to adopt the agreement with forceps, ignoring the frank disagreement of the Congo. In principle, the decision had to be taken by consensus between the 196 States Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity present in Montreal.

Like others, the Central African country felt that several conditions were missing from the final document, the fruit of four years of work and two weeks of intense negotiations. Among these: the money needed to protect and restore biodiversity.

Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu and members of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity welcome the adoption of the new global biodiversity framework in Montreal, December 19, 2022 © UN biodiversity / Flickr
money for the living
The new “Kunming-Montreal Framework on Global Biodiversity” provides for funding dedicated to living organisms (public, private, national or international) to reach 200 billion dollars per year by 2030. However, certain high estimates of the amounts required fluctuate between 600 and 823 billion dollars per year, according to the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).

Another subject of tension: many countries of the South demanded support from the countries of the North to the tune of 100 billion dollars per year by 2030 for the preservation and restoration of biodiversity; the framework finally foresees 20 billion dollars per year by 2025, and 30 billion at the latest in 2030.

Finally, while developing countries demanded the creation of a dedicated biodiversity fund, which the countries of the North opposed, the biodiversity money will finally be managed within the Global Environment Facility (GEF) , as proposed by Colombia. At least initially.

End clap to everyone’s surprise when the Democratic Republic of Congo had not given its agreement. But the legal advice of the expert of the Convention validates the procedure. © Earth negotiations bulletin
For a true sharing of benefits from genetic resources
The key issue of this COP, the sharing of benefits from the genetic resources of developing countries exploited by companies from Northern countries, for example in cosmetics or medicines ( our article ), was the subject of an agreement . This formalizes the creation of a mechanism whose workings will be determined during COP16 in Turkey.

In addition to additional funding, subsidies harmful to life must be reduced by at least 500 billion dollars per year by 2030. Subsidies granted to conventional agriculture are particularly targeted, as this constitutes the main threat on biodiversity, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity .

The text “does not break the house, but it saves the furniture” , in the words of Pierre Cannet, director of advocacy and campaigns for WWF France. “There was something for everyone,” greets a European diplomat. Everyone agrees that the new framework contains real advancements over its predecessors.

Protect 30% of land and seas by 2030
The European Union had made this its flagship proposal: the text endorses the objective of ensuring the protection of at least 30% of land, seas, coasts and inland waters by 2030. By the same deadline, 30 % of degraded areas will require “effective” restoration to promote ecosystem integrity, functions and services.

The agreement says nothing about the quality of these protections, which can range from putting the areas “under cover” to accommodating human activities – fishing, hunting, logging, etc. This point has provoked the ire of certain NGOs, including Bloom, who accuses the French government of having maneuvered so that there is no mention of an objective of 10% of areas under “strong” protection – which denies the executive.

This map shows the land areas (in green) and the marine areas (in blue) which have the status of protected areas in December 2022. Click to go directly to the site which lists them. © Protected Planet
Agriculture: no mention of meat or livestock
Alas, the final text contains no mention of animal husbandry or meat diets , while meat still requires more agricultural land. These are often borrowed from natural environments, aggravating the climate crisis and the collapse of life.

The agreement pleads weakly for a “sustainable management” of spaces dedicated to agriculture, aquaculture, fishing or forestry, through the use of practices that respect biodiversity. Among these: agroecology, “sustainable intensification” (producing more on the same land and using fewer inputs while increasing yields, according to the FAO) and “other innovative approaches” . Enough to allow everyone to see noon at their doorstep.

The planned reduction of pesticides
Notable fact and applauded by many European observers : by 2030, the new framework plans to reduce by at least 50% the “ pesticide risks » ; a more effective formulation than tackling the volumes spread alone. As Paul Leadly, a researcher specializing in population and community ecology at Paris-Saclay, tells us, while the use of pesticides has fallen by 40% in the United States, the risks have been multiplied by four due to a greater product toxicity. Some large emerging countries such as Brazil or Argentina have tried to influence to obtain a soft agreement with their agro-industrial sector and have scrapped in vain, in particular with the European Union, to remove the mention of pesticides.

Excessive discharges of nutrients into the environment – ​​such as nitrates from pig manure which destroy waterways and create green tides in Brittany – will also have to be halved in eight years. The parties also pledged to “work towards the elimination of plastic pollution” . In addition, the text encourages, without requiring, companies to report on their impact on biodiversity and the actions implemented to limit it.

Equity, rights of indigenous peoples and gender recognized
Indigenous peoples are the best stewards of biodiversity ( Green ) and their role in ecosystem conservation is recognized in this new global biodiversity framework. The text calls for balance and harmony with “Mother Earth”, as demanded by several Latin American countries.

A representative of indigenous people in the premises of the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, where COP15 biodiversity took place. © UN Biodiversity
Finally, the framework recognizes the need to take into account women, young people and people with disabilities in decision-making and to ensure the protection of environmental defenders, who are increasingly victims of abuse and even Assassination ( Green ).

And after ?
“What is not quantified and dated is not accomplished, we know it from Aichi” , remarks Pierre Cannet, of WWF France. The 20 objectives (known as from Aichi ”) of the previous global framework decided in 2010 all failed ( Green ), in particular because the text only provided for a few implementation indicators. An analysis of all national targets is planned at each of the COPs, which are held every two years. Then, the first assessment of the implementation of the national roadmaps will take place in four years.

The countries are now responsible for putting this new framework to music in their domestic policies. From 2023, France must write its new national biodiversity roadmap. It will also have to find a way to stop subsidizing harmful agricultural practices, seriously reduce the use of pesticides or the artificialization of soils, etc. “Everyone will have to live up to this Montreal agreement so that we can show that it is not a paper agreement” , explains the French Minister of Ecology, Christophe Béchu, who also applauds a “historical” text.

The text “does not break the house, but it saves the furniture” , in the words of Pierre Cannet, director of advocacy and campaigns for WWF France. “There was something for everyone,” greets a European diplomat. If the living isn’t out of the woods, everyone agrees that the new framework contains real advances over its predecessors.

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THE BEADY EYES. CHRISTIMAS AND NEW YEAR GREETING TO YOU. FORTUNATELY THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE HAS NOT YET DISCOVERED ANY BLOKE WITH A WHITE BEARD.

15 Thursday Dec 2022

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(  Six minute greeting )

It would be fair to say that this century has eclipses a hundred previous centuries in terms of human accomplishments raised billions out of abject poverty and starvation.  At the same time with smart phone, profit seeking algorithms, expanding inequality, and more and more wars that one could count on one hand our world is in a mess.

2022 was a transformative year for technological innovation and digital transformation, but it seems that we are sad creatures looking into our phones, like snow whites wicked step-mother whispering to ourselves.

Mirror mirror on the wall who knows best in all the world.

So as social media compresses opinions, and everything becomes a sound bite, yet allows wild variations, and science advances, the speed of interaction increases magnifying the forces coming at you to the point you have not time to weigh your decisions, it is not surprising as time moves, that to reverse climate change, it is going to required an excellent moral compass and a world wide plan, yet to be achieved.

 We are divided on race, faith, income, gender, age, politics, and we can’t agree on anything except that we disagree with the other one…

Not to worry, we have Artificial Intelligence.

It was designed for automation activities like emulation, speech recognition, learning, planning, problem solving, but it is changing how we do business, how we plan, how we design.

It is now in marketing banking business accounting, public safety, retail, education, public transport. It can predict millions of protein structures. It can write its own code creating its own language. Its not yet quite sentient but its on track to be. It will extend the human brain capacity and memory,  with brain/computer interfacing,  with neuromorphic chips and brain mapping to read thoughts all connected to the cloud.

There is the question of how all this technology, Internet of things, 5G, Space, Genomics, Synthetic Biology, Automation, Augmented Reality, Robotics, Material Science, Computer technologies, will fuse together.

So lets look at a few of the above:

Computing.

Now has biological products instead of number using DNA, and will no doubt be able to store the DNA of living cells.

This is where the recent RNA vaccinations, to fight Covid came from.  RNA vaccines are a new class of vaccines that are composed of an mRNA sequence coding for a pathogen-specific protein (antigen). Once expressed in the body, the target antigen is recognized by the immune system, leading to the induction of desired immune responses. Rather than a passive observer they instructs the immune system.  There is now a race to develop this type of vacation to cure everything from a common cold to cancer.

We have Photonic & Optical Computing using optical pluses rather tan electrical transistors, which will be a million times faster than existing technologies.

Then there is Chemical Computing. not quite there yet. Using sub- atomic particles to process data inputs.

And of course Quantum Computing.  We are well on the path to a quantum era.

Robotics.

The face of emerging technology, automating manufacturing farming warehouses functions, hospitals security now aided by machine learning and machine vision to mend its self.

Advanced Materials and 3 d printing.

Enabled by AI we might see self healing and self assembling materials. Bioprinting human organs.

Could we evolve ourselves out of existence.

There’s one thing that they all have in common: In addition to shaping our lives over the past decade, they’re paving the way for how we live in the future.

ONE WAY OR THE OTHER  better and worse life expectancy is increasing, but the number of years where we are healthy has decreased.

Eroding democracy turned into an a puppet show and young people don’t even understand the value of true democracy and the price people had to pay to achieve it.

The powers that be, the 1%, are transitioning the rest of humanity into techno feudalism, endless bankers bailouts, virtue signalling and zero transparency. And more wars.

Finding or showing love is not swiping right on an app or a short-form video.

Increasing economic disparity, greater levels of state violence, and criminals heading the three most powerful countries in the world.

So my Christmas greeting is not what is promoted by Advertising. Eat more, Eat now. Buy this or that online or off line. Not a electronic Xmas Card, a Twitter or a  Double Big Mac that’s emits as much CO2 as a 14.95 mile journey.

I hope you celebrate with kindness.  Be a Xmas drone and drop a present of a donation to a deserving Charity. 

Just before the year ends we have advances in three major areas – Medical – Energy – RNA vaccinations.

However if we continue in ignoring climate change which will undo all that progress and bring severe devastation to the planet, starving billions. Remember that you come into this world with nothing and you will be leaving with nothing other than you good deeds.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS: IS BRITIAN A SOCIETY STILL DEEPLY DIVIDED BY CLASS?

12 Monday Dec 2022

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In most of the world social class is clearly no longer neatly defined by occupation, however like it or loathe it, many countries still see the class system as a quintessential element of life.

In England the question of course is tainted by its past history.  The British Empire, the resulting Industrial Revolution, which was  disfigured by class, and the treatment of working class lives as expendable.

The pandemic has intensified and laid bare the class divisions and racism entrenched within capitalist Britain.

There are many issues that impact on and are barriers to success and social mobility for all those who come from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds. Gender, disabilities, ill health, geographical location, accessibility of childcare and a lack of a social network are factors that impact those impoverished which don’t discriminate on ethnicity, and would be considered to be class related issues.

Classism creates unfair advantages for the wealthy and unfair disadvantages for the poor and combined with racism it is systemic in the UK.

For the majority of people, the colour of their skin and ethnic background is not one of these barriers to upwards social mobility but for black and ethnic minority (BAME) brits this is a very real issue, and one that can also be the cause of downward social mobility. (Where do you come from?)

It is related to how a capitalist society works, and hierarchies are ingrained in the nature of human beings, disguising the root of the problem.

The phrase ‘Black lives matter’ does not mean that other lives don’t matter or don’t have issues; but this is the most pressing issue that society needs to focus on right now.

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To this day English citizens are still subjects, called serf, to a Royal Family that gives permission to form a government.

Without a written constitution that could provide opportunities for the public to influence the political process.

The UK constitution can be altered relatively easily by the government of the day, meaning it changes more frequently than many other constitutions. It is often said that the UK Parliament is ‘sovereign’. This parliamentary ‘sovereignty’ means that Parliament can make or unmake any law, without being limited by a constitutional text.

Without a written constitution it leaves the political system open to abuse. This lack of clarity can also be exploited by those in power to get away with things that would be more difficult if the rules were clearer. It also can make the business of governing harder, as there will be doubts surrounding the roles and responsibilities of different political institutions.

Constitutions place both limitations and obligations on governmental organisations in their relationship with the people. The UK’s constitution is different from many other countries in that its core aspects are not contained in a single legal source.

Proponents of a codified constitution argue that stating clearly all in one place how the political system operates would enable the government to better serve the public and the public to better engage with government. Instead England has 798 life peers ( some with life hereditary) in a second chamber,  of lords and baronesses with average age of 72 who scrutinise,  government actions / bills etc. To date, 1,517 life peers have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958.

This vast and elaborate structure grew up almost in secret and is now after the Covid out brake showing alarming signs of dilapidation.

So class distinctions do not die; they merely learn new ways of expressing themselves.

Boris Johnson appointed 79 life peers since he became prime minister in July 2019.

Of Boris Johnson’s cabinet 64% are privately educated. And even worse, Johnson is the 20th UK Prime Minister out of 55 to be educated at Eton owing their place to their families’ wealth and greed.’’

Class is no longer simply a vertical ranking linked to capital and a system of production. What class, for example, is a university graduate working in a call centre, renting with friends but expecting some “help” with a mortgage from their parents in later middle age?

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CLASS still matters.

It defines much of Britain and Scotland. It shapes life chances, educational opportunities, work advancement and careers, health, life expectancy, culture, politics – and who makes and does not make the key decisions in society.

The current Government mantra of levelling up IS NOW A FORM OF social apartheid disfigurement.

For example the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 when 72 people died.

Why?

Quantitative easing by the Bank of England over-inflated assets and provided a state backed bonanza inflating the portfolios of the super-rich as a result the UK is on a trajectory to become the most unequal of the richest twenty-five nations of the world.

As the UK experienced a decade of stagnation for most people, the richest 1,000 families saw their wealth double.

Because the British class system has its protections at every level of its society, so levelling up will have little dent on the citadels of power and privilege.

Writers have been hailing the death of our class system for decades - yet the distinctions have never really faded (Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Great British Class Survey discovered seven distinct classes in total, with an elite (representing roughly 6% of the population) residing above a wide spectrum of working and middle classes

.Under capitalism most of us are obliged to work for a living, and without strong trade unions and workers’ co-operatives we’re at the mercy of employers’ whims and desire for profit. Social Mobility is lower in the UK than elsewhere in Europe.

You can today be born into a class and be more likely in future to die freezing on the streets as compared to your chances of going to the kind of university that will propel you forward.

While accent, dress and name can still reveal so much about who you are in Britain.

So often, someone’s address tells you a great deal about who they are: your postcode is the unhidden part of your wealth.

Like a lot of political issues, money is a big factor.‘

Private education legitimates inequality.

Private education accounts for 7% of the school age population but that tiny minority have huge disproportionate power; 42% of Oxford University undergraduates are privately educated, 37% of Cambridge and Durham, 35.6% of St. Andrews and 33.6% of Edinburgh.  This feeds into Britain’s elites: 74% of judges, 71% of barristers and 71% of senior military figures are privately educated, privilege, elite arrogance and the grotesque inequalities which disfigure the UK.

The British political class at Westminster have a disproportionate number of privately educated MPs

Addressing this and putting it into reverse is going to require political leadership, public pressure, and taking on vested interests is going to require a written constitution.

Being prepared to do so will decide not only the future of not only the UK society, but ultimately, of Scotland and Wales not to mention Northern Ireland which will in the not so distant future will have no option but to be repatriated to the rest of Ireland.

In the mean time the powerful vision of England – of the countryside, rural traditions, and a romantic version of the past – has become associated with the politics of reaction.

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THE BEADY EYES. ALTERNATIVE TO PENELITY SHOOTOUT IN FOOTBALL.

09 Friday Dec 2022

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LIKE ME I AM SURE IF YOU ARE A FOOTBALL FAN YOU ARE  ENJOYING THE WORLD CUP WITH ALL ITS SKILLS AND GOALS. The World Cup trophy is the most disappointing prize in sports — Quartz

For teams that dont win after extra time to be knocked out on penalties kicks is a tragedy in more way than one.

It would be much in the sprit of the game, if the competing teams were to decide the winner in this manner.

Rather then the penalty shoot out the pitch in halved by placing a new goalmouth on the half way line.

The goal keepers remain but the players are reduced to 6 aside.

If no goals are scored every ten minutes the teams are reduced by a player.

Like the shootout the team that first does two goals in front wins.

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PS:  A slight modification to the playing area so the fan can see the play.

Two New goalmouth facing each other in the middle on the touchlines, with touch lines marked across the pitch.

No offside rule.

THE BEADY EYE SAYS: AS USUAL THE BRITISH GOVERMENT PUT PROFIT BEFORE ITS PEOPLE

08 Thursday Dec 2022

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HERE WE GO AGAIN.

CAN THERE BE ANY TRUST IN THE BRITISH (WHO HOSTED THE 26 CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW LAST YEAR.) advocating the phaseout of coal around the world while planning its expansion at home.dirty coal miner wear hardhat with a hammer drill - coal mine stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

To watch a Conservative MP defended its decision by saying that it is good for the environment to stop importing and start exporting is beyond farcical and worthy of  historic accolades for stupidity beyond the call of duty.

Some one should tell him that no transport emissions will make up for emissions produced by mining the coal.

Woodhouse Colliery won’t be carbon neutral with its plans to extract 2.43 million tons of coking coal per year. That will produce 9 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, a measure of greenhouse emissions based on their global warming potential, per year.“

A few hundred precarious jobs in a dying industry would be worth it.

Indeed, framing the need for continued investment in fossil fuels as important for jobs and arguing that moving away from fossil fuels will hurt jobs and the economy is a classic talking point the fossil fuel industry has used for decades to thwart climate action.

To move ahead with plans to develop the country’s first deep coal mine in 30 years, despite warnings that doing so could destroy any chance of achieving the country’s climate change target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The Cumbria County Council, which approved the project, said it did so because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment, will dig up coking coal, also known as metallurgic coal, from beneath the Irish Sea in order to make coke, a “form of almost pure carbon” that is used to make steel.

Opening a coalmine in the UK now is a serious mistake: economic, social, environmental, financial and political.

Economically, it is investing in the technologies of the last century, not this, and that is the wrong path to growth.

Socially, it is pursuing jobs in industries that are on the way out, creating future job insecurity.

Environmentally, it is adding to world supply and thus consumption of coal and releasing greenhouse gases, when there is an urgent need to reduce them.

It could even put at risk global progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions because laggard countries will be able to point to the UK’s hypocrisy as an excuse for their own inaction.

And politically, it is undermining the UK’s authority on the most important global issue of our time.

Turning Britain into a “hypocritical” developed country interested only in the rhetoric  of I am all right Jack is sad.

The coalmine would increase emissions by about 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 cars on the road.

God save the Planet.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS. WE ARE ALL BEING HOODWINKED WHEN IT COMES TO CONTROLLING CLIMATE CHANGE EMMISSIONS.

06 Tuesday Dec 2022

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I recently came across this app that sums up where we are with – CLIMATE CHANGE.

Let’s calculate your Carbon Footprint. Climate Hero.  Pay x to offset your climate foot print.

God knows how many meeting we now have had of world leaders when it comes to Climate Change. From the UN to the Gs’ and Climate Summits, and it still remains beyond their comprehension that to reduce Carbon Emissions we must put a halt to producing energy with fossil and gas resources.

Instead:

We have are unenforceable Promises,  Declarations,  Proposals Agreement,  Accords, Groups and Organisations under ever letter of the alphabet turning a blind eye to the raw fact that carbon has being turned into a product to be traded.

This is a trading system through which countries / corporations can buy or sell units of greenhouse-gas emissions in an effort to  either meet their national limits on emissions or off set their emission’s  while they continue will – nilly to pump carbon into the atmosphere.

. The Kyoto Protocol assigned a unit of emissions payment to equal to 1 metric tonne of CO2 equivalent.

This TRADING comes with labels like Carbon Free, Net Zero, Offset, Mitigation

All ways of  (COP) out of  doing any think.

Like REDD:  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation with Cop 27introduced Sovereign Carbon Credits paving the way for private trading and financing of nature.

You dont have to be a genius to understand that temperature rise is only the beginning of the story.

The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity, mass migration by both animals and humans  that will eventually led to more wars.  Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others.

There is no doubt that  Climate action requires significant financial investments by governments and businesses. But climate inaction is vastly more expensive.

So instead of worthless invisible funds why not give non repayable grants to every house hold to install solar panels.

To get to net zero emissions by 2050 it is not by giving Earth Shot millions to projects that deserve recognition in their innovative  to tackle Climate Change but to arm the peoples of the world to do something positive by converting to Green energy,  starting now.

Why not because the capitalist system is still between two stool profit for profit sake or profit for sustainability.

Progress is a metaphor

For benefitting man;

We know exactly what it’s for

But wonder if it can.

The next best thing to knowing a fact is said to be where to find it;

But more than that, its how to act, once you have truly defined it.

SO WE ALL KNOW THAT it is critical that all mitigation and adaptation policy are underpinned by not burning fossil fuels that are generating greenhouse gas emissions and methane even it there are offset by paying a few dollars more for your Flight or breathing.

Of course one would be naïve to think that Government’s who’s revenue comes from the use of energy are going to cut themselves off from this revenue by converting the production of energy to free for all. The primary source of revenue is taxation.

THIS IS WHERE THE  PANDORA  BOX.OPENS.

The problem is that these renewable sources aren’t super reliable and at present there is no way of storing the energy other than directing it into the Grid or private batteries that need to be attached to the grid.

There is no problem (in principle) with building enough solar panel arrays, wind farms, tidal, wave and geothermal energy plants to power our planet. There is nothing here that we don’t already know how to do. The only problem is with funding it and getting people to accept it.

We at the moment except.

Nuclear power plants: Highly stable and reliable. They are “dirty” because of the nuclear waste hype. There is also problem with uranium mining and processing as well.

Coal power plants: Operable and reliable. Their huge footsteps are mining processes, CO2 emissions, NOx, SOx, dust pollution, heavy metal pollution…

Gas/oil powerplants: Operable, reliable. Their drawbacks are mining process, CO2 emissions and political compromises.

Biomass powerplants: Low scale source. Extremely low power density (MW output per km2 needed for supply).

Water powerplants: very fast, reliable. Their drawbacks are huge or humongous dams for high-power ones or low power output; disruption of the stream.

Wind turbines: Power-grid disruptor #1, unpredictable source. Unrecyclable blades. High risk in bad weather (too windy)

Solar heat powerplants: Huge area consumption for mirror fields plus tower in the sky. Suitable only for scarcely populated areas.

Photovoltaics: Power-grid disruptor #2 (only because it does not disrupt after sunset). Unpredictable power source. Extremely low power density (MW per km2 of ground consumed). Extremely toxic production. Unrecyclable.

HOWEVER ITS NAIVE TO THINK THAT WE CAN HAVE GREEN ENGERY TOTAL FREE OF EMMISIONS.

Where are we?

World Climate Summits have become a key platform for connecting investment markets not policies to avert disaster.

With the last one in Egyptian promising trillions to countries that can claim Punch’s Pilot absolution that its not their fault.

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Energy is there and all we can do about it is change the forms. It is a direct follow of the conservation of energy.

There is no thermal engine that produces more (mechanical) energy than it consumes. Even solar and wind need raw materials.

Solar panel takes a little less than a decade to produce as much energy as was used to make it.

Anytime one is using energy, they are using it on the environment’s behalf.

IN A IDEAL WORLD WE COULD CONVERT tracts of unusable desert that has no significant ecological value and which gets uninterrupted sunshine for 300+ days of the year that could be covered in solar panels.

I have advocated that to tackle Climate change Governments must impower their people to do so.

Non Repayable grants to insulate their homes and install solar power would be a good start.

You have to start on time as nothing in the universe will produce more energy.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. FROM A HUNDERED YEARS AGO TO NOW WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHANGES IN THE WORLD?

03 Saturday Dec 2022

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From the rise and fall of political ideologues the list is long as to how the world transformed in the last 100 years in terms of demography, environment, geography, geopolitics, resources, art of war and global affairs needs to be analysed in some detail.

Why?

Because the world has never witnessed changes as enormous as it experienced in the last 100 years. Never in human history has such a transformation, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, taken place in such a short span of time.

Over the last 100 years, the world has changed tremendously, however one can identify eight major changes that occurred during the last 100 years, which not only transformed the world from a European-centric to post-colonial globalised world, but also changed the map of the world with the emergence of new states in Africa and Asia.

So what are these changes?

First, from 1.8 billion people in 1919, world population has swelled to 8 billion.

Second, while there were only 50 sovereign states in 1919, today there are 193 members of the UN.

Third, the widening of the technological and economic gap between the global North and South increased the level of unemployment.

Fourth, radical changes in the art of war as a result of the modernisation of weapons.

Fifth, because of modernisation and industrialisation, the state of infrastructure, financial institutions, factories and industries in 2022 is far superior to that in 1919.

Sixth, one can see a link between globalisation, information technology, geo-economics and ‘soft power’, as new types of power and catalysts of change.

Seventh, the greatest disaster to befall mankind and the most important event in the history of the western world had absolutely nothing to do with technology. 16 million people were killed during World War I, in World War II, 50 million people perished, out of which 20 million were killed in the then Soviet Union.

Eighth,  Scientists are starting to understand the world. And we are making strides in AI, robotics, sensors, networks, synthetic biology, materials science, space exploration and more every day.

The reality is that our lives have completely changed.

But is it for the better, or worse?

With the 20th century nearing an end, which shift’s have really shaped the modern world?

Is it the Microchip, the Smartphone, the Internet, Climate Change, or the recent Covid Pandemic that not only killed people, it changed the ways people lived, as well as their expectations of death.

Or

Was it?   Wars,  Transportation  Communications, Telephones, Television, Immigration, Education, Government tax collections,  Countries budget deficit,  Literacy, Super Market, Billionaires, Inequality, Slavery, and the Stock market all took off that had the biggest influences.

I venture that it is none of these. It is the technological changes that is changing the world in the form of ALGORITHMS.

If you think about it, society is in a very bad place. People rely on their phones, laptops and tablets for everything. Technology is a great thing, but most people have abused it. Are you letting technology take control of your life?

With limited resources on a limited planet, this is not a shift that is likely ever to change. In a thousand years or so, if society continues that long, the 20th century may well be viewed as the threshold when the modern world began – when humanity started to consider the future as well as the present and the past.

Technology hugely changed the ways in which we lived and died in the 20th century, however, it also masks changes that are arguably even more profound –  they are Machine Learning Algorithms that give computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. The process of learning is simply, learning automatically with no human intervention from experience or observations and to adjust their perform actions accordingly. Machine learning algorithms are now involved in more and more aspects of everyday life from what one can read and watch, to how one can shop, to who one can meet and how one can travel.

There is a fascinating trend happening where ready to use machine learning algorithms for speech recognition, language translation, text classifications, and many other tasks are now being offered as web-based services on cloud computing platforms, significantly increasing the audience of developers that can use them and making it easier than ever to put together solutions that apply machine learning at a high level.

In general, machine learning algorithms are categorized into two main types. The first type is known as supervised learning, in which our goal is to predict some output variable that’s associated with each input item. Supervised learning needs to have a training set with labelled objects to make its predictions.

The second major class of machine learning algorithms is called unsupervised learning, in which input data don’t have any labels to go with the data. Unsupervised learning allows us to approach problems with little or no idea about the final result.

These algorithms rapidly process huge datasets and give helpful insights into knowledge that permits awesome healthcare services.

Some deep learning applications are in natural language processing, video processing, recommendation systems, disease prediction, drug discovery, speech recognition, web content filtering, etc.

As the scope for learning algorithms evolves, the applications for deep learning grows drastically.

Try to remember what life was like before you were attached to technology by the hip to Big Data that supports the nature of deep learning algorithms.  Impossible.

Machine learning algorithms employ probability theory and that is you’re probably reading this on your phone right now.

The average person will check their phone every six and a half minutes.

Out of technology there is one other development that is changing the world.

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, will enables us to reprogram life as we know it.

News and online newsfeeds are increasingly full of stories of what will happen, not what has happened.

While climate change will enhance the most important relationship in human history between mankind and the land, basically, the more land you have, the more natural resources you have but the day is fast approaching when humanity will be eventually be programmed out of us along with our connection the earth.

As is well known, money has existed for thousands of years. However, that doesn’t mean it has always served the same function as it does today.  Money to day is data.

To what extent the culture of NGOs can helped deal with critical issues faced by the world today is debatable.

Our world organisation all need to be revamped to reflect responsibility all over the world – and hope for the best.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. IN LIGHT OF ASTRONOMY DISCOVERIES AND TECHNOGICAL ADVANCEMENT SHOULD WE STILL BE DESCRIBING OURSELVES AS HUMANS, OR USING SOME OTHER DESCRIBTION TO DEFINE OURSELVES?

02 Friday Dec 2022

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ROBOTS V  HUMAN CANNOT BE VERBALIZED.

The concept of species is, of course, a human idea imposed upon the natural world, and up to recently we have been pretending that we are somehow separate from the rest of the planet.  (An upright-walking, big-brained species that eventually evolved into people: Homo sapiens, a species  that can breed with each other.)

Since the beginning of our existence, humans have explored and expanded globally, covering every inch of our planet and utilizing it somehow. Looking at this, we can see that human beings are a species of explorers whose acts of exploration are fuelled by their curiosity.

We often refer ourselves as humans as a way to establish social connections between each other and to ignore the various forms of physiological differences between us but we are alive to evolve as directed by the Human DNA Swarm Intelligence which designed, built, programmed, and maintains Humans… at least until we perfect genetic engineering to take over control of this, which is actually doing exactly what we have been programmed to evolve towards doing.

When you think of what the definition we’ve assigned the word Humanity, it entails many different aspects. Most of which we do not live up to, but under the drive of our Human RNA/DNA Swarm Intelligence, we are developing the knowledge to create intelligence better than individual Human Minds, through what we call Artificial Intelligence.

Man (without an article) itself refers to the species or to humanity (mankind) as a whole. 

As yet Robots are not a species so humanity is probably just going to have to be kept as a convenience.

In a recent meditation, the Franciscan priest and author Richard Rohr wrote:

“Being human means acknowledging that we’re made from the earth and will return to the earth.”

Which word came first human or man?

Human was first recorded in the mid 13th century, and owes its existence to the Middle French humain “of or belonging to man.”

The word “human” is from the Latin humanus, the adjectival form of homo.

Latin terms such as homo (e.g. Homo Sapiens), come from an extinct, 6000-year-old language called Proto-Indo-European or P.I.E.

We know that we cannot be descended from only two humans, because we are simply far to diverse for every human characteristic to derive from only two ancestors.  Humans are also not pre-programmed at birth.

The theory of evolution, definitely isn’t part of the Adam and Eve story. (God’s Word (the Bible) has a very different perspective on where we came from. You see, God tells us in the Bible that he created humans (Adam and Eve).

Dinosaurs: appeared 225 million years ago, extinct 65 million years ago.
Humans that look like us: appeared 250,000 years ago.
Humans that act like us: appeared 50,000 years ago.

Human origin is extra-terrestrial. 

We might have a sprinkling of star dust but it’s a rubbish hypothesis because human beings share 99% of their DNA with primates.

Although thoughts about migration into space are as old as science fiction there will never be a complete human capable of living on another planet in our universe.

Why?

Because technologies both in medicine and machines are programming humanity out of us.

The urgency to establish humanity as a multi-planet species has been re-validated by the emergence of a worldwide pandemic, one of several reasons including both natural and man-made catastrophes long espoused in the pro-colonization rhetoric.

For example we now have the first vaccination due to Covid that instructs our immune systems

Technologies such as controlled ecological life support systems are still not developed in a meaningful manner.

We have absolutely no data about the long-term effects of space environment on either our bodies or minds.

The ethical controversies that make this concept perhaps unsuitable for implementation at all.

Though humans in some form are capable of space colonization, does it give us the right to conquer other planets just like we conquered Earth? As more and more people will begin to settle on the planet, however, there will be a diversity of opinions in these colonies, thus calling for laws and regulations that can be inclusive to everybody while also maintaining peace. Laws that answer questions about who is in charge, what is or is not forbidden, making public decisions, etc., are crucial questions that should be answered.

Say we do come to the conclusion that colonizing Mars is beneficial to the human race, how is it going to be orchestrated in a social platform? How will it be decided who gets to be part of this colony? We could rank applications by suitability, prioritize diversity, leave it as a lottery draw, or simply allow the highest bidders to be the only participants. Each of these options raises its own issues, but they all are related to who is being left behind, who has to carry the cost of the expedition and who has to deal with the consequences. Whose ethics are we going to use?

THEY WONT BE RELIGIOUS.

But rest assured even with just one God humans will still find ways to fight and disagree with each other.

There is a strong argument to be made for traversing space as a species as opposed to as nations, but this will require us to have a universally accepted ethical code. We may need to create an obvious incentive for us all to accept the accomplishment so as not to allow us to separate and disperse as a species.

Should we only recognize those people who have advanced reasoning capabilities as fully human, which would exclude mentally disabled or mentally ill human beings from moral consideration?

If we end up colonizing Mars as singular entities it is hard not to imagine a future not fraught with conflict.

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Each language has its own name for our planet but they all have one thing in common each is derived from a word meaning ‘ground’ or ‘soil.’

Earth’s original name is long lost to history.

The modern popular terms for “Earth” come from Latin. Terra means land.

The modern English word ‘Earth’ derives from the Germanic ‘erde’, meaning ‘ground’.

Ertha is an approximate spelling for “the ground” (meaning, the ground upon which we stand) in Anglo-Saxon.

Ertha, mundus, was meant to describe the whole of the universe.

In science fiction, Earthling (also “Terran”, “Earther”, and “Gaian”) is frequently used, as it were naming humanity by its planet of origin.

None of these terms seem to describe the current state of humanity –  we definitely need to redefine it in order to get us as humans to realize how related and interconnected we all are to the planet and the ground we walk on.

Giving a new name to a species is always controversial.

With the technology, knowledge, and past mistakes that we have now, what are we going to do with it before the Earth fall’s apart.

THERE MUST BE CLEAR DISTINCION IS WE AND ROBOTICS ARE TO EXIST TOGETHER.

Here are a few suggestions.

Wanderers – Luxers  – “ Earthling a unifying word  so why not change from Humans to Eairthens”  this would combine us with our  future robot friends. 

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