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  Climate Ecocide: Polly Higgins LIVE NOW from The Hague

  The window of opportunity has finally arrived - and Polly Higgins is speaking

   out  RIGHT NOW in The Hague as we send this...  
  (Desplácese hacia abajo para leer en español)

    

   If you tune in right now HERE, you can catch some of the event as it happens

   - if later you’ll be able to replay it.  Our non-profit Ecological Defence Integrity

   is launching, in conjunction with forensic data analysts INTERPRT, an

   independent Preliminary Examination into the potential crime of climate

   ecocide.  

   Full information on this investigative work is now visible at a dedicated

   site HEREThe key suspects are:

   
   the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Ben van Beurden,

   the CEO of Shell Netherlands Marjan van Loon and also

   the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Eric Wiebes.

   Independent investigative work has already commenced.  As Polly is right now

   explaining, the examination shall scrutinise evidence suggesting that Shell

   knew that significant adverse impacts arise from their activities. Crucially,

   evidence has come to light to suggest that the public has been misled over

   a lengthy period of 30+ years, and such evidence could amount to a crime.

What Is Climate Change? • and What was agreed at COP24 in Poland and why did it take so long?

Countries settled on most of the tricky elements of the “rulebook” for putting the 2015 Paris agreement into practice. This includes how governments will measure, report on and verify their emissions-cutting efforts, a key element because it ensures all countries are held to proper standards and will find it harder to wriggle out of their commitments.

So Why did it take so long? There was a row over carbon credits, which are awarded to countries for their emissions-cutting efforts and their carbon sinks, such as forests, which absorb carbon. These credits count towards countries’ emissions-cutting targets. Brazil, which hopes to benefit from its large rainforest cover, insisted on a new form of wording that critics said would allow double counting of credits, undermining the integrity of the system. This issue has been put off until next year.

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Comment by Michael Grove on January 6, 2019 at 22:58

Data indicates that human civilization and the planet are now approaching a chaos point as the world becomes ecologically, socially and economically unsustainable. Since the 1960’s the process taking us to the chaos point has been accelerating – there is no going back – the bifurcation point is coming – some predict around the end of 2012. However, there is great opportunity at such times as now. In periods of relative stability, the system tends to dampen our change. But that is not true in the period just prior to reaching the chaos point.

Although chaotic systems are linked to past actions, the future is open during the window of time just before we reach the chaos point. As the system reaches the limits of its stability, chaos theory shows that the smallest “push” or “fluctuation” can impel the system to develop into a new and different trajectory. Because of this super sensitivity in the system even a small fluctuation produce large-scale effects. This is the legendary “butterfly” effect. As the saying goes, a butterfly flaps its wings in San Francisco and a storm is produced in Beijing, China. Thus, this time in history presents a window of unprecedented freedom, for those who are consciously aware, to become midwives for a new world that is struggling to be born.

Foundation for Mind-Being Research

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