A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #340 - Digital, cretinization, COP 28 and autonomous car: truly eco-friendly (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

It's Libé who tells us this (1): hiking apps for so-called smart phones 
are multiplying to the point that the French Hiking Federation got 
involved because "this has made it easier to use the map... ". It is 
certain that no longer needing to know how to read a map is a great 
progress for humanity: no more need to understand these contour lines 
which symbolize slopes, no more need to identify north, in short, 
perfect happiness and a " maximum connection" (two-way) to nature... 
except in the event of network coverage failure. So... it would be 
better to have and know how to read a map.

Another gadget with a bright future (?): the connected metal water 
bottle (for true eco-friendly people aware of climate issues and the 
life cycle of products) from HidrateSpark PRO STEEL which flashes you 
when to drink because it "calculates and adjusts your personalized 
hydration goal based on your body and activity level. The sensor 
integrated into the bottle measures the amount of water you drink... and 
then records it in the application installed on your iPhone...". And, if 
you are concerned about your daily health to always be more efficient, 
the bottle can connect with Apple's health application which - while 
siphoning your data to resell it - will offer you valuable advice to 
maximize your health capital. .

Then ethical start-ups will be able to offer you an ever more connected 
world, equipped with apps that are ever more ready to respond to the 
desires that these companies have been able to create. That to run this 
shit, we need ever more energy, servers, chips, lithium batteries, 
factories, materials and drinking water is never on the agenda. Putting 
in the hands of capitalists and digital ideologues the ability to find 
one's way in space or the basic biological act of drinking (sorry 
hydrating) when one is thirsty is, through technologist fascination, 
consumerist alienation, conformism, laziness (the human animal like all 
animals is in favor of the least effort), accepting to be dispossessed a 
little more of its autonomy to better feed capitalism.

Slight blowback on COP 28 in Dubai
There are some who like to spit in the soup... See Valérie 
Delmotte-Masson, member of the IPCC, this IPCC which has complacently 
accepted that COP 28 will take place in the Emirati petro-dictatorship 
(while waiting for n° 29 to take place in Baku in Azerbaijan, capital of 
an autocracy that runs entirely on oil). Sultan Al-Jaber welcomed "a 
solid action plan to keep the goal[of limiting global warming]of 1.5°C 
within reach". For Valérie "there is nothing "historic" about this 
agreement (2). For her, "we would need a very strong drop in greenhouse 
gas emissions between 2019 and 2030 (- 43%) and global CO2 emissions 
reduced to zero around 2050 to limit warming to nearly 1.5°C.»

However, the commitments made in Dubai would at best allow a reduction 
"of the order of 2 to 5%", or 10 to 20 times less than the planned 
objective. The final text therefore "ignores these long-term 
implications". The "loss and damage fund" intended for the poorest 
countries impacted by global warming "is only supplemented... to 700 
million dollars" while "100 billion per year" is needed by 2030. And the 
exchanges of carbon credits which should associate "with each tonne of 
greenhouse gas emitted financing for losses and damages" are not even 
mentioned. Greenhouse gas champagne for all these beautiful people, and 
stone caviar for the others.

Why so many hedges?
Hedges are not a natural plant formation, because nature abhors straight 
lines and prefers curves, irregularity and sinuosity. Old hedges are the 
artificial creations of farmers intended to demarcate plots, prevent 
herds from wandering, protect paths and crops from the wind or limit the 
erosion of arable land. Hedges were also, originally, providers of 
goods: wild fruits (blackberries, hazelnuts, even fruits of fruit trees) 
or firewood which was the origin of the "poldpole" pruning of trees..."( 
3). Purely utilitarian therefore, they gave rise to these bocage 
landscapes which were massively destroyed from the 1950s in the name of 
land consolidation, a precursor to rationalization, mechanization and 
agricultural industrialization. 70% have therefore disappeared and we 
continue to "take off 24,000 km per year since 2017" (4).

Farmers are not the only ones responsible for their disappearance: 
departmental councils and state services responsible for road 
maintenance, SNCF but also fiber optic installers are uprooting or 
pruning this proliferating vegetation and pruning it. anarchic.
Hedges encourage wildlife that is often useful for crops: insectivorous 
birds, pollinating insects. They also play the role of an ecological 
corridor allowing the movement of animals and the genetic mixing of the 
living things they host. Without forgetting the "well-being of domestic 
animals by offering them a shaded rest..." Their uprooting increases the 
risk of floods and floods and destroys their capacity to store useful 
water in periods of drought.
Their absence "promotes soil erosion" whose particles "increase the 
turbidity[the quantity of solid matter suspended in water]of rivers and 
an entire ecosystem which needs light will suffer. Sediment deposits 
also clog the spaces between the stones, which serve as spawning grounds 
for fish.» Without forgetting the chemicals from agro-industry which are 
no longer retained and will further rot aquatic environments.

Theoretically, hedges are protected and farmers receive subsidies to 
plant them. But all this does not work very well and many farmers (but 
not all fortunately) complain of the difficulty of circulating their 
super tractors for which they have gone into debt, while they occupy 
space to the detriment of their production. agricultural. Another 
recurring complaint is their cost and the time spent cutting them. 
Whereas to have a beautiful hedge, you have to leave it alone. But here 
we touch something very deep in a majority of farmers: the hedge is a 
mess, it's not productive and it annoys them. This joins a more global 
fear analyzed a long time ago by François Terrasson, "the fear of 
nature", a fear that we combat by artificializing by controlling to the 
death, the living and the wild.

However, even the technocrats and other poisoners of the Ministry of 
Agriculture have promoted the 2023 "hedge pact" with "110 million 
euros... to develop and maintain hedges and the objective is to give the 
same amount in subsequent years. The challenge is to plant 50,000 km of 
hedges by 2030." Because "the preservation of old hedges is therefore an 
emergency, in the name of safeguarding an invaluable historical, 
cultural and natural heritage, not only compatible but vital for 21st 
century agriculture.» Unfortunately, following the recent farmers' 
movement, the organized crime syndicate that is the FNSEA has been there 
and the hedges, these lousy obstacles preventing ever more production, 
will once again be able to be massively destroyed.

By the way, a short extract from an old song (1977) by Gilles Servat 
which hasn't aged a bit:
"But why so much relentlessness / To want everything to be taken away / 
But why so much relentlessness / To want that everything is ripped out / 
Is it for yield / Or so that no one hides there. Chorus: And the water 
runs away, runs away, runs away / In the meadows, the grass was so 
beautiful / And the water runs away, runs away, runs away / I hear the 
tap bucket on the bottom of the well»(5)

Autonomous car, end clap?
Apple's "Titan" project was to revolutionize electric car driving by 
removing the steering wheel and pedals in order to leave all the driving 
to super AIs that would leave the passenger free to consume music and 
films, and to buy superb, useless objects. , to work for his boss (the 
automobile was the only place where an employee could not work), on 
roads peppered with sensors ensuring perfectly safe journeys. It was the 
promise of a bright future. Saint Macron told us in 2020 "do not be 
afraid". But unfortunately, Apple has just announced the end of this 
beautiful novel, this beautiful story after 10 years of experimentation, 
billions of dollars spent and hundreds of layoffs as a result (6).

Because the fabulous fully autonomous cars tested on American streets 
have spent their time running over pedestrians (to protect passengers?) 
or hitting "a fire truck... all sirens blaring". A few manufacturers are 
still struggling: Honda, Mercedes, Xaomi (telephones) while Elon Musk 
laughs at Apple's setbacks. However, its cars in autonomous mode tend to 
leave the road, killing their passengers, as in Texas in April 2021.

And, the electric car niche is starting to have various problems. First, 
its lucrative business on carbon credits has crumbled. Since 2019, 
Stellantis (Peugeot, Fiat, Chrysler, etc.), which mainly manufactured 
very polluting thermal vehicles, bought Tesla's "rights to pollute" and 
carbon credits (very important at Tesla because electricity is 
carbon-free like everyone else). knows) so as not to be subject to 
significant fines (we are talking about 2 billion per year). The magic 
of green finance thus allowed Tesla to be profitable in 2021 "with a net 
profit of $438 million and $500 million in revenue linked to carbon 
credits, Tesla would have finished in the red by $62 million if he had 
not found customers to sell his carbon credits. (8)» All this has just 
ended. In addition, sales have been falling since state bonuses have 
decreased and Chinese competition is fierce. Finally, the protests 
against its German giga-factory are impressive: demonstrations against 
its expansion (occupation of sites), sabotage of its electrical 
supply(7) claimed by the "Vulkan group" for whom Tesla "eats up land, 
resources, men, labor and to do so cough up 6,000 SUVs, killing machines 
and monster trucks per week." Result: production was stopped from March 
5 to 13 and Tesla claims to have lost several hundred million euros. 
Sniff. Fortunately, the transhumanist billionaire with eleven children 
has found a solution: 10% of the workforce will be made redundant, or 
14,000 employees.

Never trust macronists, never, never...
We are going to tell you the sad story of a law wanted by Modem 
senators. These dead-end allies of Macronie had decided to limit the 
massive encroachment of private forests in Sologne. This closure, also 
called "solognization", resulted from the desire of the owners to defend 
their sacrosanct private property against beggars and to prevent their 
precious game from escaping because hunting is sacred and it is a big 
business in the region. This fence had some flaws, "it traps[kills]wild 
animals and causes biodiversity to collapse"(9). It also made it 
difficult, if not impossible, for firefighters to intervene in the event 
of a forest fire.
The law of February 2023 therefore requires the reduction of fences 
which must be lower to allow wildlife to move. Wunderbar. But, to rally 
their voters - the humanist landowners - to this law, the elected 
officials voted for an article stipulating "that the simple fact of 
walking in a rural or forest property was punishable by a 4th class 
fine, i.e. EUR135 'fine... ". To prohibit walking, a simple sign is 
enough. This provision establishes "an inequality before the law between 
hunters and non-hunters. Hunters have "the right to enter almost all 
properties without ever being worried, from the moment they pursue a 
mortally wounded animal. (10)» . As 75% of forests are private in 
France, the contravention machine to defend private property and 
appropriation will start hitting quickly and hard!

Two examples. Two marquises. Two punctures. The first owns 700 ha in the 
commune of Villeneuve-Loubet (a third of the surface area of the commune 
and 90% of the natural spaces). He "put private game guards on duty" to 
prevent access. The second owns 750 ha in Chartreuse: travel ban there 
even though his "property" is part of the Haute Chartreuse nature 
reserve. Hundreds of demonstrators denounced "the monopolization of the 
natural environment by a few people for financial objectives, to the 
detriment of the rest of the population" (11). Two green deputies wanted 
to have this article of law repealed, arguing that since the Ancien 
Régime "a 'gray zone' has prevailed giving everyone free access to 
nature...". Their bill was presented in committee: LR, RN, and 
Macronists rejected this initiative worthy of the partitioners of 1848. 
As they were mercilessly massacred by the party of order in 1851 one 
might think that Macron Imperator, the Duke of Bayrou, Viscount de 
Ciotti and Baroness Le Pen are preparing the return to the monarchy or 
the Second Empire... But beware of revenge, when all the poor will join in.

Rook and Eugene the Jeep

Notes:

1. Apps, GPS... Hikers in connection with nature.F. Bardou. Release of 
02/10/2022
2. Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Sonia Seneviratne: "The weakness of the 
COP28 commitments implies the continuation of warming beyond 1.5°C". 
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Sonia Seneviratne. Le Monde, 12/29/2023
3. Planting a new hedge does not compensate for the destruction of an 
old hedge. G. Decoq, Arnaud Mouly et al. The Conversation of 03/13/2024
4. Give us back the hedges. Antonio Fischetti. Charlie Hebdo from 02/28/2024
5. Madame la Colline. Gilles Servat. Song taken from the album "Chanter, 
la vie, l'amour et la mort". 1977
6. The autonomous car makes a splash. JL Porquet. The Chained Duck from 
03/06/2024
7. Germany: An arson attack shuts down the only Tesla factory in Europe. 
20 minutes from 03/05/2024
8. Tesla has just lost a French customer for its carbon credits. Presse 
Citron from 05/05/2021
9. Forest ban. JL Porquet. Le Canard chainé from 04/10/2024
10. The limitation of fencing in natural areas established. Lucile 
Bonnin. Mayor info from 01/27/2023
11.Chartreuse: a marquis privatizes the mountain, hikers rebel. 
Raphaëlle Lavorel. Report from 10/16/2023

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