The financialisation of absolutely everything? 1

Hello again, I urge you to read Will Hutton’s piece and watch Hypernormalisation….

Isn’t it amazing that in this age of amazing new economic prosperity and betterment that our Government seems to have to cut back and scrape for all the basics including homes and health and wages for ordinary people.

This is a class war, a confiscation and transfer of wealth, a plan that has now created more inequality, massive profits for billionaires and Corps while everyone else has to buy the idea that the semi-engineered 2008 finance crisis and the badly managed pandemic are to blame.

Utter nonsense, we have all been duped and tricked with spin and theatre, with lies and the double talk only fictional in the novel 1984 has now become a reality.

Brexit started just about then, 40 odd years ago, when Free Market Economics were (and still are) seen as the fix for absolutely everything, a very dogmatic approach, until now recently when struggling privatized utilities look better nationalized.

Have we been pacified with consumerism and gadgets so much that we no longer need to do anything as in “a brave new world”.

The financialisation of absolutely everything which really got a massive steroid boost during the Thatcher and Regan era on 80’s has really had a damaging effect, i have seen this develop with my own senses for the last 40 odd years, I really don’t like to say “I told you so” but it’s all come true.

I think Will Hutton has a good solid theory.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/uk-stop-kidding-ourselves-rich-nation-gone-bust

Like in the Documentary by Adam Curtis “Hypernormalisation” I believe we may be on the brink of it here in the UK?

We are living in a trance, a dreamworld of total denial with absolutely no vision whatsoever….

What is this to do with Green Issues and ethics? Just take a look around you…..?

There must be something better that this, surely.

I live in hope and optimism.

Peace and love.

Green ISP.

I thought this was a Joke at first, but it’s actually proof humans are insane 1

Using pig fat as green jet fuel will hurt planet, experts warn. Read again, it’s real, yes… pinch yourself… Just read this… the fact this is even being considered is a true sign how desperate and insane we are becoming (or already have become)? https://www.envirolink.org/2023/05/30/using-pig-fat-as-green-jet-fuel-will-hurt-planet-experts-warn/ Comments please? Tweet

This is something Green ISP has been considering for years.

Hi again Folks.

Small scalable Data Centre used to heat public swimming pool, could do other heating too….

This is something Green ISP has been considering for years.

Taking the Data to where the Energy is like small Hydro or Solar, or in this case to help with cooling, take the data to where the heating is required?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-data-center-startup-offers-to-heat-britains-swimming-pools-with-waste-heat/

With innovations and improvements in local connectivity and cloud or container based computing scaling is so much easier to do.

As Mark Bjornsgaard says “We built a small Data Centre in Exmouth leisure centre.
Most normal data centres waste the heat that the computers generate. We capture ours and we give it for free to the swimming pool to heat the pool,”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/14/innovative-heat-tech-save-england-swimming-pools-from-closure#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20built%20a%20small%20data,BBC%20Radio%204’s%20Today%20programme.

What a great idea, we need more innovations like this.

All the best.

Green ISP – Green WebHost

 

 

BT Group workers have had enough

Hello again.

Seems to be a trend of Massive Payouts and Profits while workers struggle and costs go up, in a lot of large industries and all manner of business sectors.

Ever considered this could be a class war or massive confiscation / transfer of wealth….?

As we have been communicating to our customers, we are seeing some delays and issues with resources out in the field, plus price hikes throughout the industry, cut backs in BT and others, where are all the benefits actually going????

Therefore this is a good watch, real news..

BT recorded £2 billion in profits before tax last year.

Its CEO, Philip Jansen, enjoyed a salary of £3.5 million.

Yet it’s now offering engineers and Call Centre workers a real terms pay CUT.

Aaron Bastani explains why BT workers have had enough.

Stay Positive.

All the best.

Green ISP

Old news and story from BBC, we have been saying this since 2003……

Old news and story from BBC, we have been saying this since 2003…… As Jay Dietrich  says “”They’re not doing this for noble reasons. They are doing it for cash flow and revenue,” says Mr Dietrich, whose career has involved working on energy policy and climate change at IBM.   […]

E-waste update 2022

Hello again.

This year (2022), over 5 Billion Mobile Phones Will Become E-Waste This Year the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum has revealed.

Precious minerals not extracted from waste electronics, such as the copper in wire or the cobalt in rechargeable batteries, have to be mined.

The WEEE says its research shows the “mountain” of electrical and electronic waste – from washing machines and toasters to tablet computers and global positioning system (GPS) devices – will grow to 74 million tonnes a year by 2030.

So when the UK Government talks about the Anti Growth Coalition but does not mention anything about the consequences of it and how to solve the effects you have to wonder if they know what they are talking about?

There’s some progress though at least, the ITU develops and disseminates strategies and best practices around information systems for, and metrics and management of WEEE. In doing so, we create a circular economy for electronics, such as through improving expertise in the collection of WEEE data, increasing coverage of national WEEE policy and regulation, and identifying and mapping technological interventions in the WEEE management space.

The highest policy making body of the ITU, the Plenipotentiary Conference, established targets in 2018 relating to e-waste:

By 2023 increase the global e-waste recycling rate to 30%

By 2023 raise the percentage of countries with an e-waste legislation to 50%

Here is a good pace to start if you want to make a change on a personal level. So maybe look at Recycling Electrical’s? https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/

Maybe consider a FairPhone? (sorry about the slightly annoying voice?) or not having a Mobile Phone at all…?

There’s also the refurbished phones option from places like https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/ a good way to keep electrical in the re-use loop.

Also repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling e-waste from smartphones which is kind of what the likes of Music Magpie are doing.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/repair-not-recycle-tackle-ewaste-circular-economy-smartphones/

Sources and resources:

5 Billion Cell Phones Will Become E-Waste This Year

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Environment/Pages/Mandate.aspx

If Trees Could Talk… What Would They Say?

Hi there.

Just a little something from a green ISP / Green WebHost customer.

Frome International Climate Film Festival 2022 winner.

If Trees Could Talk… What Would They Say?

Ending line very poignant….

Enjoy.