To clear this up, because open Holocaust denial is never OK:
Thousands of jews were indeed murdered at Babi Yar, you can find their names online [0]. Paul Blobel [1] was executed at Nuremberg for this. No serious source disputes the killing of jews at Babi Yar, be it the US, Germany (where this matter went to court), Israel, Ukraine, or Russia.
I couldn't find any connection between the names on the list and the people who lived in Kiev during the war.
Prior to the war, there were 224,000 Jews living in Kiev, and approximately 200,000 were evacuated to the east. Around 40,000 Jews remained, including my grandmother. This is a relatively small number of people that can be verified.
It's your fault that you deny the widely accepted Babi Yar massacre and call it "a Russian fake", exactly what Holocaust deniers do. If the shoe fits...
So in your opinion, countries such as all of Europe (Germany included), the US, Israel, etc are all part of this conspiracy?
Look at this situation through my eyes. I currently reside in the Rivne region. Roughly 20 years ago, I had a conversation that went something like this:
"I know that many Jews were shot by Germans in the Rivne region."
"Yes. They are buried in the Sosenki area. We can drive there in a car. Would you like me to introduce you to relatives who can tell you more about it?"
"No, that's not necessary. Where are the Kiev Jews who were shot in Babi Yar buried?"
"I don't know. Isn't your mother from Kiev? You should know where your relatives are buried."
"I don't know anything about them. I'll ask my mother."
Later on:
"Mom, do you know anyone from our acquaintances who was shot in Babi Yar?"
"The Germans shot Ukrainians in Babi Yar, but it was forbidden to talk about it in the Soviet Union, just like with the Holodomor, or else you would be arrested."
I am a descendant of Jews who lived in Kiev during World War II. But I know nothing about the Jews who were shot in Babi Yar. My relatives or acquaintances do not know either. My search led me to the grave of Ukrainians who were shot in Babi Yar and buried near the radio mast. This grave is visible in aerial reconnaissance photographs.
If you know who was shot and where they are buried, please tell me. I would be grateful. We can erect a monument at this location.
Also weird how someone supposedly so deeply informed has somehow missed both the existing memorial and the year-long fights over building additional ones and has no clue where they might be placed?
So, we are aware of this memorial, but we don't know why it stands there. Nobody is buried beneath that memorial. It could be placed anywhere, even on the Moon. It's just a stone structure.
Furthermore, the Security Service of Ukraine warns[0] us that this memorial is being built by Russians in order to discredit Ukraine. And we completely agree with them.
> It is not exactly clear whether passenger flights are less environmentally friendly than various other options. Driving for long distances can be worse for the environment than flying commercially[0].
There might be some question whether cars less efficient than planes, but I am not aware of any such doubt w.r.t. trains, which is what we are discussing here. Also note that few people would drive the long distances that a plane or train enable them to cover.
> but it is unclear how the method of calculation (ecopassenger.org) works, whether it considers that rail and road infrastructure requires far more energy
The methodology is available [0]. It considers direct emissions, so no maintenance or manufacture. Can you make an argument why these should be more than a low percentage of the direct emission? I mean sure, it might require 1000x more energy to maintain, but its not like that is a large part of the final emission per kilometer.
> since you cannot change the load of plane and train separately
Why would you need to? Of course people who take the train instead of the plane reduce demand for planes and increase demand for trains. So there are fewer plane trips and more rail trips. Assuming that rail trips are environmentally advantages, why would that be a bad idea?
> even though it is clear that flight operators often overbook planes, while trains often run with pretty low loads.
The model considers rail load factors based on real world data where available, substituting 35% as an approximation where no data is available. Do you have any reason to object to that?
At least in Germany, this exists [1]. Sorry, but the page is not in English.
They target fossil energy, chemical and arms manufacturing industry mostly.
You should check if this exists in your country (I can't believe it doesn't) and get involved.
This approach does work.
The movement around the Hambach forest is incredibly diverse: it covers die-hard anarchists, protestant and catholic priests and everything in between.
There is no need to not partake in a protest just because you suspect you might not do everything you can to further the cause.
Any support is usually welcome.
I live about 50 minutes away from this location. In my opinion it is an absolute atrocity, especially given the recent tragic death.
Our politicians are discussing about phasing out coal until December (there is a commission to find suggestions), and despite this, RWE (the owner of the mine) tries to evict the occupation.
It is a pure provocation since it is absolutely unclear whether clearing the forest is ultimately necessary.
I am very sorry, but not mention or discussion of Galileo on this site is complete without a mention of the great ptolemaic smackdown [1]. If you have about 4 hours worth of your time (even in installments) it is deeply recommended.
"the above-mentioned Galileo, because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture."
"after having been judicially instructed with injunction by the Holy Office to abandon completely the false opinion that the sun is the center of the world and does not move and the earth is not the center of the world and moves, and not to hold defend, or teach this false doctrine in any way whatever, orally or in writing; and after having been notified that this doctrine is contrary to Holy Scripture; I wrote and published a book in which I treat of this already condemned doctrine and adduce very effective reasons in its favor, without refuting them in any way."
The premise of the whole "4 hour" series by that author is also wrong, approximately, that because the parallax of the stars wasn't observed until around 1750 Galileo "couldn't prove" in 1633 that the Earth is not standing still, therefore the Church was "right" and it wasn't a matter of faith but "a personal thing." It's obviously a completely invalid argument. Because the reason why Galileo was convinced about the wrongness of the heliocentric theory was the simple fact that he was really the first human in the world who saw the moons around other planet, not accidentally called "Galilean moons":
He didn't have to "prove." He was really sentenced only for "having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture." It's explicitly stated in the official document.
That something like that is a reason enough for a condemnation by the religious authorities, even in much more recent times, can be obvious to anybody who tried to read the source text of the condemnation to murder of the author "along with all the editors and publishers aware of its content" of the book "The Satanic Verses" in 1989. I won't link to that, intentionally, but there's enough details to... check the original sources!
Additionally, not only Galileo's but the Copernicus' book too remained banned by the Church for the next 200 years after Galileo was sentenced, in spite of all the scientific discoveries in these 200 years that made these texts less unique. And the discoveries... there were many of them. Starting with the publication of Newton's "Principia" in 1687, only 50 years after the sentence. Newton was, of course, out of the reach of the Catholic Church, thanks to the lucky coincidence of him being born in "a political system found on the family values of Henry VIII."
It's always more worth checking the original sources instead of believing in 4 hours of text of somebody who intentionally avoids quoting and discussing these very sources. A lot of false claims can be constructed by omitting the evidence, the original sources and inventing the interpretations of the actual events. It's a very dishonest approach and should not be supported.
Thousands of jews were indeed murdered at Babi Yar, you can find their names online [0]. Paul Blobel [1] was executed at Nuremberg for this. No serious source disputes the killing of jews at Babi Yar, be it the US, Germany (where this matter went to court), Israel, Ukraine, or Russia.
0: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&s_id=&s_la... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Blobel