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Cake day: October 18th, 2024

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  • In 1997, the decision to store toxic waste in the mine was sold as a lifeline to miners: running a waste repository underground could provide them with continued employment. For years, officials reassured the public that the waste would only be stored down there for 30 years.

    "We hoped that by storing the waste underground, we would find a solution to treat this waste and be able to recycle it in one way or another thanks to advances in technology. But work on this never saw the light of day,” says Hecht. Flyers distributed at the time described the project as “a mine to serve the environment”.

    Preuss-AG should be held to account for this. But as usual it won’t.










  • One of the clearest historical parallels to now, he notes, is the 1970s. That decade saw radical movements emerge from university campuses and middle-class enclaves not just in the U.S., but across the West. The far-left Weather Underground movement, which started as a campus organization at the University of Michigan, bombed government buildings and banks; the Red Army Faction in West Germany and Italy’s Red Brigades carried out kidnappings and assassinations. These weren’t movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated.

    “There’s a real risk of that dynamic resurfacing,” Turchin said.

    People will only stand for getting shit on for so long.