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Žiga Malek

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Namely, parents will have to pay for an additional year of kindergarten (especially since it will be mandatory). With an average salary, this means around 5,000 EUR in additional costs for parents, per child (it can be more depending on the municipality, or less if there are two or more children in kindergarten at the same time). (translated)

9176 EUR damage per capita due to climate and weather extremes between 1980 and 2024, Slovenia is by far the most affected among all EU member states. Following us are Luxembourg (2908), Spain (2803), and Italy (2503). Also, in terms of area, we are the most affected with 911 thousand EUR/km². (translated)

Primarily because the only way to protect it is through ambitious and decisive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This would also mean an ambitious and determined engagement in the international community—without excuses that we are small and have no influence. (translated)

It's nice that they detained the perpetrator yesterday and released him, as the reasons for detention had passed. Because today he caused an accident, shot a policeman, walked armed past an elementary school, kindergarten, developmental clinic, and health center. Quite a few reasons for detention. (translated)

The police suddenly informed us all in the clinic that we must lock ourselves in and turn off the lights. A helicopter was circling above the clinic, kindergarten, and school, sirens were heard, and there were many police officers. An armed man who had previously shot a police officer was near the school and kindergarten. (translated)

Did he receive a government subsidy for the purchase of an electric vehicle, maybe even a VAT deduction? Does he know that Tesla received over 11 billion USD in subsidies in the 🇺🇸 and almost a billion EUR just in 🇩🇪, for both the development of e-vehicles and the construction of factories for solar panels and energy storage? (translated)

In the event that plans for over 300 vehicles per day materialize, Slovenia will likely become the world's largest producer of electric vehicles based on the number of inhabitants. We will produce over 25 electric vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. For comparison: 🇪🇸 4/1,000 inhabitants 🇨🇳 9 🇰🇷 9 🇸🇪 17 🇩🇪 20 (translated)

Domestic production of electricity covered 82.8% of final consumption last year - almost 15 percentage points less than the year before. The responsible ministry blames, of course, the green transition. (translated)

Whereas 20 billion is for solar panels for devices that will last 15 to 20 years (maybe even more), 67 billion literally burned in an instant. (translated)

The elite military school West Point has fired a professor for teaching about the causes of climate change. He was the only environmental scientist at West Point. Cancel culture is very much alive. (translated)

Fuel will be more expensive, as the relocation of ministries around the country, new museums, and distributing thousands of copies of printed materials to first graders costs money. (translated)

So we have a choice - throw away over 200 billion every year due to damage, or ambitiously change the EU economy and society in the next few years to be more climate resilient. Unfortunately, there is no room for 2.0 TDI engines. (translated)

Žiga Malek Aug 10

The hypocrisy of fossil fuels doesn't bother him, but he is bothered by electricity from coal. Although the emissions from e-vehicles powered by thermal power plants are lower than those from oil. At the same time, the e-car is the only one that you can charge at home with a rooftop power plant. But who would write about the facts? (translated)

Žiga Malek Aug 7

Dnevnik's active campaign for a healthier and more sustainable food system has been successful: guidelines are being withdrawn, research calls for agricultural and forestry sciences are being canceled, the authorities deny climate change, and the state will lag behind in adapting to the new climate for a few more years. (translated)

Žiga Malek Aug 2

So I've been listening for years that the politics of degrowth - reducing economic activity and the state's interference in our lives - seems to be trending. And I haven't even mentioned that thousands of hectares of forests are burning across Europe and that we have thousands of excess deaths due to the heat. (translated)

Žiga Malek Aug 1

In the construction of high-speed railways in China, many houses were demolished, including whole villages. High-speed rail requires as straight tracks as possible with as few curves as possible. Here we already have problems with the construction of tracks that allow for 180 km/h, as some houses would need to be demolished near Medno. (translated)

Žiga Malek Jul 29

Economic associations of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany are warning of enormous damage due to the (again) low water levels of the Rhine - whose glacial/snow regime is becoming exclusively rainy. In a Belgian financial newspaper, they came up with a brilliant idea on how to prevent this in the future. (translated)

Žiga Malek Jul 28

This municipality has one of the highest levels of ammonia, over 100 kg/ha. Residents regularly complain about the smell, and the waters are also polluted. You can judge for yourself how quality the pork from such intensive farms is. (translated)

Žiga Malek Jul 27

For the first time, why can floods be more frequent and more intense? Climate change is not mentioned even once. (translated)

Žiga Malek Jul 26

Permafrost is also destroying Kazakhstan's roads and railways, pipelines, and other energy infrastructure (similar situation in Russia, Mongolia, Tibet...). (translated)