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And there’s that too.

Yes, as they should. Acknowledge the progress and keep bitching until the death stops.

Parent said they were glad countries are finally doing something.

Last time I checked the killing hasn’t stopped, so it doesn’t seem like the time to stop complaining just yet. Our politicians won’t do anything unprofitable (like stepping on Israel’s toes) unless we complain a lot.

Great. The WHO needs funding.

The settlers are funded by the Israeli government.

Don’t worry, if the current administration doesn’t deliver for its citizens and manage to introduce uncomfortable regulation on social media, the alternative is likely to get a stronger result the next time around. The day is saved for now but the processes that lead to where we are haven’t stopped.

What’s Meloni’s role in this?

Pretty sure there are studies on this showing overrepresentation of dark triad traits in the upper class.

It’s interesting that an article about productivity of labour doesn’t mention productivity. Her Merz should perhaps persuade the owner class and himself to invest in labour productivity increases such as training, equipment, digitalization and automation. Working more hours is a marginal improvement if it even produces higher output at all.

I see Saddam Hussein.

Also, we’re doing our part. They’re still halfway from their nodest goal though.

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Some European countries aren’t doing badly in that regard but it’s a drop in a bucket compared to us in NA as well as the top 1% around the globe.

And due to their economic system, they don’t have to profit maximize those coal plants or even use them until the end of their lifespan. They’re free to decrease their utilization or even shut them down as the the need decreases.

The impossibility of eternal growth doesn’t deny the hypocrisy parent highlights. The CO2 budget we’ve eaten for our development has eaten (and still disproportionately does) the global budget that belongs to all people. We’ve consumed way more of a practically nonrenewable resource than the rest of the world, we continue to disproportionately consume more of it, and then we (some of us) go to the rest of the world and say, sir no sir there’s not enough resource left, you’ll have to do with a lot less, and you’ll have to do it on your own! There’s deep hypocrisy in that, regardless of the state of the resource.

Yup. There’s probably an analysis somewhere about how much of China’s emissions are ours. I bet it’s a large fraction.

Given that the EU has 3x smaller population than China and the US 4x, the emission numbers aren’t out of proportion. Add to that the fact that both the EU and US have outsourced large parts of their manufacturing industry to China and the picture changes dramatically. If China can manufacture, mine and process what they do, with its current population, and if emissions have peaked, that would be remarkably positive. Given their massive investment in wind, solar, nuclear and EVs, it might just actually be the case.

This meme is fire.

Most of us have started from the default programming. I didn’t get a lot of what I get today when I moved from Reddit. I know it can feel shitty to keep repeating the same things and make the same arguments over and over again but that’s the process of teaching.

Neoliberalism working out as well as expected.