I think we've all known this for a while. We need to focus to move on investing in our national security from food up. The wealthiest can pay for it all or fuck off. No need to complicate matters at all. We have the resources, including human and social capital, to prosper without the US.
If you really want to see the Green Party have an extraordinary election - then you have to go out and vote.
There's too many close calls where it's Labour Vs Green - time to show Starmer the door and end Rip Off Britain.
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The terrible effects on our most valuable resource. Our food systems. Do the biology. People need to understand what it's like to starve to death.
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Fix what? Only reason Norway's pressing ahead here is money. They have no respect for the environment or the inevitable impacts of mining and purifying REEs. On the periphery and destitute by default believing money = wealth. Just like they ignore the effects of farming salmon and burning FFs.
Norway bigging itself up pretending to be needed, as usual. The only rare thing about REEs is willingness to ignore the environmental impacts of mining and purifying them. Enter Norway, a corrupt petrostate up to its neck in toxic farmed salmon and itching to mine the seabed at any cost to humanity.
REEs make up <1% of manufactured products that need REEs. Where are the other >99% resources going to be extracted from? Superfluous consumption for the sake of propping up capitalism is not sustainable however it's presented. Norway's so destitute it defends capitalism at any cost to humanity.
REEs are surprisingly common in Europe. Mining and purifying them at industrial scale to support business as usual will have a devastating environmental impact. Once again, Norway, a resource-poor petrostate up to its neck in unsustainable farmed fish and heroin dealer-like ethics, embraces failure.
Norway's desperate to present itself as 'needed' for so-called rare earth elements.
After isolating itself internationally with flawed plans to mine the seabed at any environmental cost, it now wants to mine its terrestrial environment.
Money is the primary motivation.
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There's been plenty of movement within society for years. We're very close to a social tipping point, if we're not already at one. It's a process rather than an event. A Green government would be a confirmation of the process.
The bigger they are, the bigger the fall. 🤷♂️ If not managed as peacefully as possible by a functional government, those vested interests would only promote more inequity and suffering therefore conflict and quickening violence against themselves. They should choose wisely to f off while they can.
If they tame the wealthiest from the top down on day 1 and make daily life better from the bottom up, yes. A better functioning society will do the rest for them to succeed. The wealthiest and other agitators attacking society need to be selected against to defend and develop a democracy that works.
As crises continue to unfold, the probability of government acting against vested interests increases. We're merely living through another historical period of great change. The vested interests can only fail, because they aren't a stable strategy for society. Economics is a political decision.
Ufology is the study of unidentified fake objects. 🥴
'Nine in ten cars in Norway are EVs'? Most cars on Norway's roads are ICEVs. New car sales in Norway have been reported to be almost all EVs for a few years now. You can assess the situation by looking at Norway's used car market, but note Norway's market is very small.
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It's quite easy to lower energy bills. Declare a state of national emergency, seize all UK-based energy assets and renationalise energy. Tell domestic and foreign investors to f off without a penny in compensation. The world's changed. 👈 This is how society adapts. 👈 This is how society survives. 👈
She wouldn't last long as PM. 🥴 Then what? 🥴 I think we should just get rid of the Labour government and replace it with the Greens. There are no other viable options to rescue what passes as democracy these days. None.
I fear government - toeing the line for neoliberalism for decades - effectively normalised crises therefore lacks sufficient integrity to declare a state of national emergency to govern in the genuine interests of society. The misery of Thatcher's adopted 'gift' hasn't quite finished unfolding.
The global system has failed. What do we need to do next? youtu.be/Qy2LhaJoJ6s?...
The cost-of-living crisis is > fossil fuels, which cannot be offered subsidies or tax breaks when they clearly need to be phased out rapidly as a matter of planetary security. You now rank among ecocidal oil oligarchs like Trump and those destitute clowns from Norway.
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No nation wants to be like petrostate Norway. It remains among the poorest nations by default of its unfortunate geography and miserable climate on the periphery. Norway is among the least sustainable nations in the world. A humanitarian crisis within months without imports.
The world owes petrostates nothing and will transition away from oil and gas at an accelerating rate accepting economic impacts on petrostates as "tough shit". It's always been the responsibility of petrostates to invest in diversifying their own economies away from oil and gas. 🤷♂️
The expense to the state of a very odd 'average' Norwegian? Norway is obsessed by money and mistakes it for wealth. The economic illiteracy is staggering. They believe laziness, incompetence and poor productivity can be paid for by an oil fund or fixed by more tax payers.
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People must stop buying shit they don't need and do something more interesting than propping up the status of pathologically greedy wankers like Bezos. It's ridiculous and more expensive when all costs to society (therefore individuals) are factored in. We can't break laws of physics. 🤷♂️
Money has no inherent value. In terms of economic activity (producing value and tangible wealth), saving it in an oil fund) adds no value to Norway's economy, which is awful with infrastructure in a terrible state of disrepair. Nor does its oil fund add value to the foreign economies it parasitises.
Norway's cursed by oil, in reality. Its extractive economy is so crap Norway would become a humanitarian crisis within months without imports. Not only does it have the worst economy in Europe, Norwegians are up to their eyeballs in debt after >20 years of greedflation.
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