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       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: Zea_mays Date: May 25, 2021, 8:50 pm
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       The Western mindset regarding environmental sustainability is to
       encourage all the things circled in green (except eating a
       plant-based diet, for some reason). Note that Western
       civilization is the reason why basically all the 'problems'
       listed on the chart exist in the first place. (Further note that
       the person making the chart had to duplicate part of the chart
       to expand the bars in order to fill space and make it look like
       the other options even had any impact...)
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       Not having a child is an order of magnitude better than all the
       other 'solutions' combined. However, this would break the cycle
       and there would be nothing to continue sustaining if children
       stopped being born, so Westerners do not even consider this as a
       potential option.
       Of course, in reality, society would continue to exist and
       sustain itself even if families were limited to a single child
       (China has certainly not stopped existing). I guess the Western
       mindset is so heavily linked with infinite expansion that simply
       imagining all the potential grand-children, great-grandchildren,
       etc. that could not be born in the future is considered
       antithetical to the Western way of looking at sustainability.
       Therefore reducing the number of humans is off the table since
       they do not view that as a future worth sustaining?
       #Post#: 6701--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: Zea_mays Date: May 25, 2021, 9:00 pm
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       It has long been a popular "conspiracy" to suggest that medical
       companies would rather people be unhealthy in order to continue
       charging them for treatment, instead of curing them. Well, now
       it is proven that this is indeed how they think.
       The least cynical interpretation for the following article is
       that these companies are simply going to stop investing in
       researching medical techniques for certain types of diseases
       which can be eradicated, since they will not yield a sustainable
       return on investment. This is different than intentionally
       withholding (already existing) curative treatment to patients in
       order to suck the money out of them with recurring treatments
       like a vampire. Or buying and suppressing the rights to
       already-existing treatments, in order to continue using ones
       which are more financially sustainable to the companies.
       [quote]Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing
       patients a sustainable business model?’
       [...]
       “The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most
       attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell
       therapy and gene editing. However, such treatments offer a very
       different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus
       chronic therapies,” analyst Salveen Richter wrote in the note to
       clients Tuesday. “While this proposition carries tremendous
       value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge
       for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”
       [...]
       “GILD is a case in point, where the success of its hepatitis C
       franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of
       treatable patients,” the analyst wrote. “In the case of
       infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing
       patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit
       the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines
       … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the
       potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a
       franchise.”[/quote]
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       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 25, 2021, 10:51 pm
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       "I guess the Western mindset is so heavily linked with infinite
       expansion that simply imagining all the potential
       grand-children, great-grandchildren, etc. that could not be born
       in the future is considered antithetical to the Western way of
       looking at sustainability. Therefore reducing the number of
       humans is off the table since they do not view that as a future
       worth sustaining?"
       I just want to emphasize how obliviously sadistic many ordinary
       Westerners are:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/demographic-time-bomb-hit-italy-183207274.html
       [quote]"Once you could hear the babies in the nursery cry, and
       it was like music," Sciullo told the New York Times. "Now there
       is silence and a feeling of emptiness."[/quote]
       They literally enjoy listening to children suffering!!!
       And click here if you want to be grossed out:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fertility-treatment-too-expensive-had-164648919.html<br
       />(the author is almost certainly a Jew)
       #Post#: 6749--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 27, 2021, 1:04 am
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       Another full circle:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/short-block-horseshoe-crab-harvest-145836725.html
       [quote]After short block, horseshoe crab harvest on SC wildlife
       refuge allowed to continue again[/quote]
       Westerners: "As long as it is sustainable, what's the problem?"
       [img]
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       #Post#: 6759--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 27, 2021, 11:43 pm
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       What happens when Western civilization assumes a species had
       already gone extinct and then discovers otherwise?
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/extinct-giant-tortoise-found-galapagos-211205101.html
       [quote]An elderly female tortoise discovered during a 2019
       expedition has been identified as a chelonoidis phantasticus,
       also known as fernandina giant tortoise.
       ...
       The female is currently at a breeding centre in Santa Cruz
       Island
       ...
       Danny Rueda, director of the Galapagos National Park, said that
       a future expedition would look for more individuals. "This
       discovery undoubtedly renews our hope for the recovery of this
       species," he said.[/quote]
       They will imprison you and force you to reproduce whether you
       like it or not.
       [img]
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       No other civilization does this. So why do all the other
       civilizations accept it when Western civilization does it?
       #Post#: 6779--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 29, 2021, 3:54 am
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       More of the same:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/back-brink-iberian-lynx-population-132926823.html
       [quote]MADRID (Reuters) - The Iberian lynx population in
       Portugal and Spain rose above 1,000 last year after 414 cubs
       were born under a joint breeding programme, in a major leap
       towards conserving the endangered species, Spain's Environment
       Ministry said on Friday.
       The initiative was launched in 2002 when the number of Iberian
       lynx, a wild cat native to the Iberian Peninsula, plunged to
       just 94 in Spain and none in Portugal, due to farming, poaching
       and road accidents.
       By the end of last year there were 1,111 Iberian lynx living in
       the wild in the region, including 239 breeding females, the
       ministry said in a statement. The number was a record high since
       monitoring of the species began, it said.[/quote]
       There is no escape so long as Western civilization continues.
       #Post#: 6889--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 4, 2021, 4:20 am
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       Westerners do sustainable evil for cash prizes!
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/hunt-burmese-pythons-florida-natives-152013243.html
       [quote]MIAMI (AP) — Professional python hunters and amateurs
       alike have a chance to win prizes in Florida's annual hunt for
       the biggest snakes — the Burmese pythons that are ravaging the
       state's native species.
       Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state's annual contest
       on Thursday: It will run from July 9 to 18 and include prizes
       for both pros and novices. In both categories, there will be a
       $2,500 prize for catching the most pythons and $1,500 for the
       longest.[/quote]
       [img]
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       It is DeSantis who needs to be hunted:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis
       [quote]In 2013, DeSantis introduced the Palestinian
       Accountability Act, which would halt U.S. aid to the Palestinian
       Authority until it formally recognizes Israel's right to exist
       as a Jewish state and cuts off all ties with the militant group
       Hamas.[158]
       In 2016, DeSantis co-introduced the Non-Discrimination of Israel
       in Labeling Act, which would defend the right of Israeli
       producers to label products manufactured in the West Bank as
       "Israeli", "Made in Israel," or "Product of Israel."[159] He
       supported the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to
       Jerusalem.[160]
       As governor, DeSantis pledged to be "the most pro-Israel
       governor in America".[161] In light of Airbnb's decision to no
       longer allow rentals of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, on
       January 15, 2019, DeSantis directed the Department of Management
       Services to no longer reimburse state employees and state
       contractors for travel expenses incurred with Airbnb;[162] later
       that month he accepted the State Board of Administration's
       recommendation to place Airbnb on Florida's "Scrutinized
       Companies List".[163] In May, DeSantis visited Israel,
       accompanied by megadonor to his 2018 gubernatorial campaign and
       staunch Zionist Sheldon Adelson, to attend a ceremony held
       between Florida Atlantic University and Ariel University,
       celebrating the agreement of a plan to exchange and research
       opportunities between the universities' respective
       students.[161][164]
       ...
       DeSantis was a critic of Obama's immigration policies; he
       opposed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and
       Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and accused him
       of failing to enforce immigration laws.[179][180] DeSantis
       opposes "sanctuary cities."[181] He is a co-sponsor of the
       Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015,
       also known as Kate's Law, which would amend the Immigration and
       Nationality Act to increase penalties applicable to aliens who
       unlawfully reenter the United States after being removed.[182]
       In 2017, DeSantis spoke at ACT! for America, an anti-Muslim
       advocacy group.[183]
       ...
       According to the Tampa Bay Times, DeSantis "made a name for
       himself [in 2017] attacking special counsel Robert Mueller's
       investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election."[192]
       DeSantis proposed an amendment that would halt funding for
       Mueller's 2017 Special Counsel investigation probe six months
       after the amendment's passage.[193] In addition, the provision
       would prohibit Mueller from investigating matters that occurred
       before June 2015, when Trump launched his presidential
       campaign.[194] In December 2017, DeSantis asserted that if there
       was any evidence of collusion between members of the Trump
       campaign and Russian officials, it would already have been
       leaked.[195]
       ...
       After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to concede
       while making false claims of fraud, DeSantis and other
       Republicans proposed changes to restrict voting rights in
       Florida.
       ...
       In response to social media networks removing Donald Trump from
       their platforms, DeSantis and other Florida Republicans pushed
       legislation in the Florida legislature to prohibit technology
       companies from de-platforming political candidates.[214][/quote]
       [img]
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       #Post#: 7072--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 11, 2021, 12:29 am
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       How to do Western science contd.:
  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/backlash-against-frightening-tests-whales-235349303.html
       [quote]The project, the largest of its kind ever attempted, is
       due to begin any day now.
       ...
       The goal is to use huge nets to drive 12 young minke whales into
       a holding pen - and local observers have confirmed that
       everything seems ready.
       According to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, the official
       body that's authorised the project, each whale will be held for
       up to six hours.
       They will undergo blood tests and have electrodes fitted under
       their skin to measure their hearing.
       ...
       It is officially acknowledged that the whales will experience
       pain, particularly while they are held between two rafts while
       their hearing is tested.
       The Norwegian Food Safety Authority judges that the severity of
       the experiment will be "moderate" and it defines what that
       means: "Animals are likely to experience short-term moderate
       pain, suffering or distress, or long-lasting mild pain,
       suffering or distress," it said.
       It also said that "moderately severe" experiments of this kind
       "are likely to cause moderate impairment of the well-being or
       general condition of the animals".
       But it concludes that by learning more about how noise pollution
       disturbs marine animals, the research will benefit minke whales
       and other species - so it should go ahead.[/quote]
       In other words, because noise pollution disturbs marine animals,
       Western scientists will disturb them with even more noise in
       order to study how disturbed they can be.
       #Post#: 7287--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 24, 2021, 10:38 pm
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  HTML https://sports.yahoo.com/florida-diver-praised-spearing-record-170937521.html
       [quote]A Florida diver set two records recently by spearing and
       removing a large lionfish from the Gulf of Mexico.
       The lionfish measured 18.7 inches and weighed 3.77 pounds,
       making it the longest and heaviest of its species speared in
       Florida’s Gulf waters.
       Whitfield, while diving June 10 off Okaloosa County, was
       participating in a state-sponsored program that encourages the
       removal of invasive lionfish by any legal means of fishing.
       ...
       According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
       Commission, two species of lionfish native to the Indo-Pacific
       have “invaded” Florida waters and may pose a significant threat
       to native wildlife and habitat.[/quote]
       Remember: this is how our enemies view us also. But when they
       themselves actually invade, they call it "discovery".
       [quote]The state now offers prize incentives and sponsors
       tournaments specific to lionfish. The annual Lionfish Challenge
       is an integral link in the population control effort.
       In 2019, 25,000 lionfish were removed during the Challenge. In
       2020, 21,569 lionfish were harvested and David Connerth was
       proclaimed Lionfish King after he removed 1,141 lionfish via
       recreational fishing methods.
       Isidoro Bedoya was named Commercial Champion after removing
       1,196.5 pounds of lionfish.
       The state also recognizes weight and length records in
       spearfishing and hook-and-line categories for Atlantic and Gulf
       waters.
       Whitfield’s speared lionfish, at 3.77 pounds, is the heaviest
       overall. The angling weight record stands at 2.3 pounds, set by
       Darren Parker in the Gulf in 2016.[/quote]
       Sustainability and record-breaking at the same time! So Western!
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       [img]
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       Re: Western civilization = sustainable evil
       By: rp Date: July 10, 2021, 10:00 am
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       Video illustrating sustainability:
  HTML https://youtu.be/CxC161GvMPc
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