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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 8, 2022, 8:35 pm
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HTML https://qz.com/2175425/pakistans-solution-to-the-energy-crisis-is-a-shorter-work-week/
[quote]After his election in April 2022, prime minister Shehbaz
Sharif implemented a six-day work week for public-sector
workers. That will now be cut back to five, and the government
is considering a mandate that employees work from home on
Fridays.
...
Venezuela temporarily adopted a similar cut during an energy
crisis in 2016, and the idea has been floated by energy
executives over the last year in the UK, which also relies
heavily on natural gas imports. The move may have the added
benefit of lowering Pakistan’s carbon footprint.
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The fastest solution to high energy prices is to find creative
ways to chip away at demand.[/quote]
So obvious (and what I have been recommending for decades)!
The next step is to realize that the best way to reduce demand
for energy is not merely to promote lifestyle frugality (though
that is good too) but to reduce the total number of demanders.
(And the first ones to be reduced should be those whose
bloodlines created the one civilization uniquely to blame for
increasing demand for energy to the insane present-day levels in
the first place. You all know which one I am talking about by
now.)
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 9, 2022, 7:55 pm
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New blog post:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/olaf-scholzs-accurate-comparison-between-climate-activism-and-national-socialism/
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2022, 10:33 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/meat-monopolies-mega-farms-us-100037244.html
[quote]It takes an enormous amount of land to raise cattle –
land that would sequester more carbon as grass that doesn’t get
grazed and forests that are not felled for pasture.
It also takes an enormous amount of food to feed cattle. About
55% of the grain grown in the US goes to fattening cows (and
other animals). And as the ruminants chew, they burp out
methane, a powerful planet-warming greenhouse gas. Meanwhile,
animal waste and fertilizer runoff pollute rivers and poison
drinking water supplies.
Eating less meat – primarily beef but pork and chicken, too –
would free pasture and cropland, eliminate the suffering of
billions of animals and improve human health by restoring clean
water and reducing Americans’ calorie and saturated fat intake.
Yet it’s an excruciatingly hard sell.
...
The US intentionally produces a vast surplus of food. The
country’s food supply, what is grown and imported, amounts to
about 4,000 calories a day for every adult, child and infant.
“There’s no reason why we should be growing all that food,”
Nestle said. “It’s not for us anyway – it’s for animals or
automobiles.”
Not only do tons of US crops get turned into livestock feed but
a staggering proportion (40% of corn, which accounts for the
vast majority of the nation’s crops) is used to make gas for
cars
...
The government mandates that ethanol, a renewable fuel typically
made from corn, be mixed into gasoline to displace a portion of
fossil fuels.
The goal is to reduce fuel emissions, but when you factor in the
ecological impact of raising more corn to meet ethanol demand,
research has found that the math doesn’t check out. That as much
or more corn goes to making ethanol than either feeding people
or animals is “clearly bonkers”, said Patel.
Producing biogas from cows’ methane waste is similarly better in
theory than extracting fossil fuels. But dairies are cashing in
on incentives to convert their emissions into energy, which
perversely encourages the expansion of factory [s]farms[/s] to
generate more waste.[/quote]
When will the mainstream reach the simple conclusion that
problems created by Western civilization cannot be solved by
more Western civilization?
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 8, 2022, 7:46 pm
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Finally!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/analysis-climate-change-scarcity-chip-060424840.html
[quote]Analysis-Climate change, scarcity chip away at degrowth
taboo
By Federica Urso and Mark John
(Reuters) - Degrowth - the idea that a finite planet cannot
sustain ever-increasing consumption - is about the closest you
can get to a heresy in economics, where growth is widely held as
the best route to prosperity.
But, as climate change accelerates and supply chain disruptions
offer rich-world consumers an unaccustomed taste of scarcity,
the theory is becoming less taboo and some have started to
ponder what a degrowth world might look like.
After the U.N. climate science agency this year called for cuts
in consumer demand - a core degrowth premise - the think tank
that runs the Davos forum published a degrowth primer in June
and the issue has even begun to crop up in investment
notes.[/quote]
In short, it took them until now figure out what I as a child
had figured out within several minutes while sitting in my first
ever class about global warming.
[quote]In April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) concluded that outright cuts
HTML https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/now-or-never-only-severe-emissions-cuts-will-avoid-climate-extremes-un-report-2022-04-04<br
/>to consumer demand were needed to reduce carbon emissions, a
shift from a previous focus on the promise of sustainable fuel
technology.[/quote]
Duh!
[quote]The article on degrowth published in June by
Davos-organiser the World Economic Forum hinted at degrowth
impacts, suggesting "it might mean people in rich countries
changing their diets, living in smaller houses and driving and
travelling less".[/quote]
And, most importantly of all, REPRODUCING LESS FFS!
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 10, 2022, 7:44 pm
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Nice!
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/04/animal-rebellion-activists-stop-milk-supply-parts-england
[quote]More than 100 supporters of Animal Rebellion stopped the
supply of fresh milk across large areas of England in the early
hours of Sunday, including Arla Aylesbury, which processes 10%
of the UK supply.
It came after the activist group, who campaign for a sustainable
plant-based food system, received no response to a letter to
Downing Street in August, in which they warned of disruptive
action in September unless progress towards their demands was
made.
Members of Animal Rebellion stopped and climbed on company
trucks outside four facilities supplying milk to the Midlands
and south of England. Others entered company premises, climbing
on to milk silos and the sites’ loading bays.
The four distribution centres, operated by Müller and Arla,
together process an estimated 2bn litres of fresh milk annually.
The group has said its supporters will continue to take direct
action until the British government negotiates on its two
demands.
[/quote]
However, democracy (especially involving a demos with a key
Turanian mutation) makes it unlikely that the activists will be
listened to:
[quote]“We are disappointed to be targeted by a small number of
activists who don’t represent the 96% of adults in Britain who
choose milk every week, and we will ensure that supplies are
maintained.
“Dairy is affordable and packed with nutrients that benefit our
bodies. During a cost of living crisis it is wrong to try to
prevent it from reaching families, including vulnerable members
of society.”[/quote]
For success in eliminating the dairy industry, either democracy
must be ended, or the lactose-tolerant must be demographically
replaced by the lactose-intolerant. Preferably both.
Bonus link:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman_joke
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: guest90 Date: November 12, 2022, 2:24 pm
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I don’t disagree at all that it will take statism to end fix all
these things, but it is a tendency among false leftists (usually
marxists, but also social democrats) to use the 100 companies
etc as an argument against plant-based diets and other life
style choices which should be law. In fact I believe many of
these people secretly don’t want these corporations gone, as
they aren’t already willing to make sacrifices in their life
style choices even if they’re in the position to do so.
For example, one of their key arguments against veganism is the
existence of food deserts. A true leftist of course would reply
that food deserts don’t have to exist but it will require
statism and city planning for people to have access to the
correct nutrition, but this doesn’t cross a false leftist’s mind
(or if it does they don’t mention it because it will invalidate
their argument - never mind that many of these false leftist
idiots don’t even live in food deserts to begin with!)
And taking into account their distrust towards any form of
authority, even that which is just and could actually get shit
done, I do not believe these people would be willing to support
true left statists. In fact many of these people believe TrUe
DeMoCrAcY is what will save their asses.
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2022, 9:11 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/time-burn-un-climate-conference-094843008.html
[quote]It’s Time We Burn the UN Climate Conference to the Ground
...
experts told The Daily Beast that this year’s COP will go down
in infamy as the year the conference was revealed to be a true
farce.
“It seems like Egypt is the nail in the coffin for environmental
activists and those truly invested in transformative climate
action and justice, and not just these small adjustments that
seem to be getting us nowhere,” Mohammed Rafi Arefin, a
geography and climate justice researcher at the University of
British Columbia, told The Daily Beast.
...
Recent reports have highlighted other hypocrisies, such as a
glut of fossil fuel lobbyists present at this year’s meeting, a
year after the industry’s already outsized presence was
uniformly criticized. Over a hundred more lobbyists registered
for COP27, according to an analysis released last week by the
international nonprofit Global Witness.
“After it was called out last year, how does this actually still
happen?” Kat Maier, a national coordinator for Fridays For
Future U.S., told The Daily Beast. That Hill+Knowlton, a PR firm
that represents fossil fuel companies, is leading communications
at the conference and Coca-Cola, one of the world’s leading
plastics polluters, is hosting, only deepens activists’
skepticism about the meeting.
...
It found that 125 of the world’s richest billionaires each emit
one million times more carbon annually than a person in the
bottom 90 percent economically on average.
...
When companies are given a larger platform than they deserve at
the conference, it’s important to remember how their tenets may
contradict the stated purpose of the COPs and drown out crucial
marginalized perspectives.[/quote]
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: guest90 Date: December 16, 2022, 7:01 am
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Finally a rebuttal to the mainstream conservationist bs:
HTML https://youtu.be/g-7cLXyMp8E
Note how he talks about animals as individuals, rather than as
collective species.
Found him on this website:
HTML https://wildanimalsuffering.org/
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: guest78 Date: December 16, 2022, 12:20 pm
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[quote author=Billy Kid link=topic=705.msg17071#msg17071
date=1671195689]
Note how he talks about animals as individuals, rather than as
collective species.
Found him on this website:
HTML https://wildanimalsuffering.org/
[/quote]
That is a really good website! Going to have to listen to
everything on there! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: guest90 Date: January 6, 2023, 7:00 pm
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Overpopulation is a genuine concern when it comes to
environmentalism, but the only people talking about it are
rightists (not because they genuinely care, but because they can
push the blame onto ‘non-whites’ instead of industrialisation
and the west’s overconsumption). False leftists will just call
you an eco-fascist and lump you in with the rightists if you
bring it up. Is there a way we can reclaim this talking point,
and make it distinctly leftist? It wasn’t until after the
industrial revolution did the population start to really creep
up, so the real blame still lies with the west and the countries
that adopted westernisation. But because worries of
overpopulation are directed towards ‘non-white’ countries i.e.
China and India, it’s ‘non-whites’ who get all the blame (which
is why I think most leftists shy away from mentioning
overpopulation).
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