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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 8, 2024, 6:03 pm
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I have been warning year after year against progressive
environmentalism (ie. believing that problems created by Western
civilization can be solved by more Western civilization). Of
course the progressives did not listen and continued believing
EVs were the answer. Now:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/major-lithium-discovery-fracking-wastewater-080028818.html
[quote]Major lithium discovery in fracking wastewater leaves the
left facing EV 'irony'
...
The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium
to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking
in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy
future at a crossroads, Republicans said Thursday.
A University of Pittsburgh study suggested processing byproducts
from natural gas production in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale
basin could potentially meet nearly half of U.S. lithium needs.
The typical electric vehicle (EV) requires nearly 18 pounds of
lithium to power its battery. That figure grows exponentially
for Teslas, according to reports.
...
"Now nearly 40% of our nation’s domestic need for lithium can be
found right here as a byproduct of fracking," he said. "I fully
expect every single Democrat to join Republicans in supporting
domestic natural gas development."
...
"The great irony is the same climate extremists who oppose
harvesting fossil fuels under all circumstances are dependent on
lithium for solar panels and for the battery components they
need for things like electric cars, which often are powered on
electricity generated by natural gas," he said.[/quote]
I, on the other hand, can continue to oppose fracking (which
should indeed be opposed) because I have never supported EVs but
have instead always advocated returning to bicycles (which are
also many times lighter (and hence require less energy to move
around, duh!) than cars, whereas EVs are actually heavier than
petrol/diesel cars on average:
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height=601]
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). This is why only regressive environmentalism deserves to be
taken seriously.
[quote]"Fracking may provide the cleanest, most environmentally
friendly way to produce natural gas energy and harvest the
domestic lithium we need for the green future endorsed by my
colleagues on the extreme left."[/quote]
It is no coincidence that the one and only one civilization in
all of world history which discovered lithium:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#History
[quote]Petalite (LiAlSi4O10) was discovered in 1800 by the
Brazilian chemist and statesman José Bonifácio de Andrada e
Silva in a mine on the island of Utö, Sweden.[70][71][72][73]
However, it was not until 1817 that Johan August Arfwedson, then
working in the laboratory of the chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius,
detected the presence of a new element while analyzing petalite
ore.[74][75][76][77] This element formed compounds similar to
those of sodium and potassium, though its carbonate and
hydroxide were less soluble in water and less alkaline.[78]
Berzelius gave the alkaline material the name "lithion/lithina",
from the Greek word λιθoς (transliterated as
lithos, meaning "stone"), to reflect its discovery in a solid
mineral, as opposed to potassium, which had been discovered in
plant ashes, and sodium, which was known partly for its high
abundance in animal blood. He named the new element
"lithium".[9][72][77][/quote]
is the same one and only one civilization in world history which
invented fracking:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking#History
[quote]On 24 April 1865, US Civil War veteran Col. Edward A. L.
Roberts received a patent for an "exploding torpedo".[40] It was
employed in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and West Virginia
using liquid and also, later, solidified nitroglycerin. Later
still the same method was applied to water and gas wells.
Stimulation of wells with acid, instead of explosive fluids, was
introduced in the 1930s. Due to acid etching, fractures would
not close completely resulting in further productivity
increase.[41][/quote]
The environment was in incomparably better condition prior to
the discovery of lithium. So why would anyone think that lithium
would be needed to counter environmental degradation? (Answer:
because they are Westerners.)
More generally, the environment was in incomparably better
condition prior to the Renaissance. So why would anyone think
that any post-Renaissance knowledge would be needed to counter
environmental degradation? (Answer: because they are
Westerners.)
Homework: since the environment was in incomparably better
condition back when there were 0 Western scientists in
existence, what is the correct number of Western scientists that
should exist in the future if we want to save the environment?
(Bonus question: what is the fastest way to reach this number?)
Bacl to the first link, at least there are a few regressive
environmentalists ridiculing progressive enviromentalists in the
comments, for example:
[quote]There was a huge push 40 years ago to eliminate paper
shopping bags for plastic because it was better for the
environment. We'll see how this story unfolds and how long it
takes to either fix it or stop making the problem worse.[/quote]
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: antihellenistic Date: June 28, 2024, 9:30 pm
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[quote]It is a characteristic of our materialistic epoch that
our scientific education shows a growing emphasis on what is
real and practical: such subjects, for instance, as applied
mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. Of course they are
necessary in an age that is dominated by industrial technology
and chemistry, and where everyday life shows at least the
external manifestations of these. But it is a perilous thing to
base the general culture of a nation on the knowledge of these
subjects. On the contrary, that general culture ought always to
be directed towards ideals. - Adolf Hitler[/quote]
Sumber :
Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (Part 2) page 41 - 42
HTML https://archive.org/details/AdolfHitlersmeinKampfpart2/page/n41/mode/2up
[quote]“Industrialization has deprived the individual of all
liberty, placed him in thrall to capital and the machine. The
state is not the organization for self-rule by free individuals
who call themselves citizens, but the central organization for
the mills of labor growing out of industrialization, in which
any indepen¬ dence or individualism is ground to dust. This is
most crudely evident in the Bolshevik state, with its state
capitalism.
“But if we realize our social economy exactly as we discussed
more than once, we will come to liberate the individual from the
domination of capital and all its institutions. To begin with,
labor will seize possession of capital. But what is ethically
most significant is the following: when the purchasing power of
wages increases—when, as you say, it might even double—the
initial effect will be that production will have to increase,
since the demand will be greater. But next comes the great era
ofincreasing personal gratification, with the result that the
worker will still earn a sufficiency if, instead of working
eight hours a day, he puts in only seven or even six.
“This moment signifies the rebirth of individuality, of the
possibility of living for oneself outside the hours that serve
material needs, and of devoting oneself to hobbies, cultural
interests, art, science, life in general, and the family.
“To this extent, then, socialism—our socialism—leads back to
individuality, and with it to the strongest impetus to a
personal, racially defined, and altogether universal human
evolution.”
...
“The World War had as one of its consequences that, wherever
capitalism reigns, America has supremacy. And since America
suffers from industrial overproduction, it will exploit this
supremacy to dispose of its overproduction. That concerns
everyone—Germany as well as France, England as well as South
America, China, and Japan. Only where capitalism has been
broken, abolished, replaced by something new does America’s
power stop.
“Herein lies our greatest mission and at the same time our best
chance! Here is the bedrock where we may cast anchor. From there
an anti-industrial world can be erected.” - Adolf Hitler[/quote]
Source :
Hitler - Memoirs Of A Confidant by Otto Wagener page 148, 149,
160
HTML https://archive.org/details/wagenerhitlermemoirsofaconfidant/page/n177/mode/2up
[quote]As far as possible, one must avoid ruining landscapes
with networks of high-tension wires, telpher railways and
machines of that sort. I'm in favour of roads, when needs
must—but what's uglier than a funicular? - Adolf Hitler, 9th
February 1942, midday SPECIAL GUEST: SPEER The farce of
gas-masks—The economics of the cults— Obersalzberg.[/quote]
Source :
Hitler, Adolf – Table Talk page 306
Type of people who ever spread industrialization and materialist
way of life in the first place
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Western Civilization is responsible for obstacles to the
environmentalist ideal society
[quote]The beginning of Europe’s ascendancy has been dated from
many points: the Industrial Revolution, the modern world
capitalist system, the Renaissance. There is a strong consensus
that the rise of Europe should be sought no earlier than the
Middle Ages, although some still connect it back to Athens. For
Hegel, however, the question was less Europe’s ascendancy than
its uniqueness, which he attributed to its autonomous capacity
for free reflection, a capacity which, in his view, had
descended from the Greeks, and which therefore required for its
explanation a consideration of the origins of Greek uniqueness.
To this day no one knows how to account for the origins of the
“Greek miracle”. In stark contrast to the numerous explanations
which have been offered on all the other major revolutionary
transformations of Europe, no strong or consensual argument has
yet been produced in response to why ancient Greece “discovered
the mind,” discovered the method of causal science, invented the
literary form of tragedy, prose writing, and tapped into the
progressive spirit of critical reason. Many classicists have
offered no more than tautological explanations in which the
explanandum reappears in the explanans: “Greek philosophy grew
out of an exclusive national culture and is the legitimate
offspring of the Greek spirit” (Windelband 1956: 3); “Greek
philosophy has a good claim to be regarded as the most original
and influential achievement of the Greek genius” (Luce 1992:
9).[/quote]
Source :
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization Ricardo Duchesne page 312
- 315
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2024, 2:49 am
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Only in Western civilization:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOezW-b_mD8
[quote]to solve the problems it creates[/quote]
HTML https://www.wisebread.com/files/fruganomics/imagecache/blog_image_full/files/fruganomics/blog-images/bang%20head%20here.gif
How about not creating the previously nonexistent problems in
the first place? But I guess that would be too non-Western for
Westerners to accept.
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 31, 2024, 7:47 pm
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Our enemies complain that the True Left message is increasingly
mainstreaming:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2024/07/indigenous-nationalism-in-the-guise-of-environmental-stewardship
[quote]Second paragraph:
[quote]We are often too quick to place the blame for
worsening planetary conditions solely at the feet of specific
bad actors such as politicians, political parties, corporations,
and CEOs who have been corrupted by greed and
self-interest.[/quote]
Note how he places the vague concept of “self interest” in the
category of being something associated with “bad actors” and
corruption. As I noted to the readers in my last article, I am
neither a libertarian nor an Objectivist – but I do not believe
that acting in what one perceives to be one’s own self-interest
to be villainous, even if it is short-sighted.
Note his insinuation that what is needed is a “good actor”, who
is not “corrupted by greed and self interest” – in other words,
an invulnerable arbiter whose rulings are binding and must be
taken as articles of faith.
He moves on to his metapolitical philosophy as to what led to
Canada’s supposed contemporary enviro catastrophic state.
[quote]while I acknowledge that bad actors certainly do
exist, and that corruption is likely a factor, I feel that by
focusing [sic] too heavily on individual failings, we risk
misdirecting our attention away from the systems which allow
these bad actors to have such an outsized impact on our
environment in the first place.[/quote]
A prescient reader may correctly guess from this sentence that
the author is going to go on to attack “Eurocentric”
socio-political structures. Unsettling, but in this year of 2777
A.U.C., is not surprising.
[quote]many of our environmental issues have their roots in
Europe beginning in the 1600s and are a product of private
property law, the enclosure of the commons, and settler
colonialism which exported this suite of ideologies across the
globe.[/quote]
Anybody who didn’t see that coming, do a cartwheel.[/quote]
Actually, I would blame organic chemistry even more than any of
the above. In absence of organic chemistry, all the above could
have happened and the effect on the environment would have been
many orders of magnitude less. But by no coincidence organic
chemistry came from the same civilization that all of the above
came from, so at least the correct civilization is being blamed.
[quote][quote]The process of European settlement in the so
called “New World” occurred through genocide, dispossession,
and displacement of Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island.
The imposition of colonial laws and ideas of private property –
now upheld by the settler-state of Canada – created the
conditions for capitalism to flourish as land was carved up and
privatized at the expense of Indigenous lives and their
traditions.[/quote]
...
The appearance of anti-Zionist encampments on the campuses of
our major universities, whose activists exhibit cognitive
dissonance in their taking public funds from us “settlers” with
one hand, while disparaging us with the other hand, has not gone
unnoticed by those who would have been considered “normies” a
couple of years ago. The growing harmonisation of the
anti-Zionists with the anti European anti-colonialists should be
a cause for alarm in this country, especially when their beliefs
are promoted in what had heretofore been seen as neutral and
respected publications of record.[/quote]
This was my plan all along.
But how do our enemies respond?
[quote]To conclude, I would like to make a lands
acknowledgement:
I would like to acknowledge that I am on the traditional land of
the Prairie-Canadian peoples, who faced poverty, loneliness,
bewilderment, and a harsh climate to bring the rule of law to
this land; for the right to live in peace and prosperity with
their neighbours; who provided crops and livestock the world
needed to live.
This is my home.[/quote]
Israelis say the same thing about Israel.
Since this is an environmentalism topic, I will conclude with a
graph:
HTML https://climatepositions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Footprint-Isreal-and-Occupied-Palestinian-Ter..png
Homework: from an environmentalist perspective, who should get
all the land?
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: rp Date: August 12, 2024, 2:11 am
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HTML https://x.com/Rjrasva/status/1813891131157225921?t=LwxtZSRuavs6pbtZJg9Spw&s=19
[quote]
Laughable, the more technological sophistication the more
material throughput needed & less left for other species & all
day they r kanging about tech ("Faustian man...")
Avg Malawian needs 0.3 hectares, avg American needs 8
HTML https://www.deborahjones.ca/journalism/reporting/bill-reess-big-shoes-ecological-footprint-inventor/…
Latest
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[Quote]
wignats genuinely believe they care abt animals more than others
lol
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HTML https://x.com/Rjrasva/status/1813891946873819339?t=BLmYYSqp7N2SlcrgpTKcsA&s=19
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example of this is AI which burns through coal & gas in days
which needed nature millions of years to form
or the junk EV's the scam artist owner of this app sells & whose
material needs result in:
How humans are exploiting the oceans
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfAdgCTF9k
San bushmen don't
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HTML https://x.com/Rjrasva/status/1813893050588098972?t=co3ZSovzQelNxEC380hMog&s=19
[Quote]
need to mine & pollute the depths of the ocean to maintain
themselves
People who pride themselves on being modern, boasting about
consumption (e. g. "Europoors don't have dryers & air dry
clothes unlike in land of the free"), fantasizing that they r
colonizing Mars definitely do
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Re: True Left breakthrough: seriousness in environmentalism
By: rp Date: December 16, 2024, 7:04 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-footprint
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