Its just capitalism guys it isn’t a special bad kind of capitalism, and we need to switch to the good one. The good one is even more unsustainable than the bad one, because the “good” one still steals and pollutes’ it just steals and pollutes from people far away where the social democrats can’t see it.
French climate envoy, said it went further than the country’s national plan under the Paris agreement. For decades, nuclear power has supplied most of France’s electricity and this will be supplemented by an increase in renewables. “This process has made us realise we want to be an electro-superpower,” said Faraco. “We want to be the electricity Saudi Arabia of Europe, selling green electrons to the UK, Ireland, Germany and other countries.”
Fuck yeah, eurobros.
… if you expand into the energy market hoping to be an “electro-superpower”, you have an incentive to stop new renewables from competitors in a high enough supply to create negative pricing. This isn’t exciting phrasing, it’s alarming.
“I want to be king of this pile” phrasing should always be viewed with alarm
Investment in green energy is good. Wanting to sell that energy as a form of power accumulation is bad.
no point at all if they keep stealing african uranium. no point in leaving a continent in the dark age so they can light yours theirs.
I read this as euroboros
Almost as cool. Well. In the case of uranium, hot.
TIL that capitalism didn’t exist before we started using oil. The problem is so obvious, it’s like the whole world has Stockholm syndrome toward the oil companies. We all stand complicit.
Its not clear to me what you think the obvious problem is. Oil companies? How are we all complicit when youre saying the problem is one very small group?
The stranglehold oil has on the entire world is staggering. On one hand it brings amazing technology and possibilities, so we all lap it up. However, it really does seem to be the root of so many economic problems, which cause myriad other issues. We all, to some degree, pull a “Doesn’t look like anything to me…” when it comes to admitting our dependence on oil.
We are addicts.
Who are we? Like why am I accused of being addicted to oil? I’m not part of that, I don’t make those decisions. Neither do you, or you would change it, as would I. What do you or I have to do with the price of oil, or where wars get started that drive the prices for it up? And when the prices go up – who gets rich, and who gets screwed?
Its the corporations and militaries that do like 80-90% of pollution. We aren’t addicted to power because we don’t have any, except a few gallons of fuel per week, maybe, if you can afford it.
Its a little late to be giving the malaise speech. The only sane environmentalism is Socialist De-Growth.
It’s not really malaise; if there was a societal will in this country we would pass laws mandating green energy adoption. But we, as a society, do not. You or I may not have much individual impact, but the government and corporations are us when you get down to it. We all stand complicit because as a collective we do not want to experience the pain of giving up our luxury.
Edit: By we I refer to American citizens.
It started with coal or before.
