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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 06:09:23 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116013120934445460

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   the Government Pension Fund of Norway is the largest sovereign-wealth fund in the planet; investing over a real, EU trillion in businesses worldwide.

   where did they get the money to start the fund? FROM SURPLUS PETROLEUM & FOSSIL FUEL REVENUES. Norway nationalized key sectors of their economy, starting with oil & gas.

   so the Norwegian government uses oil & gas money to rid the country of #petromafia #consumerism thru investments not taxes.

   take that, neoliberal capitalists.

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     • JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

     STOP

     Mama Gaya is enough.

     the death cult of settler colonialist, extractivist capitalism is the problem.

     there's a reason LAND REDISTRIBUTION WARS started after the wars of independence across all the Américas.

     no nation can survive when capitalists control all the land. you cant cash crop ecosystems into profits without genocide and ecocide.

     kill capalism to save us all.

     malthusianism is eugenics & racist. deprogram that shit.

     @ArchaeoIain @jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     • JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

     @jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva That is not what I said. It is the logic of your statement though. It is clear that government policies or even evil religions which encourage population growth and ban contraception are aiming in the opposite direction partly because the dominant economic models are derived from agrarian societies where more people could produce more so growth arose from growing population. Simple really.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     @ArchaeoIain @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva What the fuck are you talking about!?

     You think we can population control ourselves back to a few hundred million people - and do you think handing out condoms will make it happen fast enough to be ANY help at all in the fight for a better environment on Earth?

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     @jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva it is one reason why we should not encourage people to have children, and should not discourage contraception.

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     @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva Also, "stop using energy & live off the land" is completely unrealistic and, if enforced, even worse than the technofascists.

     Why? Because in order to get there, literally billions of people have to die - there's no way the current Earth population can all sustain ourselves by growing a fucking veggie garden.

     Pre-industrial world population was less than 1bn, so who is to be condemned to starve to death, or euthanized, maybe...?

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva

     unread

     uninterested

     another whiny toxic idealist

     fighting the real left in service of the fossil fuel industry

     and too fucking stupid to see it

     stop following me and fuck you, you pathetic loser

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva

     You seemed to have taken my point about perfectionism: falsely asserting it as the enemy of good, and completely ignored it

     You need to work on this problem of yours

     I will go after you further to say that "hydroelectric is as bad (worse?!) as fossil fuels" is a stupid fucking lie

     Do you work for fossil fuel companies?

     If not, pause and think how you sound

     And note the real value of this moronic "perfect is the enemy of good" stupid bullshit you are shilling

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     @benroyce @blogdiva

     I would like to suggest that the ad hominem is out of place.

     That reservoir of water produces high amounts of methane which you probably know is 28 times more powerful, a greenhouse gas than CO2. There are many other consequences to damming a river that are destructive to ecological function, and ultimately to the carbon cycle itself.

     There is no cheap out and the chief point of damming up water and exporting it to someplace else is to benefit industry

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     @benroyce @blogdiva

     Take, for example, hydroelectric power. When you damn a river, it becomes a source of methane production… and in the end, if you cost everything out that hydroelectric power is generating twice as much carbon per kilowatt hour is a freaking cold plant.

     Again, I emphasize, if you slap a label of green on hydroelectric because it doesn’t burn fossil fuels, but ends up doing more damage what exactly have we gained?

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     @benroyce @blogdiva

     And I will add to this comment that I have placed myself in a situation where I do not drive my car except for maybe once a year out of necessity to visit family during Christmas because the alternatives are not available to me now.

     The cheapest most efficient world saving effort is to get rid of cars and to be able to feed ourselves from our regional watersheds. The important thing to do is to change to it, not obsess about EV or solar panels.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva

     this is the trap of perfectionism

     there is nothing wrong with your argument, but you've decided to make another argument your enemy. even though that argument is a good thing, it is not a perfect thing, so you think you can complain

     you can't

     is it good we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels?

     yes

     is it good to reduce resource use, your agenda?

     also yes

     but why make enemies of these fine goals

     applaud both, push both

     don't make them enemies. that is a lie

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva

     bullshit

     get everyone an EV, and then the game becomes moving the power plants off fossil fuels. which is being done

     of course mining resources for EV batteries is a concern

     much less of a concern than fossil fuel extraction

     especially in regards to climate change

     that difference matters

     of course it's not perfect

     as if anyone concerned with magical impossible perfection is thinking clearly or remotely a serious person

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     @benroyce @blogdiva

     I repeat and will continue to repeat the only way to step off the path of destruction is the immediate reduction of all energy use, and resource use. The equation that you and I get told repeatedly is a false one..

     Renewables come with a permanently destructive permanently, toxic permanently, life ending legacy.

     In order to build it, we have to kill the planet.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 06:09:22 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     EV are not “green” in the way that has been publicized.

     The problem is resource & energy use, not whether it’s internal combustion or electric.

     We have to understand that shifting to a different kind of supply chain is a version of using less of something in one area, causing a rapid expansion of something equally destructive in another area