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DWS223 t1_jab3p85 wrote

I mean this is silly. Don’t burn fossil fuels for energy (they pollute), don’t use nuclear reactors (they melt down), and don’t build renewable power (it shuffles deck blocks animal migrations).

At some point environmental activists aren’t helping the environment they’re just obstructing progress.

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scavenjo t1_jabf9nb wrote

The Sami people might possibly rank last with almost all other indigenous groups as the least responsible for the climate catastrophe. They have the least contribution to and enjoyed the least benefit from humanity's use of fossil fuels. If there was any justice in this world those wind turbines would have been built on top of the mansions of oil CEOs and shareholders. But I'm a realist so I realise that it is silly to force oil tycoons to give up their massive mansions and wealth and that it is silly not to force the sami to give up protecting their lands and livelihood so that the rest of us can continue to exist.

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probono105 t1_jac0soe wrote

you really don't understand how wind works or the economics of placing and building turbines

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KpcAu t1_jad4pji wrote

I've thought about this problem for a while. If x doesn't work and y doesn't work and z doesn't work, what's left?

I think it's because the problems started earlier, and go deeper, than western industrialized society.

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