• Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Link the articles, because green washing is a real problem. Libs keep throwing money at electric cars and slightly greener luxury products that are still horrible (5% less bad yearly-iPhone upgrade), and attack things like diesel buses in cases where an introduction of a diesel bus will not only be net reduction, but a reduction even compared to buying a brand new electric bus from an imperial core country.

    I mean I don't know, I strongly disagree with his anti-vax stance, and so it's not crazy to imagine that he'd have some bad opinion on climate change, but I also absolutely understand groaning when listening to two-faced north libs say the way to solve climate change is LNG.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I never said that green-washing wasn't a problem or an important issue, my issue is that Max Blumenthal seemed to disregard all of that actual science and just throw it in the trash.

      I might have misremembered, I thought this story was written by Blumenthal, or I might be confusing it with another:

      https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/08/dutch-farmers-technocratic-plan/

      • chocoraisinboi@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        So its wrong that dutch farmers arent ok with a neoliberal agenda that will most likely sell their land to black rock?

        If this is it then it's a weak argument to take him down with

        • Buchenstr@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          These protests were funded by agricultural corporations to fight government environmental regulations, these hogs can really go fuck themselves for all I care.

          Most western european farmers are bourgeois traitors who would gladly sell their country out to blackrock if it meant they got a few hundred quid in their bank.

        • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          The thing the article is complaining about is evil climate regulation trying to stop industrial agriculture (which greatly pollutes and robs the soil while requiring vast inputs).

        • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          I am half-awake so please bare with me, but unless I misread it, those farmers seemed more concerned about their profits than the environment is my point.