Recent comments in /f/UpliftingNews

elydakai t1_j9kg31c wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

THIS is not uplifting AT ALL. The damage to the climate has already been done. what a horrible thing to share to this subreddit

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Harbinger2001 t1_j9keyeq wrote

Reply to comment by girkkens in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Putin was facing a west-friendly Ukraine controlling their southern pipeline and bringing their own LNG production online. The longer he waited the worse it would get for Russia. Trump being the first incumbent to lose in a long time really hurt his plans. In the end he decided the damage done to western solidarity was more permanent than it turned out to be.

The lesson is - don’t fuck with the US’s geopolitical and economic interests.

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bonesnaps t1_j9kettx wrote

Reply to comment by Mortar9 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Nothing like an alien invasion to cause us to stop warring with each other and unite against a bigger threat.

Just kidding, that's an impossibility. Humans will be greedy and fight over resources til the end of time.

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zvug t1_j9ke9k7 wrote

Reply to comment by MTFHammerDown in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

America uses this term all the time you probably just don’t realize it because it’s slang in The Hill

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Harbinger2001 t1_j9ke57s wrote

Reply to comment by watduhdamhell in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

In the long term, it’s the right decision. Nuclear was the right option to get off coal/LNG/oil 20-30 years ago. But now the right option is renewables. They are cheaper than nuclear and can come online far faster. Ironically, the oil and gas industry is pushing for nuclear over renewables because it will buy them more time to extract profits.

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imgrandojjo t1_j9kdnnj wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

In other words, the european union has been sandbagging heavily on its transition to green energy and never would have done it if Russia hadn't given them a kick in the pants.

Not a big shock, but let's phrase things correctly.

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EmperorOfNipples t1_j9kdbqs wrote

Reply to comment by Jacob_MacAbre in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Not just any dead Russians.

It's their young healthy men, in a nation that's already undergoing a demographic shortage of them. Plus many have fled the country. It'll impact them for decades to come.

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FinnT730 t1_j9kcyko wrote

Reply to comment by patmax17 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Global warming, or rather, when there is never winter, and sea levels have gone up 50 meters, and The Netherlands is fully flooded.

Only way for them to realize "oh wait... It was real??? Why did no one tell me!!!"

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FabFubar t1_j9kct86 wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

See? We can save the planet, as long as it is made the better choice for the economy. And ironically, saving the environment is the better choice for everyone in the long term.

A carbon tax would work!

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[deleted] t1_j9kbuv6 wrote

Reply to comment by Harbinger2001 in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Yeah the Balkans are my read as well, massive fracturing into a bunch of bandit kingdoms and their local warlord Oligarchs. Humanitarian crisises, etc.

And then there's China, who I can see trying to take advantage of the situation. I get the feeling the "Roaring WTFs" decade hasn't hit its stride yet.

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WayneSkylar_ t1_j9kbugi wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Wow what a spin. Doesn't matter if you increase that use when large parts of Europe, like Germany, is turning coal plants back on to make up for the loss of Russian energy. This is setting climate policy backwards, not forward.

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Steeljaw72 t1_j9kbjsd wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Unfortunately, war often breeds innovation. Glad to know there is some silver lining to the war. But still wish it never happened.

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Harbinger2001 t1_j9kbctg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

The collapse of Russia will be very dangerous. Lots of internal beefs to be settled. I expect Yugoslavia but on a larger scale.

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omegaphallic t1_j9kb8lg wrote

Reply to Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

I refuse to celebrate this horrible war. This is not the way to get net carbon neutral, wars should not be seen as a solution to climate change.

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[deleted] t1_j9kao3k wrote

Reply to comment by galgor_ in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

It's a slow burn. Sanctions are only part of the equation. Politics in Russia, collapsing population, a run away kleptocracy, really it boils down to Putin trying to roll back the clock to the "Good old days" of the USSR. Their country's future died when that bastard took power because he's the worst combinations of a despot and a criminal enterprise.

Really the Petrochemical business is the only thing keeping them remotely solvent and Europe just opted out. They can sell it else where, but their market is going to be vastly reduced and the people who are left like India and China are taking advantage of the situation to force them to sell to them at prices more favorable to them and not Putin.

But what's really killing them is population collapse. Anyone who isn't dirt poor in Russia is leaving for pretty much anywhere else, particularly their skilled trades and educated work force. This is actually one of the reasons Putin is desperate to annex neighboring states. Russia needs bodies and they know it.

The people they *did* have who might have replaced the cohort that's aging out atm have either fled, or got chewed up in Putin's insistence on using Zap Brannigan's big book of war as his play book. It's a meat grinder that's killing their future.

Eventually Putin is basically going to turn the country into North Korea, or try to because they can't lose anymore bodies. They will put an insane amount of effort into policing their borders so nobody gets out or leaves. And that's not going to help either, men are dropping dead at 40 from alcoholism.

They are on the fast track to becoming a failed state and straight up TEOTWAWKI. There may not *be* a Russia by the middle of the 21st, and that's generous.

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