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Redneckmoans t1_jaaeutt wrote

Reply to comment by openly_gray in Norway: Thunberg joins Indigenous protests against turbines. The young environmental activist says green energy cannot come at the expense of human rights. A court order has deemed the turbines' location in Norway illegal, as they disrupt Sami reindeer-herding traditions by DoremusJessup

It hurts the movement against this so called “green energy” because people see her name and immediately lose interest in what is being said.

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AllomancersAnonymous t1_jaae3b2 wrote

Reply to comment by Wear-Fluid in Macron seeks Beijing’s help to end Ukraine war by upvote-for-rights

Please explain because all I see is a guy that has been instrumental in getting critical military aid to the Ukrainians.

Remember that France was the number one supplier of military aid to Ukraine from 2014 up to the eve of the current invasion.

The French supplied Caesars are arguably the best artillery system the Ukrainians have short of the HIMARS and have been instrumental in the war.

And then Macron got the snowball rolling on western tanks by pledging the AMX-10...

U mad because he engages in diplomacy at the same time he facilitates weapons to Ukraine?

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Redneckmoans t1_jaae2zz wrote

Reply to comment by EphraimJenkins in Norway: Thunberg joins Indigenous protests against turbines. The young environmental activist says green energy cannot come at the expense of human rights. A court order has deemed the turbines' location in Norway illegal, as they disrupt Sami reindeer-herding traditions by DoremusJessup

The wind turbines put a bunch of micro and nano plastic along with other nasty pollution into the environment. It ends up in reindeers, fish, plants, water, etc.

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keep_calm_and_prep_ t1_jaae0qp wrote

Reply to comment by Designer-Reward8754 in Ex-husband and relatives charged with murder of Hong Kong model Abby Choi as body parts found by paulfromatlanta

... money isn't always the motivating factor in these cases a lot of times there's a lot of hatred as well. Men often kill children they've raised. Usually they kill the children to punish the mother. Sometimes they'll kill the children and the mother. If even read up on cases where they killed the mother children, and family members of the mother. Pretty much every year there's a story in the paper near where I live about some woman who was killed. I always pray that the kids weren't involved.

I suppose in this case everyone's lucky that she had money and that's what he was after. Had the children not been so valuable who knows what would have happened.

I used to represent people in criminal law and the horror stories I can tell you. 💔 . Angry, toxic men can be so dangerous.

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ClimateCare7676 t1_jaadpn3 wrote

Reply to comment by stripy1979 in Norway: Thunberg joins Indigenous protests against turbines. The young environmental activist says green energy cannot come at the expense of human rights. A court order has deemed the turbines' location in Norway illegal, as they disrupt Sami reindeer-herding traditions by DoremusJessup

I think we face more ethical problems when it comes to who is losing and winning. Sometimes companies and govs make decisions that are the cheapest or the most profitable, even if they aren't that beneficial or ethical. They also tend to put the interests of the rich above the wellbeing of the least responsible and the most vulnerable communities.

Even the seemingly great things can have different value. Like, for example, "planting trees" can be done through planting quick-growing foreign monocultures in the Indigenous land. Or it can be done through replacing rich man's golf courts or dried up agricultural land with diverse local ecosystems and native plants. These things have different value and impact, but they can be presented as equal. Imo, it's important to consider that those are actually good options, and not the rich getting richer from patching up the problem instead of fixing it.

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