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"In 1635, mining was introduced in Sápmi when a silver mine opened near Árjepluovve in Sweden. The impact on Sámi society was huge. Businessmen and settlers arrived from the south, while local Sámi were driven from their homes and used as coolies. Resistance was met with harsh repression. A special kind of water torture became notorious. Sámi were dragged along a rope underneath the ice of a frozen lake from one hole to another."
It is sickening to hear boosters of “renewable” energy pretend that it is green and clean and good for Nature. It is not. It is dirty and filthy and devastating to Indigenous, to wildlife, to biodiversity, to the last wildernesses that must be preserved. Enough lies. No to oil, gas and coal. And no to the fraud that is “green” energy.
Address right problem.
We don't have an energy production problem.
We have an energy consumption problem.
We consume vastly too much energy, materials
Slow down
@gerrymcgovern Sorry, this is a garbage argument. The UK's carbon emissions are back down to 1879 levels. This wasn't done with fraud, it was done with renewable energy.
You can argue that resource extraction can be done more sustainably, that's true across the board, but it's nonsense to call renewable energy a fraud.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-in-2023-fell-to-lowest-level-since-1879/
@Sakti @gerrymcgovern But he didn’t call “renewable“ energy a fraud. He explicitly criticised using the term “green” and here I agree.
@Sakti Much of what the UK has achieved has been a result of hollowing out their manufacturing economy. They have outsourced much of the damage. And the damage is not simply CO2. It is mining waste, it is biodiversity loss, it is chemical, it is water degradation.
In the context of vastly reduced energy and material consumption, wind and solar can play a role. Right now, they run under the "Keep On Consuming" banner.
@Sakti @gerrymcgovern
You understand that to manufacture and install renewables on the scale that is being proposed requires vast quantities of resources and, crucially, fossil fuels?
We need to slow down, literally, and radically consume less material resources and energy
