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[theguardian.com]

‘A Death Sentence’


"Schemes such as carbon trading favored by polluting nations lead to ecologically destructive projects like biofuels and dams."


"Indigenous communities facing an upsurge in land grabs, water shortages and human rights violations ... have accused world leaders of sacrificing them in order to postpone meaningful climate action and shield corporate profits."


*** Question: What can be done about the corporate, capitalist lies and evasions ( greenwashing / carbon offset markets ) by extractive industries?
The UN Human Rights Council passed a Resolution ( Friday, /8/2021 ) "for the first time, that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right."
Question: Now, how do the world's nations implement that?

AnonySchmoose 8 Dec 7
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Answer: We don't. Therefore, the Resolution was an exercise in futility and a waste of time. but I'm sure everyone felt better afterwards. And isn't feeling better all that matters? Humanity is such a joke.

Many nations agreed that it is a right, so how do we make them live up to their promises? We must protest and influence the younger generations to protest too.

@AnonySchmoose How? I would say some likely avenues would be in the realm of game theory, and having an understanding of balancing principles applied - - something like the checks and balances idealized in the US Constitution, and the notion of pareto optimums, but fully updated to take advantage of modern mathematics and artificial intelligence. We need to update our governments and administrations to compel equitable outcomes. Maybe these new human structures are developed on a small scale that then grows somehow. How do we mitigate the rampant insanity that saturates our existing cultures? Might it not be moral to forcibly deprive people of their stupidity? That stupidity is an existential threat, and some may feel obliged to save Humanity in spite of itself. All the roads lead to hell.

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The Al Gore method of paying money in order to pollute certainly would not work. Gore and friends get rich and we still have pollution. That's because the ones collecting the money all divide it up and none of it goes to fighting pollution.

Carbon offsets will not achieve much, and cannot be measured accurately or fairly enough to get rid of CO2 pollution quantitatively.

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By ridding ourselves of the 1% and their corporate minions..we could yeet them all towards the Pacific plastic patch..

Yes... The 1% are every bit as toxic as the plastic patch unless they quit being the 1%.

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This has been the case from day one. Indigenous communities have always come last. Given that a large percentage don't have alcohol in their past many become addicted. The constant poverty doesn't help break the addiction issue either.

Problem, more and more 'environmental justice' issues have become a distraction to the main problem too many of us seeking a dwindling resource base. We are all, indigenous, immigrants, poor and minority groups and, in the end even the wealthy are caught in this trap.

Am feeling that currently. Though I'm not sure how the wealthy are caught in the trap to which they subscribe.

@AnonySchmoose When things go down the tube everyone is included. The wealthy may go down last but it will be the hardest. One cannot buy resources that are not there.

My late partner was an immigrant. A very astute and reasoned based woman. She worked in an international school and dealt with other immigrants a lot but she knew when this country, with our inflated carbon footprint, crashes everyone, including immigrants will suffer. Hence her question about people and dirt.

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Just no

No in perpetuity.

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