MrMakabar

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[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago

Amsterdam is about the same size as Denver and has a at least low car city center. Works pretty well.Venice down town might be one of the most beautiful in the world and is pretty much completly car free. It sort of works, besides the tourists that is.

[–] MrMakabar 5 points 1 month ago

The tankies often also get money from Russia. It is pretty easy to spot. If they do not attack the far right, they get money from Moscow.

[–] MrMakabar 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MrMakabar 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seriously that is actually a problem. The gold is worth $23.7billion or so. Some of the rest will be in RMB, but I can not tell how much. Russia can always print Rubel and force its industry to take it.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago

Actually many European cities would be green as well. For example Munich still has a modal share of 34% cars. However none of the other options has more then that with walking and public transport being at 24% each and cycling at 18%. You could very much live without a car though.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago

You only need those soldiers, when you want to control, which targets Ukraine can strike. Otherwise it would be possible to train up Ukranians to do it

However given that Ukraine is on record to have blown up Nord Stream, which has obvious value to Germany as well, this is highly unlikely to happen. Taurus could also be used to strike Germany from Ukranian aerospace after all.

[–] MrMakabar 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So what you are saying is that men who ride bikes are more fertile?

[–] MrMakabar 7 points 1 month ago

Are you seriously suggesting that Gaza is the only problem the Democrats have?

This is what you do, when you want to take votes from the Democrats. If you wanted to built up real power, to challenge the Democrats from the left, you have to win local smaller elections first. That means city council, house of representatives, state level politicians, school boards and so forth. You focus on the most left leaning regions, so you can actually go first past the post. The Greens do not do that. They run in FOUR elections in California this year. That is the largest blue state, with some very left leaning areas.

Also once you sit in congress, councils or whatever, you need allies, unless they win a majority. So in most cases that would mean winning the furthest left seats and having to work with a more centrist party, to change things. In the US that would be the Democrats. In some countries there are deals made to not run candidates in certain districts, to make sure left parties win. That just happened in France for example. No reason those deals could not be made between the Democrats and the Greens.

Also Gaza can only be solved by becoming president. Jill Stein is not going to win the election and everybody with half a brain should no that. So the goal of running, should be to show what the Green Party stands for in local elections. Nobody can solve Gaza when sitting on a city council in the US, however they can built bikelanes, promote renewables, improve public transit, cheap dense green housing and so forth. Jill Stein does not mention those at all. She should, to help out the local candidates, which they are not running. It also means less issues the Democrats might copy. After all who cares, if the Greens or the Democrats pass good laws, as long as they are passed.

Attacking the Democrats from the left is just going to hurt the Democrats, which helps the Republicans. Instead the Green Party should either try to built an alternative or push them towards the left. Right now it is obvious that they just want to help the Republicans.

[–] MrMakabar 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Correct, but Germany would be able to send them and give permissions for them being used to strike into Russia.

[–] MrMakabar 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Global emissions are still growing. That is due to global energy consumption growing faster then global renewable production increases. To avoid climate change, we have to not only increase renewable production, but also reduce energy consumption. We have to replace 139PWh of fossil fuel energy as quickly as possible. Last year we added 2PWh of new fossil fuels to the mix, but only 1.48PWh of wind, nuclear and solar. So just stopping the growth of fossil fuel energy production, would help more then all the clean energy we add.

However a fully clean energy system is possible. It is just a matter of getting to it quickly enough.

[–] MrMakabar 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never stop an enemy, when they make a mistake.

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Just so nobody is confused. This is real:

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/publications/2333.htm

 

Ohne Paywall:

https://archive.ph/VcjgZ

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