I think they did a study in the Amazon, and found that actually the Amazon is strongest when defended by indigenous populations. In fact basically all around the world, all nature is stronger when protected by humans.
I think you could make the case that before capitalism, this would also have been the case in the west. There are clear links between the growth of capitalism and witch burning.
You got married but you have to be nice to your wife to get a blowjob? If I'm elected governor, everyone's wives will have to give them a blowjob whenever they want, no questions asked.
So I kind of want to split it halfway between you two: The reason all the regulation exists is because of how dangerous it is, the reason Nuclear is so expensive and time consuming is because of regulation. I reckon you could basically make a super dangerous Nuclear plant for not much more than a coal plant and in the same time frame. So, you could say it like "nuclear is too time consuming and expensive to be relevant", or "nuclear is too dangerous to be relevant" and they're both basically saying the same thing.
Take your upvote, and go home.
The sub is pretty low traffic, and you're not a particularly prolific poster, but I guess it's enough to tip the scale of people going "wait a minute". It's good to have you here, and hoping sanity prevails. It's crazy the amount India has changed from being pedestrian friendly to being a sort of car nightmare.
Yeah it's kind of strange policy. It applies only to the city, in the way a congestion charge would be set up (you can drive maybe 20 km off and get fuel), but the government is hard right wing, so they tend to pick solutions which will hurt the rich the least (they already have newer cars and tend to get newer cars as the old ones wear out), and not really mean anything to the poor (they don't have cars at all, so this is all a moot point). The "middle class" as is the example here tend to suffer.
However, the middle class also has basically no solidarity with the poor, so like they'll readily vote for policies which just wreck the poor, and because India is a "cheap labour" country, often the middle classes are sort of like the Petty Bourgeois in that they really hate the poor asking for more rather than punching up. Add that to the whole casteism / racism thing, and I don't really feel bad for Kapil.
The other other thing is that India (Delhi) is somehow extremely pedestrian friendly while also being extremely hostile to pedestrians. Like imagine small walkable communities surrounded by stroads and a "might makes right" approach to driving, and a government which is committed to more roads (keeps the rich and the poors separated), and you have a place where kids might be able to walk to school on their own, or have walking mean near-certain death depending on exactly where they live in relation to the school.
Great work bringing it back up. Being unexpectedly down is kind of Solarpunk, and so is getting help from a friend ;)
They do it in some places in Australia, but in supermarkets and not in greengrocers.
It's still a dangerous spot though. The LNP votes will doubtless (largely) flow through to Labor. If enough people are spooked with the Greens housing policy, then the preference flows might not be as favourable.
Apparently misting veggies like this reduces their life, it's mostly to make the veggies look more saleable rather than having them last longer (IIUC).
Some people talking to you don't seem to be getting it. There's a Kurzgesagt video about Demographic collapse in South Korea. The issue is: You have a country with a boundary, and the entire country can't take care of its elderly, and because it is getting poorer, can't attract people from other nations to take care of its elderly either. This kills the "nation", which can't defend itself and doesn't really have anything to look forward to.
I think realistically the two are about different time horizons. Anarchism is when the protocols are in our heads. It's how we live. Communalism, to some extent, is about existing in a world where the implied violence of the system will shut down any "pure" anarchism. Create structure so the hierarchies know how to deal with it.
Sometimes it's not even about hostility. People just can't imagine a world without what exists today. Just having anarchism in your head is revolutionary.