Pretty cool mirror symmetry with solar above and carbon cloud below. That is also an impressive way to convey the information along with the stats. Good symbol design.
Ok, check the stat sources. Right. I'm betting they are valid just thinking about how much fossil fuels are expended in a war, how much all those bombs and weapons cost, and how good solar can be in a sunny climate like the US Southwest or the Middle East.
I think the essential point is, rather, instead of being destructive abroad, we could be productive at home. We could use our resources to improve life here instead of being complicit in taking the lives of others.
How is "this" an oversimplification exactly? Yes, there is an interrelationship between the factors you quote. Yes, short-term spending on the military might improve the economy initially, but, like the quote says, the effect is nonlinear and inhibits growth in the long run.
Your quote supports rather than refutes the claim of this activist infographic. I would have to delve deeper into their sourcing, but the position is still strong overall.
Instead of using war to stimulate the economy, a Green New Deal could and the benefit would be sustained long term. It just takes large-scale leadership.
What claim is not true? There are several claims. You just deny it and that suffices, Kai Ro? The "moment" is rigged for you.
Most treaties with the original owners (American Indians) were broken and ignored.
Of course, the indigenous did not have the same ideas about "ownership," preferring open prairies, for example, instead of fences. "We do not own the land, the land owns us." Why do you possess it? Other causes external to yourself created it and sustain it. It all belongs to Sun-Water. Somehow, owners forget all the externalities and sudden break endless causal chains, contingencies and dependencies, and say they solely deserve it and it belongs exclusively to them.
Then again, there were Europeans who thought "property is theft" and threw off feudalism. Why should the Lord own our labors and lands, they thought?
Imagine if you or I turned the tables and had a Manifest Destiny today.
Ownership is a strange concept. There was a commons when there was a King and Crown. Now there is supposed to be no King but there is no Commons, only Lords with dubious claim gained by trickery and inequity.
I wish "rsync" also stood for something anti-gestapo!
I believe it is the antifa (anti-fascist) symbol.
My feeling is that there is still a puritanical streak both on the left and right.
I don't know where people are getting their "hook up" culture. The statistical analysis I have heard about sexual life in colleges actually states that there aren't widely distributed high frequencies, but more like a few people get a lot and most don't.
The left seems pretty prude these days. I think there was a consensus that "free love" back fired in the past so people try to ignore it if they can most of the time these days unless it involves other than normative orientations.
Well said, isn't it? Much street art is not tagged and unattributable. Maybe the artists will respond if someone spreads the word in Portland. That would be super cool. I've wanted to learn more about the artist too and what they think. How to connect? That's one of the reasons I made the community.
Are you an Engineer? Seems reasonable to me. Do you have a calculation? https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-running-us-on-solar-requires-100-miles-square-of-panels You don't think $14 Billion could power 40 million houses for a year with solar? How is that "saying nothing?" It's saying money better spent constructively rather than destructively both to Palestinian civilians and the climate.