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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoSweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, New Zealand, Slovenia, to name a few.
I’d at the very least exclude these;
- Israel
- US
- Russia
- North Korea
- China
- Iran
- Eritrea
- Turkey
- Literally all of Northern Africa & the broader Middle East for horrendous human rights, except for Cyprus
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Uganda
There’s probably a lot more, but yeah.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Sweden is swinging to fascism, and they have the largest arms industry per capita in the world. They literally profit from unethical wars.
Norway is drilling and exporting oil, which is profiting from mass extinction and one of the biggest existential threats to most life on earth.
Canada usually joins the US in their unethical wars for oil. Also, their tar sands project in Alberta is one of the most ecologically devistating projects on the planet. And also profiting from contributing to the climate catastrophe.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Counterpoints;
Sweden has a Nordic model, Norway has been moving away aplenty from oil (most of its vehicles drive electric now and energy production is largely renewables), Belgium’s wealth is no longer built upon that.
What countries in your perspective, would be ethical? And don’t say “none”, just say closest to ethical in that case.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Intergenerational wealth doesn’t go away. Belgium would need to return every penny extracted from their slavery and torture in the Congo to even reach neutral status.
Norway’s oil isn’t used domestically. The problem is that they sell it. It’s irrelevant if they use it domestically or not. It’s still being dug up and burned. That’s the problem.
I don’t think there exists an ethical country. It’s a sad reality. Cuba is maybe one of the closest to ethical (specifically thinking of State-sposnored efforts to send aid workers to disaster areas for altruistic reasons), but they certainly are not an ethical country.