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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoCounterpoints;
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.