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• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Brenda Shaffer, whatever she is, is clearly an idiot.

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  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    She got a bad case of Murdoch…

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies

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    • carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Shaffer

      The New York Times added an editor’s note on 17 September 2014 stating that the op-ed did not disclose that she had been an adviser to Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company and that her contributor contract required disclosure of actual or potential conflicts of interest

      and there’s like 3 more cases of that…

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  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could/should be an alias

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So the valid observation is this: Countries started using green energy as a supplement and replacement to fossil fuels, and as fossil fuels are being phased out for any number of good reasons, those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling. But because they weren’t yet entirely free of the need for fossil fuels yet, cutting off those fuels left them with an energy deficit.

  The bad take: The move towards green energy made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should go back to funding the fossil fuels industry as soon as possible.

  The correct take: The continued reliance on fossil fuels made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should rid ourselves of that reliance as soon as possible.

  A county that runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, even nuclear, doesn’t have to worry if the flow of oil is open or not. Ever. Your infrastructure would have to be attacked directly (like the war crime Trump threatened) to cut you off at that point. That’s about as invulnerable as you could hope for.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling

    That’s not true either. One or two countries moved away from collection (because it was uncompetitive already), none moved away from stockpiling.

    And as a country replaces some of the fuel, the previous collection and stockpile, without a change makes for a larger safety net.

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  • stumu415@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    China will be fossil fuel free by 2060. And believe me, the Chinese will stick to their 5, 15 and 25 year plan. Actually they already exceeded their target for 2030, last year 2025.

    For more information see:

    hive.blog/…/china-invested-1-trillion-on-renewabl…

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A country that runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, even nuclear, doesn’t have to worry if the flow of oil is open or not.

    less reliance on fuel imports always improves independence. Incumbent power plants available as backup/option improves resilience and independence as well. It doesn’t need to be all or nothing, and renewables don’t stop new oil projects for exports. Carbon accounting (tax) is entirely attributed to consumers of energy/product+delivery.

    The true failure of the golden democracies is their totalitarian subservience to US warmongering enemy propaganda. US empire/CIA serves US champions for extortionist power, and even their dabbling in green policy was was a corporate supremacist model for minnows, that got shot down by incumbent oligarchy. It is colonial subjugation that is 100% responsible for energy vulnerability, because it embraces one’s own extortion. Russian sanctions and self terrorism on Nordstream as prior examples.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  True culprit behind poop all over the floor is potty-training a toddler.

  The parents handed their toddler leverage by deluding themselves into believing they could wean their child from diapers

  ^By SOMEONE WITHOUT OBJECT PERMANENCE OR PATTERN RECOGNITION^

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You need to be a special kind of stupid to come up with such a story.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or deep on the hook for the O&G industry.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is essentially the same.

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• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Instead of relying on energy we can produce at home, we should rely on an energy source from an unstable part of the world that can be easily cut off because it makes a small group of billionaires very rich.”

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t get it any more ass-backwards than that.

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  • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s embarrassing that the paper uses the name of our country but gives crap like that.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”

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• guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Onion or NotTheOnion?

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You know what recently came to my mind…

  Israel is basically a military outpost for the US in the middle east. it’s one large military base that is supposed to pressure arab countries into giving their oil to the US. It’s “either you sell your oil in US dollar (which we can conveniently print at will) or … you know, Israel is your neighbor, and they have a ton of arms”. It’s an extortion scheme.

  This is why Israel is threatened by renewable energy. Because if the world is not dependent on oil, then Israel has no reason to exist, as the US won’t give them a lot of weapons anymore to conduct their extortion scheme. And then Israel would collapse.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Israel is basically a military outpost for the US in the middle east.

    Sitting politicians have described it as our biggest aircraft carrier.

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  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re really onto something here. What would Israel do if a country finally decided to take the plunge and go sustainable? Cyber attacks or blackmail, maybe?

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I would expect anti-renewable propaganda, such as we have in fact been seeing in the US for the last 20 years.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m sure there is a joke about gaslighting somewhere in here. “The modern economy doesn’t run on gas combustion engines, it runs on gaslight newspapers.”

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The rare mental quadruple backflip. Takes so much brain power you have to get a running start

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  occrp.org/…/how-to-build-yourself-a-stealth-lobby…

  What lawmakers listening to Shaffer didn’t know was that the Caspian Studies Program she headed at Harvard was set up in 1999 through a $1 million grant from the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and a consortium of oil and gas companies led by Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron, all of which had commercial interests in the region. The chamber of commerce is a pro-Azerbaijan pressure group whose Board of Directors includes a vice president of SOCAR, the Azerbaijan state-owned energy company, and top lobbyists for BP and Chevron.

  Supported by an overseas regime and an assorted network of overt and undercover lobbyists, she used oil money to build her academic credentials, then in turn used those credentials to promote Azerbaijan’s agendas through Congressional testimony, dozens of newspaper op-eds and media appearances, countless think tank events, and even scholarly publications.

  She’s still doing it. Brenda Shaffer

  Shaffer first walked into Congress in 2001 to testify before the House of Representatives’ Committee on International Relations.

  She was introduced as “the director of the Caspian Studies Program and a post-doctoral fellow in the international security program at the Belfort [Belfer] Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government”.

  Addressing lawmakers, she asked them to repeal a section of the Freedom Support Act that barred direct US aid to the Azerbaijani government. “They have extended their hand to the US. They have huge expectations that the policy of this country is based on some sort of morality and high ideals,” she told them, and reinforced this in written testimony she also submitted.

  Challenged about Azerbaijan’s democratic record, she replied: “There is a lot of room for improvement in terms of democratization. However, every six months, every year, things are getting better and better.”

  What lawmakers listening to Shaffer didn’t know was that the Caspian Studies Program she headed at Harvard was set up in 1999 through a $1 million grant from the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and a consortium of oil and gas companies led by Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron, all of which had commercial interests in the region. The chamber of commerce is a pro-Azerbaijan pressure group whose Board of Directors includes a vice president of SOCAR, the Azerbaijan state-owned energy company, and top lobbyists for BP and Chevron.

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fossil fuel is incredibly well financed profitable well explored. The tiny modicum of public and private money that went into renewables didn’t stop any otherwise profitable exploration or expansion of fossil fuels.

  Iran had leverage since its resources began to be exploited. We could have spent a lot more on renewables decades ago that would in fact have blunted that stick. Instead we worked to make fossil fuels more valuable and thus hand them more leverage then we swung a stick at their head.

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• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What absolute horseshit.

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• justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those lobbyists and the prompts they use for their AI articles will destroy satirists’ jobs.

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• couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Big Sun turned me into a newt

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