Oh in that case just the net zero madness.Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Oh in that case just the net zero madness.
Burning coal is not a particularly efficient way of providing energy (almost half as efficient as natural gas) so either way not especially sad to see it go. The main problem with net zero is a) it’s either got to be a global effort or it’s a complete waste of time and b) we’ve spent far too much time worrying about NIMBYs over nuclear energy…so even if we went towards Nuclear today it would take over a decade to get power plants up and running.
Solar and Wind are even less efficient than Coal. But even if you don’t buy into global warming…burning hydrocarbons constantly is terrible for air quality…and not especially good to have a generation of people affected by pulmonary conditions
All kicking off in the middle east
Another petulant show of force from Iran pretending that it didn’t create the conflict by using Hamas and Hezbollah as proxies in its war with Israel.All kicking off in the middle east
Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner worked with Netanyahu and a lot of the Gulf states to get the Abraham accords over the line. How much Trump can claim credit for this is unclear, but indirectly it’s probably the most useful thing the US has done in the Middle East in Decades. This of course led Iran to feeling increasingly isolated and more resolved to be the dominant power in the region, and it funded October 7th in order to destabilise the area and make Israel less of an appealing business partner to the UAE and Saudi Arabia (turns out neither give a fuck given that even though MBS is a cunt, he’s smart enough to know that the only way for the Al Sauds to survive long term when the oil dries up is for Saudi to diversify its economy)
Although the UN and it’s Gulf state sponsors have done their upmost to spread hatred for Israel, ultimately Iran has failed in its attempts to strengthen its own hand by sewing disunity (because the Arab leaders will denounce Israel on one hand, and continue to do business with it on another)
And because in the last two weeks, Netanyahu has realised that he couldn’t drag his feet any longer when Thousands of Israelis displaced from their homes in Northern Israel have enquired quite loudly about when they might be able to return. Iran has been humiliated especially with the assassination of Nasrallah, so it’s launched a load of Rockets that it knows will cause minimal damage because Iron Dome will intercept almost all of them.
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