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Plastic and other rubbish in oceans comes from Third World countries dumping rubbish into rivers, either by trucks or recklessly discarding it wherever they feel like it.
E.g. look at this short video: https://youtu.be/wVnMBGXVVUI
Remind me how the Left banning convenience products in Western countries such as the free multi-use plastic bags we used to get in supermarkets (what the Left falsely called “single use”) and other plastics, which are properly disposed of in nearly all cases, will stop the Third World littering everywhere?
Also, I found it remarkable on my recent trekking in Nepal, the vast amount of rubbish the locals dump everywhere, including in wilderness areas in the Himalayas. It’s a cultural and behavioural problem, not a plastics problem.
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Go to the Philippines and look at any beach. There is rubbish galore on the shore. Let alone on the streets and the storm water drains/sewers.
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Yes, I have seen videos of that.
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It’s a serious behavioural problem in the Philippines. And most Third World countries.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4FSvH7kClPA
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Here is a monkey playing the game “pong” using its thoughts alone, via an Elon Musk Neuralink brain-computer interface. (Note, this is from 3 years ago.)
https://youtu.be/2rXrGH52aoM
There is also now Neuralink installed in a human who can move chess pieces on a computer by thought alone.
Very impressive!
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The UN’s DARK Agenda: What You’re Not Being Told About Agenda 2030
GB News
12 minutes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2K2CbC7ppA
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Very good.
Worth watching.
In Australia, don’t forget all factions of the Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty are on board with this globalist Agenda 2030.
Among several of the things mentioned it was the fake conservative Liberal faction of the Uniparty that signed us up to ruinables, made covid “vaccinations” effectively compulsory and introduced the censorship bill and created the position of the e Safety Kommissar. Liberals are not your friends, they are nearly as bad as Labor and Greens.
It looks like another one of those “far right conspiracy theories” have come true.
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THE NOLAN PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC LIFE
These were formulated by Lord Nolan of Once Great Britain in 1994 and are meant to be the ethical principles which govern public officials in that country.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all our public officials including politicians and senior public serpents actually followed them?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Standards_in_Public_Life#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_principles_were_Selflessness%2C_Integrity%2C%2C_Openness%2C_Honesty_and_Leadership
Also, Dr John Campbell just discussed them. See https://youtu.be/wt0jDlcnC-w
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FWIW, 300,000 rubles is currently USD$2,896.
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I spent my early life working in an underground coal mine. It was owned and operated by BHP/AIS.
Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh. NSW Australia. (500m underground. 3 Mining panels, 2-3 km from pit egress.)
What makes this underground mine viable, is the high quality of the coal. It can be blended with an easier attained, lower grade.. giving a resultant increase in gross ton efficiency & gross ton sale price.
Over the last decade, the mine has been subject to activism, environmental red tape and EPA investigations.
So it may or may not be why the former owner sold.
So who owns this coal mine now?… It surely couldn’t be anyone anti “fossil fuels” could it?
Well you may be surprised….
Peabody energy owns it…. and.. Blackrock and Vanguard are the 2 largest institutional shareholders of Peabody (via stock listings Dec 2024).
https://www.peabodyenergy.com/Operations/Australia-Mining/New-South-Wales-Mining/Metropolitan-Mine
Make of that what you will…..
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Only the naïve think that these woke corporations are working for the good of society and the environment, even if the false assumption of CO2 being bad were true.
Communism, socialism and its disguise of the fake “environmentalism” the Left promote is about the transfer of wealth and power from the working and middle classes to the Elites.
That these woke corporations make money from both coal and wind and solar plantations is no surprise whatsoever.
Similarly, one of the most fanatically woke countries, Australia is shutting down its energy supply for Australians at the same time as being a major exporter of coal, gas and uranium. We are restricted or prohibited from using the first two and prohibited from using the last one.
It’s all a classic case of Orwellian Doublethink.
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“Make of that what you will…..”
Well, large energy companies make money, and their bonds and stocks are in mutual fund holdings. The companies you mention, and many others, are expected to increase the wealth of those buying shares of their funds. Advisors claim the best option for most people is to buy well-diversified baskets of funds and hold them long-term. That I do. Whether or not Peabody Energy (BTU)is making money for me, I do not know. I suspect it is.
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As I said in the previous Norway thread
China is not going to do something stupid like Australia and destroy all these coal plants.
They, and many, many more, will be working and producing life-giving CO2 for at least half a century and up to nearly another century from now.
Australia and the (woke) world shutting down its coal power stations is utterly pointless, even if CO2 was actually a problem.
Wind and solar plantations are gone in 10 to 15 years, rhey are essentially temporary structures requiring constant replacement, coal plant is long lived and the Chicomms are absolutely not going to remove them.
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