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9. I personally do not value bourgeois cruise people over people who will be killed near chemical...
Wed Aug 2, 2023, 01:56 AM
Aug 2023

...plants.

It is not the case that rich people should be allowed to kill poor people for a shell game played by people who just don't give a shit about the future of humanity.

Fossil fuels produce particulates and toxic compounds wherever and whenever they are used. This includes when exergy is destroyed and fossil fuel use is increased to make hydrogen.

Moving pollution from a ship serving the rich to areas in which the poor live, and making more pollution for an idiotic affectation is an example of the contempt for energy justice.

It's disgusting, really disgusting, this awful argument.

Most of these chemical plants are located in areas where poor people live. Making more particulates because rich people couldn't care less about the humanity of poor people strikes me as appalling, but a lot of the bourgeois crap that flies around here, the extreme ignorance, the indifference is no longer surprising.

I do know that antinukes in general have a very low understanding of science, and a very withered moral purview, but this particular line strikes me as classic, even for this awful set.

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