Man I fucking hate that graph included in the article. I hate how common it is to remove all context from graphs like that.
Bear in mind I'm not challenging the premise at all! I just, I dunno, get fucking triggered by shit visualizations like that.
Man I fucking hate that graph included in the article. I hate how common it is to remove all context from graphs like that.
Bear in mind I'm not challenging the premise at all! I just, I dunno, get fucking triggered by shit visualizations like that.
Mauna Loa is a national treasure. It's one of the greatest things about America.
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They're shutting it down to give ownership to the Natives of Hawaii, right???
Im a bit mixed with this because yeah if it was going to be conserved with stewardship given to native hawaiians or some such then it would be great. On the other hand if its going to be turned into hawaii's first great coal mine....
I know it's a joke, but in case you're wondering: there's no coal on Hawaii. It's too young, geologically speaking.
I was wondering about if there is any iron on the Hawaiian islands the other day, specifically because I knew they were pretty young geologically speaking. This train of thought was inspired by Vintage Story, and my complete inability to find bauxite.
I don't believe so. IIRC from my mineralogy & petrology courses, minable quantities of most metals occur from 4 sources:
As a very recent mantle-plume-driven volcanic arc, Hawaii doesn't exhibit the necessary conditions for any of these in great degrees, so you would not expect to find any serious metal deposits there.
We all know Trump probably doesn't know that there are natives, and if he does then it's straight fuck you to them. I am not expecting a more right-wing president to deviate from the sacred tradition of fucking over the indigenous.
americans stop colonising and imperialising the kingdom of hawaii challenge
They're not shutting it down because they don't want to pay for it. They're shutting it down because it's created the longest-running record of atmospheric CO2 levels, and climate facts hurt oligarchs' feelings.
They're not gonna let anybody else operate it either, regardless of funding.
Really? Because privatization does not lower costs. I mean, seriously think this through - in addition to the operational costs, you are adding a layer of parasitic "capitalists" who intend to personally profit from the situation. Please explain to me how in the hell x + y is supposed to give you a lower final total than x + nothing?!?
And when everything goes to hell because there are now parasitic sociopaths siphoning away the money, the final result is almost always to sell everything off to a "private equity" that will dismantle shit and sell it off to the highest bidder. Because that's what private equity is - a way to transfer the value to an individual, thus depriving the public of whatever service or product involved.
What about a non-profit org? Or an international institute independent of the US government?
Holy hell, way to move the goal posts. 🤣
but if a nonprofit with funding from say a dozen different countries
That would not be a private entity...?
Unfortunately, you're chasing a pipe dream. Sorry, but it's true.
But I can't fault you for trying to hold onto hope. What the fuck else do we have anymore?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It'd be worth saving, that's for sure (the observatory).
But, not just anger; what is required is the righteous fury from the stories that inspired the christian bible. Not the faux outrage of modern day hypocrites, but true, overwhelming fury at these injustices.
Until then...more lives will be taken. 😔
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