Houthi strike on British-owned ship causes huge oil leak in Red Sea, U.S. says - eviltoast
  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If this disaster were the result of corporate negligence, it would be universally decried.

    But since it is a deliberate environmental catastrophe, some of the loudest voices will hail it as a triumph of resistance against colonist empire. Smh

    • Neon_Shadow@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean… it doesn’t have to be black and white. You can support fighting against colonialism and condemn destroying the environment.

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      8 months ago

      There are countless CURRENT environmental catastrophes caused by corporate negligence and no one bats an eye, what world are you living in?

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        So post them here. Everyone who follows this community wants to be better informed. That’s why we’re here

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          8 months ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

          The program is designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. Sites managed under this program are referred to as Superfund sites. Of all the sites selected for possible action under this program (and there are tens of thousands across the U.S.), 1178 (as of 2024) remain on the National Priorities List (NPL)

          Tens of thousands of sites in the US alone.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_disasters

          Many are ongoing.

          Corporate oopsies are just the cost (to the world) of profit. Let’s guesstimate the ratio of impact from freedom fighters compared to profiteers.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    21st century, meet 18th century; apparently the Barbary Wars come around again but on a different corner of Africa?

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      8 months ago

      I’m sure those F35’s are electric and the bombs are fully kinetic.

      Surely they wouldn’t do mass pollution during their Genocide.

      Imagine if they blew up buildings filled with asbestos to give everyone in Gaza cancer. They are the most moral army in the world.

    • Philo@lemmy.zipOP
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      8 months ago

      How is this an entire religion’s problem? Yemen has a population of 33 million. The Houthi rebels are much less. Yet you are trying to blame over 1.8 billion Muslims? That is some impressive twisting of logic.