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solo ( solo@piefed.social )  to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend

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Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend - Inside Climate News
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As the U.S. abandons international climate agreements, the EU is hesitating to lead. A once-admired Nordic nation’s backtracking on its climate goals offers clues as to why.
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  • Flamekebab ( Flamekebab@piefed.social ) 
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    The right wing has easy answers to difficult questions. Admittedly those answers are generally “don’t listen to science, it’s scary, listen to us, let’s pretend together”.

    • Kalakal ( ga_so_art@piefed.social ) 
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      Reality tends to have an anti-conservative bias.

      • Auli ( Auli@lemmy.ca ) 
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        What a bunch of BS. Reality has no bias.

  • 0xtero ( 0xtero@beehaw.org ) 
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    Right wing conservatives are in power. Not surprising

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ ( veganpizza69@lemmy.vg ) 
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      There are no left-wing conservatives.

      Conservatism is a human extinction comorbidity now.

  • Subdivide6857 ( Subdivide6857@midwest.social ) 
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    You mean the more “ethical” capitalists are abandoning the people? Wild.

    • solo ( solo@piefed.social ) OP
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      Yep. To my understanding, in the Nordic model, capitalism continues to devour all socialist tendencies.

      • boonhet ( boonhet@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        The entire world is electing right wing populists right now, little to do with the Nordic model.

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          The Nordic model’s approach is relevant in imo, because this article is about Sweden, and because this path proved not be safe from capitalism taking over. This does not contradict what you said, that the entire world is electing right wing populists right now. It is a reminder that this is a mechanism that capitalism traditionaly uses to resolve its crises.

          • boonhet ( boonhet@sopuli.xyz ) 
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            I mean, as long as you give people choice, there will be those who disagree with you.

            You want to prevent right-wing populists from taking over, kill them all. But then are you better than them?

            • Auli ( Auli@lemmy.ca ) 
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              Yep I mean these people are stopping things already done and rushing headlong into a disaster.

      • The D Quuuuuill ( Quill7513@slrpnk.net ) 
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        yup. the nordic model is only sustainable if you ignore who suffers under it: the people where the oil is extracted, the indigenous Sami people, and people of the Romani diaspora.

  • dotslashme ( dotslashme@infosec.pub ) 
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    Yeah no shit, our environmental minister is a complete asshat.

  • Mangoholic ( Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ) 
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    But the US said climate change doesn’t exist… What can we do, not our fault…

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