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  • Regional power with powerful neighbours, has nuclear weapons, struggles with impacts of climate change, (completely?) electrified railway recently, doesn’t take a stance on the war in Ukraine due to involvement with Russia, farmer’s protests, BJP/Modi won’t step down, religious conflicts.

    My country’s media don’t report much about India, but occasionally they do features about specific topics.




  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comtotumblr@lemmy.worldVCs, Very Smart
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    14 days ago

    Hedge funds consist of the labour of individuals in collectives (ie companies). Their products are only valuable because people keep their function and infrastructure intact (physically, legally).

    Scales cannot be compared that way. I don’t know the right term, but a better comparison might be between your efforts and the impact of a single ‘buyer’ of those hedge funds (or in the case of the extreme rich, the labour of a single worker that creates/created their power). Scales require similar spatial or material flow boundaries to be comparable.




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    14 days ago

    I don’t think downplaying our efforts is really helpful to our goals.

    I also don’t believe in the individual vs collective action blame dichotomy, because we should build pilitical infrastructure that fosters climate action and prevents emissions -> If we continue to put or keep lawmakers into power that empower the extreme rich, we disempower ourselves.

    The subsequent economic system doesn’t really matter, but the physical output matters.