cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28679985

Am I the only one to be deeply depressed by the absurd behaviour of major powers (who would have thought?!).

All of that is seen through the prism of “economic opportunities” (🤮), as said in the video, sovereignty is just a bargain in the world free market.

But it goes beyond sovereignty and ideological concerns. If exploitation of Greenland soils (even if that is by locals) starts the environmental impact will be terrible, rare earth materials produce shit load of toxic radioactive water; to develop the infra for the extraction you would need an insane amount of energy and emit a lot of carbon in a world already burning.

We already breached 6 of the planetary boundaries and are heading for the seventh with ocean acidification, but powers in place are still using their limited neoliberalist behavioural capabilities to handle our world changes…

🤦