#Introduction#NeuHier Testing out Calckey and see how this affects my Fediverse experience. My main account will remain with #Mastodon.social but let's see. My main interests in being online are nerd stuff and (non-US!!!) politics - I'm German after all. Love #sciencefiction both on screen and in novel form, #starwars, #doctorwho, #theexpanse and the usual stuff. Am also still (late 40s) enjoying #videogames on my #steamdeck and #xboxseriess. Lately back in #EliteDangerous o7, madly in love with #MassEffect and, to a lesser extent, #DragonAge. My politics are #green, thus my interest in #solarpunk, but I have no illusions that without some form of drastic behavior and institution change, nothing will happen – and that includes deliberate #degrowth in the global north. Anyways, nice to be "here" 👋
Have tried and failed a few times to create an #Introduction - so here goes.
1st time social media user, deeply political (left, woke, anti-capitalist, socially liberal - will vote #Green because #StarmerIsATory): believe in kindness and my own personal responsibility. Grew up in an extrame RC Cult, so now very atheist - but a bit less angry than I was.
Last night, a dream came true - I saw and captured the Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) over Rhossili Bay. I've had this location in mind for years if the conditions were right. And last night it happened!
“Tell me, what water am I going to drink for 300 years?” Deland Hinkey, a member of the tribe, yelled as a federal official arrived at the reservation in March to brief tribal leaders on the mining plan. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/lithium-mining-race.html Large-scale mining can never be #green. This is not the answer. :C #lithium
Barroso is a region in northern Portugal, classified as world heritage for agriculture by the FAO - United Nations, one of the few left in Europe where sustainable farming practices are still the rule.
A canadian/british mining company called Savannah now wants to destroy it.
The opening the largest open air lithium mine in Europe, is already planned, and if we do nothing, about to start in 2024.
This will feed German and French electric car production, with a so called value chain crossing all Europe, up to the swedish regions where another war is ongoing, against ore mining and car battery factories.
They have been called lithium wars, and resistance is heating up.
We currently are waiting for the 31 of May, when the Environmental Agency from the government will make a final decision on the Mine, and unfortunately, a YES-GO is expected. There will be resistance!
There is this awesome doc by my friend, done after the Zapatistas were in Barroso: (ENG SUBS)
Although we know that historically Europe has been guilty in the exploitation of the worlds resources, it now is turning inside, selling it's own peasants and native peoples to the trans-nacional businesses. This in no way can be confused with historical reparations, as we do not wish to impose the brunt of the so-called green transition on any people's or ecosystems. The only option is De-growth and the end of consumerism and extractivism, not Green Capitalism and electric cars.
This just helps the fossil and gas economies to thrive, by on the one hand, not offering a real solution, and on the other, trying to create a mentality which says that opposition to green capitalism is reactionary.