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Re:Why cement emissions matter for climate change (2018) by piva00 on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:54AM (#21440471)
From countries suffering social unrest caused by climate change, electing populist leaders proposing to solve the crisis in their borders by expanding their "living space" and so on.

History is a circle...

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Re:Why cement emissions matter for climate change (2018) by ekianjo on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:03AM (#21442249)
No, History is not a circle, it never repeats itself because the variables always change. Context matters.

> proposing to solve the crisis in their borders by expanding their "living space"

When you are in a crisis mode you don't have to time to wait for elections, the most likely result of social unrest is civil war. There are ample examples in very recent History.

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