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A comment on $22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa. Parent comment

Re:$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cabl... by unity1001 on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:56AM (#35095035)
> The inhabitants of the land defend their way of life

There always are people who defend their existing way of life, regardless of anything. Even slavers defended their way of life. There being people sticking to their nomadic way of life of scarcity and hardship in the desert does not justify having millions of people regularly die on the other end of the desertification caused by that desert.

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Re:$22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cabl... by h0l0cube on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:57PM (#35105516)
> millions of people regularly die on the other end of the desertification caused by that desert

This is speculation, not argument. Regardless, also in the article you’ll find how solar farms are cordoned off areas, razed clear of vegetation, and impassable by anyone, while using up water reserves used by inhabitants. Even by some consequentialist end-justify-the-means argument, the ends don’t look good for the people living off that land. Once again, you might not care about that, but that’s not my point

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