Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
by versale on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:43AM
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Well, a company has to grow. If it doesn't, it'll be devoured by those who do and show pleasing YoY metrics to their shareholders and prospective investors. Simply imagine you are an investor. Which company would you put your money in? And since the world is limited a company cannot afford not growing if it wants to survive. Government regulation is impossible, because there are other governments which happily let their companies to grow and outcompete foreign companies.
Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
by esseph on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:38AM
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Maybe that very shareholder market is the problem.
Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
by layer8 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:28PM
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Companies don't need to have shareholders.
Re:The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
by R_D_Olivaw on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:25AM
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* But plants need electrolytes to grow?! It's what they crave! *
I don't think we need unlimited growth. Or, better: We CANNOT have unlimited growth, because there is a natural limit to the resources that are available. We, as a society, should do better than this. And that is what worries me: The sheer ignorance (or unawareness?) people have about their surroundings. I'm not sure if it is malicious, or just a coping strategy. But instead of looking into the real cause that lead to certain events, be it the environment, economical or political, people quickly blame minorities for all the bad that is happening, breastfed by the narrative that people like to repeat over and over again - "because it has always been like that".
For the longest time, I tried to counterargue and explain, why certain things are the way they are, and offered another perspective. But ears have become deaf, more than before.
I'm tired.