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Post by Zany on Aug 24, 2024 15:19:05 GMT
WE could tell the peoples of the Southern states they have a choice, cut down on the aircon usage or prepare to have to move.
The law of consequence.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2024 15:20:36 GMT
WE could tell the peoples of the Southern states they have a choice, cut down on the aircon usage or prepare to have to move. The law of consequence. Or find greener ways to cool homes? |
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Post by Steve on Aug 24, 2024 15:35:14 GMT
So let me get this right. The Ukrainian forces fighting in Russia is somehow all about the issues of Air Con in Southern USA states?
Jeez
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Post by montegriffo on Aug 24, 2024 16:37:19 GMT
Now there's an advert for stopping climate change. Of course America is big and empty enough for those people to move north to more comfortable climes.  People shouldn't have to move out of the area they grew up in and knew all their lives. Whatever next? Telling people who live in Indonesia they should just move if they don't like, nevermind that's their home and generations have lived there? Up sticks and move if you don't like it. I really am against that thinking. Like it or not that is the inevitable consequence of global warming. |
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Post by Zany on Aug 24, 2024 18:33:40 GMT
WE could tell the peoples of the Southern states they have a choice, cut down on the aircon usage or prepare to have to move. The law of consequence. Or find greener ways to cool homes? Pay for a greener way to make electricity to cool our homes. But people want the cake and their happeny. |
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Post by vinny on Aug 24, 2024 19:02:14 GMT
Air conditioning and climate change are irrelevant to the illegal wars of Vladimir Putin.
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Post by Zany on Aug 24, 2024 19:36:30 GMT
Air conditioning and climate change are irrelevant to the illegal wars of Vladimir Putin. Sorry Vinny. Thread wandered off. Will desist  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2024 0:32:44 GMT
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2024 10:24:54 GMT
Time for sanctions against India for bankrolling Putin's continued murderous invasion
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Post by Amadan on Aug 25, 2024 10:35:09 GMT
Time for sanctions against India for bankrolling Putin's continued murderous invasion   time for regime change ? is that not the normal route? |
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Post by Amadan on Aug 25, 2024 10:36:31 GMT
Didnt I also read the Indians had been buying Russian oil and gas for quite a while now , and even selling it to the europeans? Do sanctions ever work? |
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2024 10:42:22 GMT
Didnt I also read the Indians had been buying Russian oil and gas for quite a while now , and even selling it to the europeans? Do sanctions ever work? Yes they do but they take time. The Rhodesian and South African regimes eventually fell. |
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Post by Amadan on Aug 25, 2024 10:55:15 GMT
Didnt I also read the Indians had been buying Russian oil and gas for quite a while now , and even selling it to the europeans? Do sanctions ever work? Yes they do but they take time. The Rhodesian and South African regimes eventually fell. from what im reading sanctions rarely if ever work ,
The Cheap Lure of Sanctions
So if sanctions don't work most of the time, backfire often, and are increasingly easy to evade, why does the U.S. keep using them?
Demarais says it's because they're easy to implement, they cost very little, and they are comparatively risk free.
"Sanctions are a very popular tool because they fill in the gap between empty diplomatic declarations," she says. If a country does something the U.S. doesn't like, the administration doesn't have many options. On one end of the response spectrum, it could make a strongly worded statement, which might feel like too little. On the other end...
"On the other end of the diplomatic spectrum, you have military interventions, deadly, costly, and unpopular. Sanctions fill the void in between these two extreme options."
Sanctions waste neither blood nor treasure — or, at least, usually not American blood or treasure, which is what's important to American politicians. And they are simple to implement.
"You can spend one night drafting sanctions and then implement them very quickly afterwards," says Demarais, noting she has personal experience with this, from her time working with the Treasury of France. "And they appear to be cheap because they are implemented in practice by the private sector. There's no sanctions police. So it is a form of externalization of U.S. foreign policy."
www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/04/11/1169072190/why-sanctions-dont-work-but-could-if-done-right |
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Post by Steve on Aug 25, 2024 11:11:09 GMT
Interesting read thanks
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Post by Zany on Aug 25, 2024 12:23:32 GMT
Didnt I also read the Indians had been buying Russian oil and gas for quite a while now , and even selling it to the europeans? Do sanctions ever work? My understanding is the reason India is buying more is that the price has fallen because China is buying less. Apparently the profit on converting it to fuel is not very good at the moment. |
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