update to this classic with some recent headlines
hearing american brainrot over solar across the years as an aussie has been a wild trip.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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The Brazilian petrol company has been broadcasting a "fair energy transition" ad (Fair only to the company shareholders!) while working to drill oil from the Amazon, so that first line of the meme really reminds me of this.
to be fair the brazilian petrol company is mostly controlled by gringos at this point.
after temer and bolsonaro furthered its privatization, i mean.
An easy solution to make renewable energy more acceptable by political and economic elites is to physically demolished the other energy infrastructure so that they will be left with no choice but to pivot towards renewables instead of big clumsy easy to hit power stations. Works like a charm but there's a catch.
As a whole, we need to get better at physically demolishing the infrastructure of evil. Palestine Action showed us that direct actions like sabotage of factories is very effective at forcing changes. So effective that they got labeled terrorists for it.
In the end of the day the only thing that matters is how a bunch of old guys feel about the way that thing makes them look
I'm just thinking abt the environmental impacts in the local area if there are guerrilla attacks on oil rigs. It could damage ecosystems like the oil spill that happened 10-20 years ago
why go that far - how about the environmental impact of shelling the area with all sorts of munitions? Pretty much the entirety of russian-occupied territory since 2022 is rendered into a literal dead moonscape and even decades later (if this shit ever ends) a good chunk of that land will remain a red zone filled with all sorts of bad things.
Do something, win.
For anyone that's not twigged it yet
They're already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.
The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it's facing an existential threat.
Remember this when you read anything other than "we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible"
The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.
Turning? It's been a culture war topic for decades already now
Green energy is good, but I'm sceptical of China's intentions these days. They seem to have a pretty aggressive stance towards other countries, as seen in their handling of the nine-dash line.
I just get the sense that China is less interested in helping the whole world, and more interested in subjugating the whole world.
If that means ending greenhouse gases emissions I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords
if you can't stuff the sun into barrels and sell it for outrageous profits, is it even of any use? 
https://www.reflectorbital.com/ https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/the-dangers-of-sunlight-as-a-service
I love capitalism so much
if you can’t stuff the sun into barrels and sell it for outrageous profits
H-bomb confirms
The next move is probably them selling solar "subscriptions" where you don't pay the full price of panels/storage but instead pay a monthly fee that works out to way more than the cost of installation in the long run
