Guwumism = when pollution.

  • lemmygrabberM
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    232 years ago

    I am not well read on Germany but wasn’t there widespread poverty and unemployment after the reunification because the industrial capacity of East Germany bought and shut down to own the commies? Seems a bit ecofascist to sweep that under the rug and justify it because the air quality improved.

    • @VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      112 years ago

      More or less what I told him. Also super self-defeating since he even brought up that only during the 90’s (crysis) it was “less poluted”, like, get self-shooting itself…

      I congratuled them for the massive loss of jobs for it, and how it was OBVIOUSLY more about industry being a lot more inefficient in pollution control regardless of te political system.

    • @KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
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      82 years ago

      Not just the 90s, this is still the case. If you ever manage to find your way to Germany I urge you to drive through rural and urban East Germany, especially Saxony, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg. For one, because the landscape actually has quite a bit to offer, but mostly to witness the absolute devastation the transition to capitalism caused there. Every small village and town has completely abandoned, crumbling ruins of what used to be shops, industry, etc. I’m not kidding, you can’t drive a mile without passing one of them. It’s absolutely shocking, especially in contrast with e.g. Southern Germany.

      (Human) capital flight is still happening there, all the young people are leaving, wages are still lower, unemployment is higher and rural infrastructure is much worse. You can see the effects of this on the people too. They’re depressed, pissed and fed up with everything, which permeates the entire mood of the place.

      • @VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        52 years ago

        For fuck’s sake, this is the absolute description of a multigenerational punishment for “your ancestors offended God, therefore your kind and nation will forever suffer as our servants” kind of thing the Bible is full of… Just that this time “God” is the Capital and the US…

  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Who would have though that shock therapy deindustrialisation would means less pollution. Incredible.

    And it’s not even true. In Poland, we have deindustrialised, the stricter norms are imposed for house heating etc, but the pollution is increasing all the time. I guess that has absolutely nothing to do with number of cars increasing hundreds of times, after all, car importers are telling it so it must be true.