@Philsturgeon The tentacles of the #PetroState are deeply embedded in our power structures

@doomscroller on on the public broadcaster too. That's what happens when you live in a #PetroState

Can Vanuatu attack fossil fuel infrastructure in a justified act of self-defence? #FossilFuels #PetroState

https://ab.co/3WNt7bQ

Weirder and Weirder
#alberta #cdnpoli #canada #PetroState
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/05/31/Danielle-Smith-Example-For-Canada/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=060423-3&utm_campaign=weekend_read

Only in the Australian #PetroState were senior atmospheric scientists, employed by the national weather agency, routinely subjected to state-sanctioned campaigns of harassment. I don’t believe this occurred to such a degree in other fossil fuel producing nations. #StateCapture

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/climate-scientists-first-laughed-at-a-bizarre-campaign-against-the-bom-then-came-the-harassment

There will be plenty more anarchists in the future I can assure you. How else do you dismantle a #PetroState without a grass-roots mobilisation from the bottom up? #globalwarming #auspol h/t @SophieMcNeill

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/nsw-climate-protester-deanna-violent-coco-sent-to-jail/101729456

@healthbud with apologies to Ursula Le Guin, the #PetroState recognizes no coinage but power, and it issues the coins itself.

Whenever Japanese politicians or business men whine about not having enough domestic resources to exploit (so they need to rely on foreign uranium for nukes?) I guess they'd prefer their position in a society with a greater wealth gap and more corruption like a #PetroState of #BananaRepublic. We can see the same pattern, at smaller scale, with Toroku and Minamata, Can we see places as internal colonies. #ResourceCurse
#資源の呪い
- [1] https://context.reverso.net/%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E/resource+curse
- [2] https://tr-ex.me/%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E/resource+curse