The "real test" of #modis visit to the #unitedstates is the #outcome of these "turf wars" between #local and #global #firms.

This is a #catch22 situation. #india needs #foreigninvestment, but not at the #cost of #homegrown #oligarchs, who are also on the "right" side of the ruling dispensation.

How the #modigovernment untangles this "gordian knot" remains to be seen. Much like the #adani #hindenburg #saga, which our #media framed in #nationalistic terms.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/battle-of-billionaires-elon-musks-starlink-eyes-india-mukesh-ambani-resists/articleshow/101187359.cms

Just wondering how much #jingoistic / #nationalistic fervour this is going to trigger amongst the #fascists? "Today in 1800, 223 years ago: near Malta, the British squadron of Horatio Nelson defeats the French."
https://mas.to/@onthisday@mastodon.social

This idea that's been gaining currency that "#populationcollapse" due to declining birth rates is a "problem," is beyond perverse.

#Overpopulation remains near the top of the list of world crises. It's only overshadowed by #ClimateChange which is partially the *result* of past overpopulation.

We're deeply into population #overshoot in terms of having crashed through about 5 of the 9 #planetary boundaries. So yes, there will be a population collapse and it won't just be from declining birth rates.

It's likely to be far more unpleasant than that--competition over scarce resources leading to war, mass migrations, and famines.

#dieoff is the appropriate term. And it applies to humans just as any other species that's overfilled its ecological niche.

It would be possible for Earth to support 10 billion or more people, if we lived more sustainably. But that's way easier said than done. People want what they want and they will kill and die to get it. To say nothing about the devastating impacts of global income inequality.

We should be so lucky, as to "only" face a crisis of a greying population and not enough young people. If that were the case, #automation would be able to handle any worker shortages, provided we put in place the wealth redistribution and basic income needed to offset the decline of compensated labor.

What's actually likely to happen is we'll continue to make all the wrong decisions due to the #fascist / #nationalistic political insanity that's sweeping the globe.

We're out of runway to keep making repeated bad decisions, without consequences that will be terribly disruptive to #civilization as we once knew it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

The #softdrink #Fanta was #invented by #CocaCola, an American company, inside of #Nazi #Germany during #WorldWarII. #Developed at the #height of the #ThirdReich, the new #soda #ensured the #brand’s continued #popularity. #Fanta became a point of #nationalistic #pride and was consumed by the #German #public, from the #Fraus #cooking at #home to the #highest #officials of the #Naziv#party.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany

@fcktheworld587
Its not just one #religion or #nationalistic group pomoting #procreation, almost all corrupt leaders push #populationGrowth. Eg. in Australia they tend to push the (racist) #yellowPeril card. The "Japs" (their term) or China will take over etc.

Today they like to bomb countries and produce #refugees for themselves and friends, we say this while looking at an example where they exported unstable westerners to eastern europe in past 8 years.

Many birds per stone.

@Onionkink@noagendasocial.com

The History of Western Europe: Every Year https://buff.ly/2ZdH97H via @YouTube@twitter.com

Some reminders for #nationalistic #idiots