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Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’

www.theguardian.com

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critical thinking is a curse in this timeline, you're all but doomed to watch and wonder how people could enable such heinous acts. the answer as always is because of the rich.
- As someone who has been thinking critically for several decades, there has never been a time where the conclusion I came to is that "living is worth it and could be enjoyable"
  People on this planet are simply too stupid and primal for me to be able to live. Every single day, I learn about some new mechanism by which the stupidest and most hateful among us have deliberately caused massive abuse and suffering for no reason other than "they wanted to."
  There is no way for me to do anything about it, so I just hope every day is my last and I can finally be done listening to all of you incompetent fuckwads bungle around and ruining everything.
  I LOVE humanity. I LOVE this planet. I DESPISE every single person on a personal level. You are all so fucking disappointing.
Oh boy. Is it going to upset anyone if I link to an article on Soviet Environmentalism?
Or, even worse... Stalin's direct early efforts to re-wild parts of the Soviet Union?
I'm never sure whether actual historical accounts are going to get people worked up into an anti-communist frenzy. But some people are genuinely interested in the prior generations of Actually Existing Socialism.
- No, but your misrepresentation of these articles will.
  Rewilding is not the same as shelterbelt planting. And the program was a failure, as most poorly planned massive imperial initiatives are.
  By 1951, it appeared that nearly 50 percent of all trees planted in 1949 had died. As the peasants became overworked, the rate of planting started to decline. Trees were left untended. Inadequate watering practices and inappropriate planting stock contributed to the collapse of Stalin’s plan. The semiarid climate caused the failure of many shelterbelts.
  After Stalin’s death in 1953, the shelterbelt program was discontinued. The state committee in charge of tree-planting was dismissed, and statistics regarding the program were unavailable after 1958. Many shelterbelts were left unattended or incomplete. It has been estimated that 10 percent of the trees planted during Stalin’s Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature survived.
  Overall, this is an excellent example of the failures of the USSR’s overall economic strategy.
- Definitely need to highlight Lysenkoism.
Hey, isn't this the guy who rapes children and went to Epstein's island several times?
Hey, at least Stalin was firmly against the Nazis (at least in the end). Trump can't even get that right.
I've been listening to Behind the Bastards and...I don't know if the Trump administration is intentionally following the same run book or if all fascists just do the same thing but yeah it's almost as if.....they saw what Nazis did and said, "Hold my beer."
- Some of them are doing it intentionally. The others are just instinctive Nazis.
Tankies everywhere rejoicing.
“When you get into departments and look at stuff that’s there and you find stuff that’s objectionable, you want to fix it,” he said.
Only the smartest people could know that.

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