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  • The Eurozone was fucked the minute it lost access to cheap energy.

    Energy independence should be a core element of national policy, but no. Germany had to shift to natural gas because burning methane releases half the emissions of coal.

    Methane leakage from natural gas? Obviously not an issue, despite methane being 85x more potent a GHG than CO2 over a 20-year period and average methane leakage estimated to be between 1.4% and 9.5%. I hope I don't have to spell out what that means for global emissions targets: even on the low end of estimates, natural gas is worse over a 20-year period than coal.

  • Oh no! Not the dead soldiers!

    Haaretz published a list of confirmed dead and a majority of the names on that list are either IDF or ex-IDF. Israeli state media has covered how, in places like Be'eri, IDF forces fired tank shells at Israeli civilians hiding in buildings.

    Oh, sorry, you meant Hamas, which as a matter of principle prefers to take hostages for more negotiating power.

  • At the end of the day, infrastructure is an incredibly powerful driver of economic growth. Second and third order effects make infrastructure investments almost always worthwhile, even when they go drastically overbudget as is the case with HS2 and CAHSR.

    A government makes money not only from the direct impacts (fares, electricity cost, etc.) but also the secondary impacts to industry and the tertiary impacts of stable supply driving new markets.