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Here is a backstory of how Norway avoided the oil industry descent into corruption. They were lucky to hire an Iraqi with experience who built the healthy foundations. https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
Behind the paywall for me, but if it is about who I think it is, he was washing dishes at a restaurant until his real expertise was suddenly in demand.
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Behind the paywall for me, but if it is about who I think it is, he was washing dishes at a restaurant until his real expertise was suddenly in demand.
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No - Norway hasnt been treated like Nigeria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Libya because Norway is a white western country. Thus, neither the US/UK/France nor others will topple democratic regimes in Norway to get at the resources. Nigeria, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Libya on the other hand are "expendable" nations where western powers clear the slate and build as they like. Usually in the name of Democracy, but really in…
I'm not disputing that Western nations have meddled in these countries too much. But it seems like you're completely absolving these countries and peoples of all responsibility for their country and themselves, that in and of itself seems like the Western elites' "these people can't help themselves" approach. The reality is likely a mix somewhere between the two, variable for each country and circumstance.
It doesn’t matter how great a nation you have, if US comes along and decides to put in place a dictator to secure low oil prices.
If US invaded Norway tomorrow and put a corrupt religious fundamentalist in power, there is absolutely no way you could blame it on the country, the religion or the color of the skin of he people living there.
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We use oil for so many things and wont be able to terminate its use any time soon. One could even argue it is to valuable to just burn it.
That's why we need to put money into finding alternatives.
The election was on Monday, the left side with Labor and the Center Party were the major winners. Which parties will form government remains to be seen. Not sure where they got that climate/environment was a big issue for this campaign, because it hasn't really been. The most outspoken "green" party even got a fairly mediocre result and fell below the very important 4 % limit. This will probably be seen as a sign tha…
The most effective course of action would be to implement a law that for every kilogram of carbon imported or extracted from Norwegian ocean, one kg of carbon must be sequestered somewhere in Norway. Soon there will be nowhere to sequester carbon, no new space to plant trees, and oil and gas extraction will cease. Along the way, tremendous funds will be poured into carbon collection and sequesteration technology, and…
The election was on Monday, the left side with Labor and the Center Party were the major winners. Which parties will form government remains to be seen. Not sure where they got that climate/environment was a big issue for this campaign, because it hasn't really been. The most outspoken "green" party even got a fairly mediocre result and fell below the very important 4 % limit. This will probably be seen as a sign tha…
> In any case, what we do here won't have any significant impact on global environment.
Can anyone explain Norway’s electricity usage? Per capita, it’s about double Sweden or USA, but electricity for consumers isn’t cheap. Is a lot being sold at a steep discount to particular industries? Or is there a huge dependence on resistive heating or? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC
https://www.nationmaster.com/nmx/ranking/aluminum-production
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I think most people would say colonialism did a poor job of explaining safety at least. Instead it was often powered by racism and subjugation. We do desperately need to find a way to help countries develop, but on the balance colonialism doesn’t seem to be it
> We do desperately need to find a way to help countries develop. Hold our currencies.
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> We do desperately need to find a way to help countries develop. Hold our currencies.
In that the solution is to give them money? Because they doesn't seem to have worked so well either? Or do you mean that really foreign policy is just about keeping the dollar dominate
And this rational fear is becuase our currencies continue to devalue.
You did ask.
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Behind the paywall for me, but if it is about who I think it is, he was washing dishes at a restaurant until his real expertise was suddenly in demand.
I'm curious about this person now, say more!