▲ 870 ▼ Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long (www.404media.co) submitted 5 months ago by who@feddit.org to c/news@lemmy.world 112 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://web.archive.org/web/20260219195154/https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPF3rTT0mY&t=7100s
[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 5 months ago (2 children) Maybe this is the (unfortunate) push that drives renewables. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] orioler25@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago These are the same material limitations that has driven renewables for decades, the US has an ideological dedication to absorbing the consequences of sustaining fossil fuel use anyway. The US is a for-profit imperial power with an owning class who sees anyone and everyone beneath them as exploitable and disposable. People in the US have tolerated the fossil fuel industry making their lives worse consistently for decades. Those same people will always adjust to worse conditions if they have to, and that owning class knows it. There is no breaking point, people have to choose to accept the consequences of resisting with the knowledge that these people will never stop unless forced to. permalink fedilink source parent [–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago Lol no these companies are now building their own fossil fuel plants. Mortgage the future is always the plan. I've been in the power industry for 15 years and only since AI have I been asked to work on fossil fuel construction projects rather than decommission projects permalink fedilink source parent
[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago These are the same material limitations that has driven renewables for decades, the US has an ideological dedication to absorbing the consequences of sustaining fossil fuel use anyway. The US is a for-profit imperial power with an owning class who sees anyone and everyone beneath them as exploitable and disposable. People in the US have tolerated the fossil fuel industry making their lives worse consistently for decades. Those same people will always adjust to worse conditions if they have to, and that owning class knows it. There is no breaking point, people have to choose to accept the consequences of resisting with the knowledge that these people will never stop unless forced to. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago Lol no these companies are now building their own fossil fuel plants. Mortgage the future is always the plan. I've been in the power industry for 15 years and only since AI have I been asked to work on fossil fuel construction projects rather than decommission projects permalink fedilink source parent