Why buy oil when the sun is free
Looking for O&G is looking for trouble. It’s always been the case. So avoid O&G as much as you can.
There has never been a stronger case for anything in our lifetimes than the case for renewables.
Get the car industry to fall in line. They’re the ones who keep the fossil fuel addiction going. Or go around them, go for public transit, rail, buses, and bicycles.
Every. Single. Thing. Ever. Happening. Since. 1973. Strengthens. The. Case. For. Renewables.
(Except Harambe’s death. That was a galactic tragedy without implications for renewables.)
I’m not gonna sit here and let you say that Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Goodfellas was a case for renewables. It wasn’t a case against them because it was a mob movie set mostly before 1973 but the point stands!
Please call it Israel war instead
No, because that’s not what DW used as headline.
It’s a sign of their bias, yes, but removing it is “editing” the article in a sense.
It’s not a sign of their bias (which might or might not exist), it’s just how we name wars: Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, Kosovo War, Ukraine War, Afghanistan war (again, this time with another aggressor, but still named after the attacked party)…
Calling it “Israel War” would just be wrong, because neither is Israel the one who’s being attacked, nor are Israel’s girls elementary schools being turned into rubble.
Ok, that’s a good argument, however I’m throwing a new one into the ring myself: I think the “LocationX War” naming schema should not be used.
Compare it to naming diseases after (supposed) places of origins such as the Spanish flue. In contrast, Coronavirus disease 2019 was explicitly named after the virus to avoid mixing cause and location. Which of course didn’t stop people like Trump to call it China flue anyway, but we digress …
Partially this schema is used already. I.e. “The American War for Independence” is a war initiated by the people of the soon-to-be USA against their colonial sovereign Great Britain caused by a wish for independence. So IMO same as with diseases the name should derive from the cause, not from the location. Therefore, better alternatives to “the Iran war” are:
- The war in Iran
- The US-Israel war
- The US-Israel war in Iran
- The nuclear disarmament war (if you go by official US statements *cough cough*)
Makes sense. DW is German and consuming to anything related to Israel in the mainstream German media landscape drives you insane very quickly. You think our press is stellar compared to most places but it‘s a bizzaro world when it comes to the near east. The lies and double think is unbearable.
I’ve adjusted the title
Nice, i would have complained if you only put Israel, because this is very much a US war. Without the US this war would have been over instantly.
But it’s Iran’s fault!
They should have kept their children away from Iran’s (America’s) weapons!
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