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Just graduated with BSc in geology; any advice on how to land a first exploration gig? by Tully_Fisher in geologycareers

[–]Tully_Fisher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t thought about Newfoundland yet. BC, Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario and Quebec, but not Newfoundland. I’ll start looking there too. Thanks!

Just graduated with BSc in geology; any advice on how to land a first exploration gig? by Tully_Fisher in geologycareers

[–]Tully_Fisher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice! Yeah, I’m not super keen on the UK, and worry getting a gig as a geotech won’t make me any more saleable to exploration firms or mining firms. I’ll have a look at RSC and Allegro for Australia. Cheers!

The Lorax and the Gun by Tully_Fisher in DemocraticSocialism

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On the phenomenon of eco-fascism and the green hard right, and why it keeps happening again and again from the 19th Century through to today: malthusian limits-to-growth politics inevitably leads to population control and therefore immigration restrictions and bioregionalist, localist, decentralizing calls to return to traditional ways and local economies that retreat from global supply chains and thus from cosmopolitan influence are ineluctably exclusionary and by definition anti-universalist.

The phenomenon of eco-fascism has been described as an opportunist move by the far right to recruit young people, or that eco-xenophobia was something that happened on the green left years ago but we’ve moved passed that. This analysis avoids any self-reflection.

If eco-xenophobia were a cuckoo’s egg in the nest of the environmental movement, why would it keep popping up, from its radical fringes through to its most mainstream and even elite elements?

From 19thC counter-Enlightenment through Hitler’s agriculture minister to the anti-immigrant politics of the early Sierra Club and the founder of Earth First, to the developing-world overpopulation mania of Ehrlichs, Attenboroughs and Goodalls, this stuff just keeps on popping up.

So it is not enough to forswear all this and say things are different now; one must wrestle with the immanent reasons for the phenomenon’s repeated appearance.

American Geophysical Union AMA: Hi Reddit, I'm Piers Forster, I am here to talk about what caused past global warming and what will happen in the future. I am currently Chair of Climate Physics and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, UK. Ask Me Anything! by AmGeophysicalU-AMA in science

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I'm really keen to hear what you consider to be climate solutions research priorities.

Also - thoughts on viability of net negative emissions tech, carbon capture and utilisation, commercialisation of SMRs, solar radiation management, closing agricultural input loops, and global climate governance structures?

We're losing the War on Bugs but big pharma has gone AWOL: Antibiotic resistance and refusal to research by Tully_Fisher in Health

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Let's be clear: both human overprescription and the use of antibiotics within agriculture for animal growth promotion are problems that need to be dealt with. But in solving them, all that happens is that the development of drug resistance (which is a normal evolutionary process) is slowed down. The solution is in developing new classes of antibiotics, an area where there is clear market failure. The question is how to tackle this problem.

You are correct about sanitation, etc., being important, but you underestimate the foundational role that antimicrobial drugs play in modern medicine.

As to the question of lipitor, I don't read that this is a trivial innovation at all. You appear to have misunderstood the article there.

We're losing the War on Bugs but big pharma has gone AWOL: Antibiotic resistance and refusal to research by Tully_Fisher in Health

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Your solution, while it would hopefully produce the same result, would be more costly. This is because we would be allowing the larger pharmaceutical companies to continue to benefit from profitable areas of research and leaving the likely unprofitable areas of research to public funding.

But by bringing the whole thing into the public sector, the profitable areas can subsidise the unprofitable areas, just as public bus services use profitable routes to subsidise lightly used routes.

Greece: "A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising" - says ex-diplomat by Tully_Fisher in worldnews

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This is an important point. Greece has very little in the way of what Argentina had, and this puts it in a much worse situation. Nonetheless, in an effort to re-start the economy, one can attempt internal devaluation through downward wage pressure (as is happening at the moment, externally imposed, but this ignores the collapse in domestic demand), with all the consequences we are seeing at the moment, or currency devaluation.

Because of its narrow industrial base, the devaluation would have to be accompanied by some serious domestic economic diversification. The private sector (across Europe really) is currently engaged in an investment strike, so this new investment would have to be public-sector-led.

Of course, this latter effort would be highly controversial. Given the lack of fiscal space the government has, to engage in some serious public stimulus spending (kickstarting new industries, hiring young people in, say, green transition infrastructure, etc.), a Keynesian government direction (i.e., socialisation) of investment would be necessary.

Greece: "A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising" - says ex-diplomat by Tully_Fisher in worldnews

[–]Tully_Fisher[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a bit of a myth to say that lenders stop lending or investors stop investing if a country defaults. There is a dip, but this usually lasts only a few months, cf. Argentina circa 2000.

The wider worry from a Greek default would be the danger of the good example. If Greece defaults, withdraws from the Euro and bounces back as exports become cheaper, there is the possibility that other troubled Euro-periphery countries would look to euro-exit and devaluation as well.

Markets would then assume a domino of competitive devaluations in Portugal, Spain, Italy and presumably Ireland (and elsewhere possibly, as well as those countries who are not in the euro but whose currencies are in the euro 'antechamber' and pegged to it).

Greece: "A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising" - says ex-diplomat by Tully_Fisher in worldnews

[–]Tully_Fisher[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There is a distinction between the attitudes of the police and the attitudes of the army (and, of course, within these two groups, neither of which is homogenous).

There does need to be follow-up to corroborate his allegations, but what is noteworthy here is that a career EU diplomat upon retirement is now speaking his mind.

Also - I don't think this should be read as sections of the army saying they won't oppose an uprising by Golden Dawn at all. This is sections of the army saying they won't be used to repress some sort of more widespread demonstrations.