"The basics of your iPhone, Samsung and Tesla... But nice and 'green' busy so you can sleep well again on your bio pillow and recycled bed.. hm? Would these children also be so concerned about the climate, or when they will have food again..." #BrandAppleiPhone #BrandSamsung #BrandTesla #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #PhenomnClimateChange #MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment i.e. #ReasoningFallacyFalseDilemmaDichotomy

#PhenomnMiningCobalt #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongoKolwezi #HandleTikTokAncientCiv: ^{[video clip]} #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE

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Context #OrgFRAgenceFrancePresseAFP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmqf0L52rD8 "Five thousand diggers pack tightly together at the bottom of a crater in southeastern DR Congo, swinging hammers and picks to prise chunks of speckled blue-gold ore from the earth. The huge pit in Shabara, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Kolwezi, is home to cobalt - a strategic metal found in abundance in the impoverished central African nation. But it's also emblematic of a headache. The mining has been carrying on for years in flagrant violation of DRC laws and in defiance of the site's owner, a subsidiary of mining and commodities giant Glencore." #BrandGlencoreMutandaMineShabara https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/4/dr-congos-faltering-fight-against-illegal-cobalt-mines And https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

#BrandApple #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #BrandTechVideoStreamingPornHub #PowerControlExploitationSweatshop #LiteralSubstanceDrugCannabisMarijuana #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #LiteralFoodCoffee #LiteralFoodChocolate #IRLHistoricalFigureCheGuevara #TheoryConsumptionSpectacle #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #PowerControlExploitation #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification #TheoryGlobalLabourValueChains #PhenomnEconomyGlobal #CaricaturistDanielGarcia #2016_YourOwnPersonalSlaves https://www.danielgarciaart.com/your-own-personal-slaves/

#TauntHypocrisy #TheoryMarxismNeo #CauseActivismEnvironmental #PhenomnClimateChangeEmergency #PhenomnClimateChangeGlobalWarming #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #IRLActivistGretaThunberg

#EpistemologyAgnotology #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFunctional #TheoryPerformativeActivismGreenwashing

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Supplementary #NMUKBBCGeorginaKenyon "Consider climate change as an example. 'The fight is not just over the existence of climate change, it's over whether God has created the Earth for us to exploit, whether government has the right to regulate industry, whether environmentalists should be empowered, and so on. It's not just about the facts, it's about what is imagined to flow from and into such facts,' says Proctor." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance #EDUUSStanfordUniversityRobertProctor #PhenomnClimateChange

#BrandTesla #OtheringElitesBourgeois ? #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningArtisanal ?

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg and #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy versus #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningCobalt i.e. an #ReasoningFallacyStrawman + #ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg and #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy versus #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningCobalt i.e. an #ReasoningFallacyStrawman #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

#OrgClassifPPDESozialdemokratischeParteiDeutschlandsSPD #OrgClassifPPDEBundnis90DieGrunen ?

#BrandApple #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #BrandTechVideoStreamingPornHub #PowerControlExploitationSweatshop #LiteralSubstanceDrugCannabisMarijuana #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #LiteralFoodCoffee #LiteralFoodChocolate #IRLHistoricalFigureCheGuevara #TheoryConsumptionSpectacle #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #PowerControlExploitation #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification #TheoryGlobalLabourValueChains #PhenomnEconomyGlobal #CaricaturistDanielGarcia #2016_YourOwnPersonalSlaves https://www.danielgarciaart.com/your-own-personal-slaves/

#BrandApple #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #BrandTechVideoStreamingPornHub #PowerControlExploitationSweatshop #LiteralSubstanceDrugCannabisMarijuana #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #LiteralFoodCoffee #LiteralFoodChocolate #IRLHistoricalFigureCheGuevara #TheoryConsumptionSpectacle #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #PowerControlExploitation #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification #TheoryGlobalLabourValueChains #PhenomnEconomyGlobal #CaricaturistDanielGarcia #2016_YourOwnPersonalSlaves https://www.danielgarciaart.com/your-own-personal-slaves/

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg versus #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongo and #PhenomnMiningCobalt #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskSocial

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Addendum this meme is presumably, intended to promote a #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism agenda i.e. it is more ethical to mine (and therefore use) #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil than it is to mine/use #PhenomnEnergyFuelCarbonNeutral. #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

"rijkeluiskind" [rich kid] i.e. #TauntWokeInsincerity / #TauntArrogance / #TauntHypocrisyLiberal ? #IRLActivistAnunaDeWeverVanDerHeyden #IRLActivistGretaThunberg

"Dieve kinderen, als jullie vrijdag gaan betogen voor het klimatt, denk dan ook even aan de kindjes in kongo die kobalt moeten ontginnen voor de batterij van papa's elektrische auto aub !" [ #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongo #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal "Dear children, if you are going to protest for the climate on Friday, please also think about the children in the Congo who have to mine cobalt for the battery of daddy's electric car!"] A patronising plea to children protesting #PhenomnClimateChange as their response to #2021_UNClimateChangeConferenceCOP26 A reference to "Gegen die Deutsche Umwelthilfe" [Against the German environmental aid] can be seen in the bottom-right, which might be a reference to this petition: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/entziehung-des-status-der-gemeinnuetzigkeit-der-deutschen-umwelt-hilfe-duh?rt=%2Fpetition%2Fonline%2Fentziehung-des-status-der-gemeinnuetzigkeit-der-deutschen-umwelt-hilfe-duh, which might relate to: ^[Wikipedia]

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Context Friday, November 5th: Youth and public empowerment | Elevating the voice of young people and demonstrating the critical role of public empowerment and education in climate action. https://ukcop26.org/the-conference/presidency-programme/

follow-up tweet claiming that #BrandUmicore and #BrandKoningBoudewijnstichting are involved(?) in #PhenomnMiningCobalt in #ToponymAfricaCentralDemocraticRepublicOfCongo

the criticism claims that the mining uses #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour significantly, despite the possible veracity of any such claims, such an argument is familiar within the context of climate change denial / #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil lobbying etc. -basically, such an argument is consistent with efforts to counter arguments in support of #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy.

#ReasoningFallacyStrawman while appearing to compare the ethics of #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil with the ethics of extracting materials used for sustainable transport - the argument is really about the ethics of regulated (and likely, unionised) labour versus unregulated labour - inevitably leading to #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal

"woke (awake...) in the language of those who massacred more than Hitler, said absolute evil, in the name of beautiful principles. Nothing good comes from them any more! We French too must wake up or we will end up with a ring in our nose..." #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler

#BrandApple #PhenomnMiningCobalt #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #BrandTechVideoStreamingPornHub #PowerControlExploitationSweatshop #LiteralSubstanceDrugCannabisMarijuana #LiteralFoodProductionFishing #LiteralFoodCoffee #LiteralFoodChocolate #IRLHistoricalFigureCheGuevara #TheoryConsumptionSpectacle #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #PowerControlExploitation #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification #TheoryGlobalLabourValueChains #PhenomnEconomyGlobal #CaricaturistDanielGarcia #2016_YourOwnPersonalSlaves https://www.danielgarciaart.com/your-own-personal-slaves/

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Supplementary #IRLAuthorLauraBasu "The concept of global labour-value chains helps us understand two crucial things. 1. the global economy is about power and domination, not a 'free market'. And 2. the pattern of domination is imperialist in nature. The countries that participate most in global labour-value chains are China, India and Indonesia. The same goes for many countries in the Global South, including Mexico, which gets shafted a lot by the US. What is striking about these economies? They have both low wages and high productivity at the same time. That is due to the value-slurping-device of the global labour-value chain. The sucky multinationals are mostly headquartered in the US, Europe and Japan, and that's where the money ends up. The capitalist global economy is not a level playing field. It never was. The parts of the world that got rich and powerful through colonial plunder, genocide and enslavement use that wealth and power to keep on thieving, even now colonialism is officially over." https://laurabasu.substack.com/p/concept-of-the-fortnight-global-labour #TheoryGlobalLabourValueChains #IdentityGlobalSouth #PoliticsCapitalismLaissezFaireFreeMarket #TheoryCulturalImperialismWestern #ToponymAsiaChina #ToponymAsiaSouthIndia #ToponymAsiaIndonesia #ToponymAmericaNorthMexico #PhenomnColonialism #LiteralFieldEconomicsBusinessModelFastFashion ^[Wikipedia]

response to tweet by: #NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaAlanJones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1NtU_nJSQ #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake.s #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle

#CharacterisationOversimplification #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #MetaphorVersusCompetitionCooperation #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #IRLActivistGretaThunberg at the #2019_UNClimateActionSummit

#IRLActivistGretaThunberg and #PhenomnEnergyRenewableGreenEnergy versus #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #PhenomnMiningCobalt i.e. an #ReasoningFallacyStrawman (or perhaps #ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack ?) #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

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Context "The use of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where nearly 60% of the world's cobalt is currently produced, is certainly a major issue that deserves the attention of consumers, corporations, and governments. However, some media outlets and social media users have distorted the issue into a rallying cry against the use of electric cars and clean energy." ^{[fact-checked]}