• thatsnomayo [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Very topsy-turvy world where European countries can be “coffee exporters” and claim better environmental practices than the countries they exploit

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        16 hours ago

        Well this is more about the land use policies that the Europeans push on them, but you can easily find workshops of them “instructed African farmers on better ecological practices” and shit like that. They write articles about the dangers of monocropping, pesticide use, etc, all practices their debt system demands to keep up. They insist these countries do not develop higher industry even car factories as it would be a carbon explosion, that’s been fixed with electric veh— But that would require background information, why not just attempt to gotcha me to misrepresent what I’m saying (the only thing anyone on here knows how to do)

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          But that would require background information, why not just attempt to gotcha me to misrepresent what I’m saying

          I asked a simple question for clarification, that’s not a gotcha attempt. If you can’t answer it straightforwardly then maybe you gotcha-ed yourself.

          I didn’t misrepresent what you were saying. You claimed this graphic says Europeans have better climate stats than exploited coffee-producing regions. It appears to show most European countries as having higher carbon emissions per capita than any coffee-producing country.

          Did you misrepresent yourself in what you were trying to say, or are you misrepresenting the graphic? Because you still haven’t explained what you meant if it was something else, you just got defensive and complained about me asking you to clarify.

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            4 hours ago

            “It’s not a gotcha”—proceeds to interrogate the point that was already clarified. Eat my entire ass snookums

            Not my fault if you never read a Guardian article about the chilling prospect of Africa industrializing in the past fifteen years. You had time