I hate this timeline.

[floreana@poliversity.it]

@chris
While I don't hope for war to go on, I do wish the few smart governments that still exist will get the message and adapt accordingly.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@floreana me too

[zazzoo@mstdn.ca]

@chris In the current globalized world order, countries at war are still dependent on one another's trade. Murder is permitted, of course. You can bomb schools and hospitals and commit outright genocides - but its the interruption of a supply chain gets treated as a war crime.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@zazzoo sick, isn't it.

[de_minimis@infosec.exchange]

@zazzoo @chris
It is argued that Germany lost WWI due to attacking all of its food suppliers.They starved themselves into submission. Can't have that happen again, I guess.

[gatesvp@mstdn.ca]

@zazzoo @chris

There's been some serious economics research into this. And oddly, supply chain interruptions are often more deadly than the event itself.

US sanctions regimes have cut off tens of millions of people (if not hundreds) from essential medicines or treatments. Or access to sufficient food.

They see similar things in disaster zones. A very limited number of people typically die in the hurricane or the flood. Most of the deaths come afterwards when people can't get medical attention or essential food supplies are cut off.

In no way does this justify shooting people, that's also terrible.

But with the straight of Hormuz cut off. That lack of fertilizer and fuel could represent far more death outside of Iran than inside it.

[karlheinzhaslip@climatejustice.social]

@chris seeing missiles hit oil refineries gives me complicated feelings. They need to be dismantled. Controlled demolition would have been nicer, but who am I to complain about the rapid and messy approach, given that there was no chance to do the slow and careful demolition?

[cameron29@mastodon.social]

@chris that would be a cool project to do when my current car end up needing to be replaced.

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@MilitaryG @Space_Burger_Steve @chris Connecticut has had pumped hydro storage since 1929. Still operational. Obviously not a battery solution possible everywhere, but certainly could have been more widely adopted to address the battery “problem.”

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@cameron29 I wanted to do it to my old family 1976 Fiat Spider but it wasn’t to be and it went to the scrapper instead.

To be a serious we need to create a recycling and conversion industry in Canada!