Lots of people talking about how climate change from fossil fuel emissions lead to the disasterous flooding in #Libya.
Not enough talking about the fossil fuel industry's other hand in the disaster: oil colonialism.
Libya is a petrostate, created and sponsored by foreign interests, with an economy is based in oil extraction. The political unrest and lack of ability to properly manage the dam infrastructure is a consequence of oil-based dictatorship and domestic fights over oil wealth.
Aha! Yes. This take:
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-media-arent-telling-the-whole
Not enough people talking about the infrastructure collapsing after Clinton neo liberals destroyed Libya and killed its leader to prevent him establishing an African central bank to cut the west and the IMF out.
So “we came, we saw, he died”
Resulting in open air slave markets.
And collapsing dams.
Neoliberals, particularly academic neoliberals, are some of the worst people on the planet. They cause great harm, yet continue to claim they are saving the world.
