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Western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil.
To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker unions, the opposition Labor Party over the weekend decided to withdraw its support for oil exploration offshore the sensitive Lofoten islands in Norway’s Arctic, creating a solid majority in parliament to keep the area off limits for drilling.
The dramatic shift by Norway’s biggest party is a significant blow to the support the oil industry has enjoyed, and could signal that the Scandinavian nation is coming closer to the end of an era that made it one of the world’s most affluent.
How will Norway pay for its social safety network without oil revenues?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 12 2019, @11:47PM (3 children)
This post demonstrates such a lack of understanding of genetics and evolution that there is no point continuing. I suggest you slowly read and think about "The Selfish Gene" and then follow that up by reading "The Extended Phenotype". Both by Richard Dawkins and are an excellent laypersons introduction to how evolution really works.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:46AM (2 children)
> Implying I haven't read these
> Implying that's germane to the point
> Implying implications
Do you just not understand English or what?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:40AM (1 child)
You may have read them but you obviously didn't understand them. Particularly Extended Phenotype.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:55AM
You're never gonna make evolutionary psychology or evolution in general a justification for racism, bro. It's a category error. I don't understand how so many supposedly smart, "rational" people keep falling for this trap. What we choose to do in how we treat others is not an evolutionary issue; we are intelligent beings with moral machinery (though I suspect yours is broken...missing mirror neurons maybe?). Social technology and intelligence are orders of magnitude faster than evolution and can affect things evolution can't, precisely *because* they are under intelligent control and not simply the end result of a quintillion quintillion interactions of molecules and environment.
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