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Not wanting to stray into too culturally sensitive topics, but I am glad to see a find like this land in a country like Norway. Maybe it's something about the
by kepler1 3y ago
Not wanting to stray into too culturally sensitive topics, but I am glad to see a find like this land in a country like Norway.
Maybe it's something about the cold weather/caution as a people, Protestant/Lutheran/Calvinist cultural restraint, or factors along those lines, but I have relatively more confidence that this country will not squander and flush the money from this resource down the toilet like some other countries. (at least under the country's political leadership that has given an observable track record with the oil resource as an example)
Maybe it's that they can manage the expectations of their people not to suddenly want to get rich and live off of mineral resources and nothing else. Like some other countries have fallen into the trap of.
- Animats 3y agoNorway may be able to mine phosphate without making a huge mess. Unlike Florida [1] and Nauru.[2] [1] https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/phosphate-mines https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/phosphate-mine... [2] https://interestingengineering.com/culture/phosphate-mining-ruined-island-nauru https://interestingengineering.com/culture/phosphate-mining-...
- hospitalJail 3y ago>Protestant/Lutheran/Calvinist While I'm happy we got Freedom of Religion from the movement, if you look at the actual belief system its regressive(dogmatic interpretations of 'holy' text). I find myself in the Catholic camp when I study philosophy. It aligns more with what the Deists think God would want if he was interested in Earth/Humans. (Do good vs believe in 1 holy human) Still happy we got Freedom of Religion so I can be a skeptic. I can't help but roll my eyes that the perfect, all knowing, all powerful God doesn't care if we are good, he want's us to believe 1 human is the son of God. Deism is so much easier to rationalize.
- getwiththeprog 3y agoHaving studied philosophy, I find myself in the philosopher camp.
- hospitalJail 3y agoWhat is that? Skeptic/Agnostic? I liked what the Muslim Philosophers said: "Religion is for the masses, philosophers can logically deduce what God wants." I'm primarily a Skeptic/Agonistic, but Deism solves the cause and effect problem. I generally don't find skepticism useful for real-world uses, despite it being so easy to argue from.