Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria
An oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river. It's upended livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry. While spills are frequent in the region, activists...
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"Oil is a natural substance so it doesn't pollute anything". - A liberal.
I think you got downvoted because people thought you meant liberal in the American sense, rather than the "status quo neoliberal" sense
Liberals in america literally said Oil doesn't pollute the ocean because it's a natural substance.
What I meant was "the common person in the US generally has learned the term 'liberal' as vaguely meaning 'progressive' or 'byname for the Democrat party'", and will not understand that you're using the term in the 'neoliberal,which encompasses both primary US parties, so it's here a byname for capitalist' sense
and that that's probably why they're downvoting your comment