Emission spectrum from the sun peaks at under 500nm corresponding to >5800K. Emission spectrum from the moon peaks at 600nm, corresponding to <4100K. Moonlight is objectively colder and therefore gives less energy. Reflection does not necessarily preserve spectral characteristics.
A vast, vast amount of work in modern economies just objectively does not need to be done for any good reason, but is performed to keep capitalism from collapsing in on itself.
Well, true. In the case of the great Chinese famine, and arguably the famine in Ukraine & Western Russia, this is a basically accurate description.
But what I'm saying is that this isn't a useful discussion because it can easily be spun different ways. For example someone might point out that a huge number of famine and malnution deaths have also occurred under capitalism, and they may even find a source saying it's higher per capita. It's an incredibly nebulous thing to quantify, but a suitably motivated person can make statistics say anything they want. Are the people dying now in Sudan being killed by 'capitalism' because they're caught in a tug-of-war between capitalist blocs? How many other deaths in all the pointless wars do we add to the total?
You can also easily get lost in the numbers of what deaths count as being caused by the ideology; people are currently dying in Cuba as a more-or-less direct result of Trump's fuel and trade blockade, but many would (quite disingenuously) argue that this is the fault of the Cuban government. If even a small number of deaths are included in the count which have a dubious claim to be caused by ideology, these can be seized upon to delegitimise the claim of all of them. The 100M figure including the deaths of Nazi soldiers on the eastern front is an example of this.
All of this distracts from why these people died. As you said, famines are not natural and are almost always caused by human activity, whether that's poor agricultural policy, social conflict, mismanagement of natural resources, poor trade policy, or deliberate starvation. Usually, this is combined with natural events such as drought, floods, earthquakes etc. which push things to breaking point.
Famines that occured in communist and capitalist systems had a range of causes, and blanketing political attempts to attribute them to leftwing or rightwing ideas are unhelpful and will not help prevent them from happening again. It's just a big unproductive pissing match with no conclusion and no respect for the people who died.
Reaaaaaaaaaal
The table legs make it look like the central guy has giant legs
You can't do this!
Zionists love to hide behind the ideology that they represent all jewish people. Any attack on themselves is deflected in this way.
She wants to talk to you, you fucking dolt
Touched a nerve did I?
My friend I am taking the piss
Less funny though
Emission spectrum from the sun peaks at under 500nm corresponding to >5800K. Emission spectrum from the moon peaks at 600nm, corresponding to <4100K. Moonlight is objectively colder and therefore gives less energy. Reflection does not necessarily preserve spectral characteristics.
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/118/jres.118.020.pdf
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/climate/projects/solar-irradiance/science
Some photons are hotter than others. Its the wavelengths and frequencies. No UV from moonlight
Have you ever been warmed by moonlight? It doesn't give energy.
If it's not from the sun, it's not sunlight. Moonlight doesnt have heat, so it cant produce electricity
The 1% of solar producing power at night scares me
From the tone of the article it's quite clear they're literally proud of this
There is some doctrine in english headline writing that says it's okay to substitute the word "and" with a comma. I hate it with a passion.
A vast, vast amount of work in modern economies just objectively does not need to be done for any good reason, but is performed to keep capitalism from collapsing in on itself.
AI slop. Look at the names
What do you mean?
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Well, true. In the case of the great Chinese famine, and arguably the famine in Ukraine & Western Russia, this is a basically accurate description.
But what I'm saying is that this isn't a useful discussion because it can easily be spun different ways. For example someone might point out that a huge number of famine and malnution deaths have also occurred under capitalism, and they may even find a source saying it's higher per capita. It's an incredibly nebulous thing to quantify, but a suitably motivated person can make statistics say anything they want. Are the people dying now in Sudan being killed by 'capitalism' because they're caught in a tug-of-war between capitalist blocs? How many other deaths in all the pointless wars do we add to the total?
You can also easily get lost in the numbers of what deaths count as being caused by the ideology; people are currently dying in Cuba as a more-or-less direct result of Trump's fuel and trade blockade, but many would (quite disingenuously) argue that this is the fault of the Cuban government. If even a small number of deaths are included in the count which have a dubious claim to be caused by ideology, these can be seized upon to delegitimise the claim of all of them. The 100M figure including the deaths of Nazi soldiers on the eastern front is an example of this.
All of this distracts from why these people died. As you said, famines are not natural and are almost always caused by human activity, whether that's poor agricultural policy, social conflict, mismanagement of natural resources, poor trade policy, or deliberate starvation. Usually, this is combined with natural events such as drought, floods, earthquakes etc. which push things to breaking point.
Famines that occured in communist and capitalist systems had a range of causes, and blanketing political attempts to attribute them to leftwing or rightwing ideas are unhelpful and will not help prevent them from happening again. It's just a big unproductive pissing match with no conclusion and no respect for the people who died.