Always buy local if you can. It has the lowest climate impact.
Even buying a less-green local product vs. a more eco-friendly import might have less climate impact due to resource extraction, production in areas with possibly less environmental protection regulations, and above all shipping.
Climate cost-benefit outweighs all other arguments for rational people.
There's a problem that occurs when a lot of economic sanctions have been placed against a country - that country's economy becomes so disconnected from everything else that whatever is left of it is basically independent from international influence. There are no economic or political levers left to pull that will have any impact on that country, so it's difficult to do anything to change their behavior short of direct military action.
We have a similar problem when the federal interest rate is at or near 0% - there is no more adjustment room in the economic system, so the overall behavior can't be adjusted effectively. There has to be some wiggle room if you want to influence the system's behavior. Once the brake pedal is on the floor it can't go any further down.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
The secret ingredient is poverty wages.
Or self-host with forgejo.
Edit: oh, codeberg is an implementation of forgejo, that's cool. You could have a local instance of forgejo and then backup/publish to codeberg. Nice.
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My point of view is that a human rights violation is a human rights violation regardless of the context in which it happens, and is therefore an important thing to discuss and give visibility to.
Labeling it as "political" and using that as an excuse to hide discussion of it feels like bootlicker behavior to me.
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