The falsely self-confident pronouncements of the #hopium -faction sound more and more like autohypnosis:
"The clean electro-tech revolution will triumph."
As much as I do respect Adam Tooze, this statement has a mild... Comical Ali-vibe: there are no American tanks in Baghdad...
https://www.ft.com/content/b6cac184-75a4-47ab-94c5-5eb8c92cd407
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3. Die postfossile #Energiewende, von der unsere #hopium -abhängigen Freund*innen reden: die findet nicht statt.
"Even as India enjoys a boom in low-cost renewables, its coal-fired generation is widely expected to keep growing too — with all the planet-heating carbon emissions that entails."
https://www.ft.com/content/dc3461f9-de46-4bd7-a75b-d189d193224d?syn-25a6b1a6=1
Unofficial F1 Rule #67: Why every F1 fan needs the “three-lap hopium cap” (before Ferrari breaks your heart again)
The Rule: When your team shows signs of improvement, you are permitted exactly three laps of optimism before mandatory pessimism protocols must be reinstated. Any hope beyond Lap 3 is considered reckless emotional behaviour and will result in devastating heartbreak. Lap 1. Your midfield team qualifies P6. The new upgrades seem to be working. The pace looks REAL. You text the group chat: "WE'RE SO BACK." Lap 4. Gearbox issue. Your driver is out. The group chat has receipts. You've violated […]
Compulsive optimism is #hopium-addiction congealed into civic religion:
"Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘bigger problem than climate change’
Speaking as UK breaks May heat record, he says optimism is a ‘moral duty’."
Sounds like a religious exhortation, and that's how all y'all hopiumists sound to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/25/ian-mcewan-says-pessimism-a-bigger-problem-than-climate-change
#Hopium has its go again. Can't they see that it just 'doesn't add up' as opposed to battery electric vehicles?
In Europe all those attempts to put #hydrogen ( #H2 ) into heavy vehicles has been politically pushed, but died out already.
In Aotearoa we're a bit too small to make those mistakes, so why gamble on it, whereas others have failed already?
Je mehr #Kollaps, desto mehr #hopium brauchts:
"Wenn wir Deutschen weiter so schlecht gelaunt bleiben, wird uns auch politischer Reformeifer nicht viel nützen. Dass es uns vergleichsweise gut geht, merkte ich, als ich länger in den USA war."
Klar. Es braucht nur ein bisschen positives Denken :)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/stimmung-in-deutschland-meckern-koennen-wir-kolumne-a-1faa2583-0cba-4a11-a1bf-31e606ec8b7b
#Hopium briefly replaces cocaine as Colombia's main intoxicating export:
"‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout
Nearly 60 countries back voluntary roadmaps to wean world off coal, oil & gas."
VOLUNTARY ROADMAPS🤣
Hold my Paris Agreement...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/30/colombia-climate-talks-end-fossil-fuel-phaseout
Crude oil prices are already headed up... #Trump better start dropping #Hopium on the markets.
"Middle East Oil Pricing Is Cracking Under Pressure"
#Russia #China #USA #Security #News #Iran #Israel #War #EU #NATO #UN #Nuclear #Weapons #Politics #Pentagon #WW3 #Lebanon #WarCrimes #Incompetence #Pakistan
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Middle-East-Oil-Pricing-Is-Cracking-Under-Pressure.html
I sure hope #Trump makes up some fake news soon... the markets might miss their #Hopium
"#Hormuz Strait ‘closed’ as #Tehran says no date for US talks"
#Russia #China #USA #Security #News #Iran #Israel #War #EU #NATO #UN #Nuclear #Weapons #Politics #Pentagon #WW3 #Lebanon #WarCrimes #Incompetence #Ukraine
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