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autotldr t1_jeba8of wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot)


> Four bankers from Gazprom's Swiss affiliate have been found guilty by a Zurich court of failing to properly check vast sums of money flowing through the accounts of a Russian cellist and close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

> The bankers were found guilty of "Lack of due diligence in financial transactions" moving through Roldugin's accounts, the Zurich District Court said in its verdict on Thursday.

> Under Swiss law, the identity of the guilty bankers - who are of Russian, Swiss, and British nationality - cannot be made public.


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Senyu t1_jeb9tr6 wrote

I agree that proof of nutrition and health must be ensured and verified before rollout. All new technological progress comes with hurdles, I have no disillusion that hydroponics and vitromeat tech has its own obstacles. However, I have faith in humanity's ability to solve those problems. I do not believe we can effectively becomes stewards of the Earth at a food production level without drastic population reduction. Our society & infrastructure is simply not geared to supporting individual made food production to meet the planet's needs. We must further develop and implement hydroponics & vitromeat in order to sustain the bulk of our population's food needs with minimal ecological costs to the planet. It has nothing to do with nature being broken or not, it's merely logistics of having a multi-billion sized population. Big Agra is most definitely broken, but even if that was resolved we still have vast amounts of people to feed and the ecological costs of traditional agriculture cannot be ignored simply because it's the way we've always done it.

We can become more effective stewards of the Earth in a general sense if we can off-load the bulk of our food needs to facilities located in every major city of the world. Traditional agriculture will still exist, most likely in a cultural preservation sense. But swaths of traditional agricultural land could be return to a natural ecological state if we implement hydroponics and vitromeat at scale.

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AirborneRodent t1_jeb872v wrote

It's one of the only ones they might listen to. If you say "what you're doing is morally wrong", they'll just say "no it isn't, what you're doing is morally wrong."

If you say "what you're doing is impoverishing your nation and hurting everyone you care about", they might actually take some action.

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