'Chama eterna' da democracia é apagada por falta de gás em monumento de Brasília
www1.folha.uol.com.br
Fogo será aceso após licitação de GLP e vistoria sobre possível vazamento, diz secretaria do DF

Apparently it’s the third time this happens??

EDIT: TBH I didn’t read the article because of the paywall…

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    372·
    4 months ago

    I’m sensing a kind of allegory in the “Eternal Flame of Democracy” persisting only when you have access to cheap fossil fuels.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      4 months ago

      That’s a shitty allegory then. Fossil fuels are usually used to prop up dictatorships. Maybe it’s time to switch that thing to a renewable source?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Fossil fuels are usually used to prop up dictatorships.

        The fossil US/UK based fuel industry has used regional dictatorship to secure supply lines into oil rich nations, certainly. But the 1950s democracies of the Middle East and Latin America didn’t just fall over on their own. The Dulles to Schlesinger CIA was instrumental in propping up energy industry friendly military governments around the world.

        Maybe it’s time to switch that thing to a renewable source?

        Only if we can project our extraterritorial military power efficiently this way.