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When it comes "the global warming debate," there are often third ways that are ignored
Often the framing is "global warming" and "climate deniers" or something like that. but it seems like there are obviously multiple perspectives here, and these two black and white boxes keep us from really seeing potential solutions.... We Need World One Goverment
Argument: Currently, there are a host of problems, challenges, and opportunities that cannot be adequately addressed within national borders (COVID, pollution, global warming, piracy, tax havens, AI, etc). And this creates arms races and problem of the commons issues.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Technologists
The metaphor that makes bad law We are not the villains of this story, though every other camp casts us that way. We are the people who actually cleaned the rivers.... - Eric Stevens...
I lived this. I moved to Texas for the exact reasons being discussed here. I was involved in lithium battery and inverter manufacturing. We were offered a building. We were offered state incentives.... - onA bad solution is bad, then, because it acts destructively upon the larger patterns in which it is contained. It acts destructively upon those patterns, most likely, because it is formed in ignorance or disregard of them. A bad solution solves for a single purpose or goal, such as increased production. And it is typical of such solutions that they achieve stupendous increases in production at exorbitant biological and social costs.by
That's such a great use of AI. I'd love to catalogue these more and more—so much of what I hear about is improving work efficiency or something, which often creates a gap that gets filled with more improving work efficiency...... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Pragmatic triagers
The list nobody wants to make I allocate a conservation budget. That sentence already casts me as the villain. But the money is finite and the species are not, so someone draws the line — and pretending we don’t just lets it get drawn by accident.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Technologists
Reversible For all of history, extinction meant gone. Past tense, permanent, the end of the sentence. That is about to stop being true, and most of conservation hasn’t updated for it. We freeze tissue from the last individuals.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: The Story
The only number that doesn’t bend Extinction is the one environmental loss with no undo. A population can fall ninety-nine percent and still recover; at one hundred it is simply over, for good.... Why did Europe reject nuclear, and was it worth it?: Green transition
The milk April 26, 1986, 1:23 AM. Reactor four at Chernobyl exploded. The plume drifted northwest across Scandinavia, west across Germany, south into Italy. In Bavaria, mothers were told not to let children play outside. Milk was dumped. Sandboxes were covered.... - onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼byUnicornBlues...
The I choose to overthrow the tyrants in charge, as a right afforded to me by the constitution. It's very plain that our system is completely corrupted.... What would it take to clean up the air and water?: Community stewards
Four hundred years of one ditch In the high valleys of northern New Mexico the acequias still run — community irrigation ditches, some older than the United States, governed not by a state agency or a market but by neighbors who elect a mayordomo to ration scarce water by custom.... What would it take to clean up the air and water?: Property-rights environmentalists
The year they priced the sky In 1990 acid rain was killing forests across the Northeast, and the expected fix was a federal order telling every utility which scrubber to bolt on. Congress did something stranger.... What would it take to clean up the air and water?: Policy-first reformers
Somebody had to make them stop For a century the factories on the river knew exactly what they were dumping, and dumped it anyway, because stopping cost money and the river was free. The Cuyahoga did not catch fire less often because Cleveland got richer.... What would it take to clean up the air and water?: The Story
Two numbers Seven million people die early every year from the air they breathe — more than malaria, tuberculosis, and car crashes combined. In the same world, the air over American cities is cleaner than at any point since anyone thought to measure it: the six most common... Is capitalism broken?: Post-capitalists
In 1930, Keynes predicted his grandchildren would work fifteen-hour weeks. Productivity had been doubling every generation. The math was straightforward. Where the surplus went Keynes was right about productivity.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Abundance builders
The master variable For two centuries, every leap in human welfare rode on cheaper energy: the steam engine, the electric grid, the Haber-Bosch process that now feeds half the planet. Energy isn’t one input among many — it’s the one the others are made of.... - onIs climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: The Storyby62jazzmaster...
Climate models are statistically "unfit for purpose." In any complex system, small errors in variables (like cloud cover or humidity) don't cancel out—they compound. When you project these errors over 100 years, the margin of error becomes larger than the predicted warming.... Should we go all in on nuclear energy?: Anti-nuclear
The television said no danger March 12, 2011, 3:36 p.m. The roof of Reactor Building 1 blew off in a hydrogen explosion visible from twenty kilometers. The television said no danger. TEPCO said no danger.... What are hyperobjects?: Skeptics
The word we already had In 1962, Rachel Carson described pesticides accumulating in food chains, persisting in soil for decades, detectable only through effects on other organisms. Distributed, persistent, temporally extended. She did not need a neologism.... - Audie...
Wow that is some very solid points. I understand this whole thing is very complex as many working parts. I just keep seeing companys move and close doors. I thought alot was due to cali cost of permits etc......