I agree with your comments mrBlack, and for perhaps irrational reasons i found the article infuriating. The word 'renewable' is starting to make me want to puke. And smiling middle class wealth with a tesla each in their double garage charging their cars at lunchtime because that's more efficient and clearly the future...oh my fucking god!
First they came for the 'illegal' immigrants...and i did not speak out because i was not an illegal immigrant.
Then they came for...
The tax system subsidising and so far as even requiring the purchase of new vehicles again and again, is completely anathema to human survival. This organised corruption has to go.
Michael Dowd is a fantastic audio narrator, and thinker and speaker on this issue. He has done a real service turning essays and books into publicly available audio files.
Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:08 pmThis gotta-have-two-cars thinking isn't a step anywhere but along the wrong path
Has anyone proposed something like a compulsory 50 year replace-or-repair warranty. It could work for electric cars. My Mum's sewing machine is going strong after more than 60 years.
I can't remember if someone else already posted this bit of madness, but a Mastodonian summarised it nicely...
Texas' grid operator just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.
No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Nor to install booths with free fresh water. Nor to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Nor to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.
No, the government just gave that money away to Riot Platform (a business that runs a bunch of Bitcoin mining servers) to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool. Btw, that's more than twice the mining profit that they make in one month.
Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea.
In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them (by a 2x factor) for the losses that they would make by temporarily turning off their gamgling den, while everybody else will probably just get a regular rolling blackout without any compensation.
I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least and create the least amount of net value.
Walking at Surfside near Batemans Bay, the erosion is looking ominous. One section of the beach was blocked by so may fallen trees I lost count, their roots washed out from under them. A new "glamping" style resort is being built behind sandbags. Good luck with that. One house had logs stacked up in front of it with a sign asking for them not to be touched because they're all that's stopping the water removing more than the 10 metres of dune already gone.
The caveat is I don't know if this is the result of climate change, but even if it's not, the non-climate vulnerabilities are really going to be tested in the coming years.
"#Climate breakdown has begun."
– Antonio Guterres
The UN is again raising the alarm that the #ParisAccords will be missed unless #fossilfuels phase-out starts now. No carbon offset. No technical tinkering. Leave it in the ground!
Unfortunately many governments depend on fossil industries to stay afloat in a globalized capitalist competition. Real change will only come from the people, through just, international and anti-capitalist transition.
So let's start by joining the global #ClimateStrike on September 15 – and get organized for system change!
‘A critical moment’: UN warns world will miss climate targets unless fossil fuels phased out
Governments failing to cut emissions fast enough to…
The Guardian
Sep 09, 2023, 20:39 · · 15 · 0
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
