“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • We already have the answer of how to deal with this:

    We can and have shut this thing down when the political will is available. The efficiencies developed in agriculture and manufacturing have shown that the vast majority of economic activity is effectively idle, not necessary, and purely for the purpose of creating the impression of larger economies than are actually present.

    No one starved due to lock-downs. No governments collapsed. Netflix views increased. People took on hobbies and got more exercise.

    We have an exact template of what we would need to do to save our climate future.

    All that we lack is the political will. And no, geoengineering solutions to prop up and support a broken approach to economics isn’t a solution.









  • Man. If the US had just not had a cuckolded Democratic Party in 2000 and not have rolled over on the fact that Republicans literally stole an election, we could have had Al Gore.

    Even in past 16 years… if the US had ran with this as a tailwind instead of a headwind.

    Its because of a broken mindset the US hasn’t. Because renewables, with more deployment get cheaper to deploy. It works against what power companies and utilities need, which, allegedly, is recurring revenue. Its because of a culture of what it means to be a manager, and what an organizations priorities should be that the US is going backwards on this.