i cannot shake seeing Octavia as having channeled a future sight and we just happen to live in this reality where she also happened to have written it for us to see come true! i can easily see travelling between crumbling cities that are dangerous in and of itself, through treacherous rural areas where you could get attacked for "having caused forest fires in Canada". we all need to seek, store and share as much knowledge as possible while we have time and in that sharing, build communities, regardless of your beliefs, those you live closest to (physically/emotionally) are going to be essential to you and yours survival. be kind, stay dangerous. think like a kind alleycat.
While I agree with you overall, I think it's important to avoid rhetoric that suggests that the problem we need to solve is "shareholder" capitalism or "crony" capitalism rather than just capitalism qua capitalism. I know you acknowledge and believe this, but I have read enough Vox articles suggesting that the problem is The Bad Kind of Capitalism to know that people will take those ideas and run with them even if they originally come packaged with a disclaimer.
If our ruling classes were really concerned about climate change, they would be banning private jets and shutting down the US Empire's war machine instead of banning gasoline-powered lawnmowers in California and lecturing people to buy electric cars that they can never afford.
They don't take it seriously. They don't consider it a serious threat to THEM, which makes me extremely skeptical of anything they do say about climate change. The models of imminent dire catastrophes they have presented have been proven incorrect time and time again. Al Gore comes to mind.
If you dig beyond the often hysterical headlines, you'll find the "crisis" is just a mass media talking point intended to keep us living in fear. Sure, the climate is changing but there's no evidence of a crisis. Try reading Koonin, Happer, Curry, Lindzen, Christy, Lomborg and many others for views that recognize the complexity of the climate and cast aside the hysteria.
Patrick Moore, former head of Greenpeace, also has some very informative interviews on-line.
Wightstone wrote a really great book as well
Ask for evidence and question the evidence received before simply assuming what you are hearing is correct.
In reality, there is no such "crisis." The appearance of this crisis is created by an application of the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness by the argument made by a climate model under which an "abstract" event of the future for Earth's climate system is mistaken for a "concrete" event of the future where an "abstract" event of the future is "abstracted" (removed) from a location in space and time whereas a "concrete" event of the future has such a location.. The proof of this allegation lies in the absence from this argument of a partition of time, each element of which is the location in time of an event of the future for Earth's climate system.
just to note for interested readers who want to go deeper that I write obsessively but also carefully on petropolitics on my 'stack, and elsewhere. What you say about the dynamics of capitalism is right, but at the same time needs more historical specificity... that oil replaced slavery as the fundamental driver of the American economy but kept the same class and even individuals involved... that the OSS and CIA evolved out of the intelligence departments at Standard oil... that the 1973 oil crisis was manufactured by the American oil majors to raise prices... there's a lot of petrohistory that is hidden which must be understood to generate a coherent response to petropolytics today. For example, I think it's important for people on the Left to have a basic understanding of the dynamics of the oil market, which is in a state of perpetual surplus: I've seen too many people carry around the assumption that we'll "run out" of oil at some point before the surface of the planet turns into Venus; this is untrue, there's a lot of it in the ground, always have been, especially at moments of politically-manufactured scarcity, such as right now under the guise of the war in Ukraine. The very term "renewable" energy implies that the problem with oil is that it is "non-renewable" and therefore will run out; no, that's not the problem, the problem is that it insulates the planet. We've allowed oil to colonize our very vocabulary around these issues. One must also understand that oil itself has its own inhuman agenda that is served by, but not identical to, the oil company.
i cannot shake seeing Octavia as having channeled a future sight and we just happen to live in this reality where she also happened to have written it for us to see come true! i can easily see travelling between crumbling cities that are dangerous in and of itself, through treacherous rural areas where you could get attacked for "having caused forest fires in Canada". we all need to seek, store and share as much knowledge as possible while we have time and in that sharing, build communities, regardless of your beliefs, those you live closest to (physically/emotionally) are going to be essential to you and yours survival. be kind, stay dangerous. think like a kind alleycat.
While I agree with you overall, I think it's important to avoid rhetoric that suggests that the problem we need to solve is "shareholder" capitalism or "crony" capitalism rather than just capitalism qua capitalism. I know you acknowledge and believe this, but I have read enough Vox articles suggesting that the problem is The Bad Kind of Capitalism to know that people will take those ideas and run with them even if they originally come packaged with a disclaimer.
If our ruling classes were really concerned about climate change, they would be banning private jets and shutting down the US Empire's war machine instead of banning gasoline-powered lawnmowers in California and lecturing people to buy electric cars that they can never afford.
They don't take it seriously. They don't consider it a serious threat to THEM, which makes me extremely skeptical of anything they do say about climate change. The models of imminent dire catastrophes they have presented have been proven incorrect time and time again. Al Gore comes to mind.
If you dig beyond the often hysterical headlines, you'll find the "crisis" is just a mass media talking point intended to keep us living in fear. Sure, the climate is changing but there's no evidence of a crisis. Try reading Koonin, Happer, Curry, Lindzen, Christy, Lomborg and many others for views that recognize the complexity of the climate and cast aside the hysteria.
Patrick Moore, former head of Greenpeace, also has some very informative interviews on-line.
Wightstone wrote a really great book as well
Ask for evidence and question the evidence received before simply assuming what you are hearing is correct.
Great read
In reality, there is no such "crisis." The appearance of this crisis is created by an application of the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness by the argument made by a climate model under which an "abstract" event of the future for Earth's climate system is mistaken for a "concrete" event of the future where an "abstract" event of the future is "abstracted" (removed) from a location in space and time whereas a "concrete" event of the future has such a location.. The proof of this allegation lies in the absence from this argument of a partition of time, each element of which is the location in time of an event of the future for Earth's climate system.
Terry Oldberg
Engineer/Scientist/Public Policy Researcher
Los Altos Hills, CA
1-650-941-0533
terry_oldberg@yahoo.com
Dire action is truly needed, otherwise we’ll all be soon living in a “Blade Runner” world mixed with “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
just to note for interested readers who want to go deeper that I write obsessively but also carefully on petropolitics on my 'stack, and elsewhere. What you say about the dynamics of capitalism is right, but at the same time needs more historical specificity... that oil replaced slavery as the fundamental driver of the American economy but kept the same class and even individuals involved... that the OSS and CIA evolved out of the intelligence departments at Standard oil... that the 1973 oil crisis was manufactured by the American oil majors to raise prices... there's a lot of petrohistory that is hidden which must be understood to generate a coherent response to petropolytics today. For example, I think it's important for people on the Left to have a basic understanding of the dynamics of the oil market, which is in a state of perpetual surplus: I've seen too many people carry around the assumption that we'll "run out" of oil at some point before the surface of the planet turns into Venus; this is untrue, there's a lot of it in the ground, always have been, especially at moments of politically-manufactured scarcity, such as right now under the guise of the war in Ukraine. The very term "renewable" energy implies that the problem with oil is that it is "non-renewable" and therefore will run out; no, that's not the problem, the problem is that it insulates the planet. We've allowed oil to colonize our very vocabulary around these issues. One must also understand that oil itself has its own inhuman agenda that is served by, but not identical to, the oil company.
https://thespouter.substack.com/p/hydrocarbon-corpse-juice-main-part
https://thespouter.substack.com/p/the-autonomous-chemical-weapon#details