the nussy is real, however.

It’s a bit meta. Bicycles are an important part of climate mitigation.

AI “agents” are tips of long tentacles of corporations.

I’ve heard of it. I usually read science papers and reports. The books are useful for understanding systems if you don’t already. I try to develop my own understanding or “world model” and related narratives, at at least first.

Hospicing Modernity | Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti - YouTube, since I mentioned the Overshoot podcast before.

Unfortunately, my book reading list requires a few life times so I have to avoid using my time on those who only confirm my beliefs, on those spreading misinformation and conservative stories, and so on.

LibreOffice Calc glows harder

It’s Vogons / Borg

I meant vote with your feet.

Feel free to use a LaTex app or write in html and css.

I wanted to use Scribe, but kept using LibreOffice Writer.

workslop is the term

Could be $2T, could be $2M, could be $2.

inb4 “mercenary is just a job!”

this is showing the history of area (quantity) of sea covered by ice around Antarctica (South), with each curve being a different year.

In this context, less sea ice is bad news. It is winter there, so the overall ice is still strong. Summer is what matters most (you can see the months on the chart.) Although, leaving winter with less sea ice can make the summer ice situation worse.

Doubtful. Firstly because it’s very difficult to keep track in war, and it’s also difficult (morally too) to count the emission reductions from destruction and death.

And, secondly, because modern wars are integrated into economy and society. Well, Putin may try to change that and turn the whole economy into a war-oriented one (top down control and nationalization), which would be a huge blunder now.

Oh, thirdly, you’re mostly referring to the US, so be specific.

Emissions of GHG can be measured at many different layers, you have to decide what analysis, what perspective, you are using; otherwise, you risk counting emissions multiple times. It’s all accounting.

This is one conventional way: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/scope-1-2-and-3-emissions

It is not easy, especially since a lot of data is missing.

I know that you want to say that the US is bad, and that is valid regardless of emissions.

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pclm.0000569

Not sure what’s going on, but I prefer Worms Armageddon.

Facts.

The difference is no-one said crypto mining would solve climate change.

Eh, don’t be so sure. I remember talk of using crypto in the carbon credit schemes. It’s probably difficult to find with so much scamming, but try searching something like: crypto coin project carbon reduction GHG

No, the answer would be… at least a huge article worth of text if not a book.

Understand that there are “collapsologists” who are in it to keep the current system, the current social order, hierarchy and classes going. There are also those who see it as an opportunity to dominate and eliminate competition. None of them are nice people; the ethics of collapse revolve around trying to save people, especially children. They do not revolve around conserving systems and keeping BAU going.

Biological determinism is conservative/fascist tradition, mostly a pseudoscience, that revolves around “good blood”, genetics, IQ, skull shape… and more modernly trying to Evolutionary Psychology. It’s a way to lay claim to “human nature” as an explanation for maintaining the conservative or traditionalist social order, from top to bottom, including culture and economy. Social darwinism and ethnic cleansing are common practices inspired by such ideas.

https://libcom.org/article/against-sociobiology

There is much to read. In collapse circles, there are a lot of these people. Fascism is always concerned with rebirth, with apocalypse, and values a “war of all against all” collapse, since the fascists consider themselves superior (advantaged in such a deadly competition.) In collapse circles, you will find those who, when it comes to choosing between reducing consumption and reducing population, will demand genocide in order to keep a certain population’s lifestyle (or improve it.) This applies a lot to 'eco’fascists; for them it’s a more obvious form of territorialism: “exterminate the ones who are not like us!”

The will is lacking.