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  • Castle in the Sky - After the Fall (Fanfiction, with references to Elon Musk's Twitter Reign and dezentralized solution)

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  • That movie came out in 1986. How could he possibly have known about Elon Muska and Twitter, and the violent takeover and ensuing disintegration of the platform?

    It's quite the relevation. It's all right there.

  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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  • :) This one is the monk and the robot book:)

  • The sci fi novel "The Machine Stops," published in 1909, comes across as amazingly prescient today

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  • I read that a long time ago, and it seems still quite spot on. That was amazing work.

  • If I was feeling hopeless about the climate, what of the scientists? So I asked them

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  • I read somewhere that it is normal of humans to overestimate progress in the short term, and underestimate it in the long term.

    That gives me hope, assuming we have a long enough term for all this progress to manifest.

  • Surprise! Billionaires aren’t solving climate change

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  • Years ago I learned that tribes people often create large herds (a sign of wealth) that then lead to desertification, famine and poverty. Seems like we do the same thing, but at a higher level.

  • Nations That Vowed to Halt Warming Are Expanding Fossil Fuels, Report Finds

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  • There was a hopeful time when the gas turned off (or the pipleine exploded) and every energy saving project came to the forefront. I hope these efforts are still going on?

  • Nations That Vowed to Halt Warming Are Expanding Fossil Fuels, Report Finds

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  • What is that? Like, carbon emissions stop because of general supply chain collapse? Or we all get together and figure out a way to make massive diamond blocks from the CO2 in a hurry?

  • Why young workers are leaving fossil fuel jobs – and what to do if you feel like 'climate quitting'

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  • Is this moral stance somehow correlated to skills and capabilities of the people? Will there be more spills because only the incompetent are left or is there no such link?

  • Researchers argue that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to combat climate change

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  • Apple Shrunk the iPhone’s Carbon Footprint. There’s a Way to Shrink It Even Further

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  • While it's too much, it's surprisingly small - 66kg. It's like 8 Gallons of Gasoline. Not sure how I would send the phone from China to anywhere for that much fuel - I suppose transport is extra.

  • Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term

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  • Two obvious things: China has 2-3 x the people. Maybe adjust to a per person basis? Or a per GDP ratio if you are so inclined. Also, most of the stuff for sale comes from China - so we just moved our emissions there. This is super hard to adjust for, but should be considered a bit.

  • Michigan House passes climate change reform, mandating clean energy by 2040

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  • Maybe for a long tail - but I think there were a few reports from other places that phaseout can happen faster than expected :) I am just worried that fossil prices drop because nobody buys them, making it super cheap again.

  • German primary energy consumption drops by 9.0% and emissions by 11% in Q1-3 compared to 2022

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  • I suppose that's pretty much guaranteed. I am worried that the supply chains stop working before we get serious about climate repair. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the fossil fuel companies when the "proven resources" in the ground become worthless because there are barely any buyers anymore and borrowing against it is no longer possible. I don't know how much they do that - but it would have implications for the finance people.

  • German primary energy consumption drops by 9.0% and emissions by 11% in Q1-3 compared to 2022

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  • So you propose a sort of metric of "energy utility"?

  • The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets | Corporations are backing away from one of their favorite climate remedies as greenwashing concerns steadily mount.

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  • Maybe this will change once the insurance tables update their pricing to include the new risks?

  • Researchers argue that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to combat climate change

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  • Solution is a maybe an overstatement, but

    • destroy the methane. That's energetically favorable, so it can be done more easily. Makes some CO2 but it's 50x less bad that way.
    • get the carbon back out and stick it into the ground. We'll be on our way when the Mauna Loa CO2 curve bends and goes down for a year or two. That's energetically expensive, but we'll figure out a way (hopefully) to do it wherever we have solar overproduction.

    Trees are nice, but it's nowhere near enough to do that.