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- It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
from Silent Solar by Bill McKibben
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
- In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening t... See more
from Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector by Albert Burneko
Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated ev
... See moreHuman religion begins with our ability to populate our minds with imagined other minds.
Storr, The Science of Storytelling
“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel
- “Every part of our financial and legal system at this point is devoted, singularly devoted, to keeping the status quo in place,” Harvard Law School professor Susan Crawford said in the webinar. “It will be difficult for us to adapt.”
from A $1 Trillion Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Housing Market - Bloomberg by Mark Gongloff
- As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.
from Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute by Rebekah Diski