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re: climate, we are having conversations along two paths, growing the economy, and how to deal with climate, each making proposals that make the other path worse. The number of people who grasp that we must accept loses in each - cut in economics- and the way we live daily-is very small.
Obviously we need leadership at this metalevel and we are not getting it
"Action to mitigate,” but there is no plan to do it.
Serious logic: there is no way to run a new business without creating co2,Workers need to commute to the office or factory and computing requires energy likely created with gas. (17 % of energy use in the US goes to computing.)
Wet bulb temperature. 100.000 dead in India this season so far, worse coming, 120 degree in Delhi,
No strategic thinking. The response is for more data (we can sell that).
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Lack of logic in our conversations.
There's no way out of civilization right now; it's just going to crash. I think the best we can do is carve out as much space as we can (i.e., 10,000+ acre tracts of land) and start iterating on humanity 2.0 in them.
I'm planning to create a non-profit that creates "eden" spaces --- giant nature preserves in which small bands of humans will get to live in after winning a one-way ticket out of civilization.