David Wallace _Wells in the NYT.
“The necessary transition,” he writes, “is not progressing at the necessary speed. Consequently, whatever is being done risks being seen only as a ploy to distract attention.” To expect technical interventions alone to resolve the climate crisis is “aform of homicidal pragmatism.”
In the whole wonderfully written document there are no specific actions for any actual actions to make at scale.
There are three possibilities (“ït” is fossil fuel use)
Turn it off- which, when, who, how much?
Replace it - all replacements require energy. "clean" doesn’t exist at scale
Do nothing.- the current default - will kill us.
Any significant cut, or many small ones, will lead to unemployment and institutional shutdown. AI is readying itself to manage the whole in technocratic authoritarian ways.
I persist in the idea that people will seek food and shelter and that we should do these together, in the same place, hence creating new potentially viable and even attractive communities, -Gardenworlds, - while we sort out larger longer-term projects.
The book GardenworldPolitics is at Amazon