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@dnkboston @benroyce @blogdiva
The challenge in the US is ultimately dealing with the suburban land use pattern. The very shortest form of this is that suburbia is economically insolvent. Cities are driven over the cliff of financial insolvency.
Even without the climate or pollution crises, America has to move away from suburbia and reconfigure itself into walk ability in order to maintain financial viability. There is no other choice if cities don't want to go bankrupt.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Many people fled the cities for the suburbs over racism and classism. Many now move out of the urban core because they can't afford to live there. And many cities lack meaningful public transportation infrastructure, but residents still need to get to work.
Lobby local politicians to put more buses on the road as a start.
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As I have pointed out to a different sub thread in this post, suburbia is economically insolvent. We can completely ignore the issue of the climate in this discussion and simply point to the economic insolvency of the global supply chain and of suburbia, which is child of the global supply chain.
Communities across the United States have to remove car-centricity in order to not go bankrupt.
And if you're going to then say oh, but you're gonna leave the disabled to die because they can't move. I want to cut off that argument in advance and saying that the disabled in Amsterdam have no mobility issues the city has solve that problem, so don't even try or if you're beginning to think that way, please go look at how the Dutch handled mobility for the disabled
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@nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
so what is your argument? stay on fossil fuels?
i think you would say no
and thus do you see the foolishness of this constant insistence on perfectionism?
obviously EVs result in less fossil fuel use
that is the point
we iterate and move to even better, EVs without the problem you describe
we can't do that until we get off fossil fuels
that is all we can do: better, then iterate
stop reading and believing shilled fossil fuel industry arguments
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These things exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
You can make more fuel than you use (I know it sounds like fiction but it's actually scientifically sound and has been demonstrated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and elsewhere)
@ChuckMcManis @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @anthropy @blogdiva Breeder reactors don't output more uranium than what is fed into the system, they make more *fissible* material than they are supplied with
"Orange juice from concentrate" isn't more oranges than it took to produce
Our world's matter-system is all but a closed loop, we're not getting - or making - more of it. But our is bombarded by all the energy we could use and we let it just slip away because there's no gold-pressed latinum
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@benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva Also, "stop using energy & live off the land" is completely unrealistic and, if enforced, even worse than the technofascists.
Why? Because in order to get there, literally billions of people have to die - there's no way the current Earth population can all sustain ourselves by growing a fucking veggie garden.
Pre-industrial world population was less than 1bn, so who is to be condemned to starve to death, or euthanized, maybe...?
@jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva it is one reason why we should not encourage people to have children, and should not discourage contraception.
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And if you're going to then say oh, but you're gonna leave the disabled to die because they can't move. I want to cut off that argument in advance and saying that the disabled in Amsterdam have no mobility issues the city has solve that problem, so don't even try or if you're beginning to think that way, please go look at how the Dutch handled mobility for the disabled
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @benroyce @blogdiva I don't live in a car centric country actually, and I still can assure you that you can't remove them all, because even IF you'd turn everything into public transit, what do you think that public transit is? what are you going to build the trains from? what electricity are you going to run them on?
and if your answer to that is 'we need less' then I again want to point to the answer heading towards nihilism.
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@nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
so what is your argument? stay on fossil fuels?
i think you would say no
and thus do you see the foolishness of this constant insistence on perfectionism?
obviously EVs result in less fossil fuel use
that is the point
we iterate and move to even better, EVs without the problem you describe
we can't do that until we get off fossil fuels
that is all we can do: better, then iterate
stop reading and believing shilled fossil fuel industry arguments
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@anthropy @GhostOnTheHalfShell @benroyce @blogdiva I've been ruminating as of late on how close Malthusian nihilism is to racism. This is not to cast aspersions or make accusations regarding thread participants; it's just a thought.
Malthusian math (which is disproven, or at least, claims to prove more than it can because several of its assumptions were upended by new technological breakthroughs) indicates some people have to die or the entire population dies.
But then you're left with the problem that nobody wants to die, and racism steps in to provide a framework that lets people rank the quality of other human beings to let them square that cognitive dissonance off.
It may be an interesting dynamic, but I haven't done nearly enough thinking or research on the subject to endorse it as anything more than a thought.
@mark @anthropy @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
nihilists on the left are the same as sadists on the right. in the intentional or unintentional effects of their arguments
if not merely their arguments being slight tweaks on the arguments racist mass murderers make on the right, when you examine the substance of their arguments
which makes you wonder about such empty turds supposedly "on the left"
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@jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva it is one reason why we should not encourage people to have children, and should not discourage contraception.
@ArchaeoIain @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva What the fuck are you talking about!?
You think we can population control ourselves back to a few hundred million people - and do you think handing out condoms will make it happen fast enough to be ANY help at all in the fight for a better environment on Earth?
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@nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
so what is your argument? stay on fossil fuels?
i think you would say no
and thus do you see the foolishness of this constant insistence on perfectionism?
obviously EVs result in less fossil fuel use
that is the point
we iterate and move to even better, EVs without the problem you describe
we can't do that until we get off fossil fuels
that is all we can do: better, then iterate
stop reading and believing shilled fossil fuel industry arguments
@benroyce @nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
I like to think that 185 millions years from now, when a civilization of octopuses rise, they'll use our human remnants as fuel for their vehicles.
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@ChuckMcManis @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @anthropy @blogdiva Breeder reactors don't output more uranium than what is fed into the system, they make more *fissible* material than they are supplied with
"Orange juice from concentrate" isn't more oranges than it took to produce
Our world's matter-system is all but a closed loop, we're not getting - or making - more of it. But our is bombarded by all the energy we could use and we let it just slip away because there's no gold-pressed latinum
Yes, but the point of the Oak Ridge demonstration was a nuclear fuel cycle that ran "forever." Not trying to divert this wonderful discussion, just noting that 'nuclear' can be 'renewable'
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @anthropy @blogdiva
you're a toxic idealist
a whiny useless perfectionist
of course mining for solar and batteries sucks
*and* a smaller footprint than fossil fuel extraction
*and* far better for climate change
you fucking purists are an enemy of the real left as bad as MAGA
ALL YOU GET IN THIS WORLD IS BETTER
PERFECT IS NOT ON THE MENU
are you shilling for the fossil fuel industry or are you just that fucking stupid and blind?
stop following me, you stupid asshole
@benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @anthropy @blogdiva As to the battery issue, the good news is that lithium batteries are recyclable so over time lithium mining can get greatly reduced once we reach “peak battery.” Recycling batteries could provide a majority of the lithium needed, though there would always be a need for lithium mines.
Compare to oil which isn't recyclable and always needs to be replaced as we use it.
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@tuban_muzuru @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
good
and thank you
and now you understand the idiocy of GhostOnTheHalfShell, arguing against that, merely out of toxic idealism
this marks that account as a shill of the fossil fuel industry or just too fucking stupid to see that the only real world effect of their perfectionist bullshit is to help the fossil fuel industry
@benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
@GhostOnTheHalfShell looks at the problem from a kinetic energy perspective. Everything has undeniable conseqences - look at Lake Mead,
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@benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
@GhostOnTheHalfShell looks at the problem from a kinetic energy perspective. Everything has undeniable conseqences - look at Lake Mead,
@tuban_muzuru @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
right so we get our energy from the sun rather than digging it up. vast improvement
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@benroyce @nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
I like to think that 185 millions years from now, when a civilization of octopuses rise, they'll use our human remnants as fuel for their vehicles.
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@benroyce @nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
I like to think that 185 millions years from now, when a civilization of octopuses rise, they'll use our human remnants as fuel for their vehicles.
@FrancoisPrague @nikatjef @dnkboston @GhostOnTheHalfShell
thank you, sincerely, for the laugh
endless dreary nihilism and whiny toxic perfectionism from pinheads is a drag
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@benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva there is also the consideration wrt the effects of vehicle exhaust. Unless the power plants are coal, that's a straight up win for the carbon cycle.
Of course the batteries have rare chemicals and extractive companies still come into play. But they are there for vehicles regardless.
@draNgNon @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva Also, EV batteries degrade far less than predicted, and have a valuable ‘second life’ as battery storage for a grid powered by renewables… and when they’re finally used up, they are up to 96% recyclable…. Reducing the need for more extraction.
You cannot re-burn gasoline or diesel.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
unread
uninterested
another whiny toxic idealist
fighting the real left in service of the fossil fuel industry
and too fucking stupid to see it
stop following me and fuck you, you pathetic loser
@benroyce might I suggest they may have a point there?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240326-how-hydroelectric-dams-are-a-hidden-source-of-carbon-emissions
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@benroyce might I suggest they may have a point there?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240326-how-hydroelectric-dams-are-a-hidden-source-of-carbon-emissions
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva@punissuer @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva
i don't deny that point in the least
what i deny is this "well it's better, but it's not perfect, so let's just sit around and whine about being perfect, and thereby only help the status quo of terrible"
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@ArchaeoIain @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva What the fuck are you talking about!?
You think we can population control ourselves back to a few hundred million people - and do you think handing out condoms will make it happen fast enough to be ANY help at all in the fight for a better environment on Earth?
@jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva That is not what I said. It is the logic of your statement though. It is clear that government policies or even evil religions which encourage population growth and ban contraception are aiming in the opposite direction partly because the dominant economic models are derived from agrarian societies where more people could produce more so growth arose from growing population. Simple really.
