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  Washing clothes...

  is only boring because we've been conditioned to expect immediate gratification.  See Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity...

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  On New country tune 'Green' boasts, 'I was green before green was a thing' posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  The system as a whole --

  will not reduce its energy footprint.  Every barrel of fossil-fuel energy not consumed by the British will be consumed by the Indians or the Chinese or whomever.

  "The end of capitalism as we know it" is just another way of holding on to capitalism until the bitter end.  Forget it.  Try creating a new economic system altogether.

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  On The financial crisis could open up new opportunities for sustainability thinking posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

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  On The Heartland conference recycles the usual climate change skeptics in its speakers list posted 1 year, 7 months ago 287 Responses

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  I have no intention of debating trolls

  especially those whose posts are full of ad hominems and other sh*t.

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  On Why did Nature run Pielke's pointless, misleading, embarrassing nonsense? posted 1 year, 7 months ago 17 Responses

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  Next, the "technology issue"

  New energy technologies will, in themselves, do nothing to deal with the problem of abrupt climate change.

  The only way that anything will be done is if the wells are capped and the mines are abandoned.  It's that or nothing.

  New energy technology may make life a little more convenient for the privileged few who can afford it.  Period.  New energy technology will do nothing for the bottom 40% of humanity who live on less than $2/day.

  The debate about abrupt climate change is a debate about the ecosystem resilience of planet Earth in the face of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, the melting of the polar ice caps, the death of coral reefs, and so on.  It's a debate about the role of the human race as a species of care-takers of Earth's ecosystems.  It has nothing to do with whether the privileged classes will be able to run their toasters when the oil wells are capped.

  The "energy technology" people start from the assumption that world-society is pumping and burning 85 million barrels of oil every day (accounting for a mere 36% of greenhouse gas emissions) to satisfy human energy needs.  Wrong.  Production under the conditions of capitalist world society is production for effective demand, demand backed by money.  The energy production sector is damaging ecosystem integrity in order to make a buck.  If we want to be ecosystem stewards, we need to move away from an economy that makes stuff to make a buck, toward an economy that does otherwise.

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  On Why did Nature run Pielke's pointless, misleading, embarrassing nonsense? posted 1 year, 7 months ago 17 Responses