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michael  ·  3777 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Cyborgs, Laws, and Planetary Behaviour

I'm trying to "help solving the problem" since decades. I keep writing to officials and I was sacked by www.sdc.ch for trying to increase transparency and end mismanagement, and by www.mzsg.ch for pestering the boss with "project proposals to save the world": "Milking problems" often is more profitable than solving them, and helping firms to do the wrong thing right and well pays better than telling them to do the right thing - especially when what is right is not yet known. But often it is, and we don't do it anyway: We know since 60 years that rational land usage is the first principle of building and agriculture, yet we are building more single family hoes than ever and are loosing enormous amounts of soil annually due ti destructive agricultural practices - supported by WWF through its RSPO and RTRS, just to name one of the most appalling examples of greenwash and sustainability illusionism. Whatever our memes are, we are destroying our life base already since tenthousands of years: Within 1'000 years of human appearance of Australia and the Americas 2/3 of these continent's megafauna disappeared (quaternary extinctions). I haven't quiet understood what you imply by "ratchet" but I wonder if it even matters. I don't mean to be an advocate of doom, it just looks as if we are donutting ourselves, taking down a large part of the planet's remaining megafauna with us. There is no substitute to oil in terms of EROEI and ease of handling. Environmental impacts of oil production are massively increasing, and in our efforts to substitute oil we are massively increasing our already massive overconsumption of nature. Hydrogen as power source would require an infrastructure we cannot afford with fossil fuels running out. Unless we find effective harmless ways of wireless electrical power transmission the environmental cost of electric drives, relying on batteries, might outweigh the fossil. That we are destroying our lifebase seems governed by laws of nature: Private short term interests (predatory exploitation) normally prevail over long term common interests (sustainable cultivation), as the profits the former generate can be used to overcome the latter. It doesn't look good. What do you propose to actually concretely make a real and effective impact?