2026-03-15T15:37:33Z https://yabu.me 504 Battery Dr https://yabu.me/npub13vnjdsj9hxjrkm40ul40c9n7n0e3xl4rql7sceyugpa0484d87mq60lyu8 https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/113/068/783/482/098/311/original/6c1639ef136f7ad3.jpeg https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/113/068/783/482/098/311/original/6c1639ef136f7ad3.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr6ht3pdzgcxpqsk408kndj6a994f62zt5p9wl0lsuzncadweeg4qzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvf9qx43 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq7cemaqx99h25vl0sxvyrw5j5yae5d2fdyq0cfevd7zjeqq5ys7cwsgjgs'>nevent1q…gjgs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s the biggest (and most important for me) change that I&#39;ve made once I accepted collapse - it has totally changed my goals and expectations for the future. <br/><br/>What seemed so important before on many things were exposed as trivial to me now. <br/><br/>My focus now is on changes with immediate results; personal relationships are focused on the truly important ppl in my life and letting go of toxic relationships that I thought I could change. <br/><br/>Living in the here and now. <br/>Making a difference in the here and now where I think it will have the most impact.<br/><br/>Granted, I have been dealing with collapse awareness since the 70s, so I have had decades of adapting to and expecting it (while still holding hope that the trajectory would be changed. That hope is all but gone now).<br/><br/>Now that&#39;s it&#39;s here, and pretty much inevitable, accepting the reality of it all has been easier for me. <br/>Not having children of my own probably makes it easier to accept, than for others who have that burden weighing on them, too. <br/><br/>It&#39;s still sad and devastating at times, that we are destroying our very life support systems, but I&#39;ve always based my life on realities. <br/>I would rather face a devastating reality head on, than be bouyed by false hopes or promises. 2025-08-05T16:25:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8m7unk47wlhvdqxwacp7l7h0yzf0jwculnnetldha8arxdc8pfgczyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvy4274z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy3aevfnm0wjx2zl2erla72fxh4hznv9c00jrcn7lppnws80khr2clrppns'>nevent1q…ppns</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I realize now that I have been doing that for quite some time now. <br/><br/>Raised in an unserious Catholic background, with 7 years of Parochialism schooling, I realized organized religion was not for me in the third grade. <br/><br/>More agnostic than atheist, I always felt there was something powerful in the universe that connected all life forms. <br/>Something akin to The Force from the Star Wars movies.<br/><br/>I studied most all of the world religions over the years, and the closest I came to any of them was paganism. <br/>Of all the spiritual beliefs, I&#39;ve felt that Native Americans had the belief systems which most closely aligned with my own sense of spirituality. <br/><br/>With what we now know about ecology and the Web of Life, an eco based system is one that I can comfortably get behind. 2025-07-17T19:05:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs84ggrx37eh7tq0ny3dxpcuz37y8avs30lx2wtt0rnz0rxktjutgqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvh862zm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs86qwj3nwalxddk9fe4w2ycxywtsa2vqcutp3sxqps8gx6dvpwlvsj0px6r'>nevent1q…px6r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reichwing ideology is. . . 2025-05-02T15:22:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsppry0f5j3q7uyx7xrsun7m84cwgp6e97yf9tnra8pyy9xxjv3f7qzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvy3m8xs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsglfat58w54dc67xv437afa8nwu7nqhz75hu57q4kan8qat9yuylqhkghfm'>nevent1q…ghfm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I quit using FB years ago, but my nephew told me my page is still there. I only used FB for animal rights issues (full of gory pictures of animal abuse. Family/friends would ask for my FB info, and I would tell them - you don&#39;t want to know it. 😅)<br/><br/>Nephew also told me he was trying to delete his FB page and it won&#39;t let him. 🤬<br/><br/>I have no computer, only my phone; and I use DDG on that. <br/><br/>I block Meta on social media apps use ( mastodon and TT). 2025-04-18T15:08:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp974lldtl9z7rtp2202m762u8yhrwkdqn477mjyh47pq807vt0wqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvt7z2z5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdgzq50hsgmqfu5q2avzf0s4e6hvut23q25lfhm63s3jl6jeexcmsw7kfv0'>nevent1q…kfv0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The headline makes it sound like there are solutions, as in plural. <br/>Reading the article, one possible solution is referenced - marking the blades and support cables of turbines with reflectors - then a reference that more study is needed to understand birds and their flyways; hence, nothing meaningful will be done to stop turbines from killing birds in the present. <br/><br/>Just another feel good story that is anything but - and the decimation of other species goes on; not only unabated, but at increased levels. <br/>💔 2025-03-24T02:01:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0nqp5r0y2degwwlj0z07u06rrf8ezc4z7wat2339d07g4z5nfhhgzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmv0wp7zl I&#39;m seeing a pattern emerging. <br/>(I&#39;m sure one seen by others, probably way before me; but this is my wakening moment. Maybe others will follow.)<br/><br/>Purging the country of foreign workers, passing new draconian laws (or piggy backing on old ones that should have been abolished long ago, coughDemscough) crimes that require lengthy sentences, and then putting the millions of new prisoners to work doing all the things the foreign workers used to do. <br/><br/>The stocks of private prisons aren&#39;t going up and up without a reason. 2025-03-21T17:09:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf95rqcapa0gm5hhxlg6pphf6ndjs9l5xtlswum86yn0xgvtvr94czyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvxtdl0k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyanuqmp46su76gsldl92adpepgjrxfw9scqw2z27wereen00tqjgd54k8r'>nevent1q…4k8r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The human propensity for group think; an underlying desire towards selfish greed; a vulnerability to mass manipulation and a lack of curiosity to learn to solve problems that require self sacrifice - are a few of reasons that come to mind. 2025-03-18T16:18:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8l85557h0nxrt6vj2pff032x5sj8snmt6u0mqffh44vhhlns6w5qzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvv039qa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6d2j7a33pahqrq7nsas4n3gcl572578rhf3pu5gyj6n9t0n3pacyx2kct'>nevent1q…2kct</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good to hear that from ppl who are actually doing it. <br/>🙏<br/><br/>Weak structures has been the go to argument from the ppl I&#39;ve argued about with this issue. 2025-03-09T02:18:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyrwwnsld970dp2p9swewnd9tkml3y00kwfghctqf9dqdfrywyg5gzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvp5vktp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrp6k7gx9v8ky5wleln89f4rju26hgw6ax0fzapjmgcd5m5nr2gngkjwmaq'>nevent1q…wmaq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had to rephrase it differently to come up with my answer. <br/><br/>Would I invest in a nonprofit that manufacturers the bullets that will be used to kill me one day if the proceeds go to making protest signs that say &#34;Don&#39;t shoot me&#34;? <br/><br/>Nah, I don&#39;t think I would. 2025-03-05T15:11:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgshmeslsztd5j3kr0glq34m63vjzuv2lse6vpeac3defqu3z8kqgzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmv3pxvrq <video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/105/583/720/921/806/original/249fe110d57377cf.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-03-04T18:31:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0q5wp8y9f2h7gyw9jxr3ep7kftrj3z625try5fqtxtu99c8jw27czyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmv3uckhg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2dydjzrf2a7gwaj9mr6np88w8lapuhtpqezthgvssuzrs2ytmmxg6hrt58'>nevent1q…rt58</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Cloud Vendors: Selling Dreams While the Mainframe Burns<br/>Speaking of modernization, cloud vendors must be laughing all the way to the bank. They’ve convinced entire industries to ditch mainframes in favor of ‘cutting-edge’ cloud platforms that promise to solve all their problems—until the power goes out.<br/><br/>Here’s the punchline: mainframes were doing cloud-like computing long before Amazon ever dreamed up AWS. IBM even offers Mainframe as a Service (MaaS)—a solution that’s as scalable and flexible as any cloud platform, but without the hidden costs and vendor lock-in. It’s almost as if mainframes have been quietly doing exactly what the cloud promises, but no one was paying attention. Classic.&#34; 2025-02-28T14:29:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz95yl4m5ftm4wu6ak8jrtlzjll6pmhl3tmkt2tzrcv2emdrn7avczyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvxmamlh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8qlxq6k8zfujjygus3psc3tlkupcvsf6ql0ls2knugqs8pm00ecqjxead5'>nevent1q…ead5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Truth and a Lie racing around the world. <br/><br/>Which one usually wins? 2025-02-11T18:51:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqytzxrhezcpgdyfrqe0vq30eg37sf6scgsgj3n4qdets2fsvv4lczyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvvyz89u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswuxnu2sqjz4z8su8fkzcs88gadddzz4krtzwq6vua2mpeq2vm9xqv8gcr9'>nevent1q…gcr9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We sure as hell wouldn&#39;t be in this mess if Bernie had been awarded the nomination that he won in &#39;16.<br/><br/>We&#39;d probably be under the presidency of AOC after Bernie&#39;s two terms right now instead of this hitler wanna be. 2025-02-08T19:22:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfjnfg5kz4k4hhy2ru7cnrp9zm4wyp6f4craravrvu4xav3ys2azgzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvpsq8rp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv6dnjy4r8ym836cplg4wteapyuqh6u44wed7l3c9graemjvv4z0qud3ahj'>nevent1q…3ahj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you, LL.<br/>That means a lot to me, coming from someone I have the utmost respect for. 2025-01-26T18:26:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswjamj7j9tdnkla7azhzqpcurvx3njtd356pmujwqksvxpcpkz59czyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvc2lkr4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0h2peq5afecmu82guszzver8sy7re6a7jytuz3xa05pev3xgaagqgd0c0e'>nevent1q…0c0e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you. <br/><br/>Kind of figured it was something along those lines, but I needed confirmation.<br/><br/>It&#39;s going to be a long, terrible 4 years ( or more ). 2025-01-21T10:29:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdhfj0c20dkrff2j7msmgql6ksyj0utva2fv840l7jckf5c25c3nqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvr8j5uf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspemvfkgw5u8xcvxhdqhljqzmd5s7tmdsdh4eg0z99ezmety6w2gs2mffcl'>nevent1q…ffcl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can anyone translate - Section 4 General Provisions - into layman&#39;s terms, please?<br/><br/>I understand the rest of it, but that section is beyond me. <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1v7x9jq0k4tqdk405d2t94cuf7cl97fxyeu55dags8a2wf8lwucrs905j80" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Leftist Lawyer</span> (<span class="italic">npub1v7x…5j80</span>)</a></span> 2025-01-21T04:03:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdg35xedgxcuxsqtmhgc9qrxy0qzhyr2tdelhgl0pz09pnj8muuggzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmv6ftty8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq8ezyhedl5mxuetcxy6304me8lu2wdu5g7fmjeqvmv0xc4gatwhc7kkg0w'>nevent1q…kg0w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Excellent explanation of the economical reasons why renewables won&#39;t solve our energy problems. <br/><br/>I wish they would cover the ecological ones, as well. <br/>Resourcing for the materials for renewables is devastating what&#39;s left of our natural world, which grows smaller every day. 2025-01-18T05:33:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsruhvwnk6lhrgujwa2azsqa73yqprez827fp8yx4arg23esnpzlnqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvl5ks7w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsd9j66quqquyemeskftx8apvmxnnhh67l24y4p00p3yv6ueq5xq26r5kz'>nevent1q…r5kz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;DiResta argues that ideological sorting across and within platforms, facilitated in part by decentralized content moderation, will lead to increased polarization:<br/><br/>The idealistic goal of federalism in the American experiment was to maintain the nation’s unity while enabling local control of local issues. The digital version of this, however, seems to be a devolution, a retreat into separate spaces that may perhaps increase satisfaction within each outpost but does little to bridge ties, restore mutual norms or diminish animosity across groups. What happens when divergent norms grow so distinct that we can no longer even see or engage with each other’s conversations? The challenge of consensus is no longer simply difficult, it is structurally reinforced.<br/><br/>I’m not as pessimistic. As discussed in an earlier post, shareable lists and labels are instruments that can just as easily be used to dissolve boundaries as to put up walls. They are part of the rough and tumble of free expression online. Such expression—as argued recently by Amna Khalid, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Killer Mike—often serves as a weapon of the weak. But calls for expulsion are a different matter altogether, and I hope that the platform doesn’t bend to these wishes. If one denies to all what is offensive to some, it is the least powerful among us who will ultimately pay the price.&#34;<br/><br/>For all social media sites, the last line seems most important, bc I have already seen a bit of that here on Mastodon.<br/><br/>&#34;If one denies to all what is offensive to some, it is the least powerful among us who will ultimately pay the price.&#34;<br/><br/>Some ppl, or groups of ppl seem to think they are the self appointed gatekeepers of this site too.<br/><br/>A friendly reminder - the options to scroll, mute or personally block are always there. <br/>Brow beating, ganging up and mass blocking ( excepting the most egregious hate speech ) are the tools of immature and insecure Karens whose intent is to restrict/remove any speech or topic they themselves find pearl clutching worthy. 2025-01-16T16:14:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszq8ahy22763t9fdkgx2j5eqn03kgfdyeatq2q7t390v85732237gzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvjtf4hf Overshoot: Cognitive Obsolescence<br/>And the Population Conundrum<br/><br/>by William E. Rees, human ecologist<br/><br/>Eric Lee<br/>Jul 24, 2024<br/><br/>Abstract<br/><br/>The human enterprise is in overshoot; we exceed the long-term carrying capacity of Earth and are degrading the biophysical basis of our own existence. Despite decades of cumulative evidence, the world community has failed dismally in efforts to address this problem. I argue that cultural evolution and global change have outpaced bio-evolution; despite millennia of evolutionary history, the human brain and associated cognitive processes are functionally obsolete to deal with the human eco-crisis. H. sapiens tends to respond to problems in simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways. Simplistic diagnoses lead to simplistic remedies. Politically acceptable technical ‘solutions’ to global warming assume fossil fuels are the problem, require major capital investment and are promoted on the basis of profit potential, thousands of well-paying jobs and bland assurances that climate change can readily be rectified. If successful, this would merely extend overshoot. Complexity demands a systemic approach; to address overshoot requires unprecedented international cooperation in the design of coordinated policies to ensure a socially-just economic contraction, mostly in high-income countries, and significant population reductions everywhere. The ultimate goal should be a human population in the vicinity of two billion thriving more equitably in ‘steady-state’ within the biophysical means of nature.<br/><br/>Keywords: carrying capacity; cognitive obsolescence; systems complexity; economic contraction; population planning.<br/><br/>Introduction: Evolution and humanity’s eco-predicament<br/><br/>This article attempts a more-than-usually systemic assessment of the human eco-predicament. It is inspired by two related facts: First, the human population substantially exceeds the long-term carrying capacity of Earth even at current average material standards. We are in overshoot, a state in which excess consumption and pollution are eroding the biophysical basis of our own existence (GFN, 2022a; Rees, 2020a). Second, national government and international community responses to even the most publicised symptom of overshoot, climate change, have been dismally limited and wholly ineffective (Figure 1).<br/><br/>. . .<br/><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@alysion42/overshoot-cognitive-obsolescence-and-the-population-conundrum-1fd29de848ee">https://medium.com/@alysion42/overshoot-cognitive-obsolescence-and-the-population-conundrum-1fd29de848ee</a><br/><br/>#overshoot <br/>#biodiversity <br/>#ClimateChange<br/>#ClimateCrisis 2025-01-05T05:20:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqsyq6mq0sujsxnqtempcmlg95556hq7ra8d784hpuvzfau7rsvcqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmv9ynhs9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstnqqz2jlldss6tdrxg2asejc84qvv5aems7qg7r69the2ay9tswsmea63c'>nevent1q…a63c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Did it once in the 80s, never again. <br/><br/>Also, I&#39;ve become anti consumerism since then. 2024-11-24T15:31:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0dg6345pkf8eauldztmk7p6txg28tekdlzs03764dnxun733rpugzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvh0espx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstn7qluqyp63ulkk2z68c9gsktfv2ztse4fndcljy9vz8sdufs2qq7lwhwx'>nevent1q…whwx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I quit listening to MSM news in &#39;16 when they all turned on Bernie and disparaged him. <br/><br/>Had to quit NPR too, bc in every report about trump they included an audio clip of him speaking. <br/><br/>I don&#39;t remember them doing with Obama, and they rarely did it for Biden. <br/><br/>So now I&#39;ll quit listening to NPR again too. 2024-11-07T20:08:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszrctfxd6mchycl7xy38yzh7dxe4jst96hs9cpw4flr73vvh88asczyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvj23rjg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs05h9czjzp5n6s4qemu2wkwtlj3ffzk30kpvsfchc0kvv93zkfqrsgngl55'>nevent1q…gl55</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Most definitely; fighting for the causes we believe in is a part of the survival techniques that keep us going, especially in the worst of times.<br/><br/>There is plenty to still be done and accomplished.<br/><br/>Whether the cause is human rights, environmental protection, animal rights, refugees, etc - there is still work to do to improve on the many issues we face.<br/><br/>Accepting the logic of our fate on this dying planet doesn&#39;t mean giving up. <br/>If anything, it&#39;s the impetus to strive harder to make the differences where we can, while we can. 2024-11-03T22:43:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszznfcacce3jssm9nv2lygzvwl4sfa3m4akxxqsz5z03jwzpawn3szyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvqrdtqa Digital will sink in it&#39;s own crap. <br/>Gerry McGovern <br/><br/>Big Tech laughs about all this crap production. This is how Big Tech makes so much money in its data centers. It sells them as plush five-star hotels for superior VIP data, when in reality it’s running a datafill, a data dump. If most of the data stored in a typical data center was processed and accessed every day, then everything would explode, the servers would fry. The demand would crash everything. The data center business case is dependent on most people never accessing the data they’ve stored. You’re paying for a data graveyard.<br/><br/>To protect their profits, Big Tech has historically made it very hard for you to delete. Artist, Honor Ash, observed how, “Initially, Gmail didn’t even include a delete button. Not only was it no longer necessary to delete emails regularly to make space in your inbox, but it was actually not even possible. This shift broke everyone’s deletion habit—it ended the ritualistic appraisal of what should be kept, and ushered in a default in which literally everything should.”<br/><br/>For almost thirty years of professional content management work, I’ve had to deal with the argument that we have to keep everything because you never know what will be important in the future. This was in the middle of intranets, websites and computer systems, where nobody could find anything because of the terrible search design and because of the awful information architecture. And what they did find was usually some sort of dodgy draft, some copy of a copy, or something that was way out of date, inaccurate or useless. Keeping all this junk data does not simply reduce the chances of findability, it also increases cybersecurity risk. Huge quantities of poorly structured and badly maintained data are an invitation to hacking and other risks.<br/>...<br/><br/><a href="https://gerrymcgovern.com/digital-will-sink-in-its-own-crap/">https://gerrymcgovern.com/digital-will-sink-in-its-own-crap/</a> 2024-10-28T01:50:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9hdxadtatm2x8n202fn7xyphljjxrl0req7p4u9kst9qu4t9pl3czyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvw63zza In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspm0fnum2rglxfyan7q8a68lu6um74r52zclnp9a8agpsdzhsfyxq699aqm'>nevent1q…9aqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nope. <br/>That&#39;s where I find the most breaking, often ignored, stories and coverage on issues. <br/><br/>You could try googling the story, tho. 2024-10-09T17:40:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0td98yr0z7pwnmqdca4y2qc28huvsh6ytn3y4wa4aaz8yvp3ksvczyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvh436xz Remember during Katrina, when ppl locked up in jails or prisons were left behind while staff evacuated, and they drowned? <br/><br/>It&#39;s happening again, in Florida this time. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88JuLoF/">https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88JuLoF/</a> 2024-10-09T17:12:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfp2px6u99dnffnvqx6vvwva9l3qz86263ka34fp6vs6nufap5tqqzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvkdw80x The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?<br/><br/>An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.<br/><br/>By: Peter Watts<br/>...<br/>The following conversation was recorded in March 2024. It has been edited for clarity and length.<br/><br/>Peter Watts: In this corner, the biosphere. We’ve spent a solid year higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius; we’re wiping out species at a rate of somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 annually; insect populations are crashing; and we’re losing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, no matter what we do at this point. Alaskapox has just claimed its first human victim, and there are over 15,000 zoonoses expected to pop up their heads and take a bite out of our asses by the end of the century. And we’re expecting the exhaustion of all arable land around 2050, which is actually kind of moot because studies from institutions as variable as MIT and the University of Melbourne suggest that global civilizational collapse is going to happen starting around 2040 or 2050.<br/><br/>In response to all of this, the last COP was held in a petrostate and was presided over by the CEO of an oil company; the next COP is pretty much the same thing. We’re headed for the cliff, and not only have we not hit the brakes yet, we still have our foot on the gas.<br/><br/>In that corner: Dan Brooks and Sal Agosta, with a Darwinian survival guide. So, take it away, Dan. Guide us to survival. What’s the strategy?<br/><br/>Daniel Brooks: Well, the primary thing that we have to understand or internalize is that what we’re dealing with is what is called a no-technological-solution problem. In other words, technology is not going to save us, real or imaginary. We have to change our behavior. If we change our behavior, we have sufficient technology to save ourselves. If we don’t change our behavior, we are unlikely to come up with a magical technological fix to compensate for our bad behavior. This is why Sal and I have adopted a position that we should not be talking about sustainability, but about survival, in terms of humanity’s future. Sustainability has come to mean, what kind of technological fixes can we come up with that will allow us to continue to do business as usual without paying a penalty for it? As evolutionary biologists, we understand that all actions carry biological consequences. We know that relying on indefinite growth or uncontrolled growth is unsustainable in the long term, but that’s the behavior we’re seeing now.<br/><br/>Stepping back a bit. Darwin told us in 1859 that what we had been doing for the last 10,000 or so years was not going to work. But people didn’t want to hear that message. So along came a sociologist who said, “It’s OK; I can fix Darwinism.” This guy’s name was Herbert Spencer, and he said, “I can fix Darwinism. We’ll just call it natural selection, but instead of survival of what’s-good-enough-to-survive-in-the-future, we’re going to call it survival of the fittest, and it’s whatever is best now.” Herbert Spencer was instrumental in convincing most biologists to change their perspective from “evolution is long-term survival” to “evolution is short-term adaptation.” And that was consistent with the notion of maximizing short term profits economically, maximizing your chances of being reelected, maximizing the collection plate every Sunday in the churches, and people were quite happy with this.<br/><br/>Well, fast-forward and how’s that working out? Not very well. And it turns out that Spencer’s ideas were not, in fact, consistent with Darwin’s ideas. They represented a major change in perspective. What Sal and I suggest is that if we go back to Darwin’s original message, we not only find an explanation for why we’re in this problem, but, interestingly enough, it also gives us some insights into the kinds of behavioral changes we might want to undertake if we want to survive.<br/>...<br/><br/>Full article: <br/><a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/">https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/</a> 2024-10-05T17:56:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs25tf48x6lsuc76sz524zw8qhskc3606f9awpc5jct5wm0zzpg26gzyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvkq7dc9 The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change;<br/>it is OVERSHOOT<br/><br/>Erik Michaels<br/><br/>This article was originally published on<br/>Problems, Predicaments, and Technology, 14 August 2024<br/>REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION<br/><br/>...<br/>The hype and nonsense continue unabated. As I mentioned last time, optimism bias causes us to think that we can do things which in reality we cannot. Here&#39;s another perfect example of more nonsense. Here&#39;s even more nonsense. As was pointed out in Denial of Reality, climate change isn&#39;t going to be stopped or reversed on human timescales. Most people think that all we have to do is reduce emissions, not realizing that emissions is another symptom predicament of ecological overshoot, meaning that what must be reduced if climate change is to be reduced is overshoot, not emissions. This is much more difficult than simply reducing emissions, because it requires a reduction of technology use. John Peach explains using calculations from Tom Murphy and Tim Garrett and the Stefan-Boltzmann Law. <br/><br/>Once one understands the concepts in Tim Garrett&#39;s, Tom Murphy&#39;s, and John Peach&#39;s work, one can clearly see that climate change isn&#39;t the big predicament most people make it out to be, OVERSHOOT is. Climate change, emissions, pollution loading, energy and resource decline, biodiversity loss, extinction, etc. are all SYMPTOMS of overshoot. This means that reducing (or attempting to eliminate) emissions alone will NOT reduce climate change because it is being caused by overshoot from technology use. Thus, the hype in my first paragraph above about &#34;renewable&#34; energy replacing coal-fired energy will not help to solve climate change. Replacing coal-fired energy is an attempt to continue civilization, so in the end, it is nothing more than bargaining to maintain civilization.<br/><br/>These facts are not going to change regardless of what type of technology is used or how complex it is. In effect, our use of technology is the entire predicament in a nutshell. Now, this does not mean that all we have to do is stop using technology. Some technologies would be difficult if not impossible to stop using. Most of our lives today revolve around one type of technology or another. But without the fossil fuel platform, modernity cannot be continued. Electrification will not solve it, so that isn&#39;t an answer or solution. Hydrogen will not solve it. None of the mainstream ideas (such as AI) will solve it. Using reductionist thinking will not solve it. NOTHING will solve it because what we face is a predicament, not a problem. Acceptance of that fact is required before moving forward, because anything less than that will guarantee coming up with ideas which will only worsen the outcome rather than improve it. <br/><br/>Once one realizes all of this, the next idea which must be mastered is that 8 billion or more people cannot survive on this planet for long in civilization without damaging the underlying ecosystem which provides our habitat. Resilience and sustainability are key features which any system of living must provide; civilization and city living is impossible in such a scenario. Comprehending that only a small segment of the current population will make it out of this century, if any of the population, is important. Much of that depends upon an intact ecosystem, which is definitely not guaranteed. The amount of damage that will be done by the 8 billion people currently here as collapse deepens probably means a dystopian world, and even that is a very big IF. Given today&#39;s trajectories, the most likely outcome is extinction for most species, including us. <br/><br/>Collapse is another consequence of overshoot; it is yet another symptom predicament. Many people often forget the social aspects of overshoot and blame them on other things, yet increasing cost of living, decline of happiness, mass shootings, increasing polarization, increasing disease rates, addiction, and many other issues can be directly tied to overshoot and/or the system of civilization which ultimately causes overshoot and collapse. <br/><br/>I mentioned Tom Murphy above, and one of his articles comes in handy once again to point out precisely just how ludicrous some of our assumptions about civilization (or modernity as he calls it) actually are. I remain somewhat surprised so many people still believe in free will and the illusion of control. Tom dispenses with all that nonsense quickly in the first paragraph by pointing out the reality that Santa Claus is a part of a set of fairy tales. His article pairs nicely with The Cycle of Life, pointing out that just because we lack free will (or other inconvenient truths) doesn&#39;t mean that there is no point to life. Likewise, just because those of us who understand the truth about what is and what isn&#39;t sustainable doesn&#39;t mean that we have &#34;given up&#34; on anything but unsustainable or untenable pursuits. The real wisdom in Tom&#39;s article comes in the last two paragraphs, quote:<br/><br/>If modernity is not to last very long, what’s the point in pretending that it will? What’s the point in holding onto a worldview predicated on modernity’s survival? What’s the point of our current choices, jobs, ways of living? To what end do we pursue the things we presently do?<br/><br/>Just because a lot of the things we do today will turn out to be pointless does not mean there’s no point to anything! What a huge and unwarranted leap that is! In the context of a completely different lifestyle as subordinate partners among a cast of many in the community of life, one might find innumerable sources of meaning. Living, loving, caring, helping, singing, laughing, learning, respecting, offering gratitude, appreciating beauty, jabbering, teasing, playing, sharing—for instance—are all part of being human and of being one form of life among many others on this planet: lots of room to find meaning and “points” that validate life. If the meaning in your life is contingent on modernity, then maybe you’ve come to the wrong shop, and ought to look for new forms of meaning that are built to last.<br/>...<br/><br/><a href="https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv20n10page5.html">https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv20n10page5.html</a> 2024-10-01T13:22:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9aw7z5xcte5cmr8rmzd7vdk6qm5rxqwvfcajwspfs2hz329krfcszyz9jwfkzgku6gwmw4ln74lqk06dlxym75vrl6rryn3q8475745lmvppg5ua In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst43fdun2tvh57jnyswrlvm3gzw92dquczxpjmgflyp5ucn00jptct8c4ny'>nevent1q…c4ny</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Capitalism is the main driver of the climate crisis. <br/><br/>It&#39;s killing the planet, and us. 2024-09-07T14:18:43Z