504DR

504DR , 1 month ago to random

Data centers

Necessary or a waste of energy and water?

A video on data centers and their effects on communities' energy and water use.

504DR , 2 months ago to random

If you haven't heard of the #4Bmovement, you will.

Good explanation here of how it started in South Korea, how it's going, and where it's headed.
Hint - global.

Video of a woman explaining what the 4B Movement is, how and why it got started.

504DR , 4 months ago to random

Leftist Lawyer
@LeftistLawyer

Once upon a time a new species evolved that thought itself very intelligent.

But this new smarty pants species had a terrible blind spot. It couldn't figure out how to stop shitting in its own nest.

It wasn't a problem at first, because when the new species filled it's current nest with shit, it would just abandon the shitscape and start someplace new.

But soon enough, the new species covered the globe and had nowhere else to create new shitnests. The species wound up drowning in its own shit and went extinct.

There was much rejoicing from all the other species that had figured out how not to shit in their own nest.

They never thought the new species was very intelligent to begin with.

The End.

504DR , 4 months ago to random

This is actual climate change work, with immediate results.

Govts should be supporting and investing more in cleaning up the messes we've already made, rather than wasting time and money on boondoggle solutions that don't work.

Video of cleaning up plastic and garbage from a river. Work is done by One Ocean organization.

504DR , 5 months ago to random

The Green Growth Delusion
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM / TRUTHDIG
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

"Ted Trainer, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and founder of The Simplicity Institute, has reached a similar conclusion. “The limits to renewable energy have been almost totally ignored as a topic of study,” he writes. Elsewhere, Trainer notes that this topic is ignored with special fervor among the “technically sophisticated…participants in green and left energy camps.” The Ezra Kleins of the world adhere to what Trainer calls the “tech-fix faith,” which is marked by the assumption that there’s “no need to shift from…present energy and resource intensive lifestyles and systems, or from an economy driven by market forces, the profit motive and growth.”

Then there is the legendary energy and systems theorist Vaclav Smil. An emeritus at the University of Manitoba and author of more than 40 books on energy, environment and industry, Smil has declared the “rapid-speed transformation narratives” in the renewables field to be so full of “magic prescriptions” that they are “the academic equivalents of science fiction.”

“Heavy doses of wishful thinking are commingled with a few solid facts,” Smil writes in his 2022 book “How the World Really Works.”

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-green-growth-delusion/

Hat tip to @breadandcircuses