Category: Climate Change
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repeating falsehoods like incantations
From Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud: An irony of our technological advancement is that it has created a society that is in many ways scientifically more naive than the preindustrial world, in which no citizen who learned physics through backbreaking work and understood climate through subsistence agriculture would have assumed that he or she was exempt…
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half-arsed cynicism as gateway drug to solutionism, example #632
So close, but yet so far. Alan Jacobs on geoengineering: The argument that the exploration and testing of geoengineering technologies should be stopped is not “a worthwhile argument.” It’s a dumb argument. We cannot afford to put all our eggs in the emissions-reduction basket, for the simple reason that there is no good reason to…
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elements of that necessary magic
Well, I sure as shit picked a great week to start using the birdsite again, didn’t I? Man, you should have been here for the Game of Thrones' finale. Now *THAT* was a night. — Martin McGrath (@martinmcgrath) January 6, 2021 I don’t have much to say about it all, really—which isn’t to say I…