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by lcam84 5y ago
One problem is that economic growth has a big correlation with carbon emissions. https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/ Environmental decoupling is the notion that we can have growth and preserve nature. Fo
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by lcam84 5y ago
"Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich." —Richard Falk, “Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances,” Al Jazeera, 22 Feb. 2011
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by lcam84 5y ago
Didn't said that we can substitute industrial ammonia but it could definitely reduce it's use. Changing the way we eat it's definitely an opportunity to reduce major sources of c02 emissions.
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by lcam84 5y ago
We could avoid this number by investing in soil preservation, nitrogen fixing plants, reduce meat consumption, even in concepts like humanure.
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by lcam84 5y ago
There are ethical ways to implement it for instance give more education to women [1]. Consuming less meat should be a priority for us wealthy countries. Overpopulation is a problem but carbon inequality is much worse [2]: " . The rich
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by lcam84 5y ago
The story of Fritz Haber first wife is very sad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Immerwahr
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by lcam84 5y ago
>It’s a common fallacy of tech people to think that all problems are of a technical nature, and that if we could just have the right technology they would go away and we would be living in a utopia. The fact is, the problems are with hum
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by lcam84 5y ago
Urea comes from the Harber process [1] Basically most of food fertilizer depends on fossil fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
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by lcam84 5y ago
In Portugal is "Sociedade do Cansaço" which translates to "fatigue society"
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I agree although I would add that many of the creative jobs although technically challenging have useless or even destructive goals. Just look at the attention economy and the surveillance industry. We try not to contemplate this fact by oc
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Also we could redistribute the tax as a sort of UBI. This way not only product that pollute would be more expensive, people would have the ability to say no to crappy jobs.
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Yes, the author focuses on a possible shortage of resources as the cause of the problem, but the Forester effect certainly played a decisive role in the case of the chip shortage. Anyway, we live in a very fragile civilization, and we have
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Why Everything Is Suddenly Getting More Expensive – and Why It Won’t Stop(medium.com)
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Airport Tracker – Aviation emissions uncovered(airporttracker.org)
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Is on this kind of measures where jevons paradox or the rebound effect kicks in. We will inclined to eat more meat because is more sustainable, and with that we neutralize the gains. Also meat from Brazil is many times dependent on Amazon d
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by lcam84 5y ago
I loved the "good parts” of JS back in 2010. I think I don't need most of this new syntax and yet sometimes have the feeling I'm losing the train when I see this “C#” code base. Curiously, that was the technology I used to wo
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by lcam84 5y ago
If you want to explore this you can watch "the century of self" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
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by lcam84 5y ago
As Ursula Le Guin, I'm not an economist, but I live in one. Didn't mean to be literal, but I find ironic the use of the term, because it reminds me of rough which in portuguese, my native language is "Grosseiro"
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by lcam84 5y ago
I don't think everyone agrees that growth is a problem. Is the way our societies are organized and it is very difficult to reason against it. Another aspect that western societies have difficulty to reason about is to think in negative
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There is a difference between wants and needs. You have a giant industry trying to change your wants, making sure you are not satisfied with what you have.
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by lcam84 5y ago
Gross Domestic Product, is a very gross way to measure progress as the name implies. Robert Kennedy said in respect of GDP “It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life really worth living.” [1] You have alternatives like
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by lcam84 5y ago
This would be true if we didn't account for the extreme inequality of the system. For instance the richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity [1]. We can have prosperity without growth, and we cann
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by lcam84 5y ago
Yes, by any measure - infant mortality, safety from war, education, access to culture, etc - we have never been better but all evidence suggests that our lifestyles are not sustainable. IPCC says that there will be an environmental collaps
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by lcam84 5y ago
Again I don’t want to romanticize the pandemic but we should critically analyze what happened. When I talk about the system changes, I’m referring to the paper that I wrote in the thread. The places to intervene in the system are: Places to
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by lcam84 5y ago
It’s really interesting to think about what caused last year's systemic change. I think that was the fact that the illness threatened our life directly, but most of all the consequences were short term. For me “recovery” is the new su
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She may be calling for zero growth or even degrowth. In her first blog post, where she fill a questionnaire [1] "Question 13: “What will improve the quality of life for the future generations of your family?”—with boxes to rank import
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And yet there was a systemic change last year. The system objective changed from brainless growth to saving human lives, and the Jenga game holded. I don't want to romanticize the pandemic but it disproved the TINA hipotesis (there is
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Sadly I think that the battle for resources will be more detrimental to peace than the reduction of collaboration. Collaboration will be more localized, but I hope our ability to communicate globally will maintain peace. Yet I may be too o
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Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)(ursulakleguin.com)
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by lcam84 5y ago
We are loosing words to describe nature. I recommend reading "Landmarks" from Robert Macfarlane. The audiobook is excellent. https://www.cam.ac.uk/thelostwords

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