#climatchaos — Public Fediverse posts
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A mainstream example of (stupid) individualism
Have you noticed how, over the last few decades, many sentences are repeated so often they start to become "common sense"? “You need to love yourself” is one of these, it sounds harmless, kind, even progressive. But this sentence didn’t only reshape how we feel about ourselves - it reshapes how the economy works. This is a story about how "self-esteem" become an engine of #stupidindividualism, that helped produce the explosion of inequality and mess we now live inside. Today, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-mainstream-example-of-stupid-individualism/
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> .. by the time of the transition, modern wheels transmitted 85 percent of the mechanical energy of falling water to the machines, whereas steam engines normally converted less than 2 percent of the energy in coal to motion, reaching 4 percent in the best specimens.
#AndreasMalm in #FossilCapital showing me #ClimatChaos got started by some control freaks that ignored efficiency and profit and all the stuff economists give them credit for. Sounds like a pattern with AI(SALAMI) and Nukes too. -
@oreolek the #geekproblem and the #encryptionists in bed with the #fahernistas what could go wrong with this in the era of #climatchaos what a mess we keep pushing.