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@jensorensen

The shock when you find out solar panels are made in coal-fired ovens in China with lots of soon-to-be scarce resources that require oil & sulphuric acid, and are not true "renewables" but another source of waste when they need to be replaced in 30 years.

Note: we've installed solar on our roof & I agree we need to decarbonize as fast as we can, but this kind of propaganda that suggests we can do business as usual after switching to solar is also ... just hopium.

#CruelOptimism

#CruelOptimism #PeacefulSabotage

You lack a positive message, they say, by only wanting to slow things down.

But my positive message is to not destroy our civilization. To evolve it constructively. And sustainably.

There is no more positive message than that.

To go where no-one has gone before, okay ... but to not be reckless and tread carefully along the way.

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Hi, I'm an #urban researcher interested in how #comparative approaches can reshape the ways we understand #place, #urbantheory & theory-making. This led me to study art spaces & #biennials in cities like #Beijing #Berlin #Dakar #Taipei. I also find #urbanChina research a perennial curiosity in terms of its relationship to exceptionalism & urban canon. Currently reading #crueloptimism, thinking about #everydaycrisis & employed at Dept of #Geography, University of #Zurich.
@geography #introduction

Wrote a new book review and summary.

Stolen Focus: Why you can't pay attention -- and How to think deeply again

https://njoseph.me/mediawiki/Books/Stolen_Focus

#Books #StolenFocus #AttentionCrisis #CruelOptimism #SurveillanceCapitalism #Hypervigilance #MentalHealth #Flow