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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 09:12:02 »

And all of it, building up to our extinction event. Which creates another question. What type of species makes it? Avoids that extinction event?

well, use your mind.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 08:56:36 »

No rights

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 08:56:18 »

We're a very hierarchical species. And we want our role models. Hubris, greed, beliefs, values and ideals. And morals.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 08:51:04 »

So what we have is the remains of a democracy, fought by, and won by, a majority of its citizens. You could call it a sign of the times.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 08:47:05 »

Then again, if we look at Sweden today, and its ideals values and beliefs, almost all democratic principles seems gone. In favor for business as usual. That 'welfare state' that it is looked at, not being there today as a result of democracy, Although it was a, though still hierarchical, democracy that lead to it.

Instead of that idea it has been changed into a question of economy and profits. What would cost more? For Sweden, not for individual profits but for the society as a whole.

So, looking at that no one seems personally ready for any responsibility. Which explains a lot of the behavior we see today, as f.ex no referendum over Sweden leaving 200 years of peace. I'm using Sweden as example as it should be one of the best examples of a tentative road to a real democracy, going all wrong. Like I say, there is nothing differing Sweden from any other country today.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 08:02:05 »

And, it would reduce the amount of 'role models' you get impressed by. As well as making political parties unnecessary. It would destroy some of those effects we see from our hierarchical behaviors, as well as some of those blame games we embrace. It builds on you accepting democracy though, willing to take responsibility.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 07:58:06 »

That's one of the things my type of real democracy should be able to rein in, presuming a majority of you being as feed up with it as me. It would not stop 'progress' and 'innovation' but it should be able to put breaks on it.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 07:47:27 »

We are getting good on those studies. The downside being that without action we still just become viewers of a extinction. Somewhat like this essay.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-alaska-gulf-of-and-environment-a7870c0b8009db7be45185e825752736

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 07:36:53 »

This one is interesting, although still questionable. It connects to centralization and the way our game creates it in a very 'natural' way, increasing worldwide inequality. F.ex small farms versus 'mono complexes', profits and business as usual. The game doesn't care if it is sustainable, it's just not built that way.

" So what has been going on? Well, global food, like global finance, is a complex system, that develops spontaneously from billions of interactions. Complex systems have counterintuitive properties. They are resilient under certain conditions, as their self-organising properties stabilise them. But as stress escalates, these same properties start transmitting shocks through the network. Beyond a certain point, a small disturbance can tip the entire system over its critical threshold, whereupon it collapses, suddenly and unstoppably. "

He's missing something there. The game and the way is push for certain ideals, values and beliefs. Those 'initial parameters' shared by all 'farming societies', growing and getting refined for about 11 000 years. The same game that makes it impossible for you to accept anything not making a profit and fatten your wallet.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators

And we can actually connect it to this

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-bai-lan-why-chinas-frustrated-youth-are-ready-to-let-it-rot

A result of the same game taken to a extreme.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Today at 07:15:44 »

The American dream

"     ...visitors of bushmaster.com will have to prove they're a man by answering a series of manhood questions. Upon successful completion, they will be issued a temporary Man Card to proudly display to friends and family. The Man Card is valid for one year.

    Visitors can also call into question or even revoke the Man Card of friends they feel have betrayed their manhood. The man in question will then have to defend himself, and their Man Card, by answering a series of questions geared towards proving indeed, they are worthy of retaining their card. "

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bushmaster-rifle-ad-masculinity-gun-violence-newtown-adam-lanza_b_2317924

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:54:25 »

Two decades more of this and I think all bets are off.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:53:18 »

And what's not so obvious is that we're losing a bio and ecosystem. As well as the trees themselves.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:51:16 »

It's not only the Amazon forest becoming a carbon source here. Those boreal forests are becoming another

https://www.nccs.nasa.gov/news-events/nccs-highlights/boreal-forest

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:41:18 »

USA has severe problems with theirs. Russia's are worse.

https://grist.org/wildfires/you-thought-the-u-s-fire-season-was-bad-russias-is-much-worse/

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:23:31 »

You still don't seem to get it, do you? That there is a very large gap between what we can do and what nature do?

An abyss. There won't be 'New Tech' fixing this. What Russia is doing is 'mitigating', protecting society and infra structures as good as they can, The major part they won't be able to do anything about. Peace or no peace.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 22:12:49 »

With this being a slanted sentence. He should have been more careful there.

" Smith said the fires across Siberia would likely pose a challenge even if Russian troops weren't busy elsewhere. "It has been clear in recent years that the scale of the fires in Siberia has been beyond the capacity of Russia's firefighting resources, even in peacetime," he said, adding that many remote fires are simply left to burn. He added, however, that there was the possibility this year of "greater socioeconomic losses as a result of the reduced civil protection." "

" the fires in Siberia has been beyond the capacity of Russia's firefighting resources"

They are beoynd any nations capacity on this earth. They are gigantic.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 21:59:15 »

Ban fossils to 2030. That change should be your first step.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 21:58:15 »

I also expect a growing number of what is called 'failed states' from things like this. Where infra structures and social norms breaks down. You will see it in Europe and USA too, to what degree I don't know but you will see it.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 21:47:47 »

As that study notes.

" Our findings indicate that reported occurrences of extreme TW have increased rapidly at weather stations and in reanalysis data over the last four decades and that parts of the subtropics are very close to the 35°C survivability limit, which has likely already been reached over both sea and land. These trends highlight the magnitude of the changes that have taken place as a result of the global warming to date. At the spatial scale of reanalysis, we project that TW will regularly exceed 35°C at land grid points with less than 2.5°C of warming since preindustrial—a level that may be reached in the next several decades "

Well, they already did. 

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-pakistan-jacobabad-crossed-a-temperature-threshold-too-severe-for-human-tolerance-7383104/
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TW = Wet bulb temperature.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« on: Yesterday at 21:26:03 »

And in the choice between banning all fossils globally versus constant 'replantings', deeper wells etc, you will choose replanting and drilling. And for each year passing it will cost you more, until you move as it becomes unbearable financially and environmentally. Those of you that can afford it will naturally have moved before this happens. All part of the game, isn't it?

and for those already without groundwater?  Well.