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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18340 on: 15/03/2021 12:28:49 »
Worth reading

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/3/21045263/climate-change-1-5-degrees-celsius-target-ipcc
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18341 on: 15/03/2021 12:32:52 »
A graphic description. Global warming is just the jewel set in your game of inequality. It's one of the results from it, just as the rest of our mistakes. And nothing will change unless you change.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18342 on: 15/03/2021 12:34:14 »
If you don't get that by now, after over fifty years of accelerating failures, well?

Good riddance.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18343 on: 15/03/2021 12:44:13 »
That's the problem. Me getting frustrated, then angry. I used to 'wrap in it' earlier years. I just didn't want to alienate you, but I'm giving up on that.  It doesn't matter does it?

Nothing can change you.



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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18344 on: 15/03/2021 13:06:12 »
Here's the reality.  " There’s a one-in-four chance the global annual average temperature will exceed 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels for at least one year over the next five years "

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/earth-may-temporarily-pass-dangerous-1-5-degree-celsius-warming-limit-by-2024-finds-wmo-report-8814741.html

in itself it doesn't matter, we've already near 2 degrees C* warmer according to temperature readings from 1850 and forward. Not all countries say it but Sweden do, and I think Australia found it to be so too. We didn't know about global warming 1850. We knew about the game and how it built on inequality and assets though. So we adapted, and migrated. And it didn't matter, not 1850. The earth was still beautiful and 'infinite'. And we were the conquerors of it.

Talk about being f*ed up.
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« Reply #18345 on: 15/03/2021 13:16:19 »
Let me be clear about this. Sustainability is not about profits.

the only profit you will see are your chances of surviving increasing. And our current earths chance of surviving.

That if we now , by some magic, could change and understand this we still would have a chance. But you refuse to see the game. You worldview builds on inequality and your dreams of becoming rich and powerful in some way, working yourself upwards in your society. And the higher you get the more sure you become that you deserve it.


You become a defender of inequality.


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« Reply #18346 on: 15/03/2021 13:20:15 »
That it should lead to a world where equality finds a place, and a changed society, is also about sustainability. It won't change the way you act as a herd. We will use the herd to define it. That's what a real democracy is about.
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« Reply #18347 on: 15/03/2021 13:21:31 »
What you call 'the common good'. But the way the game is structured the common good is the least common nominator existing.
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« Reply #18348 on: 15/03/2021 13:22:20 »
It's so easy to see. You have to be blind to miss it.
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« Reply #18349 on: 15/03/2021 13:40:53 »
That's one of things a real democracy should be able to do. Disconnect your decision makers from decisions, forcing them to adapt to a majority's wishes. you getting rid of your extremes, and your 'politics'. Your hierarchies hopefully won't matter for those major decisions taken. But it also builds on you being able to change. Taking responsibility, something this game you play lacks.
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« Reply #18350 on: 15/03/2021 13:42:58 »
And it should change the way our schools and education is run too. It's all based on ideal and beliefs, they way we run things today. But the game is what defines them.
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« Reply #18351 on: 15/03/2021 14:06:37 »
The things I expect from this democracy will be slow in coming. They will be much as peace is, hard to gain and once you have it, easy to destroy. Or as trust, hard to gain but easy to destroy.

you built this world on distrust. And you keep defending it. And you think it will take you out.
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« Reply #18352 on: 15/03/2021 14:08:24 »
That's your 'geopolitics' and your 'real politik'. That's how you define 'game theory'. As a game of distrust and greed.
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« Reply #18353 on: 15/03/2021 14:12:26 »
Sweden is a good example of trust, and how it's deteriorating. We built Sweden around the 1800 from a peoples movement. That is gone replaced by the American dream. A dream in where Sweden look for the minimal common nominators for keeping people quiet.
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« Reply #18354 on: 15/03/2021 14:13:30 »
You need a transparent democracy for trust to even come to be.
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« Reply #18355 on: 15/03/2021 14:16:35 »
Your hierarchies chances of existing in a democracy builds on that trust. Without it they will go to repressions. And trust is detoriating everywhere today, in the UK as well as in USA and Sweden. In Russia they don't even think that trust has a meaning.
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« Reply #18356 on: 15/03/2021 14:19:05 »
Think about your banks, and you rushing to them to get out your money before its too late. Same thing, they losing your trust.
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« Reply #18357 on: 15/03/2021 14:19:23 »
Think about what it leads to.
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« Reply #18358 on: 15/03/2021 14:35:18 »
And to finally push in the nail.

Think about who it will be that's getting 'compensated' first if you now can't get them out anymore.
You?

never worked that way.
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« Reply #18359 on: 15/03/2021 14:35:43 »
Your game of inequality.
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