We are caught in a monkey trap and there is no way out. All the rest is spin. Brace for impact. A really thought provoking article from our friends in the Deep Green Resistance world. Starts as follows:
“Don’t talk to me about sustainability. You want to question my lifestyle, my impact, my ecological footprint? There is a monster standing over us, with a footprint so large it can trample a whole planet underfoot, without noticing or caring. This monster is Industrial Civilization. I refuse to sustain the monster. If the Earth is to live, the monster must die. This is a declaration of war.”
“What is it we are trying to sustain? A living planet, or industrial civilization? Because we can’t have both.”
“Somewhere along the way the environmental movement – based on a desire to protect the Earth, was largely eaten by the sustainability movement – based on a desire to maintain our comfortable lifestyles. When did this happen, and why? And how is it possible that no-one noticed? This is a fundamental shift in values, to go from compassion for all living beings and the land, to a selfish wish to feel good about our inherently destructive way of life.”
“The sustainability movement says that our capacity to endure is the responsibility of individuals, who must make lifestyle choices within the existing structures of civilization. To achieve a truly sustainable culture by this means is impossible. Industrial infrastructure is incompatible with a living planet. If life on Earth is to survive, the global political and economic structures need to be dismantled.”
Article continues here: Sustainability is destroying the Earth.
Professor Tim Garrett’s work on “Industrial Civilisation is a Heat Machine” is a must read, check out his website above.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
Catch 22
If the hydrogen myth ever takes off, it will make our predicament worse!
There is no magic bullet!
https://jalopnik.com/new-hydrogen-research-reminds-us-humanity-just-cant-win-1850303466?fbclid=IwAR3hxmv9dF_t66CNSwibCA3AwNtSYlqKCXYv1RQgEjtvk5x2m9ZFVChDydE
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“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara?fbclid=IwAR1cggMVsu-ivZ3TynAmnxkSGAoP8_G8PQ30HoJ1eLvlHsEbuqaMzN9EcFU
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“Presuming there will be a living ecosystem to inhabit”
Presumption is the mother of all fuckups.
That old, we’ll survive without habitat, canard.
With the 10C that even Dr James E Hansen admits is baked in there won’t be an unburnt tree on this planet.
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/stop-using-the-word-sustainability-for-god-s-sake-21ef629ef5e5
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The cold, bitter truth about windmill blades.
Spoiler alert, it’s not renewable nor compostable 🙂
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
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“Renewable energy is essentially a fossil fuel extender”, Laser guided by Art’, there’s no avoiding “Jevon’s Paradox.
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Jevons Paradox:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2018.00026/full
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What an absolutely laser guided article, incredibly ‘on point’, however inconvenient the measured conclusions may be.
This paragraph resonated with my philosophy of interdependence between All Species.
“So, about 99% of the atoms in our bodies come from air and water, often processed by other lifeforms before entering our mouths. That’s a very neat trick!”
Spectacular observation.
Guess what team, without those microbes, single cell organisms and everyone above in the web of life, we cease to exist, we’re all codependents.
It isn’t rocket science, it’s biology.
It’s refreshing not to be alone in pointing out what is ultimately the “Bleedingly Obvious”.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-02-21/inexhaustible-flows/?fbclid=IwAR0ScZ_yRvSBvHknRug4UJUp4V_xxaSYtenfMZuvWtBw18CEDMIMh7H_E8A
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Here’s another on the sustainability of our species using modern tech. Think it will work?
Considering intentional stratospheric dehydration for climate benefits
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0593
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Grasping at the tech straws is what I’m thinking. Is this a ‘hail mary’ kind of attempt?
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I find this pitiful. Do these kids understand what is happening? This little girl Some do maybe, somewhat, but they can’t really grasp the implications facing us all…but they are young enough to have not become as frightened about what Greta Thunberg & her cohorts have mentally grasped.
Hopium. When the only thing that is ‘changing’ is how much more destruction our species is causing, how much of an increase in GHGs are being spewed into the atmosphere daily from the day before. It isn’t going down. The older kids, when they hit their teens…how many are going to choose ‘no kids’ due to the knowledge they absorb?
Wouldn’t blame them a bit for that choice because it’s one I made in the early 70s…
Forecast 2050: ‘Weather Kids’ Sound The Alarm
https://weather.com/news/climate/video/forecast-2050-weather-kids-sound-the-alarm
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The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘We have to come up with a different plan.’
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/04/07/Rising-Chorus-Renewable-Energy-Skeptics/
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More about no sustainability:
Many parts of the world soon uninhabitable if we don’t act on climate crisis faster | DW News
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