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.”
Article continues here: Sustainability is destroying the Earth.
Activist, sailor, 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.
“And it suggests NSW taxpayers are missing out on tens of millions of dollars in waste levies, which would be payable if the material was dumped in NSW landfill rather than being trucked 900 kilometres north and dumped in Queensland.”
Have a think for a moment about the carbon footprint of this ‘recycling’.
Sapiens, so good at fooling themselves and no one else.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/duped-at-the-dump-recycling-rort-as-the-truth-is-buried-20180219-p4z0v7.html
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“There are grand schemes to power the
world using renewable energy. The
difficulty is that no one has bothered to
check to see if the resources are available
to produce that energy.”
https://voicesmotherearth.blogspot.co.nz/2018/04/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-gaping.html
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“Indeed, the term “renewable” is among the greatest PR confidence tricks ever to be played upon an unsuspecting public, since solar panels and wind (and tidal and wave) turbines are very much a product of and dependent upon the fossil carbon economy.”
http://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2018/05/11/not-so-renewables/
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“Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order.”
Great article summing up the dishonesty surrounding the ‘renewable’ sector of the very same capitalism that is grinding the living planet into dust.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3797-end-the-green-delusions-industrial-scale-renewable-energy-is-fossil-fuel
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Brilliant analysis from Robin Westenra from the Seemorerocks blog
https://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2018/05/theycan-talk-about-solutions-as-much-as.html?spref=fb
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Great interview with Professor Tim Garrett talking about Industrial civilisation being a heat engine irrespective of what it is powered with and a lesson in the second law of Thermo-dynamics ;
http://environmentalprofessionalspostulating.libsyn.com/ep-012-a-discussion-with-professor-tim-garrett
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Thanks Kevin – the interview isn’t so good haha, it’s still great to have the “Garrett Relation” and the Civilisation as a heat engine idea explained straight from the source.
P.S it’s the second law of thermodynamics 😬
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I don’t seem to be able to modify that comment, apologies just noticed you changed it….
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Great work from Dan Kinch at Brooklyn Culture Jammers;
https://brooklynculturejammers.com/2018/04/26/our-energy-predicament/
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“The renewable road to extinction”.
Their title not mine.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2018/06/18/the-renewable-road-to-extinction/
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“Ditch the almond milk: why everything you know about sustainable eating is probably wrong
From cod to clingfilm, the advice we’re given can often be confusing. If you’re serious about eating green, here are some straightforward solutions”
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/05/ditch-the-almond-milk-why-everything-you-know-about-sustainable-eating-is-probably-wrong?CMP=fb_gu
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“So, even if sunlight and wind is seemingly infinite, our planet Earth is not. Any short-term material gain of ours is a loss for the world around us. Renewables only accelerate this process.”
More excellent, honest work from Tim Garrett who Professor Guy McPherson often quotes.
https://nephologue.blogspot.com/2018/07/are-renewables-our-salvation.html
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“Given the choice between economic collapse today and a global holocaust at some unspecified time in future, they’ll (we’ll) take the economy every time.”
There is no way to deny Jevons paradox unless you are a large NGO or the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand spruiking for the renewable sector of capitalism.
The cold hard fact of the matter is that industrial civilisation is unsustainable and so called ‘ renewables’ are a diversion so that people won’t concentrate on the unfolding 6th great extinction and the unsustainability of our way of life.
I find it repulsive and cruel that leftys and greenies are selling this bullshit to the youth. When they find out about the severity of the crisis they are gonna be extremely angry. Make sure you don’t find yourself on the same side as the very corporations who have ground the living planet into dust and are bullshitting the youth.
http://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2018/06/18/the-renewable-road-to-extinction/
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