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#PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html
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Climate change counts except when a socialist might become mayor of the world's greatest city
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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I'm for building housing like mad, & amenable to nuclear where it can be built (if on time, realistically). But we're not going into an 'abundant' world and good and bad actors alike are throwing sand in the eyes of the public at a critical juncture.
Better advice here: bookshop.org/p/books/worl...
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This microblog post from one of the biggest proponents for this #Abundance ideology on "why Dems should embrace selling public lands off" should convince everyone to abandon that horrible idea that will undermine centuries of environmental and human rights protections we've worked hard to accrue imo
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...but mainly, people can hear the truth. I think what people need and want much more deeply than some kind of material abundance is an abundance of honesty, so if you're going to use it, use it that way only.
Some context from Purdue Engineering:
youtu.be/xAdJRU2IDeY
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...it's a logical fear that without it, nothing else will be heard -- put 'abundance' on the front and at least a message can get out.
That seemed reasonable to me too for awhile, but for one, it's going to be used to death (like 'sustainability') by every actor, some not at all well-intentioned...
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Every use of the word 'abundance' drives the public discussion further away from an honest, democratic dialogue about where we're at, which is very much not abundant & getting less abundant every day.
It's ultimately a brutal word to use. I respect a lot of the people who have chosen it (& know why)
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With a set, you can try it yourself -- and you can do it without nuclear. Though it's harder without some, as evidenced in other models like Vote Solar's plan here:
vibrantcleanenergy.com/wp-content/u...
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#PlayEnergetic
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/n...
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It's pretty hard, due to population density, economics, and nighttime (300M A/C = 300+ GW demand), and solar + batteries at immense scale
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Also: how do we air condition India?
The heart of this is, how do we power air conditioners without heating up the planet even more. The arithmetic is not hard to do, the answers are hard, and we already need to open borders because of the results (that's not going well either).
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Yazd is one of the oldest cities in the world, with some of the oldest buildings in the world. It’s up in the mountains of Central Iran, so most wars never reached it — e.g. during various Arab invasions, most Zoroastrian fire temples were destroyed, but the fire temples of Yazd are still standing.
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See also: arxiv.org/html/2505.09... via @nworbmot.bsky.social
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The Northeast (and Europe) have winters.
www.linkedin.com/posts/robmaj...
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For sure, Trump is a crisis, but what you are describing is the far deeper, far graver underlying problem. We’ve got an unaccountable ruling class, it is astonishing to behold.
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chomsky.info/199805__-2/
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It's virtually impossible to be better informed on climate than Michael Bloomberg (although Clinton, with Al "Inconvenient Truth" Gore in his ear, heard a lot too).
www.c40.org/leadership/t...
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It's virtually impossible to be better informed on climate than Michael Bloomberg (although Clinton, with Al "Inconvenient Truth" Gore in his ear, heard a lot too).
www.c40.org/leadership/t...
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Safe to say that Bloomberg, Clinton, & Cuomo aren't anywhere near on track for 2.9t per capita by 2030 (one long r/t business flight). But if Mamdani wins, using C40 report as a guide would be fantastic, as wd recruiting Bloomberg to get it done (he paid for it after all).
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It's strange when Clinton could sit it out. It would be great to hear the calls Cuomo has been making in the last 2 weeks. He even got a 2nd round of funding from Bloomberg.
Also funded by Bloomberg, the most accurate assessment on climate targets (2016):
www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/De...
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If the plot of the cheesy 1996 Charlie Sheen movie "The Arrival" were unfolding before us, how would it be different?
youtu.be/TnwtTQlfaQo?...
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Also, by coincidence, we made a game:
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/n...
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And it's amazing how some of Banks' readers seem to have missed the point
www.vox.com/culture/4135...
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I haven't read Banks but I will now. He's a person after my own heart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Ba...