I am shaking with shock. I've started Abundance, and on the very first pages Klein and Thompson advance a climate program that rests on mass desalination, vertical farming, and sustainable jet fuel (which will allow us to take flying vacations every weekend).
WHO DID THEY TALK TO ABOUT THIS??
WHO DID THEY TALK TO ABOUT THIS??
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No writer got paid when they trained the LLMs on our work, mind you.
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Unfortunately for us...
"In this conjuncture, FALC claims to offer a future of hope, but it is a hope based on a succession of technological coinflips"
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-manifesto-by-aaron-bastani
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We got the automation …
@rutherdan.bsky.social would go ‘Boom’ here 😬
I have your answer:
Ezra Klein: "How would you describe the challenges of climate change?"
It used to be a thing that some folk would say that people live in the Arctic or a hot Desert country, without counting the population density or the external support and energy needed to do that.
That was the entirety of the Biden "climate" agenda!
(My paraphrase).
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-farming?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Seriously, I wouldn't read that book if I didn't have to.
Abundance is a book written by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_(book_by_Ezra_Klein_and_Derek_Thompson)
But SF is fiction, and the writers know it. They can fudge the engineering details.
https://brainstation.io/magazine/north-americas-first-vertical-urban-farm-files-for-bankruptcy
This report from Cambridge University on actual methods of mitigation has been downloaded 171,000 times, so probably more readers than Klein's book will have, but no one talks about it
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/33aaf353-b7de-45b0-9c40-5f62975b2127
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/your-money/home-buying-climate-change.html
I don’t think we fully understand the power of incentives/career in limiting world views/critical thinking.
I have a meeting to go to and some important people are going to be discussing important things about jobs in my district and I need to phone a bunch of people to contribute to my campaign because my opponent has raised twice the capital I have and...
https://youtu.be/IPDSMgJgsrU?si=6MZCgbEK2lxM39-e&t=1935
https://youtu.be/b-eC6adEYNE
https://youtu.be/-V4Ag1yxYQE
https://youtu.be/xpImlufArwk
https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/new-resource-tick-zero-s-real-climate-solutions
When it comes to covering climate, there are, sadly, a lot of folks who do "Better than Ezra".
Someone pointed this out in the course of figuring out that Musk is a fraud.
I keep waiting for him to discuss ideas on their own merits and he never does.
One quick way to find out if someone is dancing the big money dance is to look at who funds them and who pays them six figures to give speeches.
No so fun fact: About a year ago VOX fired most of their climate journalists.
https://www.thewrap.com/jay-penske-trump-saudi-arabia-rolling-stone-boycott/
Sound thoughtful, drain issues of their emotional power and turn them into 2D strategic considerations and most of all: never, ever challenge the status quo.
Ezra Klein is the perfect example of this kind of fau-thinker.
Mainstream media has blacked out just how much outside big money flows through US Gov every day and the gobsmacking control it exerts.
This famous Princeton study explains so much:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Don't let them get you down. Environmentalists know who we are.
Ezra. How are we gonna grow feed corn that way? Dumbass.
Do the say anything about redistribution or the incompatibility of billionaires and democracy? Justice? Planetary Boundaries?
As in, "yeah right, sure 🙄"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzTnALI720
I will start following him. I’m trying to expand my own network of information sources. For years I was a slave to my support of Republicanism. I’m glad I’m finally growing up.
Ps…despite all this global warming stuff, no one but no one wants to give up their vacations to nice places.