Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@zleap The government doesn't, either. If they keep doing a crappy job, people will protest. If protests get ignored, they escalate. Right or not, it's a simple mechanism.

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I do wonder how many of America's current political problems are due to Facebook specifically & and how many are general issues with social media.

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@thor THE ESTROGEN IN THE PLASTIC IS TURNING THE FREAKIN' CATS GAY

@LearnTribe @zleap @Argus

Again hard to say because a lot of manipulation happened through Cambridge Analytica & Facebook.

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Probably lower emissions, and I think we could learn something from their process of debating how a technology would impact their culture before deciding whether to adopt a technology.

Sometimes I wonder if we would have adopted social media if we knew what it was going to do.

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Thanks!

As some people put it, it's currently easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

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If you want global warming solutions there's https://drawdown.org/

Though I think the real reason our political leaders continue to fail at making a solution is the most direct solution is a smaller economy more focused on peoples well being than buying more and more stuff.

Butan is probably already below net-zero, but they deliberately prioritize a less materialistic society.

https://www.gviusa.com/blog/bhutan-the-first-carbon-negative-country-in-the-world/

I wonder if cryptocurrencies are the 21st century equivalent of the secret societies that littered the American social landscape from 1870-1945.

But an extremely individualistic take on them.

* sense of belonging to an initiated group with higher secrets
* built on weird, incomprehensible rituals and mysteries
* chance to make a lot of money, but the inner circle always makes out better than the rank and file

Pushing renewable power immediately could save trillions in health costs - Enlarge / Building a lot of these would pay for itself, albeit indirect... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1809437 #science

@zleap @Argus

There are groups working on it, and there are some short range electric aircraft almost in service. Long range & fast is quite far away though.

Currently high speed rail can offer similar enough speeds and is easier to build.

The TGV is a very low emission travel method (because of France's heavy use of nuclear power) at 3.2g of CO2/km. Bicycling is around 8g of CO2/km and it rapidly increases from there.

This tweet had some comparisons

https://twitter.com/brettbergie/status/1455195467063566336?s=20

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There's been increasing pressure to try and avoid flying among some more activist leaning scientists.

https://noflyclimatesci.org/

The standard scientific career involves a lot of travel, and there currently isn't any good way to decarbonize air travel.

Batteries can't supply the energy density for long range aircraft for the foreseeable future.