Mastodawn

With second order impacts around the corner of the 2nd half of this year, it feels like we’re continuing down the track of “business as usual 2” (BAU2) from the #limitstogrowth theory

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Tim Hollo (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I'm finding it a little hard to work today with this in my head. Antarctic ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the mean. That is, I'm reliably told, a one in 13 billion year event. We're about to see a lot of shit hit a lot of fans. And we are far from ready. Business as usual is over. Politics as usual is over. We need to be putting our effort into building systems that can help us survive what greed and power and wilful blindness have wrought. #ClimateCrisis #Antarctica

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Mark Viloria Jul 25, 2023

For those still optimistic around comprehensive #technology (CT) saving us, I’d love to learn about and #co2 capture breakthroughs that maybe aren’t widely known about as they should be. In the meantime, I am not so sure how #LLMs and #generativeAI will make the planet more livable for us outside of bridging the labor gap in a handful of areas. As for #food, I have major doubts about the future of lab grown meat… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

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Lab Meat. The $1 Trillion Ugly Truth

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Mike Jul 25, 2023

@markviloriaco I'm right there with you. I feel the more time we spend trying to invent "cleverer" solutions the less time we're spending implementing actual, proven solutions (increase plant life & biodiversity, decrease emissions). But happy to be proven wrong.