RE: https://mastodon.radio/@NM8A/116327649191106522
For all those people who lose their minds when some of us push back about renewables. Solar and wind require 16 and 10 times the resources per TW energy capacity versus a fossil fuel plant.
The cost below is why car free and local farming, which can eliminate 90% of all the resources that go into our lives for transportation and food, is a thing.
We consume 150 times the resources the average person consumed 200 years ago.
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We need to do smart things like build, walkable cities and localize farming because oddly enough when you put things close together, you don’t need a global supply chain so much, and if you do this sustainably, you are by definition living within planetary boundaries.
We already know how to do this, and we already have an immense amount of knowledge to do amazing things with local resources. Instead of spending all our creativity on scale which benefits the few and harms the many.
Recently I was introduced to somebody from an organization that's trying to set up very simple, small, self-sufficient communities with permaculture etc.
There is no website I can share with you. They are actually AFRAID to be too open with what they are doing, because they've already been getting so many DEATH THREATS.
What we need is so simple, but there are people out there who'd rather see millions of people die and the world burn than lose an inch of their power. Some of them realize the simplest resilience and independence of communities is a fundamental threat to their rule.
I heard somebody in one of my podcasts recently say, "Sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power." and that keeps replaying in my head over and over again every day.
The EVIL it takes, to get in the way of the simple good things we need...
That sounds like a lot of fun. /s
It makes the altercations with some people here who lose their minds over walkability, mixed use neighborhoods, gardens and greenery instead of asphalt everywhere something a little less to vex over. The indoctrination and irrationality is on them, but oh my God.
Maximum profits come from maximum exploitation.
People who can support themselves are harder to exploit.
It started with the enclosure of the commons back in Europe-- the aristocracy grabbed up ALL the land and started punishing anyone who tried to produce or find their own food without official oversight.
That's the backbone of capitalism: private control of what should be shared resources, the stuff everyone needs most for survival.
Then they'll claim their system doesn't require violence-- go ahead, just find another job if you don't like this one, go rent a different house etc. But long gone are the days where you could just march off into the woods and set up your own village. It's very important that we submit to the idea "There is no alternative".
If we can feed and shelter ourselves without official control, they lose their grip. If we catch our breath, if we get the energy and time to think about what we really need and what has to be done to make it happen, that's when the torches and pitchforks will become a threat to their hoards and they know it.
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