On the Edge

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Humanity is not doing well. We rule the planet. Our ruling has cause a planetary emergency. To end it, we need to face the emergency and come together and act.
On the EdgeJan 24, 2023
That's what #China's end of #population #growth means: reducing #overpopulation is very good news! Instead of seeing a threat in this, we need to see an opportunity to build a society and #economy that doesn't depend on infinite growth of everything. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/china-population-decline-negative-growth-what-it-means-for-world
China’s shrinking population: what it means for the rest of the world - expert panel

From climate change to women’s rights, what effect will the demographic time bomb at the heart of China’s economy have?

The Guardian
On the EdgeJan 24, 2023
Replacing a wrong "solution" with another wrong solution: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
We need better transportation with less #cars, car-free #cities, better land use with less #transportation, we need less, not more. Leave #lithium in the ground, protect the #people and the #environment by ending the #mining!
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

The Guardian
On the EdgeJan 22, 2023
More #introduction: It can only be a brief, destructive phase in human (and Earth) history, a phase that drives the population of one species to unsustainable numbers, pollutes the planet with novel substances, wipes out one ecosystem after the other, reduces non-human wildlife at unprecedented speed, pushes species rapidly into extinction,and destroys the wealth and health of the planet. We must/should ask, is this all in preparation of the extinction of Homo sapiens sapiens?
On the EdgeJan 22, 2023
More as #introduction Economic growths is the resulting disease which economists try to masquerade as the cure, a cure that ignores common sense, destroys reason, violates basic physical laws, opposes science and negates logic to elude us for the precipice in front of us. This addiction to economic growth, which is driven by increasing consumption, makes us the most damaging invasive species in the history of the planet. It can only be a brief, destructive phase in human (and Earth) history...
On the EdgeJan 22, 2023
As #introduction, my thoughts on our #economy: The modern mainstream economic system is designed for a video game with infinite chances to start over with a new planet when everything collapses. This video game (or monopoly) is being played on a system that should be a supply system that meets our needs while safeguarding the Earth's life-support system, on which the welfare of all life on Earth depends. Economic growths is the resulting disease which economists try to masquerade as the cure...