My source was my own experience that my Windows 11 volume is encrypted and I have never been asked about key upload. So I assumed this happens automatically. I guess I am mistaken. I did not consider that my installation has no online Microsoft account. But since Windows is closed source no one knows for sure what gets uploaded.

There is no recommendation that a user can decline. Windows uploads the keys without asking, without consent.

Realistically, there is no transition yet, there is only addition. The world is adopting new energy sources, but it is not exiting the old ones. Oil consumption keeps growing.

Technological solutions tend to cause just more and bigger problems. Why not change the processes that need to change anyway to transform agriculture into a sustainable activity? Like producing and distributing food locally, vegan, around the year, outside, and without fossil fuel based fertilizer. Furthermore, nitrogen being obtained by the plants themselves does nothing to solve the broken nitrogen cycle as long as nitrogen gets still flushed into waters instead of being collected and returned to the farmlands. You can’t fix an ecologically flawed process by attaching high-tech gimmicks.

The root cause of everything bad, the error of errors, is to have private property of the means of production. Without it, we’d have a wealthy, technologically advanced civilization within planetary boundaries. Socialism first!