The problem with percentages.
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The conceptual shift has to be moving from ingenuity applied to global scale of production to local scale of production, where everyone is well fed well housed well closed and well taken care of and health for example. These are the basics and the purpose of the local focus is lead with by finding what we need locally first
This means that the focus changes you can still have machinery and shit like that but the need to produce at volume evaporates.
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But the other hook in the global economy, addiction that we’ve all been indoctrinated into is that volume equals low price. The lie in this is that volume means consolidated wealth consolidated. Wealth comes from scale and scale, always demands energy intensity.
The global economy is by definition planet, destroying because it clause resources from around the world ships it across the planet consuming tons of energy that by definition require immense amounts of resources to produce
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But the other hook in the global economy, addiction that we’ve all been indoctrinated into is that volume equals low price. The lie in this is that volume means consolidated wealth consolidated. Wealth comes from scale and scale, always demands energy intensity.
The global economy is by definition planet, destroying because it clause resources from around the world ships it across the planet consuming tons of energy that by definition require immense amounts of resources to produce
9/nLook at that lovely fruit cup in the store the next time you’re there. It’s peaches or something in a syrup in a little plastic cup. The fruit are grown, maybe in Chile and they are grown with pesticides and herbicides and all that shit and all that fruit is packed up and shipped to say Vietnam where it’s put into diced up and put in the little cops with the syrup with the plastic that was manufactured by the petrochemical industry then shipped around the world
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Look at that lovely fruit cup in the store the next time you’re there. It’s peaches or something in a syrup in a little plastic cup. The fruit are grown, maybe in Chile and they are grown with pesticides and herbicides and all that shit and all that fruit is packed up and shipped to say Vietnam where it’s put into diced up and put in the little cops with the syrup with the plastic that was manufactured by the petrochemical industry then shipped around the world
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All that for a fucking food cup. Leaving behind it all the energy burnt all the resources spent shipping fruit around the fucking world to be chopped up, put into syrup and into a plastic container with a bit of aluminum, stuck on top, and then shipped globally, and we’re all told the message but this is a economically efficient way to do it. It’s cheap.
It’s cheap because energy and plastic was cheap. What do we focus on? Let’s replace the plastic cup with bio plastics.
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All that for a fucking food cup. Leaving behind it all the energy burnt all the resources spent shipping fruit around the fucking world to be chopped up, put into syrup and into a plastic container with a bit of aluminum, stuck on top, and then shipped globally, and we’re all told the message but this is a economically efficient way to do it. It’s cheap.
It’s cheap because energy and plastic was cheap. What do we focus on? Let’s replace the plastic cup with bio plastics.
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We can completely ignore the total absurdity of shipping fruit to Asia to be processed, packaged into a little plastic cups, and then distributed globally, so some rich fat, fucking asshole can make people work in the worst conditions imaginable for pennies while they have more money than God.
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We can completely ignore the total absurdity of shipping fruit to Asia to be processed, packaged into a little plastic cups, and then distributed globally, so some rich fat, fucking asshole can make people work in the worst conditions imaginable for pennies while they have more money than God.
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“ The following year there was a new energy crisis: A severe drought in Sichuan caused output to drop from the province’s hydroelectric plants, normally the source of 80 percent of its electricity. Factories were ordered to close or reduce their output to save households from power cuts, and applications for permission to build new coal-fired power plants reached record levels as provincial authorities worried about having the energy to meet their economic growth targets.”
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All that for a fucking food cup. Leaving behind it all the energy burnt all the resources spent shipping fruit around the fucking world to be chopped up, put into syrup and into a plastic container with a bit of aluminum, stuck on top, and then shipped globally, and we’re all told the message but this is a economically efficient way to do it. It’s cheap.
It’s cheap because energy and plastic was cheap. What do we focus on? Let’s replace the plastic cup with bio plastics.
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“ The following year there was a new energy crisis: A severe drought in Sichuan caused output to drop from the province’s hydroelectric plants, normally the source of 80 percent of its electricity. Factories were ordered to close or reduce their output to save households from power cuts, and applications for permission to build new coal-fired power plants reached record levels as provincial authorities worried about having the energy to meet their economic growth targets.”
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Do people understand how insane it is to throw ourselves onto things like hydroelectric, where, by the way entire bio regions are drowned for the reservoir, which then becomes an intense source of methane because of all the organic matter that is killed or that washes into it and then rots. Plus the intense amounts of concrete and steel used to make these mega dams they are now building.
We live in a world of higher climate volatility.
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Do people understand how insane it is to throw ourselves onto things like hydroelectric, where, by the way entire bio regions are drowned for the reservoir, which then becomes an intense source of methane because of all the organic matter that is killed or that washes into it and then rots. Plus the intense amounts of concrete and steel used to make these mega dams they are now building.
We live in a world of higher climate volatility.
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The flow of water into these dams can’t be predicted in the long-term, how can you build a dam without understanding the environmental conditions it’s supposed to operate in?
The world we live in now makes long-term large skill infrastructure economically in solving because in two decades, the project may not be suited for the operating environment, as China is finding out. And its reaction is burn more coal. They will keep doing that in order to protect the economic pathway they chose
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The flow of water into these dams can’t be predicted in the long-term, how can you build a dam without understanding the environmental conditions it’s supposed to operate in?
The world we live in now makes long-term large skill infrastructure economically in solving because in two decades, the project may not be suited for the operating environment, as China is finding out. And its reaction is burn more coal. They will keep doing that in order to protect the economic pathway they chose
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So I think this rant of mine is winding down, but I’m going to point out just the kind of conundrum China is stuck in. In order to build more coal plants they probably need to build more water management system systems that is more dams, but the entire process assumes stable, hydrological psychos in other words, a stable climate of predictable water supply. We don’t live in that world anymore.
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So I think this rant of mine is winding down, but I’m going to point out just the kind of conundrum China is stuck in. In order to build more coal plants they probably need to build more water management system systems that is more dams, but the entire process assumes stable, hydrological psychos in other words, a stable climate of predictable water supply. We don’t live in that world anymore.
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They can build the dams they can build the aquifer, but they can’t rely on water coming through them to mine, process and supply a coal power generation plant and they can have rely on stable climate to manufacture all the alternative energy either. All that stuff requires raw material materials that have to be produced assuming a stable climate
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