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by spodek 5y ago
No tech magazine posts short quotes from other sources. Low tech magazine posts longer, original articles. Same people behind them, as best I can tell.
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by spodek 5y ago
We can't change the past so have decades to centuries of climate change to handle, but we can do a lot more to stop future contributions to climate change. The biggest effect anyone can have, beyond fewer kids, less meat, and flying le
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People kept saying, "Josh, you have to get on Clubhouse. It's growing fast. A land grab. People are staking claims. You could be the sustainability guy on the site. Don't miss it." I don't use Apple, so had to b
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by spodek 5y ago
I consider No and Low Tech Magazine among the best sites on the web. He's living by different values than mainstream. He loves technology and he loves sustainability. For many those loves conflict. They keep seeing attempts to make thi
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Unless we choose not to use it. Our culture values growth and extraction. Other cultures have lived far longer than the period from the Industrial Revolution until now, often with higher marks of health, longevity, abundance, and prosperity
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by spodek 5y ago
As long as the hardware runs Linux, I'm going to overwrite the operating system, so I'm indifferent. I've bought all my recent computers used from Craigslist and Linux runs great on all of them.
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by spodek 5y ago
Regarding the environment and humans decreasing the Earth's ability to sustain life, the tech community doesn't seem to pick up on the pattern that technology augments the users' goals and values. As long as our culture value
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by spodek 5y ago
Role models help tremendously. So far we've had them almost uniquely in the other direction, but the motivation to follow will become overwhelming. Soon even Americans will choose not to run a/c 24/7 May to September and fly
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by spodek 5y ago
We've changed many practices against pure profitability, including asbestos, marketing cigarettes to children, HCFCs, and slavery. We may not have reached 100% on each, but we've changed a lot. We have other values than money.
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by spodek 5y ago
Increasing solar and decreasing oil are largely independent. History shows that when we find new energy sources, we keep using the old and add the new. Solar allows us to keep doing some things that oil powers, but we would stop using oil a
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by spodek 5y ago
They talk about regional flight. Does anyone have any sign that battery-powered planes carrying a hundred people will cross the Atlantic, Pacific, or the U.S.? The physics in Tom Murphy's textbook https://dothemath.ucsd.edu&
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by spodek 5y ago
He focuses on shoplifting in San Francisco. Over here on the other coast, I focus on littering in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, though related to the broad-daylight wide-open sales and use of heroin and crack combined by the police r
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by spodek 5y ago
> I assume Karachi isn’t that bad yet. Weather or climate? Weather is incidental. In terms of climate, further increases for decades are locked in from past emissions we can't change. For the present, at each moment, we can choose t
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by spodek 5y ago
If by norm you mean the slope, yes. If you meant the y intercept, no. Soon it will be hotter. In Karachi and where you live too. To change the slope, exactly two things work: reducing our consumption and reducing our birth rate. Mechai Vira
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by spodek 5y ago
It would mean many people wouldn't choose to live flying distance from their families in the first place and they would go to local events, and people would connect more with local community.
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There's so much to object to about the idea that Earth is overpopulated. Then you get it and it hits you like a ton of bricks. The signs are everywhere and couldn't be more clear. But we're addicted to growth and efficiency,
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Wow, right out of the song: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot . . . They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum, and charged the people a dollar and a half to see them. Don't it always seem to go, you don't kn
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by spodek 5y ago
The first words of the first link returned searching on "what is extinction rate" says > Life on Earth is under pressure > By the end of the century, half of all species could be facing extinction. The rate of species ext
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by spodek 5y ago
That was the case decades ago. Since then consumer culture has exploded the quantity of garbage and plastic has turned it from in principle biodegradable to lasting millennia and poisonous. Mountains of garbage like the ones in India didn&#
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by spodek 5y ago
Its average garbage level looks like the CO2 levels in the Scripps Observatory graph -- https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png : seasonal ups and downs over a long-term increase. Meanwhile,
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by spodek 5y ago
Here's the video in the post: https://youtu.be/-P0VcMekbO4 and the beginning text: Following up my last video on what American culture is doing to what could be one of its jewels, here is a shorter, punchier view of Wa
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“Pride Destroyed the Park”, Washington Square Park After a Parade [video](joshuaspodek.com)
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by spodek 5y ago
Schools and districts serve the bureaucracy more than the students, teachers, or parents, it seems to me. Not sure when the transition happened. Probably generations ago.
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by spodek 5y ago
Let's remember that the greatest efficiency comes in not shipping so much stuff. We ship a lot of junk. Buying less stuff would lower emissions with no costs. On the contrary, we'd improve our lives.
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by spodek 5y ago
Exactly. McDonald's doesn't sell food. I call it "doof", which is food backward, plus more meaning, as in this podcast: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...
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In this community, I think you can say, "The more you tighten your grip, Bezos, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
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Any one plastic bottle affects a yet smaller fraction, and yet we have several ocean gyres filled with material that will last centuries. And they're growing. I hadn't thought of this consideration before the grandparent of this p
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We Can Dance Around Environmental Problems All We Want. We Eventually Reach Overpopulation and Overconsumption: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... .
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by spodek 5y ago
It's difficult to believe something when the evidence opposes it and keeps growing. You can't change where you were born, but if you could it would lead to a better life more than hard work.

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