umadon

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Superbugs in the Anthropocene(monthlyreview.org)
2 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
Right, of course. But I think the larger point still stands.
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by umadon 7y ago
Humans as a species are not to blame for the actions of the US military.
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by umadon 7y ago
Electric cars have always seemed like moving deck chairs on the Titanic. They depend on the same energy infrastructure, transit paradigms, and global supply chains as regular cars, they just don't directly burn fossil fuels.
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U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter(ecowatch.com)
92 points by umadon 7y ago|23 comments
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Deep adaptation, post-sustainability and the possibility of societal collapse(resilience.org)
1 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
People in power don't give a fuck. They assume that their wealth will insulate them from the worst of it (are they wrong?). The rest of us are just interchangeable rabble to them.
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by umadon 7y ago
Nice, I can wash the titanium oxide down with my SSRI-microplastic tap water while swimming in the local antibiotic river.
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by umadon 7y ago
People keep voting, meanwhile nothing's getting better.
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by umadon 7y ago
I don't see the US government (for one) having the teeth or even really desire to enforce any regulations absent a huge change.
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by umadon 7y ago
"the government arrests people and seizes factories that violate these ecological goals" Why isn't this a good thing? Shouldn't people who ignore ecological laws be punished? And anyway, how do you propose to fix climate
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by umadon 7y ago
Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez socialist? I got a bridge to sell you...
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Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels(climatenexus.org)
243 points by umadon 7y ago|214 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
Genetic determinism is an essential tenet of eugenics.
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by umadon 7y ago
Cool that you're out here deciding who is and isn't "dead weight."
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by umadon 7y ago
Rich person: "Don't blame the rich, blame the old."
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by umadon 7y ago
Probably the something else is the same thing that's happening with Huawei, that happened with Super Micro, etc.
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by umadon 7y ago
My point is that perhaps the US government should not be taken at its word.
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by umadon 7y ago
The U.S. says lots of things, especially about its rivals or targets. Meanwhile, literal, verified concentration camps exist on the US-Mexico border.
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by umadon 7y ago
Located in Beijing apparently, prominently displays public key in profile. Makes you think.
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by umadon 7y ago
Well that's exactly my point. The French Revolution, like the American, was ultimately a victory for the merchant classes. Of course the nobles and peasants had a rough time, as you put it. Not all revolutions have the same character o
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by umadon 7y ago
That very much depends on who you were before the revolution!
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by umadon 7y ago
This article is better than most, in that its conclusion steps outside the bizarro world of platonically ideal economics and mentions, ye gads, history and politics. But even so, it's worth nothing that the writer's paycheck depen
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by umadon 7y ago
What would compel these people to give up some of their riches for the well being of your average worker, though? Voting? Asking nicely?
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by umadon 7y ago
So what do you do with types like Calacanis in the better world you might envision?
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by umadon 7y ago
Not in American schools, certainly.
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by umadon 7y ago
This is exactly it. These articles offer an ultimately vacant catharsis in place of change. Afterwards, the type of people who read the New Yorker can go about their business, feeling full of rectitude and seriousness and even, perversely,
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by umadon 8y ago
I wonder if we could come up with some set of characteristics common to those groups, perhaps a useful umbrella term. Oh well, guess we can't!
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by umadon 8y ago
No surprise, I think, given who writes legislation and to whom legislators are most beholden.

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