DRAFT – needs more work The CEO of a large oil company made a statement about climate change, suggesting that consumers are to blame for the slow progress in addressing the issue. According to him, the companies have the technology to produce lower-carbon fuels, but consumers are unwilling to pay the premium for these greener…
Slogan for #openweb: “Technology’s job is to hold the trust in place”
The #Fediverse is a vibrant and active #openweb project, currently one of the healthiest “native” parts of this path. Definitions can be loose; making things overly rigid is a #Geekproblem that fosters conflict.This is why the #4opens is about interpretation and judgment. Some “native” examples we are working on: Principles for #OGB (Open Governance Body)…
A messy job, but with the right tools and approach, we can make progress
The neoliberal world-view is designed to replace trust with greed as the social motivator. Of course, all successful societies are based/built on trust, so neoliberalism is building a #deathcult. The current #climatechaos and social decay are simple to understand outcomes. If you’re wondering why this is useful, it’s an important part of a conversation and…
The Role of Academia in Climate Action
The balance is currently out, between more research to tell us what we already know about #climatechaos, the ecological overshoot and the urgent need to reduce material and energy consumption and actually doing something about this. Our challenge lies in shifting social norms, implementation and growing public engagement to enact these changes and most importantly…
The blindness of fluffy and spiky liberals
The last 40 years of social and environmental mismanagement have brought us the onrushing disaster of #climatechaos and social break down. This situation highlights a troubling reality about society. On one side, we have the powerful and fundamental evil entities responsible for the harm. On the other side, there’s a small movement of activists pushing…
Tension in contemporary politics
In the #liberal approach to politics and economic systems, they have an ambition to save the world, they champion progressive causes such as climate change mitigation, social justice, and human rights. Their strategy to mediate the current mess involves leveraging the existing political and economic systems to achieve these goals, believing that reforms lead to…
The Illusion of Realism in the era of the #deathcult
Our “common sense” in capitalism disregards the history of socio-economic material conditions, #classwar, #ecocide, debt, slavery, violence, and oppression. In this we are currently blinded by the myth that there is no alternative to the current crap system, this willfull blindness obscures the brutal realities on the edge of our lives. The narrative is one…
We need to be disturbed
We are in a mess with the building #climatecrisis due to our collective refusal to acknowledge reality, after 40 years of worshipping the #deathcult I am not actually sure meany people know what reality is. What we’re experiencing now is a preview of what’s to come. It’s going to get far worse, and then it…
A Mental Health Time-Bomb
The Imminent Collapse: The science is irrefutable: our civilization is on the brink of imminent, violent collapse due to environmental degradation and #climatechaos. Yet, the political establishment and #mainstreaming media is dominated by those who profit from this collapse, ensuring that the public remains, unfocused, uninformed and distracted by inanity and bile. This toxic combination…