XCHAOS: tu elektrarnu modernizovali, pali tam ted plyn. No je to asi dusledek politiky predchoziho prezidenta. No ale kdyz se podivas do ceska, zjistis, ze CEZ i jini planuji ty same prestavby, tedy casto s kogeneracni moznosti, nebo dokonce i nutnosti.

Bringing Back Clean Air
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/15/bringing-back-clean-air/

Pro zajmavost a obhajce plynu

Gas stoves are especially problematic. As documented in the RMI report Health Effects from Gas Stove Pollution, these stoves can lead to indoor pollution levels that would be illegal outdoors. And this pollution poses a particular danger to children of color, who have higher asthma rates than White children.

TADEAS: vypada zajimave, ale libgen mlci :))

[DZODZO @ Elon Musk (SpaceX - Falcon / Dragon / Starship, Tesla Motors, Solarcity, Hyperloop, Neuralink, Starlink, Boring atd.)]
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Kate Wiseman
https://www.facebook.com/groups/deepadaptation/permalink/1764822427038651


I also wonder how much of this approach is our own discomfort at provoking in others the self-same difficult emotions that arose in us when we learned how bad the situation was? The understandable, but socially unacceptable appearance of fear, rage, grief, despair. These difficult feelings are repressed by most, not readily welcomed between us. Will we, as the messenger, be shot along with our painful message? Are we afraid to risk the transgression of social norms; a suicide by social rejection? A rejection which is painfully and viscerally processed in the soft, vulnerable animal of our body as a threat to our existence.

And I wonder if we are moved by an even greater fear; the rising to the surface of the true scale of those emotions lurking in the dark of our unconscious? Is our avoidance, the avoidance of the amplification of our own emotional responses in the communal feeling-togetherness which is a hallmark of our shared humanity? Do we fear that in community, the rising flood waters of emotion will break the banks protecting our most precious fantasies of independence, individuality and immortality? Do we fear that the turbulent waters will wash away everything we longed for, hoped to be, wanted to have, exposing us in the nakedness of our inter-neediness as the wretched, dependent and mortal creatures that we fear ourselves to be?
Of course, I am not arguing or advocating for any particular approach in communicating the climate and ecological emergency. Rather to expose ourselves more truly in the self-protectionist opinions and beliefs that we may hold and to invite ourselves to ask tough questions about what we think is right or wrong, skillful or unskillful action as we face the greatest catastrophe in the history of humanity.

Does the last grain of sand to slip through the narrow neck of the hourglass believe that it has time for time to take time?

Will we hold ourselves knowingly and lovingly in the consciousness of our own fear and denial and act from there?

Or, will the loyalty to our belief in the taking-of-time be prised from the cold, rigid, dead last pair of human hands?

No one to chisel the epitaph ‘it takes time’ ‘on the tombstone of our humanity.

They Thought They Had the Energy | Online Only | n+1
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/they-thought-they-had-the-energy/

there is a lot of work currently on climate attribution, but I think it is true that we can absolutely say that we’re more likely to see events that take our systems outside of design parameters.

There are a lot of different kinds of things that can go wrong that all have their own periodicity and all have their own probabilities. You might have a one-in-100-year event of heat one year then have a one-in-100-year event of cold the next year.

With climate change, we are seeing a lot more specific types of weather. There’s some debate on whether these big cold-weather events are likely to become more frequent, more extreme, longer, et cetera. In general, the types of extreme events that we can plan to see are pretty variable and all have slightly different implications for what you would do to prepare. What’s definitely true is that we are likely to see things that are far outside of what we planned on.

But it’s not just climate and weather that make these events bad. A lot of the time, it’s really the intersection between unusual events—events that are outside design parameters—and the fact that on the infrastructure side we have a lot of issues with long-term deferred maintenance and obsolescence.

It’s this intersection between technological problems, climate problems, and governance problems—it’s not usually just one thing that fails.

So Texas was an extreme event on the winter weather front, but also, a lot of the infrastructure that we thought was going to perform under those conditions didn’t. And then in terms of notifications, there was a lot of mix-up in terms of who was supposed to be doing what. We had failures in all three of those arenas, and probably more. It’s not just that it was cold.


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With the energy sector, if we want to mitigate, we actually do have to go build the whole thing back again. That’s a huge window of opportunity for really thinking about what we’re going to build. We’re not just trying to maintain and replace things that break—we’re trying to completely remake that system. There’s this massive need for investment that actually lines up with the timelines that we use for some of these climate goals.

And then to also have a new administration that’s interested in pursuing some of those goals, it really is a very unusual opportunity.