stephenson (scifi) ma ten geoinzeneering naopak, jednotlivci globalniho severu to delaji, protoze severu to pomaha s vedrem, jenomze zaroven indii to rozbije monsun, takze se to snazi zastavit.
jinak co se tyce knih, tak nova na tema ze lidi jsou neodolatelne pritahovani uhlikem (energy dense) a bylo by potreba, aby bylo mene lidi. laicky se mi to nezda. lidi jsou pritahovany tim, co je pohodlne. kdyby bylo pohodlne slunce, tak na uhlik kaslou.
societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable, and those who manage to survive the mass death and crumbling of the world as we know it will have to live in drastically transformed circumstances. According to Jackson and Jensen, there’s no averting this collapse – electric cars aren’t going to save us, and neither are global climate accords. The current way of things is doomed, and it’s up to us to prepare as best we can to ensure as soft a landing as possible when the inevitable apocalypse arrives.
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“caught in a big Ponzi scheme that we’ve probably had for 10,000 years. We know how Ponzi schemes tend to end. They’re not nice things to have to deal with.”
The answer to this Ponzi scheme involves shrinking humanity from the current 7.7 billion people to a more sustainable 2 or 3 billion."
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LOL guardian: the authors make no effort to address the fact that such a population decline would probably be an absolute disaster for marginalized ethnicities and sexualities, those who are disabled or mentally unwell, and basically anyone not deemed fit for survival in the new world
to se smeju ze jako ty woke media porad resi ty pokrocily lidsky prava (marginalized sexualities), odmitajice si priznat, ze lidsky prava zustanou dve: poslouchat v autoritarske hierarchii, anebo se nekde snazit skrz pravo silnejsiho
‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis | Books | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/31/an-inconvenient-apocalypse-climate-crisis-book