Thread by @homemadeguitars

This is how you fight climate change.

https://twitter.com/idepfoundation/status/1442333966111887363

2. This is *the only way* to fight climate change. It requires slowing from "developed" speeds to food energy speeds as a component.
Not "renewable energy".
Less energy.

3. It is not only not necessary for societies to operate on high energy and speed, for the majority it is no improvement whatsoever, not if measured in mental and physical health and an overall sense of well-being. More stress, more danger, more anger, more required actions.

4. We live in a society in which all people have plastic particles in their blood, and almost all also have elevated levels of stress hormones. Fight-or-flight hormones.
Many with guns in their pockets.

5. We live in a society in which virtually all people are subject to artificial hormones, and artificial hormone inhibitors, in both their daily food and water. And we have a giant national pissing contest over who is what gender.
If we quit feeding ourselves poison a lot of that

6. would work itself out.

7. We claim to be science based, and concerned about climate change, and some of us even claim to care about mass extinction, and we all discuss with a straight face the climate benefits of a continent-wide highway construction project.
Concrete, steel, bulldozers, bright lights,

8. Across the few remaining living portions of our share of the North American continent, and it's for the climate, and we must and people won't.
There is no one Earth science specialty which trumps all the others. Anybody who tells you all we have to do is reduce emissions is,

9. To not put too fine a point on it,

10. A liar.

11. We have to reduce emissions as one item in a broad-based, knowledge based, evidence based, regeneration of a functioning global ecosystem and carbon cycle.
There is no science that says otherwise.
Technologists advertising machines to do that job while we all zoom around,

12. that's not science, that's capitalism.
Science is, the bees are going extinct and we know exactly what is killing them and we continue to do it.
Period.
It's all part of the system. It's faster, more person-hour efficient, and bigger.
As a society, we care or we don't care.

13. One permaculture project, if powered by food energy, applied by humans with or without animals helping, will be a net reduction in carbon annually, repeating, over the long run, with no external energy required.
No renewable energy machine ever invented can make that claim.

14. If the site glorified in this picture were covered with permaculture homesites it would be providing a net reduction in carbon today, now. This monster is concrete, steel, aluminum, copper, silicon crystal, and destroyed ecosystem.

15. If society wanted to combat climate change, mass extinction, mass poisoning, mass death by industrial effluvium, and actually fix something, it could fund families with donkeys to heal this ground.

16. If we quit wasting all this energy we wouldn't have to generate it.

https://twitter.com/NYinLA2121/status/1430986660280291330?s=19

17. For all the money everybody wants to piss away on renewable energy machines, and all the energy making them, we could easily afford to put all those same people to work on five to ten acre holdings, with donkeys, to do permaculture. Pay them a decent wage - they're actually

18. Fighting climate change.
I don't know how to make this any clearer: nothing you are being sold as "for the climate" will have any beneficial affect on emissions tonnage, but instead will worsen it, for at least a decade. Best case scenario.
A decade of increases.

19. If the Biden Administration wanted to pledge to reduce next year's emissions by some giant number, all they'd have to do to keep their promise is NOT BUILD THE FUCKING HIGHWAYS.
Not *do* anything. Just *not do* that one thing.
Be a huge reduction in emissions.

20. There is no thing which can be built, not electric cars, not solar panels, not wind turbines, not anything at all, which can match the emissions curve of not building it.
But land can be increased in biological complexity and do that, starting virtually immediately.

21. No highway, no parking lot, no factory, no improvement, is worth as much to humankind today as that same piece of land improved in ecosystem complexity and biological diversity.
That's the only thing humanity knows of which will remove carbon from the atmosphere and sink it.

22. Every energy driven service which humanity uses, virtually without exception, can be reduced in energy throughput by slowing.
Energy consumption is mass*distance. Rate of energy consumption is mass*distance*time. The faster you move a mass over a distance, the more energy

23. is consumed per unit of time.
Slow everything, reduce emissions. Slow any major thing, reduce emissions.
This isn't rocket science. This is high school science.

24. Without exception, there is no thing recommended by the United States government to "address climate change" or whatever sweet term they use - no part of it will reduce emissions soon, like this decade.

25. And every single piece of it will accelerate the process of climate change in the interim time.
Every single thing which *everyone agrees* we need to do to solve climate change will increase emissions now today. Without exception.
Slow down. Or blow up.