Electric cars.
We *must*, we are told, build electric cars. For the Climate!®
There are about two billion cars and light trucks in the world today.
There are about 8 billion people.
So, there are enough cars for about 1 out of 4 humans to drive.
The other ¾ can just fucking walk.
2. We privileged ¼, though, for us, important persons that we are, it would be an utterly intolerable imposition that we had to live like three quarters of all humanity, shit people trudging on the filthy Earth.
We are far too important.
So, to Save The Planet®, we MUST
3. Immediately, promptly, quickly, mine enough copper to build two to three billion, hundred or more horsepower, electric motors.
We MUST immediately, promptly, quickly mine enough lithium and rare earths to build two to three billion 1500 pound batteries.
And we must NEVER STOP
4. WE HAVE TO DO THIS TO SAVE THE PLANET!
And fuck the other three quarters of humanity. They are trash. They are shit. They can walk to work at the copper mines.
For the climate!
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Passed the hundred page mark. I'm not hurrying. I might read a paragraph four times. The old brain does not assimilate information in the same way the same brain did when young, nor at the same speed.
Getting a fair number of assumptions and beliefs reset. Pleased about it.
One underlying belief has been, rather than reset, reinforced. That is, over our time here on Earth we have tried an incomprehensible different ways of organizing ourselves into societies.
Look at us today, I would say a majority of us don't believe humans could live without cars
3. At least, not have a decent life, a life worth living. We have reached the Pinnacle of Humanity.
Everyone before us was miserable. Three million years of miserable hominids glumphing around the savanna.
It's just a damn shame our way, The Best And Only Way, kills the biosphere
I tweeted this earlier, in the middle of another thread, but I want to address this question: do people think we can go on living like this and escape utter climate catastrophe?
I think the answer is, sort of, except they know there's an expiration date. Out there somewhere.
2. My opinion is just that, an opinion. It is based on responses to my climate / speed / energy threads going back three years, since I formed these theses.
I think most reasonable people think it's basically hopeless. I know all about the Not Giving Up school of thought. Good.
3. The Not Giving Up school of thought is, I feel, purest denialism. I can understand the roots of such an action, whether the decision be conscious or from another level, and maybe it's better. But it's not wired to reality. We are in full committed accelerationism, and physics.
A notable point the Davids make is that when there were still functioning American native societies in the fields and forests, people who found themselves in the other society, if they were Europeans relocated into native societies they usually stayed when they had a choice.
But Native people who got forcibly relocated into Euro society always went back when they got the chance.
I talk about slowing down, and people talk about sacrifice and wouldn't give up...
If there were no cars out on those roads I'd drive my donkeys to town every time.
More fun.
We've got this all wrong. White society, euro government, even if the people running the kleptocracy are actually black, it's this Euro money industrial system.
It's a terrible design. It can't be made to work. It blows up over and over.
This time it's gonna be *spectacular*.
There is no possibility that the current lifeways of developed societies can be maintained without continued degradation of the ecosystem to the ultimate point where it becomes unable to support us in anything approaching our current numbers.
And yes, that's how we stay alive.
2. This is a problem, because what we call climate change is but one symptom of broad ecosystem degradation and collapse.
Yes, carbon is a factor in climate change, but it is not the sole factor. And fuel carbon is even less the sole factor.
That doesn't imply we can keep burning
3. Sadly, virtually all "climate aware" people have been convinced that yes, since carbon is a problem, it must therefore be the only problem.
I find this odd. We all know about extinction. Deforestation. Desertification.
Don't we?
What I would like to see happen is for young people to form intentional communities of what I have been calling Apocalypse Amish.
I'm the founding preacher.
First came Menno Simons. Menno was a Protestant when it was still a new thing, back in old Europe.
He read the book -
2. Protestants got to read it for themselves - and he said, We Christians are too attached to the World. We are competing economically, and also for social status, with non-believers. We must focus on our Community of Believers, and not wear fancy clothes or shiny things.
3. And, Menno said, Children cannot understand baptism or belief, so only adult baptism counts.
And his followers all got Baptized again as adults.
And they took his name, and became Menno-nites.
And the neighbors burned their houses down, but that's a separate path from tonight.
She says the lower curve is the one we should take, but the upper curve is the one we are taking.
If only.
This happy upper curve implies we reduce our emissions by small amounts starting now, instead of big amounts starting now.
Yeah, like I said, if only.
Here's emissions now.
Not dropping
And yesterday the US celebrated what will be the biggest single increase in the 21st century.