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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

3 Jan

I try to write a climate / ecosystem / biosphere / natural science thread every night.
On the one hand, I understand that it's probably hopeless.
Exactly zero of the big climate accounts will specifically recommend slowing to reduce energy throughput.
I've asked them to.

I've gotten blocked for it. Because I refuse to sign on to renewable energy machinery at any scale.
If we need some, fine, we've already got some.
Use that.
Start paying back your carbon debt, instead of adding to it like a payday loan forever.
Reduce energy use today.

3. There is, to the best of my knowledge, not one big-league, hundred-k follower, climate activist account on Twitter that routinely advocates any specific action to reduce emissions today.
Not one.
We know how.
It's free.
It actually reduces costs.
Not. One. Climate. Spokesman.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

3 Jan

Well, with the Biden Administration almost a year in service, I can no longer call the VA and talk to a human pharmacist. Could last year, but now it's 100% machines.
But at least the fucking US Mail is still dead, so I can't count on my scripts that way.
Build more highways!
🤮

The biggest problem the VA has it that veterans aren't dying young enough. There's a bunch of worthless old farts who aren't computer hotdogs, and everybody knows anyone who isn't tech savvy should just fucking die.
I used to be an IT professional, but now I'm just old. Useless.

After you fire all the people who used to answer phones, the only way to employ them is burning fossil fuels to build highways.
Progress!
I'll die when I can't get any more thyroid hormone.
But we'll have electric cars, running on coal on brand new highways.
For the climate!

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

2 Jan

I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet that the world's capacity to build renewable energy conversion devices - solar panels & wind turbines in particular - I'd bet the factories are all running flat out, pedal the metal, all they can produce.
We know for sure that China,

2. The world's leading producer of solar panels, is adding new coal generation plants almost non-stop because demand for their manufactured products is greater than they have the energy supply to serve.
Build new plants.
Coal is cheap.
Walmart likes cheap. America likes cheap.

3. Everybody yells at the fossil fuel companies and blames them that nobody started building renewables large scale 40 years ago.
40 years ago we were worrying about acid rain. I was 34.
Fossil Fuel Corporations don't build *anything.*
They take orders from customers for fuel,

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

1 Jan

I don't know if I do or not, Paul. It appears that our senses of dread differ from one another.

2. You say your greatest dread is that our original form of government might fall, but I consider that to be a past tense issue. If representative government in the US hasn't fallen, how could I tell by looking? What would be different?

3. Meanwhile, ecosystem catastrophe, commonly mis-identified / minimized as climate change, us upon us and raging, and virtually 100% of the public conversation about it is wildly fictional.
So I don't know if dread is even the right term.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

1 Jan

I'm scatterbrained. More than usual. I was working on my work cart this afternoon and just wandered off and left my tools out.
Realized it just a little bit ago.
Gettin' pretty chilly. You'd think it was winter if you didn't know better.
North wind is up.

2. So I changed a few gates up at the barn, set it up for donks in, and closed the top half of the east stall door. Let them warm up some.
There's no electricity in the barn, so I had a little LED work light thingy and could see pretty well. The donks aren't used to artificial

3. light, at least not here, but Sydney's got lights in her barn, and that's where Clara was born. I got the girls from Sydney. So Clara didn't bat an eye, just came right in.
Her mom is perfectly happy to let her go barge into things. Missy is more thoughtful.

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Jeff McFadden

@homemadeguitars

25 Dec 21

First time I tried to farm with animals I started with draft horses. My mistake.
We're so focused on high power. Even draft horses were too big, too fast, and required too much energy input to operate.
The tool defines the job.
This is me at 42.

2. I had this gut feeling that we'd fucked up when we went over to cars, trucks, and tractors, but I hadn't thought it through yet.

3. A guy offered me a good deal on a team of fuzzy mules about the size of my current team, but, oh, no, I had to have draft horses.
Permaculture had already been invented, but I hadn't crossed its path. Didn't know it existed. I was getting my info from the Extension Office.

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