Thread by @JeffAndDonkeys

I state as a thesis that the best chance humanity has to go escape the worst of the ecosystem catastrophe which is currently in progress is to reduce all energy use to historically available food energies, mill ponds, sailing ships, no cars, airplanes, steamships, trucks.

2. The primary and most highly rewarded daily activity for people everywhere would be to participate in a system which steadily increases ecosystem productivity at all levels everywhere.
Humans would rearrange themselves across the landscape in such a way that the most good

3. could be done with the least energy.
Society would bear no outward resemblance to today. There would be no thing in use that moved faster than its own living ability. Feet would be the default transportation, with upgrades available to buggies.

4. A walking speed economy distributes itself so that resources are available within walking distance. People still do it today all over the world. It's not a mystery.

4. Today the way wealth is created is, we extract resources at all levels, and sell them for money, and the faster we tear Earth apart the richer a few people get.
We have to value ecosystem enhancement with whatever we call wealth in that time.

5. Instead of making a few people rich with ecosystem degradation, we need to design a system wherein money flows much more slowly, and always towards ecosystem enhancement.
Billionaires are a sign of a failed society.

6. Fossil fuel is irrelevant. Talking about fossil fuel is meaningless. If we could live exactly like we live today with zero carbon emissions worldwide the ongoing ecosystem catastrophe wouldn't even blink. We'd go right on paving and killing at our current rate, no change.

7. We'd go right on pumping plastic into the oceans and our blood. I don't know who convinced Americans that it's scientific to pretend we're not biological creatures, but we are.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but our current society, in which every driver or passenger

8. In typical freeway traffic has elevation levels of stress hormones in their blood has also resulted in a pretty grouchy and high-strung populace.
Our current society in which every developing human consumes hormone antagonists and hormone emulators in their water,

9. We're also having a raging fight over gender identities, and it's not even allowed to acknowledge that we're running a society-wide science experiment with no control group and the outcomes are not to be associated with the experiment.
I object.
But I digress.

10. The entire global "climate" conversation is based on keeping the status quo.
I believe that the status quo is untenable, regardless of the source of the energy. I do not believe any science exists to disprove that statement.
Therefore, building grid scale wind turbines, solar

11. panels, battery storage facilities, and all that goes with it, is directly harmful right now today and should be halted, along with all highway construction, and then look at ways to slow all production, transportation, consumption, and physical speed.
Speed requires cement.

12. I ask for a public conversation about the reality of fossil fuels: we use them to go fast, do things fast, and if we want to use less of them in the real world the way is to slow processes down. Slow the economy. Intentionally create a recession, a depression, and then design

13. an economy which will allow everyone to eat, to sleep warm, to live a decent life, but - not at the scale we live it now. A permanent recession.
To recede is to degrow. The only difference between me and #degrowth is I say how to do it. Slow down.

14. The Biden "climate" plan is a monumental hoax. It's a Ponzi scheme in glass, steel, plastic, and copper. It's a gigantic increase in everyday emissions right now and for a long time to come.

15. All the White House does every day is brag about all the new energy demand they're creating. Jobs. Economic growth. We'll build a buncha shit to fix the climate in ten years but right now what we really need is more high tech jobs because those are the Well Paying Jobs™.

16. We're back to what we value. The government creates the work, the government creates the money, obviously the government prefers ecosystem degrading work over ecosystem improvement, more emissions over not adding to our existing emissions base.
When you're in a hole stop.

17. The government could be parking roadside maintenance tractors and hiring people to do good work carefully, and Well Pay Them, dammit. It's all a choice. Who said knowing electricity was more valuable than knowing roadside plants?

18. Say Ray County, where I live, decided that they wanted to manage the roadside they currently manage in ways to maximize its biological productivity. The most songbirds, most bees, the most beneficial bugs, the most fruits and nuts. All these things grow wild in Missouri.

19. Now they send out a person on a John Deere tractor with a space program robot arm with a brush hog on the end of it, and they just brutally savage the roadside woods.
Then another person comes by and sprays poison on what grows back. This is efficient. We are told.

20. And to be Well Paid you need to go to college or at least community college and do technology For The Climate.

21. It's not The Climate. It's not climate change. It's not fossil fuels. It's the global ecosystem catastrophe and we're well past the first intermission. And got the pedal to the metal.