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jackofalltrades

@jackofalltrades@mas.to

I'm here to learn about the world and work through my climate grief.

I post about politics, climate change, economics, philosophy, being a father, programming, games, and more.

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jackofalltrades, to random
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Turns out overengineering is timeless.

"The wheel was a tool for producing early encyclopedias and editions of classical works, tasks that require having many books open simultaneously so that information from multiple sources can easily be collated."

Just like having a big table? 😅

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/book-wheel-modern-search-engine-364122/

A librarian turning a giant book wheel. Wooden gears on the side move slowly.

jackofalltrades, to China
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/post-covid-china-is-back-africa-doubling-down-minerals-2024-05-28/

Eventually we'll run out of places to colonize.

But perhaps not before the climate crisis spins out of control.

jackofalltrades, to climate
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How conflict disrupts shipping routes, leading to more emissions.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE/COMPANIES-EMISSIONS/myvmanyrkvr/

#ClimateCrisis #war #ClimateChange #Israel #Palestine #ClimateDiary

Route from Hamburg to Jebel Ali: before conflict 22 days, after conflict 60 days Route from Norfolk (in the US) to Karachi: before conflict 35 days, after conflict 65 days
Route from Port Said to Salalah: before conflict 8 days, after conflict 30 days Route from Nemrut Bay to Port Rashid: before conflict 15 days, after conflict 40 days

jackofalltrades, to Futurology
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n15/james-meek/when-the-floods-came

This story repeats again and again.

The flood happened in 2007, but the instinct to shift the blame is ever present.

jackofalltrades, to Mexico
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"""
In the next 10 to 15 days, the country will experience the highest temperatures ever recorded.

Most of the metropolitan area's 21 million residents — accustomed to more temperate weather — lack air conditioning. Earlier this month, the capital was one of at least 10 cities in Mexico that registered their hottest day on record.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexico-heat-wave-1.7214308

#heatwave #Mexico #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

jackofalltrades, to random
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"""
Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’.

Many rivers are no longer flowing freely due to the construction of dams and other barriers, which block species’ migrations.

Other causes of decline include pollution from urban and industrial wastewater, and runoff from roads and farming. Climate breakdown is also changing habitats and the availability of freshwater. Unsustainable fishing is another threat.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/living-planet-index-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-decline-dams-weirs-mining-water-abstraction-pollution-threat-aoe

jackofalltrades, to Collapse
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Look at the Pope going full doomer.

"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-urges-action-on-climate-change-its-a-road-to-death/

#pope #PopeFrancis #doomer #doomerism #collapse #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

jackofalltrades, to random
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In the past, countries used fossil fuels to develop, as these happened to be the energy sources available. Now we have renewables, so we can abandon fossil fuels.

Environmental destruction is not inherent to industrial civilization, but is caused by capitalism. The growth imperative is a feature of capitalism and not part of any unchanging human nature.

By adopting a different economic/political system we can resolve all ecological tensions.

Is this story true? How would I know if it is?

jackofalltrades, to Norway
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"""
Breaking up with oil and gas was always going to be difficult for the owner of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—valued at $1.4 trillion. North Sea oil and gas, which accounts for 14% of Norway’s GDP, 40% of exports, and employs 7% of its workforce, has made the country one of the richest in the world, by GDP per capita.
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https://time.com/6098236/norway-climate-election-results/

jackofalltrades, to climate
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James Hansen as always with the good news.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/MayEmail.2024.05.16.pdf

jackofalltrades, to random
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Sand dunes by the Baltic Sea in May

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jackofalltrades, to climate
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One step forward, two steps back.

"""
"Due to the significant macroeconomic headwinds over the past 12 months, many of which we believe will continue to occur over the next 18 months and potentially beyond, we have decided to strategically pause our renewable diesel business and pivot to producing conventional fuels," Vertex CEO Benjamin Cowart said in a first quarter earnings statement.
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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/vertex-energy-pauses-renewable-diesel-output-switch-back-fossil-fuels-2024-05-09/

jackofalltrades, to Russia
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I guess that's the last place we haven't exploited yet...

😔

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/

#Russia #UK #Antarctica #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

jackofalltrades, to China
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"Lin’s mother was informed of her death two days later when CCP officials handed her a bill for the bullet used in Lin’s execution."

Goddamn, that's cruel.

https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/lin-zhao/

#China #history #communism

jackofalltrades, to China
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An honest look at both coal and renewables in China.

"Barring further extreme weather events" is an interesting condition in the era of climate disruption we're living through.

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/10/25/rooftop-solar-is-a-rational-and-important-step-in-chinas-path-to-peak-coal-use-a-rebuttal/

jackofalltrades, to climate
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Is it rude to check other people's predictions? I hope not.

US emissions in 2023 went down by just 1.9%.
Coal burning dropped by 17%.

Sources:
https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/110973530605105454

https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2023/

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec11_3.pdf

jackofalltrades, to climate
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https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Kfyx2FIJtM4

A lot in this interview resonated with me.

How social movements tend to fizzle out after presumably the "correct" people (like Democrats in the US) are elected to office.

Or how it's not hope that motivates people to move to the streets and demand change, but anger or sadness.

jackofalltrades, to China
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"""
Zhao Lianhai is a Chinese dissident and former food safety worker who became an activist for parents of children harmed during the 2008 Chinese milk scandal.

The police and/or public security bureau harassed him, his wife, his mother, his siblings, and volunteer students. The government also broke up meetings and a press conference.

In 2010 he was sentenced to two and half years imprisonment for 'disturbing social order'.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Lianhai

jackofalltrades, to China
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"""
Huang Qi is a Chinese webmaster and human rights activist from Sichuan. He is the co-founder of Tianwang Center for Missing Persons, with the initial mission of helping to counter human trafficking, later expanded to include campaign against human rights abuse.

Huang was imprisoned by the government from June 2000 to June 2005 and again arrested in July 2008 for "illegal possession of state secrets" after he helped the victims of the Sichuan earthquake.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Qi

jackofalltrades, to random
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Digging into this paper by Sullivan and Hickel, and I am a bit distressed by the way authors misrepresent and distort their sources to fit their political narrative.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

1/8

jackofalltrades, to Texas
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"""
Spot prices at the North Hub, which includes Dallas, jumped to more than $3,000 a megawatt-hour just before 7 p.m. local time, versus about $32 at the same time Tuesday, according to data from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Unusually hot weather in the region has boosted demand for cooling and lowered the efficiency of many power plants. Wind output has also fallen from a day earlier and there are more outages.
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https://archive.ph/Nbatb

#Texas #electricity #ClimateChange

jackofalltrades, to Collapse
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"""
Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C. Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C limit would be met.

Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

jackofalltrades, to sustainability
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If true, this is quite a problem for visions of a deglobalized, sustainable, post-fossil-fuels world.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0060-7

#sustainability #food #polycrisis #future #famine

jackofalltrades, to climate
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Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.

The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2024/04/big-data-reveals-true-climate-impact-of-worldwide-air-travel/

Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d

jackofalltrades, to climate
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"""
The destruction of the planet isn't a mistake, isn't a misunderstanding, isn't an accident. It's largely a deliberate process driven by economics and the material reality of the society we live in. Everything that we produce and consume in an industrial civilization is dependent upon the destruction of the planet.
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-- Max Wilbert

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