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Thank you,Mr Urban. I think we should form groups of neighbors for mutual aid and support.

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That’s only going to take us so far.

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Jan 18·edited Jan 18Liked by Alan Urban

https://climatecasino.net/2023/06/on-being-a-doomer/

Eliot Jacobson speaks for me with this article

On Being A Doomer

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That’s true, Brian. I’m talking about mutual as and support for people who’ve Accepted collapse and have read and u derstood Jem Bendell, Deep adaptation, Michael Dowd,(post doom) conversations, etc. It’s a grief process.

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Hello. I won't argue about "we've fucked up " and need to deal with it. That's been my thinking for quite a while now, but I still have some hope that our ways of dealing with our situation will change.

Not hope for a world of many billions of people living as we in the western world live, but hope of surviving the sixth extinction and bringing enough other species through it to create a pretty wonderful world in a relatively few generations ( maybe 50 generations? ) IDK.

I am utterly amazed at what nature, biology, or Gaia (choose your word) does when given even a tiny chance and a little time without our machines actively destroying things.

Anyway, I appreciate your essay . And even if we don't make it, we need to be grateful for being around through this great experiment of intelligent life on a pale blue dot floating in the Comos.

Thank you for your well written thoughts.

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I kinda feel like, if this is the best we could do with the wealth of human knowledge we have accumulated, perhaps it’s best if we don’t.

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Spot on

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Excellent posting, Alan. Sobering but also good to face reality and prepare.

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The Energy Transition is NOT hamstrung by critical minerals or rare earths. Engineers have already cooked up alternative versions of wind and solar and EV and grid storage we need - all running on super abundant materials that make up a good fraction of the earth’s crust! Silicon is 27%, aluminium 8%, iron ore 5%, and there’s enough lithium for about twice the 1.4 billion vehicles we have today. (As an Ecocity guy - I don’t even really like cars! Just being honest!) Heavier sodium batteries for the grid can be made from sea-salt, agri-waste, and aluminium. All super-abundant. Then there’s 100 TIMES the potential pumped hydro sites we need. NOT on river - damaging our last river ecosystems. OFF-river! For a summary of the brands, try here. https://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/materials/

https://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/lithium/

Ai has invented permanent magnets that don’t need rare earths. Popular Mechanics – June 2024

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a61147476/ai-developed-magnet-free-of-rare-earth-metals/

And a lithium battery with more power that uses 70% LESS lithium. https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/how-ai-and-hpc-are-speeding-up-scientific-discovery/

Who knows what it will cook up next?

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