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.
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.
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/
Thank you,Mr Urban. I think we should form groups of neighbors for mutual aid and support.
That’s only going to take us so far.
https://climatecasino.net/2023/06/on-being-a-doomer/
Eliot Jacobson speaks for me with this article
On Being A Doomer
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.
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.
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.
Spot on
Excellent posting, Alan. Sobering but also good to face reality and prepare.
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?