The long shadow of “I just wanna grill” is made of wildfire smoke.

Most people don’t care or have no power.

It gets worse when you realize antivaxxers exist.

Their previous excuse was that Musk was going fund their competitors in primaries. Didn’t Musk back out recently?

Even without greed, even if these companies were non-profit, the risks would remain and the future would be uninsurable. Insurance costs need to be reduced by reducing the real risks: from not building in a tinder box to building fortified/resistant constructions. Yes, that is going to be much more expensive. That is the point too: the construction developers are grifting the buyers by selling constructions that don’t have a long-term future. People wouldn’t pay a boatload of money for temporary constructions, which is what is happening when you run the risk of storms or fires destroying your building every couple of years.

What this means is that building development needs to happen in safe places and with a high-density that reduces costs. The bourgeois lifestyle is not and can never be scaled up for the masses.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

I dont think the weather is going to be our worst problem. Its going to be ourselves.

Climate is not weather per se. Climate heating and chaos means that drinking water and food are going to become an issue; that’s while you’re taking in smoke pollution outdoors and sweltering indoors.

I’m not concerned with AI so much for the simple fact that electric grids, data centers and even chip production aren’t going to do well in a hot and chaotic climate.

Those 2050s are going to be coming sooner than expected.

The current adult generations don’t comprehend that they’re sacrificing the children’ future (and thus, the children) in order to maintain their Business As Usual lifestyle and dreams of being rich. It’s all “what about me tho?”, “it’s someone else’s problem”, “it wasn’t me!” All of this is very easy to do. It’s like stealing candy potable water from a baby.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

I was referring to the origin of domesticated grasses. If you want to understand the origin of grasses, that’s a different set of literature.

Grasses are older than humans.

My point is that, if you study land ecology and history of ecosystems, and if you study human civilizations, you’ll see a pattern of “those who learn to keep the forest ecosystems survive for longer”. It becomes more obvious when you understand the role of forests in the water cycle over land. Those who cut or burned the forests tend to fail; cutting trees isn’t necessarily the end of a forest, but pastoralists ensure that forests end by coming in with herds of ruminants and spreading grasslands. Ruminants, fire, axes.

There’s an ancient war between forests and grasslands. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152402

Humans are mobile jungle forest, that’s our ape origin. So it is depressing that we betrayed our niche. There are consequences.

It is a complicated relationship. I’ve argued before that we should not have betrayed the forest. This recurrent betrayal is a great way to map out our path to extinction.

But it’s worth mentioning how we got that fat grass : The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming | PLOS One

I’ve had arguments with someone who believed that the grass-fed cows don’t impact the water reserves in the area because the cows urinate on the soil.

OK, finally got through it.

1. There is no perfect term to use. A term is infused with meaning by people over time, transforming like a fossilization process, but with culture.
2. If you agree that no perfect term can exist, perfect in that self-explanatory and “immortal definition” sense, then you have to agree that a lot of thought needs to go into how a term can be used and abused, how it can be shifted, how aesthetic it is, and so on. Those are jobs for writers and very creative people.
3. If you really want it to be big, the term probably needs to be internationalized. If your term is very ‘englishy’, then it’s no bueno. The term “vegan” at least sounds similar in many languages and is novel and short, two syllables, so it’s easy to learn and not confuse with others.

Sentientism and many like it are great, but those are more academic terms. It’s great if you read books, but look up the statistics on reading non-fiction non-self-help books.

Animalism does sound cool, but I can imagine 10 different ways it could wrong easily, including being subsumed into some weird primitivist human supremacism.

The conservative influencer, who had been zealously tweeting about the dangers of foreign tech workers, discovered her posts suddenly receiving mere human levels of engagement after her top 50,000 “heartland American” followers mysteriously went offline during the India vs Pakistan cricket final (a traditional American sport played exclusively in places like Texas and definitely not the subcontinent).

hahahaha

I’m vegan btw