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Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

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ikanreed posted:

The oil industry put out a "co2 is plant food" disinfo campaign starting about 2010.


The flaws with this are easy to point out and irrelevant because they aren't backed with literally billions.

you could probably get a lib to pause by blaming oil industry propaganda on the russians

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Pf. Hikikomoriarty
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A Bad King posted:

Lmao we will have a solid 20 year window where the poor and the global south will be told by the west to just die quietly, even when we will have internal displacements that will eventually either fracture federalism or empower an authoritarianism we won't be able to shake off for decades more?

God wills it, or some other reactionary slogan copped from a video game.

blame yourself or god

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

Reality stopped being a thing a while back. Need to get with the programme, because nothing we do has consequences and so we are finally free.

But also maybe we can bargain with reality if it does actually exist.

'Economist: That’s a striking result. Could not technology pipe or beam the heat elsewhere, rather than relying on thermal radiation?'

loving lol

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

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Stereotype posted:

just make entropy decrease stupid

number.
go.
up.

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

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ok you can in fact achieve infinite growth within the physical universe by dumping exponentially increasing amounts of matter into a black hole

until you run out of things to dump in the black hole of course

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
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celadon posted:

Arguably this makes coal more economical by allowing its co2 output to be sold lol

jevons paradox strikes again

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

Lol yea early covid when planes were flying all over the planet completely empty should have dispelled any myth of individual action on air travel emissions

the fault lies not in our stars but in our systems

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
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hegel may have thought the stars were a gleaming leprosy in the sky but they are in fact the very furnaces of true alchemy

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The Oldest Man posted:

I think the thing that just flummoxes me is how utterly captured by propaganda these people are that they don't even see the onrushing calamity. History is so ended for them that they look at military defeats, collapsing housing markets, mass homelessness, even millions dead of disease and just go "well that doesn't change anything and nothing will ever change!"

propaganda is as much about giving people permission to adopt comfortable beliefs as it is actually convincing people rhetorically

it makes sense that people react this way, the on rushing calamity is upsetting and terrifying and many people prefer to be told no that won't happen

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Feb 15, 2003

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Nix Panicus posted:

Reducing carbon emissions would crash the carbon credit economy. One day we're going to see a coal plant that does nothing but belch CO2 as part of a complicated carbon credit trading scheme that transfers billions from public coffers into private hands

this in essence already exists in the form of bitcoin

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