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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

In contrast, I do love it when @pluralistic drops ruthlessly well-researched factoids like this into a conversation;

"The material bill for solarising and electrifying the planet - so all the stuff we would need, all the minerals we would need - it's about a 17th of what we dig up every year."

#CoryDoctorow, 2025

https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/339-cory-doctorow-enshittification-is-not-inevitable

There's a blurry line between being sceptical enough to avoid getting sucked into greenwashing and too sceptical to accept any good news.

#RenewableEnergy

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable | Team Human

Ep. 339 Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It , unpacks the systemic forces behind digital monopolies, regulatory capture , the erosion of user rights, and how collective action and policy change can reclaim technology for the pu
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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

For clarification, I'm saying that rejecting EVs as an improvement on ICE cars because of the mining involved is an example of being so sensitive to the risk of greenwashing you can't accept good news. As soon as you really stop and think about which fuel option involves less mining, it's a no-brainer.

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