Wish we could exchange ideas with a minimum of hyperbollocks.
But we just love to be dogmatic
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@jackofalltrades
egos seeking comforting coherence, I guess
Other people are dogmatic. We stick to our principles.
…Everything is predisposed to becoming a cultural binary. But reality is irreducibly complex.
Unlike this bollocks
https://environewsaus.org/2026/10/02/climate-change-deniers-have-become-clean-energy-deniers/
A counterpoint, excerpted from the link at the end:
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…“If we sprint to replace everything with machines that harness the sun and the wind, we will then need a mining expansion larger than anything in human history, concentrated in a handful of countries that would become the new Persian Gulfs, with all the rivalry and conflict that would imply, and mostly using the energy from the fossil vault redirected to power it…
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…“And yet, if we do nothing, the heating compounds, the seas keep rising, and the regions where billions of humans live will become steadily more difficult to inhabit.
So if every leader knows what I just shared and no leader is acting, then who is actually in charge here?
We are animals. We came up in small troops, and we are still built for it. We watch our rank. We reward the loud and the confident. We take the reward today and let tomorrow look after itself…
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…“There are no answers to what we face. There are only responses, and I cannot pretend those responses will be fair, because this was never going to be fair.
The countries who did the least to cause this will likely suffer the most from it, and no fancy speech will undo that fact. But every response matters and can aggregate how we grow our food, how we use our energy, and how much and of what kind, and how we treat our neighbors, human and animal.”
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…“Now, one of us is easy enough to understand. The trouble begins when you put a great many of us together.
A single starling turns for reasons of its own, but ten thousand starlings make a shape in the evening sky that no starling itself ever chose and no starling could stop.
We’re like that. Our wanting, multiplied by billions and wired together through money and trade and incentives, produces a behavior that belongs to the whole but to no one inside it…
@urlyman
How naive I was when I started using social media a few years back. I thought it was a great tool for exchanging ideas. Now I know it's mostly about seeking validation and reinforcing existing beliefs.