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I agree with you in that we cannot have a society without some form of state, but I think the idea is that we would have small community governments with more or less direct democracy. Also, bio-essentialism? Really?
I can only hope they make that. Its honestly not that hard. I've probably done a 20-30% reduction in meat consumption over the last year or so (and I intend to keep going), and for the most part its just made the groceries cheaper and made me eat more fiber. That gives them multiple decades to make those changes too, and while obviously that'll take way more work to do that on a country-wide scale, they also have a full decade to do it.
This represents a dramatic improvement if they can get this working. Like improved capacity and charge times are the main thing, but SSBs are also lighter (reducing tire particulate emission,) require less rare metals (like cobalt,) have dramatically reduced fire risk (which is a huge factor for some people,) and have potential applications in other fields (e.g. smartphones and stuff.) It looks like the tech Toyota is going to be using to make these (presumably for way cheaper than everyone else) is hella patented (they've gotten OVER 8000 patents since 2020.) They'll probably still be piloting these things at way too expensive for everyone, but it'll be interesting to watch this, cause if they can get a fully SSB EV in the price range of a reasonable consumer, that could represent a serious tipping point in the car market.
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TBH, I don't know any definitions of terrorism that are self consistent (that being, including everything that is definitely terrorism while discluding everything that definitely isn't.)
Yeah, the main advantage of cars is that they do a lot of things (kinda badly.) We need to do a lot of work to replace cars, and that work definitely doesn't start with ignoring why cars are so prevalent. We need to empower people through other avenues a lot before most people will switch over.
I think that's the point. Also, I think they are referring to Ukraine and interference with elections of other nations.
You misunderstand. I was saying that the assumption that the rich folks behind climate change are acting out of ignorance is extraordinarily optimistic. I hope that I'm wrong, but I see no reason to believe that any cost estimate would get the main polluters (all billionaires included) on board with fighting climate change. Corporations and rich private citizens won't save us, and if they do, I will happily eat my words.
Its going to be collective action and government intervention.
This has already been posted here I think
I love your optimism.
Yeah, reducing car usage would be much better for all handicapped people (those who can drive get better traffic.)
As much funds as we can mobilize. The possible futures are all bad, unless we make huge breakthroughs in pretty much all relevant technologies, somewhere between hundreds of millions and billions of people will die. This article is slightly misleading, as it posits cost entirely in terms of money. But the big cost of the changing climate is in lives. We will not be able to solve climate change before it gets much, much worse, so there is no theoretical amount money that would be "enough." Thus, as much as possible for the least bad possible future.
They require federal permits for the installations even if its on private property.
I will be trapped here until I fulfill the rule.
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