Climate change

[Jezza]

[stui magpie]

A psychedelic journey, a radical strategy and perfect timing. How the world's fastest-growing climate movement was made

[pietillidie]

^I'm alarmed by the language, too, having no patience for any of these movements. I understand and accept them as part of the human experience, much as I do religion, but I wouldn't want that fundamentalist psychiatry supporting my ideas.

Here's the problem: the lack of principle is so great when it comes to politics at the moment, the energy of psychiatric cases from a Trump and his fan base to a rabid far leftist is considered gold. The nuttier the more driven, so the singular political skill of the day has become inciting and herding the unstable and extreme.

Staying mature enough to not react to the understandable passion of young people, and to not despise the elderly for their understandable fear vote, all the while refusing to entertain the unstable of any stripe (and this includes many a driven but unfit billionaire), takes some level of determination.

The challenge of our time is to maintain a healthy independence even as the new mobs push and pull and undermine reason at every turn, and politics becomes increasingly fascist in its efforts to incite, simplify, divide and drown out. But this demands more self awareness than ever before because the self not only continues to be highly vulnerable to self deception and justification, but it is a sucker for needing to belong at all costs.

Unless a serious new force in politics emerges, the end result of billionaire-mob rule can surely only mean what its incarnations throughout history have always meant. There was a brief break from this as the left moved on from its once authoritarian association with mobs while retaining some capacity to be elected. But that just allowed the right to return to its old ways of harnessing the mob through out-hate.

One can only hope a sane electable alternative is brewing somewhere.

[David]

[pietillidie]

^If you're going to have more nuclear, the geopolitically- and geographically-stable Australia makes far more sense than Japan, which is about the stupidest place on earth to build nuclear. If the terrorism factor and waste issues can be dealt with, I'm partly okay with it. But its nastiness goes well beyond nuclear risks; its hidden risk is economic, as it is a long-term investment with its own corrupt lobbying forces.

In other words, even as a stop gap it will become its own new corrupt anti-competitive market that allows Coalition lobbyists to simply swap to a new menace, scuppering alternative energy.

The 'energy-as-appliance' future, which will be a much more open and competitive market in the best of the capitalist tradition, and less subject to corrupt dealing and political capture, is far closer than the propaganda claims.

[Wokko]

[pietillidie]

^More juvenile meme-level nonsense. You ought to be embarrassed or at least know at your age not to elide grades like that. How hard is it to refrain from that stuff?

Assuming mature adults deal in gradation, not fundamentalist categories of all or none, a serious approach looks more like this: everything is influence, but not everything is billion-dollar intransparent corrupt influence at the behest of a tiny few.

It's not that hard to deal in grades and bear with the grey areas — unless you're a child or a religious extremist.

[Wokko]

Lighten up mate, it's a political cartoon. If you want essays then social media and forums isn't the place for it.

[pietillidie]

[Wokko]

I'll endeavour to write more long winded irrelevant crap that nobody engages with. Nothing like a trail of dead threads to really keep a discussion board fresh.

[Skids]

https://futurism.com/the-byte/japans-radioactive-water-ocean-atmosphere

[David]

^ Precisely the kind of thing you have to take into consideration with nuclear energy. The chance of an explosion might be 1 in 1000 (or even much less). But if it happens, the consequences are far-reaching to say the least.

[Wokko]

Australia is very stable though, the problem with Fukushima is that it was on the coast near a faultline. The other one that's brought up is Chernobyl which was early gen Soviet technology staffed by people living under communism. Australia would have a modern reactor, nowhere near an earthquake or tsunami area staffed by well paid experts. We'd be no less safe than France or Germany.

[Skids]

https://realclimatescience.com/2019/09/australia-shows-no-warming-since-1876/?fbclid=IwAR1WIIhZ54Oz688ECLueu9U9WqvnPhNrrCaMMAqdQq3KrYwZ7cMnpsjOI_U

[pietillidie]