Great news.Diluted Dante wrote:Cuadrilla have fucked off from Lancashire, after 5 years of being told to fuck off.
If the hellish events of 2020 left you feeling like the first stirrings of apocalypse are at long last come upon us, you clearly aren’t alone. But just what do we do with ourselves, here at the end of all things? What happens to us — psychically, emotionally, socially, politically — when we accept and internalize that events capable of ending human civilization as we’ve known it have already taken place, and that all we’re doing now is waiting for them to unfold in their fullest consequence?
We’ll be touring some of the most common responses to this understanding — including the turn toward reactionary blood-and-soil nativism, the false comfort of left accelerationism, and the newly hegemonic rhetoric of “resilience” — before exploring what qualities might actually serve us best, as individuals and collectivities, as the epoch on which we’ve predicated our entire sense of being draws to its inevitable close.
By developing the notion that there are capacities to which we have permanent recourse, no matter what else happens, this conversation will hopefully leave you feeling able to face the gathering darkness with grace and equanimity. And, hey, if the apocalypse fails to arrive on time, at least you’ll have a bunch of clever new things to say at parties.
Netflix says that it will release a white paper to validate its findings at the end of March and will reveal its climate targets this spring. For now, it has used DIMPACT to work out that one hour of streaming is equivalent to a typical 75W ceiling fan running for four hours in North America or six hours in Europe, or a typical 1,000W window air conditioner running for 15 minutes in North America or 40 minutes in Europe. "My first impression about that claim is that it seems reasonable," says Bernardi Pranggono, a senior lecturer in computer network engineering at Sheffield Hallam University. But streaming, he explains, matters comparatively. So what might people do instead of sitting at home watching The Office on Netflix? If they went outside for a walk, this would be greener. But if they drove for 30 minutes to go to the cinema, it wouldn’t.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, suggested at a congressional hearing that climate change could be combatted by altering the orbit of the moon and asked a U.S. Forest Service official whether there was any way the agency could do it.
LivDiv wrote:Texas Congressman asks Forestry official if Forestry Service can alter the Moon's or Earth's orbits to improve climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/09/texas-republican-louie-gohmert-climate-change
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