I don’t want to come across as a pessimist, since I am an optimist and can witness a lot of positive things happening in the world when it comes to defeating climate change. Furthermore, I heard through NPR (National Public Radio) that the world will not see the most extreme effects of climate change based on what has/is happening in efforts.

However, and to play the ‘devil’s advocate’, this could just be wishful thinking or fudging of the numbers/efforts.

Simply put, there are 2 ways in which to reverse the effects of climate change.

#1: Stop burning fossil fuels.

#2: Extract carbon from Earth’s atmosphere.

That’s it.

If the world isn’t actively doing these, then we should be teaching our children how to adapt to this new environment.

Way back in 2007 I read a book by Derrick Jensen entitled Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization.

I didn’t agree with everything that the author wrote and I still have trouble with some of his material. However, I believe that he is clever and produced some thought provoking insights.

At the beginning of his book he prefaced himself with several premises.

I’d like to highlight the ones that I feel are noteworthy:

Premise One: Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.

Premise Three: Our way of living—industrial civilization—is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence.

Premise Six: Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. If we do not put a halt to it, civilization will continue to immiserate the vast majority of humans and to degrade the planet until it (civilization, and probably the planet) collapses. The effects of this degradation will continue to harm humans and non-humans for a very long time.

Premise Thirteen: Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and how we are going to resist.

Premise Fourteen: From birth on—and probably from conception, but I’m not sure how I’d make the case—we are individually and collectively enculturated to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate wild animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate and fear our emotions, hate ourselves. If we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. If we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes—and our bodies—to be poisoned.

Premise Twenty: Within this culture, economics—not community well-being, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself—drives social decisions.

There is a beehaw Reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/beehaw-lemmy

Yes. I made that as well as the Beehaw subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/beehaw/

I don’t mind if someone else would like to make a Twitter Beehaw account. I’ve never used Twitter, for various reasons, and I don’t intend to start now.

I’m more concerned about the Chinese hackers that have stolen decades worth of information from the US government. It has been called the largest transfer of wealth in history.

My family lives in the USA and my brother has been a Manchester City fan for the past decade. He, recently, asked me to watch a soccer (i.e. football) match for the first time. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and will be following the Premier League for the rest of this season.

Server logs wouldn’t contain anything pertaining to the users here. This sounds like something you could bring to the Lemmy developers since they may know. Devs: Dessalines & nutomic

I’ve checked the Modlog (and you can too) and I don’t see anything to indicate a ban against your account.

To almost no one’s surprise. Many years ago, when it dawned on me what Google is (the largest data mining corporation on Earth), I’ve tried to avoid them as best as I can.

Thanks for letting us know.

I’m not sure, exactly, what it means to “live an honest life”. In my opinion, that’s subjective.

Saving money is finance 101 from a personal standpoint. So, what are the best vehicles for saving that money? I understand that it differs based on where you are geographically and any number of other circumstances.

For middle-class Americans, such as my self, I have tied up our retirement savings (mostly) in the US stock market through Roth IRAs.

Here’s a media article covering this sub-variant: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/30/covid-news-omicron-xbbpoint1point5-is-highly-immune-evasive-and-binds-better-to-cells.html

I’ve written a script that automatically keeps the logs small.

The server is, currently, using 18GB of the allotted 25GB.

At what level do we have control over the images uploaded to beehaw?

Follow this link to find the developer responsible for ‘pict-rs’ which handles images/thumbnails.

An additional $6 raising it to $12 per month.

How much are the server costs?

All of our financials are transparent and can be viewed here.

The server costs are roughly $6 per month.

Repost: https://beehaw.org/post/222048

Please move your inquiry to /c/chat. Thank you.

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