If you have any skills or talents that you can use to try to avert the coming #climatecatastrophe then get off your arse and do something.
Thats not saying "I will fly less and recycle more". Its coming freely together with other people to come up with new ideas and inventions to sort things out. If we can come up with #opensource software like #Linux then we can come up with open source solutions to #software and #hardware problems to help everyone
Its not just #scientists, #engineers and the like. If you are good at say editing #video or #audio you can help make content promoting the other people creating new technology. #Economists, #politicians and more can come up with #equitable and fair means of generating money with the new #technologies. They can also tax the rich motherfuckers until the pips squeak to pay for them too.
Then we have to prepare ourselves and our children for the future to come.
For now we use the high tech tools we have to design better low tech tools we can make with what we will have in the future.
Learning new skills and relearning old ones will be vital.
That might mean learning to forge scrap steel into new tools. It might mean finding ways to implement equitable and fair social systems. It might be breeding new varieties of drought resistant plants. It might be working on medicenes that don't need to be chilled. It might be listening to people on the margins of society and learning from what we hear. It might be any one of millions of things.
One of the most important things right now is persuading others that people like you and I are in the right and getting them to join us. If we can't do that then we are truely fucked my friend.
Youtube is the best resource for all of this. While it lasts that is. John Plant is learning to smelt iron from the iron eating bacteria in the bottom of a creek. He is really good at pottery now too. He shows us all how to do it. There are literally thousands of wood working and metal working channels. Not sure about chemical processes but I bet there are plenty
All that information is in youtube. Its just getting it out of youtube and into peoples heads all around the world before its too late.
You might like to look at this too. These guys know what they are talking about.
So many people are so close to doing something useful but don't go the extra step.
Something like blacksmithing will be vital when the contents of the slurry pit gets stuck in the air conditioning.
There are loads of people who learn the basics of blacksmithing and just make over priced knives instead of going the whole way and learning to make tools. You can't blame them. There is no money to be made making things like spades, chisels and parts for ploughs. There are always people willing to pay 100's of times over the odds for a fancy knife.
In a similar vein we don't need people like Rimmer when his anger was taken away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgUktfdDy4 But its hard to get away from people like that at community events. Well meaning arseholes who wouldn't know what to do with a real emergency.
@shekinahcancook@robcornelius the sun gifts us four orders of magnitude more energy than our tech society needs. Scarcity is not the problem. Capture, storage and fair distribution are.
@shekinahcancook@robcornelius anyone holding a pumpkin seed, receiving some sunlight and with access to shit can rebel against this unfair system. We all should, on that we agree. But I'd rather eat pumpkins than human flesh for now 😅
Not to sound like Pol Pot but I think using vast numbers of humans doing labour in the fields to replace industrial agricultural machinery will be not too far away. There are not enough horses to do the job or skilled horse men and women either.
If you have many, many refugees that need feeding then getting them to work the land in order to eat is better than leaving them to starve.
@shekinahcancook@robcornelius all I'm saying is that it's theoretically doable also with ancient tools and human labor only. Roughly a square kilometer into the process so far with a small crew I'd never claim it's easy. But there's no shortage of solar power, lucky for us.
Human apathy and stupidity are much harder challenges than a shortage of this or that.
I rant and rave on line. I try to make sense of what I see in front of me.
If I inspire you to want to make a change then I have had a good month at the least.
I do more than that when I can. I learn practical skills and try to make useful things. I try to pass on that knowledge. Thats vital in my humble opinion.
It doesn't matter what you do, or how small it is. Do something. Do what you can, when you can. Thats all we can do.
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