Magic Monday

RT @JMGreerWriter: Fifteen thousand years ago, Ice Age hunters ranging from their comfortable caves in southern and central France into the….

RT @JMGreerWriter: In most working class and lower middle class neighborhoods, you can put anything you want on your roof, nobody cares wha….

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RT @unherd: ‘Human rationality is a thin and recently added veneer, perched unsteadily over the top of a tangled mass of drives, instincts,….

One of the results of added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is that plant growth generally is picking up.

Imagine that all over America, people were to start planting trees in their backyards suited for the ecology that will be arriving in their areas half a century from now. Imagine that some of them looked up what the climate in their neighborhood was like 6000 years ago during the

The crisis management model—the strategy, pervasive in modern industrial societies, of exploiting crises for political and economic gain instead of doing anything to help the people impacted by them—discourages the decisionmakers of our societies from doing anything that might.

Octagon Society material in book format!

If you take your fracked gas and oil with an EROEI of 8 and pour vast amounts of it into sourcing, building, transporting, installing, maintaining, and disposing of wind/solar, and your wind/solar still won’t break even financially without ongoing government subsidies, it’s.

The only technologies that anybody in the climate change movement is interested in talking about are the ones that made people more dependent on corporate systems, more easily exploited by those systems, and more vulnerable to system disruptions. Compare grid-linked rooftop

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Purslane is a grand old member of the class of plants our ancestors used to call “pot-herbs,” that is, weeds you can throw into a pot of soup or stew or pease porridge to add flavor and nutrition. Growing them and adding them to your diet is a fine contribution to the future.

Fifteen thousand years ago, Ice Age hunters ranging from their comfortable caves in southern and central France into the bleak but animal-rich tundra landscapes further north took to planting hazelnuts in sheltered areas all the way up to the edges of the ice sheets themselves.

RT @JMGreerWriter: One of the side effects of the current LLM (“AI”) hysteria that nobody seems to be preparing for yet is that the exorbit….

There have been a vast number of people employed in useless cubicle jobs in recent decades. Those are being fired now in job lots, as DOGE budget cuts shreds the social safety net for otherwise unemployable critical-theory majors. I think we’ll see, though, that the core of the.

During the last decades of the Classic Lowland Maya civilization, the ahauob or “divine lords” who ruled the Mayan city-states did nothing constructive to deal with the subsistence crisis that was spiraling out of control around them, as the swidden agriculture system that.

Frugal Friday

One of the side effects of the current LLM (“AI”) hysteria that nobody seems to be preparing for yet is that the exorbitant demands of LLM data centers for power is going to drive electricity costs not only through the roof but well up into the stratosphere, and quite possibly.