Voting will not solve our problems, but it can buy us time allowing us to work to change things outside electoral politics.
I think the left should take advantage of this. As an anarchist, I'm not a fan of state education, if leftist groups started schools the way the right does, we can turn this on them. Even the threat of doing so might make them reconsider.
Similar in idea to how minorities getting armed inspired gun laws in the 80s.
Singapore is more fucked up than aspirational if you ask me. It might look nice but it's a capitalist place that totally misses the spirit of solarpunk.
Check out "radiative sky cooling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI
There might be some way to do something with this.
Or, we could collectively realize time is but an illusion and transcend this silly problem.
In my view, "state" is by definition domination. There can be organization, community, and cooperation though without domination.
You gotta throw fling your feces at them.
Dr. Fatima is incredible, absolutely love her.
I find the idea that all intelligent species have the same dominator instinct driving them to explore, exploit, and colonize to be flawed. Not even all humans have this instinct, it's just that our western societies are all about domination so we grow up thinking it's the norm.
State is inherently evil. There is no non-evil way to dominate others.
This is true to some degree, but ignores several important factors, such as
- The electoral system was set up before we were even around with the goal of limiting our power
- therefore using the electoral system to fix the electoral system is extremely inefficient
- We are subject to extremely effective propaganda and psyops
- There are significant efforts by the right wing to keep people dumb and poor
Sometimes when I cough just right after a hit, Sweet Leaf starts playing in my head.
As expected, the purpose of state is to facilitate relatively safe theft from classes not in control of it, and blocking justice is the primary method.
Rail as part of degrowth is a great idea. Rail as part of expanded exploitation of natural resources is not.
8 billion is unsustainable, our population will decrease drastically in the coming century. We can choose whether it's via degrowth (a controlled, intentional, intelligent reversal of the economic growth of the last decades) or famine, disease, and war.
I fear you're right that degrowth will never happen and we're just going to march toward collapse.
Studying the bible is what started me on the path to atheism.
EVs can't save the environment. EVs are made from oil (tires, plastics), and the metals they are made from are extracted and shipped using huge machines also made from and burning oil.
Switching from pumping oil to mining Lithium isn't a net improvement to the environment.
Any mode of transportation that is heavy and uses tires is going to be a major source of microplastics.
It is not possible to expand into sustainability when it's our massive scale that is at the core of our unsustainability. Degrowth is our only chance.
This guy figured out how to turn the results of scientific experiments showing how it's possible to cool the temperature of a material below ambient temperatures by radiating heat into space using exotic or uncommon substances into something you can do yourself with easy to acquire and safe materials.