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That’s an easy one. These people are not left. The movement as a whole has died. There are still individuals who are left, but organizations no longer.

You’re correct. The poster has called me names and refused to explain what he meant.

Not just your ISP, also particular surveillance and tampering methods of nation-states. It is good to have your egress point to be in a noncooperative jurisdiction.

“Degrowth = austerity is eco-fascism” is a statement of fact.

It is not just a category error but conflating three independent concepts.

Ecofascism is prescription ethics. “It is morally good to kill all people so that the planetary ecosystem can return to its natural state, hence we should strive to kill all people”. I guess there are such people who adhere to such a value system. Not many of them, though.

Descriptive term would be “We are in deep overshoot, so excess deaths of billions are unavoidable within about a century”. You will notice complete absence of a moral value statement here.

Degrowth and austerity sound like the planetary system Earth can have considerable degrees of freedom in that respect. It has not, but you might think that sustained existance 8.1 billion people and a decline in net energy per capita availability while crashing the planetary ecosystem are compatible.

Do you think that that 8.1 billion people and fast decline in net energy per capita availability while crashing the planetary ecosystem are compatible? If yes, please cite your references.

Sounds more like you have a problem with me using the term at all, which is extremely suspicious. What’s going on, here?

I am giving you an opportunity to explain what you mean.

Please do not use the term eco-fascism indiscriminately. You also haven’t read the blog post until the end. Orelse your post makes just no sense.

The author has been working on the SEEDS model for about two decades. The projections are reasonable, since it is about lack of new fossil energy reserve discovery at long-term declining EROEI and new growth coming largely from debt. The fight of technology against geology has been valiant, but ultimatively doomed. If anything the model is perhaps too conservative, since it underestimates EROEI decline and does not address the Seneca effect.

See the other posts in this community for different angles on the same problem.

Did you get it used? For how much? How is the noise level?

Photosynthetic centers have orders of magnitude less conversion efficiency than commercial photovoltaics. Fuel from algae requires photobioreactors to avoid being overgrown by wildtype so prohibitively expensive. Synthetic photochemical systems are all plagued with stability issues. If you separate photovoltaics from electrochemistry you can exchange a degraded part of the system instead of having to discard everything.

nVidia users are in general SOL for FLOSS users in Linux and BSDland. Wayland devs distinctly not at fault here.

It would be more useful to have cheap, stable and efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen formation reactions each for water electrolysis.

The problem with trying to ignore Wayland is that Xorg is abandonware.

Potential dupe, but a repost won’t hurt for the series.

Worthwhile to point out what the author thinks about nuclear https://www.artberman.com/blog/can-we-just-get-over-nuclear/

The argument is that renewable pricing does not include nesessary storage for buffering intermittent production, offloading the task to the grid.

The improvents ongoing are asymptotic. I.e. we are running into diminishing returns. Arguably we will see price reversals due to increased material and energy prices as fossils and mineral extraction declines. Right now renewables are almost completely fossil energy extenders or multipliers, which is fine initially but won’t do in the long run.

Notice that we need renewable production to cover the primary energy demand, not just current electricity production.

Just seen that North America fertilizer prices have halved from the peak. Still somewhat above 10 year average though. I wonder what the price of crushed basalt/diabas is. It’s energy intensive to produce and transport. Zero nitrates and phosphates, of course.

Machine-phase mechanosynthesis or polymer chain folding autoassembly? Can you expand a little on what kind of systems and what modeling methods you use?

You need an entropy gradient to reverse entropy in the open system. For us this is sunlight vs cosmic microwave background. And decay of radioactive elements, plus gravitational energy, chemical energy etc., vs above sink. Exergy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exergy is potentially a useful concept here, too.

Obviously how well you can use an entropy gradient depends on the level of technology. In theory molecular nanotechnology can do everything biology can, and considerably more. But we need to get there, and that path must go through a high-technology regime. Which we are about to lose, unless I am mistaken.

Another reason to suspect we are going to face “sudden” “unanticipated” harvest declines and subsequent famines in short to mid-term future.

Primary literature this refers to https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00929-8

Archive snapshot of paywalled Bloomberg https://archive.is/usaOc