@MarkCranfield_ But isn’t the denial just human nature? The existential crisis we are facing is beyond normal understanding coupled by the inertia of society which seems to unfortunately mirror the inertia of warming itself
Yesterday was the hottest day on record here in the UK, 40C. There are #wildfires raging throughout #Europe. We are facing an #ecologicalcrisis. So @southkesteven, why is your privately owned company mowing frazzled grass that is 1” high? Nothing but dust blowing about… Madness!
Heat pumps are magical machines.
Instead of combusting fossil fuels to generate heat they transport heat from the air, ground or water into your home.
This reduces carbon emissions instantly by about 80% with the current electricity mix. It will be 100% by mid 2030s.
@bethsawin Humans as a species is a detritovore it “depend on massive consumption of the transformed organic remains from the Carboniferous period known as fossil fuels.”
@futurebird ...So, if the description (maths / physics) reflects accurately what is present or what can be predicted, then it is the closest reflection of the pattern that underlies the universal rules. A degraded hologram of the rules rather than an explanation
@futurebird Are we not part of the universe that gives rise to the ability to describe itself? as such we are governed by the very rules that construct the universe...
A 1984-style dystopia, but instead of one central totalitarian government rewriting history, stats, and dictionaries, it’s a swarm of competing entities with opaque goals re-writing their own and one another’s histories, stats, and dictionaries on an ongoing basis forever.
Is there a more partially-read book in tech than "Godel, Escher, Bach"?
X: Have you read Godel, Escher, Bach?
Y: Yes. Well, part of it, anyway.
Retweet if you've read part of it. 😆