Seven years ago a representative from Google reached out to me in an official capacity to discuss the company's energy use. I told them it would become necessary for major firms in core economies to reduce energy use in order to enable Paris-compliant decarbonisation.
They assured me that their new AI tools were already helping them identify ways to improve the company's energy efficiency, so they weren't worried. They insisted this would soon yield radical efficiency improvements, and lead to energy use reduction without any change to their production activities. "Just wait, you'll see!" they told me, full of confidence.
I told them that's not how it works. In growth-oriented capitalist firms, savings from efficiency improvements are generally leveraged to expand production. I predicted that even if their AI found ways to improve efficiency, Google's energy use would go up, not down. Seven years later and this is where we're at:
Primeroo caeran las cosachas de grano de las cuales se alimentan los animales que os comeis, luego poco a poco ira cayendo el resto de alimentos vegetales que consumimos los humanos. Vamos camino de la extincion. Pero el capitalismo es guay porque te permite soñar en hacerte rico
Ceux qui sont en boucle sur la clim, ils ont vu que les champs sont cramés? Les récoltes perdues? Les animaux d'élevage morts par dizaines de milliers?
Ce serait bien d'arrêter de tourner en boucle non?
“We’ll just adapt and use more fossil fuels to keep cool”.
No. We won’t. The fish won’t. The crops won’t. The trees won’t. The livestock won’t. The rivers won’t.
Nothing can adapt to a climate that gets continuously worse.
@choupissonbebou@choupissonbot Je faisais le tri dans mes signets je sais pas pourquoi j'avais enregistré ça en 2023, sans doute la cover issue de fortnite et la jolie couleur de la police
The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B
An unfortunate fact about climate change is that majority of people simply will not care until massive food and water shortages begin. Peoples connection to the land has been so thoroughly severed they don’t care that it’s 80 degrees on christmas bc it’s just “nice weather”.
BEAU FINANCIER
Un patissier a donné au biscuit dont tu portes le nom la forme d'un lingot d'or.
Mais toi tu n'es pas pour l'instant un roi de la Finance ,
car tu es en fourrière en BRETAGNE
Et pour t'en sortir il te faut un ADOPTANT, mais qui est toujours aux Abonnés Absents .
@MarlonEttinger No you're right it was a failure on its main goal of getting into government, I do think its legacy of bringing a v large chunk of a generation onto the left is a positive one - but that probably would've happened with or without JC (cf JLM in France and other mvts elsewhere)
Des hommes habillés tout en noir ont été aperçus quitter la manifestation en se rangeant sans difficulté derrière les fourgons des forces de l’ordre.
Certains manifestants affirment les avoir vu commettre des exactions et indiquent que ce sont des forces de l’ordre « déguisés » en « casseurs ».
#18septembre