Slowly adjusting my current politics from 'everything needs to be disrupted' to 'looking for the best place to integrate into an off-the-grid farming community.'
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The more the fragility of our supply lines and infrastructure moves from black elephant to reality, the more obvious it seems:
Nothing has to be disrupted. It's so far down the cascade, it will take care of itself. But life is therefore about to change drastically, fast, soon.
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So we need people building new things, but a more immediate concern is to survive long enough to build anything whatsoever.
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It's hilarious to me how much of this debate is centered around climate change.
A fundamental problem:
The failure modes are built into the prevailing economic paradigm. And they're only decades old.
We just haven't experienced sufficient strain for something to break. Yet.
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We have California’s power company shutting down about a million customers for maybe five days to avoid burning the state down like they did last year. Amazing calculation weighing staggering tort exposure. Conclusion: infrastructure so bad the lesser risk is to stop service.
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Yeah, stuff like that is what I'm thinking of. I was almost ready to say "if you wanna do something, start by droning some more oil refineries."
But that just looks more and more like overkill.
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