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made up a climate discourse term: charismatic mega-emissions they distort priorities in climate just as charismatic megafauna do in biodiversity and ecological preservation work because they're useful for raising money through PR at the cost of creating misguided populist rage
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the charismatic megafauna big 5 game species of africa: lion, leopard, cape buffalo, rhino, elephant big 5 charismatic mega-emitters: nuclear power,* bitcoin, billionaire space flights, plastic waste, cheap things made in china * this is called a "joke"
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If you hit electricity and heat production, transportation, and buildings, you'll be halfway done. Industry is interesting. What's easy will be done fast, but what's hard is really hard (blast furnaces etc). I suspect ag and forestry is the hardest.
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The three big motives I see among people who get climate-active are: 1. Being against capitalism, billionaires/right-wing politics (70%) 2. Having a very strong social service/justice orientation (20%) 3. Being interested in technology of surviving into the anthropocene (10%)
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If you're in category 1, it's 50-50 whether you're part of the problem or the solution If you're in category 2, you're part of the solution, but to sideshow problems (tough to hear but true) If you're in category 3, you have a shot at being a serious part of the solution
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Technology really is the only way out. Nothing else acts fast enough. If you're trying to start some sort of religion of post-capitalist sustainable permaculture, good for you, but religions take centuries to establish, not decades.
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that's not how I read that story... tech created the options, legislation was just one of many ways to exercise it with renewables for example, mix of market forces, voluntary action, legislation, all exercising the options