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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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California's grid is maxxed out. They did manage to beg people to dial it back and they saved themselves from blackouts so far. Doesn't change the fact that we need grid improvements. Everywhere. Except Texas. Fuck them.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
California's grid is maxxed out. They did manage to beg people to dial it back and they saved themselves from blackouts so far. Doesn't change the fact that we need grid improvements. Everywhere. Except Texas. Fuck them.
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110 Monday and Tuesday here. Only 99 today! Imported energy Monday and Tuesday for the first time since having solar panels installed.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
California's grid is maxxed out. They did manage to beg people to dial it back and they saved themselves from blackouts so far. Doesn't change the fact that we need grid improvements. Everywhere. Except Texas. Fuck them.
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Yeah, more Nukes not less.
 
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I'm surprised it isn't 630%.

Don't live on the slope of a volcano.
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This doesn't include the flood insurance hikes. That's separate. The odds of a hurricane or tornado destroying any given house are still remote. The odds of it being flooded have become significant.
 
In case y'all have missed it, and judging by the lack of articles everyone has, the Mississippi River is drying up at an alarming rate.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/weath...ate/index.html

Drone video of the Mississippi River near Memphis shows how far the mighty river has contracted away from its banks.

The river dropped to minus-10.75 feet there earlier this week, according to data from the National Weather Service, which was the lowest level ever recorded in Memphis.

[video]https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/animations/org/221020140017-desktop-ms-river-loop-2.mp4[/video]
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The US Army Corps of Engineers is racing to both dredge the river for shipping AND prevent the Gulf of Mexico from back-filling the river, contaminating drinking water supplies with seawater.
 
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Energy company profits are up, though.

Climate change may actually end capitalism. People are very gradually getting the message, but it will probably take open warfare against the Plutes and their dullard minions to save the world.

The only way a dominant economic system is superseded is if it no longer fits the circumstances of society. Capitalism was the perfect adaptation of exploitation for 500 years, but it ran out of externalities to steal from the commons.

The next system will account for all costs, and also accord economic rights with the same force as political and religious rights. Inequality will be regarded as slavery. I'm sure a different ruling class will emerge, probably one we cannot imagine, based on superior access to information instead of simple wealth.
 
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I’m telling you, the sci Fi book from a few years ago- ministry of the future- is likely how it will exactly play out.

a huge flood or heat wave event will wipe out millions. Whatever country that happens in will have had enough and that’s when the terrorism starts. In the book it’s India, and I’d wager that’s a great guess
 
Changes in economic systems tend to occur slowly over centuries, but globalism may change that. We saw in the 19th and 20th centuries that the elites of capitalism will use any level of force available with any body count acceptable to suppress any challenge to their dominance. Likewise, feudal societies fought against proto-capitalism for centuries. Agrarian slave societies fell apart and didn't really have the energy to fight against the rise of feudalism, per se -- it was more a matter of Change of Management. And we just don't know about the transition between traditional hunter/gather societies to agrarian slavery, except that it took tens of thousands of years and was significantly staggered across the world -- the Americas arguably didn't even entirely make the jump before whitey showed up with guns to hurry them along.

Capitalism also has a highly trained multi-class workforce to defend it, access to lots of information to manage the ideological battlefield, and of course tremendous propaganda power through media, schools, governments, and churches which have been co-opted to be tools of capitalist elites. It's unclear how this next transition takes place, which is why I think most futurists imagine some cataclysm that eliminates the power of the rich to resist reform. "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

Whether by disaster or gradual evolution I think leaving capitalism behind takes centuries, with during most of it the dominant ideology still viewed as some form of advanced capitalism, like the Roman Republic still existed in name long after Augustus has solidified the Imperial state.

In the long term, everything will end: the United States, capitalism, Christianity, the "West." As we spread out, Earth-centrism will rise and fall. Biological vs artificially enhanced intelligence will probably have its day as a Existential Crisis before being dismissed as a false dichotomy (every time you read a book you are an "artificially enhanced" intelligence).
 
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We sold our biggest refinery to Saudi Arabia.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/in...s-largest-oil-refinery-port-arthur/index.html
https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/investing/saudi-arabia-largest-us-oil-refinery-port-arthur/?iid=EL

Arizona sold out it's ground water to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...onte-pay-arizona-groundwater-use/10271103002/

END THE RIGHT OR DIE.

We have no water. We have no energy independence (and they blame the Democrats? Give me a fucking break). We are a failure as a nation. Vote Blue or die.
 
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We sold our biggest refinery to Saudi Arabia.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/in...s-largest-oil-refinery-port-arthur/index.html
https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/investing/saudi-arabia-largest-us-oil-refinery-port-arthur/?iid=EL

Arizona sold out it's ground water to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...onte-pay-arizona-groundwater-use/10271103002/

END THE RIGHT OR DIE.

We have no water. We have no energy independence (and they blame the Democrats? Give me a fucking break). We are a failure as a nation. Vote Blue or die.
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There is no "we" in that refinery unless you think the US Gov't should have bought it?
 
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