Fusion has basically nothing to do with climate change. Even if Fusion were cracked tomorrow, the scale out would be such that you couldn't meaningfully supply a lot of base load power before you'd need to be net neutral. My take is that fusion, when available, alongside solar, would be used for carbon dioxide removal.
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Why not $69m???
I think I read it here that this is tied to municipalism, the idea of solving climate problems at the council level where individuals habe some hope of fixing their lived environments.
He's a jerk but he's our jerk.
100% this. The whole process of creation and critique goes way back to the dawn of film and probably before. The entire construction of positions and job titles (creative director, design lead, etc) all draw from these theories. This requires the critique to be separate from the process of creation.
Hmm it doesn't show Australian Ethical as having any fossil fuel investments???
Someone apologising for a repost? That's howyou know it's not Reddit.
A phone is such an essential part of getting things done today. If someone asked me to unlock my phone and then they took the data, I'd be so fucked. But at the same time, I can't really go overseas without it unless I get someone to house-sit.
Where is the line between inspiration and a knock-off?
So firstly, just like critical race theory, cultural appropriation is meant to be analysis. Fixing it doesn't just mean "OK guys don't do a cultural appropriation", it's meant to explain why cultures can lose their identity, and how they struggle.
A big part of the analysis is the power differential. One of the problems is that the culture is more associated with the trope than the real culture. It's a very large and powerful community (or individual) taking art from a small community. It's Taylor Swift using a drawing to promote her songs, not paying for it, and asking the artist to be glad she gave her the attention. It's Britney Spears (IIRC) making a pop song using ideas from an online subgenre and not crediting it, causing the subgenre to implode.
Cultural Appropriation is real, but it usually refers to entire nations or massive artists or corporations adopting a caricature of smaller cultures, to the extent that people start associating it with that nation or artist rather than the culture. An example here is Picasso using African imagery, or pop stars copying underground music genres and effectively killing them off.
The problem is that people use it to talk about regular people starting a Sushi restaurant or whatever. They do not have the power to do this sort of thing.
I think this is how secrets are kept. If they even let a single whistleblower go, then all the secrets of the state are "up for grabs". Courage is contagious, so to speak, so they have to punish it harshly whenever it is seen.
Yeah good point. The numbers are a bit closer for fission though. Like phase one we can do renewables but electrification needs way more power than available currently. E.g. green hydrogen. There are valid scale up scenarios where fission is part of the picture, but almost none of them make sense under capitalism.