Put another way: So much #TechSolutionism / #TechnoOptimism is predicated on deeply naive, profoundly ahistorical assumptions about quality of effort & purity of motive. It's like these people live in a different reality from me. It's especially jarring from a guy like this, who has decades of experience doing solid work, yet hasn't noticed what happens IRL all around him during any of that time.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext

Hope you are having a lovely day in the #fediverse.

#fedi #coffee #TechnoOptimism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/13/us-scientists-confirm-major-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion

"The technology is far from ready to turn into viable power plants – and is not about to solve the climate crisis."

AND

"the reactions release no greenhouse gases nor radioactive waste by-products. A single kilogram of fusion fuel, which is made up of heavy forms of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium,..."

Just starting to look into this claim, but this article walks you through why it is false: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/

#nuclearfusion #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #technooptimism

This is a really good read, IMHO, on policy approaches to adapting for #ClimateChange:

https://behavioralscientist.org/policies-for-adapting-to-the-new-normal-of-the-anthropocene/

The piece that really resonated with me was the initial assertion on Western values of #MarketCapitalism & #TechnoOptimism.
And I really liked the clarity of the five policy #typologies - feels like an invitation for the orgs of now/the future to decide where they fit and really carve their space out.

I keep wondering if project #drawdown is helping us or not? It seems they are trying to say: don't do this, but focus in that, but are people listening? Or are they only hearing: don't do this?

Is it like a #technocrats handbook or is it more #TechnoOptimism?

What is your outlook on the future of human civilisation?

(Piggybacking off @cwebber's thread / poll)

#BigProblems #Civilisation #Collapse #TechnoOptimism #TechnoPessimism #Singularity #Transhumanism #Rapture #Resilience #TransitionTowns #TransitionMovement #Polls