Not everyone should need or own a truck, even if they can affird it .

Everyone, including the working poor are better served by great PT and AT and cities organized around that and then occasional need for a truck is met with rental, like the occasional need for a u haul trailer.

I am reminded of the book The Golden Spruce, a good read.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/250594/s/the-golden-spruce

All around me millions of trees are cut down, including native forests with 500 year old trees, literally no fucks given. Every hill i can see from my window has been stripped bare and replanted with the green desert of mono forestry. The only reason they’re not gown on the plains around me is they’ve been clear felled and given over to dairy.

What a nightmare…

the tree in the article, not so much aka The Gokden Spruce.

Maybe but anecdotally it doesn’t seem that.

Poor people+ have quite a few kids near me, they just don’t send then to private schools, dont pay for any further education, don’t enrol them in 400 activities that require diriving them all over the place, don’t send them on overseas camp trips to Japan etc an old bicycle and a football is about it for outdoor activities. Pool entry is free in my town for example and full of kids in summer.

Middle class seem to have maybe one kid but hell, one I know spent nearly $5k on their 2yr olds birthday and also claim “kids are expensive”

I don’t have any kids but that was a deliberate decision and vasectomy decades ago becase the world is full.

+I say poor people but I should qualify that as working class, manual labour, 20yr old car, small house partly run down, in a small town where kids can get about everywhere on a bicycke. There are dozens of these families in the very small town where i live.

I susoect its women having a choice, thinking abiut it and going fuck that. Speaking to older Gen X women or booner women on occasion and they said they didn’t even think about it, it was just what was done.

I still rember helping fund a contraceptive class aka Famiky Planning in Camboida and being there (on the periphery) when the female nurse explained to the women they could have this medicine injected under their arm and no then kids and their eyes lit up with and such animation and joy about that ability to have control.

Exactly this. Other energy and climate experts have argued similarly, eg Professor Kevin Anderson and said we jave to shift to an energy reduced lives abd we cant realky excpet the developing world to cut back their near non existent energy use. Eg Amaericans coikd cut thwir energy use in 1/2, half again and then half again and still use WAY more energy then most of the peoples of the workd.

We can transition to a planet with a CO2 balance but we can’t do that living the same lives. Ride a bicycle and take a train, only build and live in small well insulated medium density housing, no flying, no cruise ships, much less meat and way less meat eating pets etc etc this would necessarily lead to a much lower cost of living, a healthier and better adjusted population…

What we are doing is slapping up a few solar panels and increasing energy demand so quickly renewables aren’t even supplanting existing fossil fuel use, let alone stopping fossil fuel growth

We moved for climate change, if I moved to be near friends it would be hot shit holes, heavily reliving on AC and car centeism with poor weather outcomes.

So…no :).

That aside, you know if you move you can make new friends yeah ?

Pause? and then toilet breaks ?

No, it’s humanty that’s the problem. He may delay it somewhat but it matters what the world does as well as Bolsanario Mk2 arriving.

Change needs to start at the top. Cut the greedy fuckers out of the loop and you’ll see how much waste we can reduce

Well, sort of. The top needs to change but that change won’t come from them, it has to come from the bottom. Alas it doesn’t and won’t as voters drift towards fascism looking for easy answers from the very people causing this rather then moving the political Ovrton Window and torwards more green, sustainable radical politcans that are currently sidelined by the orthodoxy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/30/richard-seymour-on-far-right-environmental-crisis-disaster-nationalism

As to “some” starving, an estimated 9 million a year starve to death

https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year

Might be tricky to find, so if you want user replaceable batteries in a Mouse, maybe get a USB AA/AAA battery charger and use any of the many mice with AA (Or AAA) batteries. Recharge the batteries by plugging in the USB charger when they get low ?

My Logitech MX Master 3S is USB c rechargabke but not user replaceable batteries

The issue is a tiny part of humans that are on top of the social hierarchies within a system we call capitalism.

That’s just a cop out, though, didn’t work at Nuremberg either. The 80% who enable those asshats are the real problem becase without them Hitler would just be a loon on the sidewalk shouting obscenities.

Look at the recent UK election, the vast majority voted for the ball numbing orthodoxy of entrenchment. They overwhelming voted Labour, Tory, LibDem or Nasty Party. A tiny number voted Green, sure, not radial enough becase if they were there they’d be even more pariahed then they are now but at least not a goose step in the wrong direction and their rise is needed to move the Overton Window and allow the rise of the truly radical politcans we do need.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits

Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”

but it’s always important to make sure we’re not just replacing one pollutant for another,

Nothing is. An example, the UK cut all its big trees down to build sailing ships back in the 1800s for example and then went overseas to exploit forestry there. A good read on that is The Golden Spruce

https://bookwyrm.social/book/250594/s/the-golden-spruce

Physicist Tom Murphy is doing an excellent 18 part critique on that now, he’s up to part 10 which is excellent.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/08/mm-10-ditch-the-bad/

Plant Trees and shrubs along that section if possible?

Or move. This will only get worse the longer we deny it by doing nothing substantive. That’s what I did.

Finally some good news

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/06/stubborn-expectations

I would hope the reaction to this development is not to advocate policies to “restore” population growth. That’s the last thing the planet needs, and stems from a misplaced allegiance to economic fantasies rather than to the community of life (the economy would fail anyway without a functioning ecosphere). A natural population decline by the non-violent process of simply not bearing children would be a gift to humanity and to the earth that supports us.

https://theconversation.com/the-new-climate-denial-using-wealth-to-insulate-yourself-from-discomfort-and-change-199101

A little.like.Utrecht?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGy4kS9T2w

Getting rid of the on street parking would be a great start and first step, the next is a tram line and dedicated ebus up middle with a cycle lane and ban private cars.

Well, they have to, if they didn’t they’d be…liberals.

There’s a reaosn John Stewart Millis opined stupid people were attracted to conservatism

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . + John Stuart Mill

The not so stupid ones are like grifters in the Supreme Courts and Congress and The Senate.

Drive around in an F150, flynto a Taylor Swift concert etc… Your emisions will help make it worse.

This is just insane

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’