Notes

The robots have determined anthropogenic climate change has been influencing weather since 1999. This is an important first step toward them determining which of us need to be culled to save their planet.

Our national terror alert level was recently reduced from 4/5 to 3/5.

The US is in a permanent “heightened level of vigilance.”

Supposedly we can stop climate change for $600 billion.

Given social realities and our thirst for growth, I think we should be aiming higher, for full renewable: $73 trillion. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion

I’m not going to be clutching my pearls over the demise of monoculture. Somehow, I survived into adulthood without watching Seinfeld, Friends, The Office, etc. and if I was eager for shallow shared experiences I’d watch sports.

I normally roll my eyes at agency trend reports, often technophilic navel gazing, but @fjord’s 2020 edition feels both meaningful and (mostly) realistic.

This good but too long takedown of how we’re accounting for climate change is worth it for the WWII analogy: https://via.hypothes.is/https://theweek.com/articles/850637/deadly-hidden-risks-within-most-prominent-economic-model-climate-change#annotations:BzPUXCZVEeqSNOM8u-HBxA