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  • I’m in the same place without having read that piece you mentioned. And I’m not going to be looking it up.

    As I see it, climate change is the greatest threat the human race has ever faced. It makes World War II look like a squabble in a kindergarten playground. We should all be INCREDIBLY impacted by this, and yet everyone keeps going on as if nothing is happening.

    But I think 50 years is a little bit of a narrow time frame. More likely we’ll all die within 100 to 150 years. I mean, our species will go extinct.

    Lately I’ve been thinking about what a sane society would do to try to mitigate the worst effect of climate change, while preparing society for the world that’s coming. A world without fossil fuels or basic infrastructure.




  • Wouldn’t e-bikes be a relatively stopgap measure? They still require a relatively advanced and carbon-wasteful technological base, after all: maintenance and repair for the bikes themselves (including regular replacement batteries, which are definitely NOT environmentally friendly), plus paved roads in good repair (again, requiring a lot of fossil fuel expenditure).

    There’s also the likelihood that as the Earth’s environment becomes increasingly hazardous we’ll require protection from the elements more and more often - protection which would be difficult to add to a bike of any sort.

    The US military has projected that basic infrastructure in the USA will be collapsing throughout much of the country in less than twenty years. It’s hard to see how ebikes will be practical under those conditions. Gearing towards long-term lower-tech solutions would seem to be a wiser choice.










  • I was part of a group that left Goodreads when they sold us out to Amazon and Amazon started censoring reviews they didn’t like. We set up a community on Google Plus to research alternatives to Goodreads and secondarily, to Amazon itself.

    I set up the spreadsheet we used to track our discoveries. It’s WAY out of date, but it’s still there - unlike Google Plus.

    It didn’t exist back then, but BookWyrm would by far have been the best choice. It still needs some improvements, but it’s already outstanding.

    I’m BobQuasit@bookwyrm.social there, by the way.