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World’s addiction to fossil fuels is ‘Frankenstein’s monster’, says UN chief (www.theguardian.com)

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The world’s addiction to fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein’s monster sparing nothing and no one”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.

“Our fossil fuel addiction is a Frankenstein’s monster, sparing nothing and no one. All around us, we see clear signs that the monster has become master,” Guterres said in a speech days after 2024 was revealed to have been the hottest year on record and Donald Trump began his second term as US president by pulling the country out of the Paris climate agreement and pledging to “drill, baby, drill” for more oil and gas. The fossil fuel industry gave $75m (£60m) to Trump’s campaign.

Guterres said: “What we are seeing today – sea-level rise, heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires – are just a preview of the horror movie to come.”

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Funny enough the one thing nobody asks in capitalism is "when is enough?"

The Arizona iced tea guy or mark Cubans drug company are perfect examples of how all businesses should work.

Why raise the price if we make profit? Why isn't that good enough to pay all your employees and ceos their paychecks and whatever else is extra gets put back into the business or pocketed?

We can avoid disaster by simply being happier with enough and not more more more for the sake of a high score or needing 7 yachts because you only have 6.

The moment a company becomes owned by shareholders it's no longer long thinking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

[–] ryedaft 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

/em when you didn't read the book

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

IMHO it's much more like Little Women.

[–] HellsBelle 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

We are all the addict, because we all want the relative luxuries, conveniences, and comforts of a "middle class," or higher, modern life. I'm no exception. But, the relative good life that is afforded to many in the modern world is heavily connected to fossil fuels.

As living standards have increased over the past few centuries, so has fossil fuel use. And the connection between the two is not arbitrary. The relatively high living standards of a modern, middle class lifestyle require a relatively high amount of energy. Fossil fuels are very energy dense. We need energy, fossil fuels contain a lot of energy, it's not terribly complicated.

A lot of people posit that a modern middle class lifestyle is possible without getting any energy from fossil fuels. That would be great if true, but it is a yet unproven hypothesis. It's entirely possible that an end to fossil fuel use also means an end to at least some of the luxuries of modern living, especially at the very upper end.

But, honestly this might all be a moot point, because modern life also seems to be dependent on an infinite growth paradigm and infinite growth isn't possible, regardless of the energy source. It's possible that humans just aren't capable of living sustainably at these scales and at these levels of advancement. Sustainability requires that there be such a thing as "enough," but is there such a thing as enough for most people? I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm a self-hoster and self-admitted energy-addict.

On one hand, I think getting away from corporate control, self-hosting, and data archival are important, on the other hand they are also deeply resource intensive.

I think in the future whether we like it or not personal computing as we know it might go the away simply due to energy constraints and it may be more like if people are lucky they have a small, low-powered command line device like a Raspberry Pi, probably with very high latency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I self-host and my server runs at about 3% of what my aircons consume on a summer day.

It's just one CPU, a PoE switch and some spinning drives. There seems to be an awful lot of waste in computing these days. Just don't do wasteful things on the server like VMs, containers and desktops.