On the necessity of ending fossil fuel companies, usage, extraction, all of it -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Thanks to fossil fuels, billions of people in 2022 enjoy lives of wealth, comfort, and material possessions unimaginable before the industrial revolution.
But fossil fuels have their dark side. You might think you understand that, but it’s likely fossil fuels are even worse for the world than you think. Let’s start with climate change. Contrary to what you might hear listening to Fox News, the scientific understanding of climate change is good and it is progressing at exactly the rate predicted decades ago by Exxon.
What you probably don’t realize is how massive these changes may be.
On writing -Alec Nevala-Lee
The quote below, I don’t know if I agree…? but it stood out to me to think about, as I was reading and critiquing a first draft of something for someone)
When you’ve finished your initial pass on an extended writing project, the result is less meaningful in itself than as a source of data about the stage to come.
On Bob DeMoor -BDZoom post with a lot of images.
When I was in Belgium years ago I bought a softcover album of De Schat Van Baekelandt and I look at it all the time, and so I was looking around the sites for early Bob DeMoor images. I don’t know very much about European comics, to be honest I don’t care that much, but I need stuff to get inspired by and to swipe. I like the idea of them. Sometimes that’s enough. Bob DeMoor is obviously like Herge but stiffer, weirder. Johan and Stefan albums seem right up my alley, and I’m not really interested in the Blake and Mortimer stuff, though sure, whatever, it’s cool…
Scientist’s Warning on Affluence -Nature
For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better technology.
Paper Website (interesting by itself, and instance of what we used to call “meta” … but now that it is a company, what will we call this? I suppose “alphabet” is still fine.)
My habit of reading widely and ravenously now strikes me as less a credit than a crutch with each passing year that introduces some new technology surrounded by complex language designed to enrich a small conversant few and bar the majority from the conversation. (link)