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A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
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What if we stopped pretending we can prevent climate apocalypse?
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"If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope."

yessss - re: technologist cooperatives

This actually sounds like a vision for the future.
Nowadays everyone is turning into freelancers and temporary workers, disconnecting from their usual workplaces and becoming autonomus (and thus vulnerable).
Obvious next step is for these numerous autonomous self-entrepreneurs to unite into collective structures. And these will be like the firms before, but they will have a key difference — everyone is now an owner, and a decision-maker

Australian biome climates compared to other countries
https://redd.it/cyg82v
@r_mapporn

I meant like a pizza party
https://redd.it/d1bxoh
@r_latestagecapitalism

important message of hope:

We literally could prevent it. There is no law of physics making rampant endemic industrial pollution an inevitability. If we completely stopped all GHG emissions from unsustainable agriculture and industry and reforested the ~40% of global forests that have been destroyed, we’ll have basically reversed the bulk of climate apocalypse damages. Still have to deal with the fact that we’ll be catching up with delayed consequences for decades or centuries, and we have enough *non*-climatic ecological catastrophes ongoing that we’d still be in a mass extinction, but climate apocalypse is not the only option. CO2 ppm does not need to continue rising. We can change the earth.