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The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, but Lots of Data

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.

"It’s technically possible for a single drone pilot to oversee six of the drones simultaneously, reaching the maximum of 100,000 plantings in a day, though drone regulations in some countries require a pilot for every drone, making the process slightly slower. The drones are at least 10 times faster than humans planting trees by hand, while the process can cost half as much."

https://www.fastcompany.com/40450262/these-tree-planting-drones-are-about-to-fire-a-million-seeds-to-re-grow-a-forest

Per Espen Stoknes - How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming [TEDGlobal_NYC]


The biggest obstacle for dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes.
He explains how people put up barriers to climate news like distance, doom, dissonance, denial and identity. But using Social Norms or Supportive reframing around health, tech and jobs we can start to tackle the barriers. We can also make things Simple so that climate friendly behaviours are the default. We can have quality visual Signals which indicate progress. Importantly we can flip people's identity with compelling Stories.

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https://www.ted.com/talks/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming

Cosmo-localism: The production and distribution of value that combines the universal (cosmo) sharing of knowledge (unimpeded by patents or other IP barriers), with physical production occurring as close to the place of need as possible.

http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Futures_of_Production_Through_Cosmo-Local_and_Commons-Based_Design