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.

854x480 h.264 [webrip]
English Audio (MP3 96kb/s)

Original Source:
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

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is basically anarchist.

Specifically eco-anarchist.

It portrays a population who’ve been fooled into thinking a ruling class care for them and that chaos would break out without them, when really they’re parasites draining people and planet dry.

And it recommends total social and ecological revolution as the solution to this issue, with the plot concerning the characters spreading revolutionary consciousness throughout the masses.

Here’s some more reasons why:

• One of the characters, Brea, from the educated upper-middle class, has an epiphany upon realising that there is no natural hierarchy between the clans of Gelflings. And that viewing others as "higher" and "lower" is nonsensical. Representative of the leftwing intelligentsia joining the cause of the multitude?

• Another, Deet, from a clan that’s a stand-in for indigenous peoples, is the first to realise there’s an ecological catastrophe underfoot, which the ruling class (Skeksis) continuously deny is even happening – okay, yes, the analogy is a little on the nose.

• The Skeksis use a tithe system and inter-clan bigotry as tools to (a) keep Gelflings at each other’s throats, and (b) lacking the independent means to fend for themselves. The Skeksis’ greatest fear is the Gelflings putting aside racism and realising "we are many, they are few" and uniting against them in class war.

• Skeksis actively promote the idea that anyone who believes they’re draining people and planet (human and ecological exploitation) must be mentally ill. Those who spread the truth are most often disbelieved, and ratted out by true believers.

• There’s disagreements within the ruling class as to whether they should exploit covertly, treating them like sheep – "would you rather be a pet or an enemy?" – or go all out and just ravage them when they have the means to do so (capitalism vs fascism). They also justify their predatory hierarchy as "natural".

• Eco justice + animal liberation + class struggle.
The solution of intersectional class struggle and revolution is framed in explicitly ecological terms (to save the planet Thra as well as the Gelflings) and also extends beyond Gelflings to other species.

• Indigenous solidarity
When Deet tells the spider-people they’ve been played for fools, promised their ancestral home in exchange for fighting for the Skeksis, knowing they’ll be killed by the blight, they realise their struggle is one and the same and promising reconciliation. Upon realising she’s been living on "stolen land", Deet tells them, an alien species to hers, that her people take their name, Grottan, from the caves, and that as far as she’s concerned that makes them all Grottan, Gelflings and spider people both.

In short, watch Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.

It’s the eco-anarchist fantasy epic you never knew you wanted. (from Solarpunk Anarchist FB page)

and best when the plants also produce food because that’s decentralizing the means of production 😬

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