Post #3453513

2026-06-28 14:16 UTC

@stekopf@mstdn.social @royaards@newsie.social Yup, I have also read about this. I think this also popped up on hacker news with a very weird take using an LLM for argumentative help ... Regardless, ACs will become a health thing... it is not sustainable to bake in homes or other buildings, especially hospitals and offices where we spend most of our time or try to recover. It will become a necessity. But we have to be smart about this. As you said, this can't cover everything and the energy needs need to be fulfilled using renewable sources. PV panels providing shades could be one small piece of that puzzle, but we need some grand plan to come out of this :/

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@stekopf@mstdn.social 2026-06-28 14:29

@lumiukko@metalhead.club @royaards@newsie.social Yes, public buildings in particular – hospitals, schools, care homes – should have been retrofitted to be climate-resilient long ago. Unfortunately, we have been largely unsuccessful in curbing #ClimateChange now we must bear the costs not only of combating further exacerbation of climate change, but also of far-reaching adaptation measures. That is, provided there is still enough money and political capital available once the 5% mark for defence spending has been reached. 😬

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 20:44

@lumiukko@metalhead.club @stekopf@mstdn.social @royaards@newsie.social before any “grand plan” we need one really simple rule: prohibit all extraction and cross-border trade of fossil fuels (crude and refined), and subsidize the refitting or replacing of personal fossil-dependent machines to be fossil-free. The basic problem is the increase of carbon in the carbon cycle, so the critical first step is to stop that, and since people are dependent on it we need to enable them to move away from it

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