Post #4354577
2026-08-03 11:22 UTC
@urlyman@mastodon.social alternatively, if we concentrate on electric smelters and kilns, we won't have enough clean energy to power them.
Of course, we could continue to burn #FossilFuels to do either the power generation or the materials processing, but in that case we all die fairly quickly — probably this century.
Or else we could use our available power and structural materials to build #GenAI #DataCentres, in which case we all die even more quickly.
#ClimateEmergency
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-08-03 11:30
@urlyman@mastodon.social if we want to survive, we have pretty quickly (within at most 5 years) switch to 1. Stop burning #FossilFuels altogether; 2. Build *some* new clean generating capacity; 3. Build *some* new clean materials processing capacity; 4. Invest in #Organic low input agriculture; 5. Invest in efficient transport infrastructure to distribute food; 6. Use an absolute minimum of power or structural materials for anything else at all; 7. Fight no wars at all. #ClimateEmergency /Continued