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laughs in LineageOS

Odd to see Papua New Guinea referred to as an "Island Nation" as if it were like a microstate in the Pacific. It's half of New Guinea and bunch of other islands besides, and it's bigger than Sweden.

Under pressure from Nazis and tankies.

Is your timeline set in the past for that site? It shows the present day for me when I check.

Most climate scientists say we need to make changes to our personal lives and changes to the system. If one lives in the overdeveloped world, one's impact is potentially huge. There are basic things that make a difference: eat less meat from ruminants (beef, mutton), don't fly, have fewer or no kids. Those are low hanging fruit, take little effort, and still leave time and energy for whatever system change tactic one wants to do.

I've encountered the term "Imperial mode of living" cited by Kohei Salto. Thanks for posting this interview.

On the theft of resources for the affluent lifestyle, I recommend Cobalt Red, about mining in the DRC. It's a brutal read. Kids digging with hand tools in toxic pits for $1 a day.

May 1st colour being red is a nice subtle touch.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

All profit is stolen wages.

The commute itself? Hard to say. But according to the article, a billionaire produces emissions equivalent to a million average people.

There are 3,311 billionaires.

Once they are eliminated, that's the emissions of 3.3 billion people taken care of.

Or, proper running water systems vs having to buy plastic jugs of water.

Certainly the formula can be sharpened but it's a decent heuristic for thinking about impact.

I = PAT

Impact is equal to population times affluence times technology.

Decreasing human population can help to decrease impact, as long as the smaller population doesn't disproportionately increase its resource use (affluence x technology)