Or worse because how to make.money selliing more panels, aka the enshitifcation of solar.panels.

That said I had some installed on my off grid solar cabin 20 yrs ago, 220w per panel, had some new panels installed on my small rural cottage late last uear, 370W per panel, same size panel, so that was sweet. I retired decades ago and run my home through the day on solar (hot wayer system only switches on to use solar thru the day, induction cooktop etc). and sell the excess solar to the grid, including charging my ecar off solar only.

I am not sure how this is new though, i’ve always worked on a 1%-2% degredation per year for panels, not a cliff like degradation.

Can you expand on that ? I’m not sure what you mean. Like, papers over the cracks ?

Good news

Don’t look away, thats what they want, its also a sleight to the life of this man to not bear witness.

Watch, be enraged, then engage.

It will hurt your metal health way more to not watch and keep pretending everything is ok.

It’s always disappointing to me to see this touted as a poative, profligate use of energy is the problem, regarldess of the source.

Replacing all fossil fuels with renewabkes and not severely curtialing enrgy uae is the path to destruction.

Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.” - Jason Hickel

Meahwile.global emisisona keep increasing and ours are mostly static or rising. Anything to avoid riding a bicyle and not flying I guess

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/04/22/international-climate-report-demands-systemic-changes-to-transportation-and-urban-planning/

but also makes clear that simply replacing gasoline with batteries won’t be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and avoid “locking in” future emissions with more car-dependent infrastructure.

And a Climate Scientist

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-expert-comment-future-electric-fast.html

“Only by curbing all motorized transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possibly can we tackle the climate and air pollution crises”

If that’s it, Libre Office.

Has already happened in Australia, the enshitifcation accelerates

Tourism seems obvious but that cant happen until infrastructure is addressed. It can be difficult for locals, its a nightmare for tourists. Manila can’t be much until traffic issies are addressed, so much lost prodictivity for locals, let along the entire city is often a barely moving parking lot.

None of that can be adressed until corruption is dealt with :).

temporarily tank and in turn make it very difficult of the US to issue new ones, which they depend on to finance their huge deficit.

Which is irrelevant, just QE and the Fed buys new debt off Treasury, also, just issue it with a 0% coupon rate, so no interest… this is exactly what Japan has done with the Yen for decades. Then only issue after that is inflation.

The current US debt can’t be paid back, it’s too big, holding more debt in that context is irrelevant.

I saw an IEA (i think it was ) estimate that China reduced oil consumption by 1.6 million barrels a day already becase of their EV rollout (cars and buses).

For Australians (alas, big Teska supporters) and much of the world they are all made in China anyway.

Most -ism’s are the problem, every hericarical civilization throughout all of sapien time has collapsed, destroyed the local enviorment etc. Inequality is the issue.

And housing is sooooo cheap in France (compartively)

I lived off grid for 10 years until 2019

So, ONP will be banned ?

This is indeed the issue, who to put last is becoming more problematic, that said I usually put Labor above then so my preference isnt falling through to them anyway Green, Independent, then all the toxic candidates after that; Labor , LNP, ONP, Trumpet etal

Australia is going US. Mostly dog whistles instead of hate speech and no amount of legislation will solve this, like using a eggplant emoji instead of a penis.

It’s not great, it was a paid alternative to some adobe apps. I used it on Windows Canava owns it now and further enshitifcation will ensue.

I now use Inkscape, which is great.

Yeah but he also said he can grab 'em by the pussy and shoot people in Times Square etc why they ignore that ?

It’s like Christians i guess, they ignore the bits they find inconvenient like its ok to own slaves as long as they are purchasesd from neighbouring countries and stoning people to death for working on the Sabbath.

I honestly believe the answer to that is capitalism.

I don’t agree, all hierarchical societies collapse from within; Egypt, Rome, Khmer, Inca, Greek, Roman, British, USSR, Babylonian and on amd on and we’re witnessing the collapse of the USA

The issue isnt capatislim it’s inequality. If you have inequality you will fail, every… single … time. The ONLY societies who haven’t are equal ones. Eg the Australian Aboriginal societies lasted over 60,000 years, the African Bushman lasted 150,000 years. Their collapse only comes about from outside force changing how they lived If your metric is time, resilience and a livable biospbere, then these are breathtakingly successful societies.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-inequality-bothers-people-more-than-poverty

Most remarkably, his research revealed that the Ju/’hoansi managed this on the basis of little more than 15 hours’ work per week. On the strength of this finding, the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins in Stone Age Economics (1972) renamed hunter-gatherers ‘the original affluent society’.

This research also revealed that the Ju/’hoansi were able to make a good living from a sparse environment because they cared little for private property and, above all, were ‘fiercely egalitarian’, as Lee put it. It showed that the Ju/’hoansi had no formalised leadership institutions, no formal hierarchies; men and women enjoyed equal decision-making powers; children played largely noncompetitive games in mixed age groups; and the elderly, while treated with great affection, were not afforded any special status or privileges. This research also demonstrated how the Ju/’hoansi’s ‘fierce egalitarianism’ underwrote their affluence. For it was their egalitarianism that ensured that no-one bothered accumulating wealth and simultaneously enabled limited resources to flow organically through communities,

There are no solutions that don’t involve removal of inequality. Everything else is just kicking the can down the road.