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   GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 06:58:42 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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   They mentioned the Aral Sea. I want to highlight that because the the sea was destroyed by building water, management structures, dams, and canals, and that sort of thing, All with the attention of supporting a cash, crop industry cotton
   The USSR believed just as western economies that infinite productivity can be achieved through an application of technology. Second law of thermodynamics takes issue with that fantasy. There’s 2nd law wins. Always.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_p4vBflGUc

   #climatechange

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 06:58:41 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     The second leg of climate change is land use. What we do to the land is a primary source of our energy use.

     The energy intensity of our economies can only change when we change how we use or even use up the land.

     That’s why walkable cities restoration of ecology, small scale and multi crop farms are existential. Every community has to have some concept of being able to sustain itself on its own resources, just like any patch of forest or grassland

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:10:46 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #ClimateCrisis

     It all became very clear to me, when I read this insightful article about #Overshoot:

     [2B amended]

     After further reading and contemplation, I wrote this thread about the the #PhantomCarryingCapacity and the quintessential #SecondGreenRevolution:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047709692840344

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:24:15 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     The irony in mitigating force to overshoot, Is the consequence of heavy use of plastics in forever chemicals. Endocrine disruption along with the increasingly marginal economic situation of most people mean that fertility is plummeting.

     Japan, trying to Europe, especially Italy are well below replacement rates, but the phenomena is global.

     The major challenge for capitalism is it can’t handle it. I classify it or like characterize it as a necrotic metabolism. 🧵

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:26:29 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     Good point.

     "The irony in mitigating force to overshoot, Is the consequence of heavy use of plastics in forever chemicals. Endocrine disruption along with the increasingly marginal economic situation of most people mean that fertility is plummeting."

     I'd say, good riddance to humanity, but we're destroying the livelihoods of the majority (?) of species.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:26:52 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     It only functions by breaking down depleting and pillaging existing system, and exporting the value into a financial and industrial core.

     You don’t think it’s particularly unique. I’m just trying to say things my own way, But the nature of the system is, it will never be able to live within its own means.

     Which is slightly ironic because ass hats like Elon Musk shout about the national budget where he’s wrong.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:29:07 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     "But the nature of the system is, it will never be able to live within its own means."

     I have the same hunch, but that is a devastating insight. It means that most living creatures are doomed.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:36:56 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     I’m not so negative on the body of humanity. We are all agents and victims of our civilization. And we largely accept the choices offered to us.

     Unfortunately, the choices that we’ve been offered our ones which burned a lot of fossil fuels, and quite unnecessarily.

     It’s roughly, correct to say that GDP = economic consolidation = energy intensity.

     Growth just means all of that gets bigger.

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:37:24 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     Well, yes, and no because modernity can’t survive in the environment it’s creating. Peeling off the living skin of the planet, exposes capitalism to a raw inorganic and sterile environment, it can’t exploit anymore.

     To be frank if you go into deep time, the planet has suffered multiple mass extinction events. Some of the most devastating have been the product of life itself..

     If you look up the great oxidation event, you’ll find that bacteria poisoned their world with oxygen

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:38:06 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     LOL ;)

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113647831074632639

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:41:33 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     LMAO

     In fact, this came about b/c I used to watch great YT tutorials on #PaleoGeology and the like. (Not referenced in the post.)
     I was actually searching for this period to make a point back then (based on a hypothesis ;).)

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:41:34 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     Great minds read the same Wikipedia pages

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:45:29 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     Learning about deep time of life on this planet, you gain a real appreciation of just how this world has been shaped by life.

     Because at its formation, the Earth had something like 250 times level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of chemistry of the oceans and the rest of the atmosphere was entirely different with methane everywhere in sulfur and iron compounds very high levels compared to today.

     The majority of carbon dioxide sequestration was in organic
     🧵

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     Taking place over the first 3 billion years of earth existence, But by the time CO2 levels had dropped to 7000 ppm which I think was about 600 million years ago. The levels were too low for the inorganic processes that’s when organic sequestration began to dominate..

     But even here it turns out That life began to colonize land although away from direct sunlight 3.1 billion years ago.

     Life has been shaping the earths chemistry and climate for billions of years.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:49:47 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     Wise words.

     "Learning about deep time of life on this planet, you gain a real appreciation of just how this world has been shaped by life."

     Yes, and in so doing, you realize that Earth is almost like God: it really can do without all living creatures, including humanity, within the blink of a (geological) eye.

     I recommend her for these insights:

     [TBA]

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:19:25 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     Oh, In the last bit to that thought which is one of those back burner projects I’ve had for a video for a while over a year, Is a hydrocarbon we’ve been drilling Is the staff that took the planet from 7000 part per million down to around 300 ppm.

     We’re basically unwinding the work of hundreds of millions of years or tens of millions of years and in earnest that made the kind of vegetation we rely on possible.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:21:06 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #GeoPalentology meets #ClimateCatastrophy

     That's *exactly* it:

     "We’re basically unwinding the work of hundreds of millions of years or tens of millions of years and in earnest that made the kind of vegetation we rely on possible."

     https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/113647975784709191

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     Pierrette (pierrette@mastodon.uno)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 23:57:08 JST Pierrette

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 23:58:55 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     So, ma non lo posso leggere in italiano.

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