Activist,Academic,Anti-Capitalist,Climate justice. Collapse early — bring the system down.
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Our world operates according to the fundamental laws of physics.amidst the uncertainty that shrouds our future, one truth remains immutable: exponential growth, must eventually yield to the forces of nature. it is not if but when.
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21 Dec 2024
We must face the limits to our economic growth. Civilization thrives on high availability of energy and material resources, but at the cost of pollution and depletion. Traditional economics trivializes these constraints and risks hastening our collapse
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If this is what peak human achievement looks like, we're not just screwed — we're hosting our own extinction event.
What a time to be alive —Collectively, we're devolving into a sentient potato.
Jun 12
The world’s first trillionaire… wearing a t-shirt back-to-front and a wig. What a specimen!
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Jun 12
So, non-violent protest has got nowhere, except landed non-violent protestors in prison for longer terms than violent offenders get. What next?
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Civilisation is a continuum.We’re locked in because we are physically tied to the energy systems that keep us alive today. Ignoring that physics isn’t optimism—it’s planning to crash.
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"Future emissions are locked in by inertia. We survive in the present using infrastructure and knowledge developed in the past -- a past built primarily using combustion. "Nothing is locked in" means forgetting what sustains us today. It's suicide."
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I almost hope this paper gets torn apart in peer review. if it survives intact, we're not staring into the abyss—we're already falling into it.
⚠️ Projected additional warming in the NEXT 10 YEARS: 0.5 to 1.0°C
Let that sink in. One entire degree of global warming. By 2034.
May 31
Not peer-reviewed yet, but if it is then we are in the deepest of deep sh*t
Warming of almost half a degree C a decade and a 0.5 to 1C rise possible within the next decade
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The authors removed El Niño & aerosol noise to see the true underlying climate monster. What's left is a nightmare:Post-2015 warming trend: 0.48°C per decade (5x faster than before).
That's not gradual change. That's a climate emergency cascading out of control.
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The acceleration is likely driven by feedback loops not fully captured in climate models (e.g., declining planetary albedo due to cloud changes, increased atmospheric moisture). This means real-world warming may be outpacing model predictions.
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I almost hope this paper gets torn apart in peer review. if it survives intact, we're not staring into the abyss—we're already falling into it.
⚠️ Projected additional warming in the NEXT 10 YEARS: 0.5 to 1.0°C
Let that sink in. One entire degree of global warming. By 2034.
May 31
Not peer-reviewed yet, but if it is then we are in the deepest of deep sh*t
Warming of almost half a degree C a decade and a 0.5 to 1C rise possible within the next decade
researchsquare.com/article/r…
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The acceleration is likely driven by feedback loops not fully captured in climate models (e.g., declining planetary albedo due to cloud changes, increased atmospheric moisture). This means real-world warming may be outpacing model predictions.
doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-928…
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May 29
My cousin’s 3yr-old daughter Mariam was beautiful, says @RamAbdu: the israelis killed her in Gaza with her parents, grandparents and family
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Conflating weather with climate while wilfully ignoring 19th-century physics — CO₂ absorbs infrared — is embarrassing.
280 ppm pre-industrial → 430 ppm today.
What part of those basic physics are you finding difficult to comprehend? Genuine question.
May 25
Today was the hottest May day in the UK since 1944.
So if today’s temperature is due to global warming, what was the deal in 1944?
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May 26
A big piece in today's @guardian
Please note, I am being optimistic in my scenario😮
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May 20
Climate scientist Professor Bill McGuire :
‘I know from conversations with fellow scientists that many feel desperately sad and frustrated about where our world is headed and the bleak future we are bequeathing our children and their children, and I am no different. Knowing what I know, it is no longer possible to see my kids without wondering just what incarnation of hell they will have to face in later life.’
From our latest media alert:
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There,I fixed it for you .the impossible future
Climate damages → decay accelerates → J → 1 (decay ≈ production) → inflation → ∞ (runaway hyperinflation)
Wynne & Derr assume AI boosts real output.
But decay is physical. You can't outrun thermodynamics with ChatGPT.
Neoclassical view: 1.9% growth forever, maybe 0.3–3% from AI.
Physics-based view: Growth = energy growth. Climate decay → hyperinflation → collapse.
One erases thermodynamics. The other is built on it.
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Neoclassical view: 1.9% growth forever, maybe 0.3–3% from AI.
Physics-based view: Growth = energy growth. Climate decay → hyperinflation → collapse.
One erases thermodynamics. The other is built on it.
x.com/nephologue/status/2041…
Apr 6
The old of civilization is always falling apart even as it newly grows. Additional decay forced by climate change need only grow by 0.1%/year to lead to civilization collapse by 2070, sooner for higher rates. We will collapse slowly then all at once.
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There,I fixed it for you .the impossible future
Climate damages → decay accelerates → J → 1 (decay ≈ production) → inflation → ∞ (runaway hyperinflation)
Wynne & Derr assume AI boosts real output.
But decay is physical. You can't outrun thermodynamics with ChatGPT.
Neoclassical view: 1.9% growth forever, maybe 0.3–3% from AI.
Physics-based view: Growth = energy growth. Climate decay → hyperinflation → collapse.
One erases thermodynamics. The other is built on it.
x.com/nephologue/status/2041…
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Neoclassical view: 1.9% growth forever, maybe 0.3–3% from AI.
Physics-based view: Growth = energy growth. Climate decay → hyperinflation → collapse.
One erases thermodynamics. The other is built on it.
x.com/nephologue/status/2041…
Apr 6
The old of civilization is always falling apart even as it newly grows. Additional decay forced by climate change need only grow by 0.1%/year to lead to civilization collapse by 2070, sooner for higher rates. We will collapse slowly then all at once.
egusphere.copernicus.org/pre…
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original source of the neoclassical illusion
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