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lx242

@elilla there is another thread with more useful tips from @welshpixie at mastodon.art/@welshpixie/10865

15 Jul 2022 at 21:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ruhr.social
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Lien Rag

@lx242 @elilla @welshpixie

A lot of these advices (apart from the lowtech ones like putting your feet in a bowl of water) are encouraging a ginormous waste of energy, that will only aggravate climate change...

16 Jul 2022 at 12:33 | Open on mastodon.tedomum.net
elilla&, tactical travesti

@lienrag @lx242 @welshpixie individual people's tech consumption habits don't cause or aggravate global warming. the system of incentives integral to capitalism, including nation-borders, animal farming, private+government control of shared resources, rentism, work culture, and ultimately the decision power being concentrated in a tiny minority of hands who are not affected by externalities, is what causes global warming.

unless these systems are fought directly and abolished urgently, global warming will keep worsening, no matter how many fans you nobly refrain from turning on.

@lienrag @lx242 @welshpixie individual people's tech consumption habits don't cause or aggravate global warming. the system of incentives integral to capitalism, including nation-borders, animal farming, private+government control of shared resources, rentism, work culture, and ultimately the decision power being concentrated in a tiny minority of hands who are not affected by externalities, is what causes global warming.

16 Jul 2022 at 16:11 | Open on transmom.love
Lien Rag

@elilla @lx242 @welshpixie

I agree that individual actions pale in comparison to industrial/capitalist causes, but they do aggravate global warming too - IIRC the remedy to global warming is 25% individual actions and 75% abolition of capitalism (to summarize).

Turning fans on or off is not a major impact, but producing ice in the fridge to cool the air begins to reach the levels where huge energy inefficiency has an impact, even at individual levels.

16 Jul 2022 at 16:58 | Open on mastodon.tedomum.net
Lien Rag

@elilla

If it wasn't clear, I was referring to the advices that @lx242 linked to via the thread by @welshpixie

Yours are low-tech and efficient.

16 Jul 2022 at 17:02 | Open on mastodon.tedomum.net
lx242

@lienrag
I fail to see much energy being used/wasted in those tips. And I think its okay to use energy to prevent getting sick or dying.
It's not wasted energy in my understanding. @elilla @welshpixie

17 Jul 2022 at 6:48 | Open on ruhr.social
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