. . . @wion@writing.exchange

A quote from same article:

‘I have concluded that our way of life has a terminal diagnosis. Because rain-fed agriculture will continue to breakdown over the next decade. Unless we immediately build massive irrigated greenhouses, and plan for compulsory plant-heavy diets and food rationing, we will see malnutrition in the West and resultant civil unrest, lawlessness and a breakdown in normal life.’

I’m paraphrasing and pulling from other Bendell writing, but...
#JemBendell says hope for the future is a fear response and a barrier to accepting inevitable societal collapse, thus a barrier to love, peace of mind, and possible constructive actions that diminish the severity of what will otherwise happen.

Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse – The 4th R of Deep Adaptation

https://jembendell.com/2019/01/09/hope-and-vision-in-the-face-of-collapse-the-4th-r-of-deep-adaptation/

Beautiful sunny day today, but already too damn hot. Where are my big sky-patch clouds and cool zephyrs?! We're not even in summer yet.

Maybe I’m approaching this backwards. Nobody likes taxes, after all. So maybe you get tax *deductions* for having low-tech business sites. That would be incentive, maybe.

For kicks, let's imagine other business types are subject to some kind of website #CarbonTax too, even small business owners. It seems to me this would jive with the #LowTech website movement I'm seeing more of (and love), creating incentive for more site owners to do the same. In turn this could encourage less use of third-party shite, #adtech, and other bandwidth leaks, thus positively undermining those clickware scams that drive up CO2 emissions. But how much tax? And where would it go?

If I understand correctly, the idea of a #CarbonTax is applied high up the chain at primary source users. I presume this means corporations of all kind, but I'm unclear how for down that might go. Small businesses too?

Knowing the Internet is generating the same amount, or more, of #CO2 as the entire airlines industry, or as I read somewhere, all of the UK, wouldn't big tech companies with their #DataCenters be primary users?

I guess they have armies of lobbyists to keep such tax out?

Good stuff in Joana Moll's site, a top-ten low carbon lister...

http://janavirgin.com/

Some choice pieces...

CO2GLE

http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/CO2GLE_about.html

DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST

http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST_about.html

The Dating Brokers (yipes!)
'1 million online dating profiles for 136€ from USDate, a supposedly US-based company that trades in dating profiles from all over the globe.'

https://datadating.tacticaltech.org/

This kind of thing, right here, needs used in regulatory policy to limit/eliminate #web #advertising and web #marketing tactics (funneling, calls to action, paging, and other click-through shite...) in the fight for drawing down #CO2, and energy consumption in general. Likewise website Controllers need challenged on these things too. Capitalism energy waste is a good target to shoot at.

https://www.websitecarbon.com/

h/t @jools

I'm nearly done with the account killing spree I started a few years back to lighten my digital footprint. A few oddball accounts remain that I've put aside for last. Not priorities like Twitter, etc.

To my delight, I occasionally get emails from those old, derelict services saying they've been acquired or going out of business, and my account will be closed if I don't do this or that action.

Ha! Thanks for saving me the trouble. Goodbye!
/* checks another off the nearly completed list */

I should point out, the other editor made that pull-request before I posted a link to my framapad changes, so my changes would not have been seen by project managers yet, whereas a pull-request would be loud and visible, and probably more convenient.