Walt, as I see from my MS account, your accounts on soykaf and decept are private accounts and require your confirmation for somebody to subscribe to them. Could you please have a look and confirm my following requests to both of them? Thank you.
I really hope it is not a lab-creation or escaped from a lab. Because the political repercussions, including possible military confrontations, would be very dangerous.
« This book compares the cross-border integration of infrastructures in Europe such as post, telecommunication and transportation in the 19th century and the period following the Second World War. In addition to providing a unique perspective on the development of cross-border infrastructures and the international regimes regulating them, it offers the first systematic comparison of a variety of infrastructure sectors, identifies general developmental trends and supplies theoretical explanations. In this regard, integration is defined as international standardization, network building and the establishment of international organizations to regulate cross-border infrastructures. »
I suspect that the real climate change deniers are not those who don't "believe in the science" and the forecasts, but those who do and insist that we need to do something, anything, quickly They're simply not capable to accept death. Who can? But to think that there is anything humankind could do to avert or mitigate the worst prospects of climate change is outright nitwitted. The emissions are baked in. The tipping points and "positive" feedback loops occur because of the things done in the past not in the present or near future.
Again, the last chance to have averted this was 1960. We're 70 years too late.
Add to this a seemingly inconspicuous entity: the shipping container.First introduced in the 1950s in the U.S., standardised in the mid 1960s, it quickly became the main facilitator of global trade of goods and resources.
The global infrastructures began to emerge and coalesce around such utilities of transport, energy, and finance, and created the current forms of material exchanges that now can not quickly be abandoned. Perhaps we might have had a chance to avert or mitigate climate change in the early 1960s, when nothing of this new mega-system of infrastructures was yet on the horizon. (Obviously, this mega-system of infrastructures has been the main perpetrator of the climate crisis.) But now that it is, and given how long it takes to change fundamental features of this mega-system of infrastructures, there simply is no way to reshape it in time.
In the past weeks I repeatedly thought about that the last chance to have the worst impacts of climate change mitigated and the various tipping points and mutually enforcing feedback loops halted may indeed have been at the beinning of the 1960s. Not later. And in particular not as late as the 1980s or 1990s when talk abut climate change spread into the public for the first time.
People tend to date the beginning of globalisation and neoliberalism at the mid 1990s. That is too late. The coal crises in Britain of 1969 and early 1970s, the oil crisis of 1973, they are part of a change in the infrastructures, both with regard to global interconnection as of the local conversion and refurbishment of urban and industrial agglomerations. There is a saying that Western Germany lost more of its urban buildings and constructions in the early 1970s than during the whole of WWII. Infrastructures were reconstructed, older systems slashed.
Walt, as most issues with gnussocial.no federating with other gnusocial instances seem resolved, I've moved my presence on mastodon.social and gnusocial.cc. to simsa03@gnusocial.no -- to let you know in case you want to keep subscribed. Also I'd be happy to see you approve my subscription request of GSNO for your soykaf-account.
Walt, as most issues with gnussocial.no federating with other gnusocial instances seems resolved, I've moved my presence on mastodon.social and gnusocial.cc. to simsa03@gnusocial.no -- to let you know in case you want to keep subscribed. Also I'd be happy to see you approve my subscription request of GSNO for your soykaf-account.