Jonathan Schofield on Nostr: …but here’s the thing. Back in the day no-one gave a fk about the long term ...

…but here’s the thing. Back in the day no-one gave a fk about the long term implications of generating power with coal, or the making of millions of cups of tea with it.

And decades later barely anyone gives a fk about the power consumption cost of posting to social media. Myself included. Here I am doing it.

How much power is consumed for anything is culturally meaningless without *limits*.

Our culture despises notions of limiting power use. But limits will be hit. And then all this changes