Timo Tiuraniemi / is on Nostr

Husband and father, activist for the commons (digital & environmental), programmer and philosopher. He/him

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

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2024-07-06 08:17:32

2000: If we switch to EVs, we can build enough renewable energy to both replace fossils and power the EVs.
2010: Oh, we also need more renewables to give everyone 4K videos. That's tricky but we can do it!
2019: Right, also we need energy for these cool crypto currencies. Totally doable, lemme just double the wind mills.
2023: AI is fun! Sure, we can build new solar panels, but the replacing fossil fuels part can wait a bit. AI surely is the last power hungry tech we'll get, right?

2023-12-10 10:16:48

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@npub1qh6…7gez @npub1qg4…augv
I don't believe this is true.
We are heterotrophs and need to consume other life to survive. However, that doesn't mean we must consume more than what nature can regenerate. There are hundreds of millions of people living in harmony with nature, doing good things, right now.
In fact, we can also feed 10 billion people sustainably:
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-feed-10-billion-people
The problem ofc is that our societies, especially in the Global North, actively prevent this.
Let's change them.

2023-08-19 07:29:47

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@npub1vfa…pg2d
To those hopeful that #BlueSky is the answer, Jack Dorsey in full agreement with Musk's plan to remove blocking is crucial to know.
Jumping from one billionaire's playground to another is not the way – especially when the two billionaires are good chums.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/110/915/070/476/936/522/original/ab7d80c3334ca310.png

2023-08-02 06:04:04

Today is #EarthOvershootDay , the day when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services for 2023 exceeds what Earth can regenerate.
While especially today it's tempting to draw attention to #overconsumption, in this blog post I argue that it's both ineffective to target individuals but also not the way the economy works.
Our focus should be on #overproduction.
https://tiuraniemi.org/blog/overproduction

2023-08-02 06:04:04