I'm glad to read this article because I think it is important to call out "greenwashing". I don't understand what a modern version of a low energy lifestyle would be - if such a thing exists or its back to cave-dwelling?? Have also wondered how people hustling to make ends meet can be effective in either calling for change and living the change? Or maybe cynically/realistically, how many people really want to give up their cell phones which I think might be prioritized over food and shelter in our current society.
blowing up mountains? that's not how you get lithium. it's extracted from desert salt flats with electricity... which can be green, lots of sun in the desert.
furthermore.. a huge breakthrough with graphene (made from carbon from hemp waste) makes aluminum ion batteries possible. 3x the storage per weight!
so batteries for everything would be made from unexotic, unmined carbon (from hemp waste) and aluminum. a plentiful easily recyclable metal.
I have read the book. Prior to that I had read articles on the individual subjects discussed in Bright Green Lies. However, the book by uniting the data provided delivers a disastrous but correct narrative. I think the authors’ inner argument is for the extinction of the human animal because of its destructiveness. All of nature is symbiotic. Humankind alone of all species takes more from nature than it returns: it is anti-symbiotic. Absent that they clearly advocate reducing human society to small unconnected small groups. However, history of the last 10,000 years demonstrates that the competitive and ingenious nature of the human brain is determined to “defeat” any competitor to its existence whether virus, animal, nature as a whole or last but not least, other humans. So ...what is to be done?
I'm glad to read this article because I think it is important to call out "greenwashing". I don't understand what a modern version of a low energy lifestyle would be - if such a thing exists or its back to cave-dwelling?? Have also wondered how people hustling to make ends meet can be effective in either calling for change and living the change? Or maybe cynically/realistically, how many people really want to give up their cell phones which I think might be prioritized over food and shelter in our current society.
blowing up mountains? that's not how you get lithium. it's extracted from desert salt flats with electricity... which can be green, lots of sun in the desert.
furthermore.. a huge breakthrough with graphene (made from carbon from hemp waste) makes aluminum ion batteries possible. 3x the storage per weight!
so batteries for everything would be made from unexotic, unmined carbon (from hemp waste) and aluminum. a plentiful easily recyclable metal.
I have read the book. Prior to that I had read articles on the individual subjects discussed in Bright Green Lies. However, the book by uniting the data provided delivers a disastrous but correct narrative. I think the authors’ inner argument is for the extinction of the human animal because of its destructiveness. All of nature is symbiotic. Humankind alone of all species takes more from nature than it returns: it is anti-symbiotic. Absent that they clearly advocate reducing human society to small unconnected small groups. However, history of the last 10,000 years demonstrates that the competitive and ingenious nature of the human brain is determined to “defeat” any competitor to its existence whether virus, animal, nature as a whole or last but not least, other humans. So ...what is to be done?