corralling, storing, and harnessing the various energy potential gradients of the world is the hallmark of living things; we take a commission on facilitating some thermodynamic process, using it to move entropy out of our boundaries, against the gradient.
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RT @isabelleboemeke
funny how progress always looks like higher energy consumption, even if people fail miserably to imagine what future technologies will look like https://t…
https://twitter.com/isabelleboemeke/status/1456986780624957448
our ability to maintain homeostasis & to carve out niches for more of ourselves to survive is proportional to our control over the natural world; the same way an enzyme catalyzes a reaction through thru structured injection of energy, we also need surplus energy to do our thing
the project of civilization is to build an energetic flywheel; the more energy is available to us, the more energy we can extract from facilitating thermodynamic gradient descent, the more energy is available to us. this virtuous cycle is the foundational calculus of technos.
there are those who would see this flywheel torn down, the cycle ended; don't be charmed by their utopian visions, they're naught but the facade of a death cult. exponential growth is the foundation of all life; to slow it would be civilizational suicide
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RT @pee_zombie
those who push for radical action to green the world would have to advocate for nuclear for any hope of reducing emissions quickly enough
however, most of them don'…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1385334366948184066