The Future Is Coming And I Swear To God We're Gonna Be Okay - Tumblr Posts

I'm pretty shocked the fusion news isn't all over tumblr, all over everything, because for the first time there's a light at the end if the tunnel. There's a viable path out of global warming and environmental degradation that doesn't just kick the problem down the road a little further.

To explain: solar and wind are far better energy producers than fossil fules but they still have a fairly substantial environmental impact. Solar panel and wind turbine components have to come from somewhere. And you need well, a bunch of them to produce energy. Both require batteries full of toxic components to store energy for when generation is taking place.

They are, I want to reiterate, much cleaner and safer energies than fossil fule based energy. They are available now and we should be using them. But they are also not truly long term solutions to the need for power, any more than nuclear fission is.

But now there's a way out, a path forward. Humanity bites the bullet and uses solar, wind, geothermic, and hydroelectric to bridge the gap because now it's not an infinite gap. Somewhere in the next 10-50 years we'll probably have a fusion power plant built.

Capitalism will undoubtedly slow things down and restrict this vital technology to the richest countries. I'm not saying the fight is over, I'm saying that a win condition exists at all now.

This is the holy grail of energy. This is energy where we build the plants then basically just maintain them and there is no pollution. There is no having to keep harvesting the Earth, or birds flying into turbines, or requiring massive amounts of components to harvest the energy like solar. This works in dark places, at night, in the desert.

I haven't felt hope for a long time. I am feeling it right now. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is a tiny star.

Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?

You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”

And, yes, of course, but… :)

However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.

Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.

It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…

And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.

If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]

Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.

The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.

Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.

The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.

That will kill all remaining life on Earth.

So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully

We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.

The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.

However, we make it run…

So we can make it STOP. Together.

How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?

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p.s. My computer is on its last legs. If you would like me to draw you a little cartoon and help me get a new computer, learn more at this post.