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A lot of young people are pretty unhappy with the state of the world and the future they’ve been given. I don’t really blame them for targeting various different things that represent that future.


Yeah I don't think their actions will do anything to change the course of history, but I sure do empathize with them.

We're here breaking record after record for temperatures all around the globe, we're seeing the effects of our industry and resource usage wreaking havoc everywhere. Record droughts. Record melt. Record rainfall. Record storms. And now the most powerful country in the world has a guy in charge who doesn't even care the world is going to shit. And at the same time global fossil fuel emissions are still rising.

It shouldn't come as a surprise some people will channel their feelings to actions trying to change something.

AI datacenters are just the next energy-guzzling target for these people.


The problem is that a truly low-carbon lifestyle is indistinguishable from abject poverty.


Then the problem might be that we've been living above our means for too long?


If this really is the plan on the left to fix climate change I'm not surprised the zeitgeist seems to be "rapid technology advancement or we're fucked".

The FUD about climate change is wayyyy to large and the advantages of cheating too great for advanced economies to all decide to co-operate and deindustrialise and return most of their citizens to some version of agrarian living.




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