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Last Notes npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Good job opening for a senior sustainable analyst, for the county of L.A. https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lacounty/jobs/5452546/senior-analyst-ceo-sustainability?keywords=senior%20analyst&pagetype=promotionalJobs #climate #sustainability #LosAngeles npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…xnyu Ooops! Added into original reply 😅 npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…xnyu Take a look at the summary for the climate booklet I've been working on. Chapters 22, 26, and 30 specifically address what may happen and strategies for dealing with it. #climate #climatechange npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Funding for small-scale degrowth events: https://www.degrowth.network/news/2026-06-11-idn-events-fund-2026-announcement-of-results/ #climate #degrowth #sustainability npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C A good article on what the war in Iran will do to oil supply... https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/bad-energy-trump-will-be-forced-to-end-his-reckless-war-very-soon-20260304-p5o78b.html #war #energy #economy #Iran npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…qvan Usually speaking my mind requires a great deal of concentration, so it's best if I stroll around a bit with the phone in my hand as I'm dictating. It helps me think! I guess you might say I get some light exercise though, LOL. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…qvan I've used speech to text as an occasional writing aid. For me it seems most useful when my brain is overflowing with thoughts that I need to capture. The resultant output still requires lots of editing though, much more so than if I typed it directly. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…c2w7 It's our sociology as well; we seem to be both supporters and victims of an advertising-driven consumption and growth philosophy. Cradle to grave planning and circular economies don't seem to get much support from the common folk. #climatechange #climate npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…ujrl I worry though that blaming a "system" let's people ignore individual responsibility. Besides, capitalism has been around since the late 18th century, since the industrial revolution. But our major pollution problems started in the mid 20th century, around and after WW II. Over consumption has been driven a lot by sociology; the top 10% produce more than half of the pollution. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…uxf3 If you can't get a direct referral, I had pretty good success running an ad at The Editorial Freelancers Association https://www.the-efa.org I do recommend following a standard employment screening routine... you'll get a wide array of responses, so you have to review resumes, be courteous to applicants, and ask useful questions. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…2ygq Not a nerd, but in college I did bicycle from Boston to Toronto in a week! Distance cycling is much more about endurance than strength. Most distance cyclists are quite slender. Keep doing aerobics work, and get the right clothing and equipment! Ask around at a bike store. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Or perhaps a little more deeply, that women are generally in charge of the upbringing of children. In rich societies the status envy revolves around the mechanics of that upbringing. The purchases for this drive overconsumption. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…79d7 Expand your reasoning please of why I shouldn't. Besides the fact that my girlfriend will leave me... npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C I'm working on a theory about how overconsumption (in the rich parts of the world) is a result of the status-envy of women and their expectations for their men; hence driving most of the Earth's ecological damage. Has anybody read something similar, have pointers, opinions, thoughts? #climatechange #climate #sociology #philosophy npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Jacaranda be jacarandering... #nature #losAngeles https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/638/038/086/271/129/original/3fc340755777d38a.jpg npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…240e UI design is an underappreciated art. I do have some (dated) thoughts about desktop design... https://artinbsd.blogspot.com/search/label/Screens #programming npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Sustainability Magazine... "In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we are proud to present Sustainability Magazine’s Top 250 Women in Sustainability." https://sustainabilitymag.com/ #climatechange #climate npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C China will attempt to ramp up its technology businesses... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/17/xi-jinping-meets-alibaba-jack-ma-and-chinese-tech-chiefs-amid-economic-slump #technology #china #climatechange npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C An oak tree from my hike today in Oak Park #nature #losangeles https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/010/971/300/994/573/original/1ba2be7267ffb8b0.jpg npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…dlth who can you suggest as a search engine, besides google, bing, and duckduck? I too build a FOSS browser and I'm in the process of adding search engine choices. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…ysjv How to avoid an #AI apocalypse (ChatGPT helped me to write this...) https://chappyessays.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/avoiding-an-ai-apocalypse/ npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…9nyw Or perhaps from pandemics and famines after the climate collapses. Which I suppose could be viewed as an extension to class war npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C Time to revise the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) to prioritize climate goals? https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00194-2 #climate #climatechange npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…6gnj I don't feel that U.S. citizens have any less courage to preserve democracy. The fact that so many of us are armed, however, makes serious protests extremely dangerous. If our dissatisfaction ever resorted to using armaments in mass, we might very well turn a bad situation into a gigantic catastrophe. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…ean3 Sustainable farming is important indeed! So humanity doesn't go extinct we need: 1. Replace GDP with better metric. 2. Less fragile technology. 3. Scenario planning on how population drops to a sustainable level. 4. Better strategic spatial planning to live in concordance with ecoregions. 5. More sustainable agriculture. 6. Attitudes and ongoing education that incorporate natural custodianship. 7. More grassroots organizing to establish green political leadership worldwide. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @nprofile…ean3 This is a terribly incorrect conclusion. Due to the possibility of cascading tipping points, our presently "gradual" pollution of ecosystems may cross into the territory of becoming fast and chaotic. The large severe events to plan for are phytoplankton destruction (oxygen depletion), rapid ice melt (sudden ocean surface rise), permafrost melt (associated as a trigger to some of the above), ocean acidification (same). npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C 2/2 Think tanks should focus on depopulation studies, offering policy guidance and planning for sustainable, post-collapse survival. So humanity doesn't go extinct we need: 1. Replacing GDP with a better metric. 2. Less fragile technology. 3. Scenario planning to handle a population crash to a sustainable level. 4. Better post-crash strategic spatial planning. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C 1/2 Current research suggests Earth's sustainable population is around 3 billion, living with Swiss-like efficiency. Over-consumption in large countries and future pollution from high-population poor countries must be reduced. The challenge lies in achieving this while managing climate collapse and its side effects. A gap exists in discourse on handling declining populations within degrowth organizations. #climate #degrowth npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub1se6…cmph See also: https://www.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-agricultural-production-systems/sustainable-agriculture #sustainability #climate npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub1khx…geyg promoting research for human species survival. ❤️👍 npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub1xwc…ze8u is it difficult to balance? npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub19g5…52e9 Related: http://artinbsd.blogspot.com/2010/10/artistic-options.html #software #programming npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub1w7m…9wnp I think you may be confusing the model with the reality... Mathematics is a human construct, it's just the model. npub17uz3mzctr8hsuugsh458ftygt302x67d2ecnhjx2g28sr3jsdv0qju5jnp Jeff C @npub1rc6…g7hx the power elite will not save us... https://chappyessays.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/should-we-save-humanity/