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Miss Gayle

"There are various non-mystical reasons why fossil fuels remain more profitable than renewables...Not all these things are necessarily set in stone for all time in such a way that it’s inconceivable renewables will ever compete with fossil fuels. But you’d expect an in-depth academic treatment of climate & energy futures to engage with them properly, rather than unfurling strange arguments about free energy & sunflowers."

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

Overshoot, meet undershoot Chris Smaje, originally published by Small Farm Future April 2, 2025 A lot of people have a peculiar horror for the idea of a lower energy and more local world, necessarily involving more people working the land – whereas the idea of living in a suburb and working in an office tends to get a free pass. I think there will be more of the former and less of the latter in the future whether we like it or not, but it’s a bit odd that our culture is so resistant to the possibility that the former might have its plus points. Teaser image credit: A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. By Scop Terre vivante – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146557065 "...We’re seriously undershooting the level of political rethinking needed via an overshot faith in techno-salvation. Malm and Carton’s term ‘bourgeois economics’ to describe mainstream economic orthodoxy is revealing in this respect. Implicitly, this sees the problem as merely the dominance of economic thought by a particular class perspective that can be overcome by more accurate scientific analysis. That’s a really old kind of social science thinking that I don’t think is at all equal to present problems, and in fact is a part of them – the slippage from the idea of scientific truth to the idea of a scientific understanding of human society that generates the correct political prescriptions for it."
#DeGrowth#Sustainability#Renewabkes
Apr 04, 2025, 08:52 PM·Public
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