Mr. P's Futurism News

[Mr. Peabody]

Today I have:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-capitalism-climate-change

"McAfee’s view is certainly rosy, but we live in an increasingly-uninhabitable world where nearly 71 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from just 100 companies, and where a growing number of experts argue that ditching capitalism is our best bet to save the planet."



https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-report-predicts-military-collapse

"In a cruel twist of irony, the U.S. Department of Defense was recently shown to have the largest carbon footprint in the world — the military does more to exacerbate climate change than do entire developed nations."

[Osirus23]

 

[Nephasth]

[Mr. Peabody]

I know a little about Michael Moore, so have some idea of your meaning. However, in an over-arching manner, I would come from this angle [23] :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free  (by H.G. Wells)

Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands [...] All through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing [...]There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape [...]Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it [...]Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city

Which was influenced by nobel prize-winning chemist Frederick Soddy's :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth,_Virtual_Wealth_and_Debt

Soddy points out the fundamental difference between real wealth (consumables such as buildings, equipment, energy, food) and virtual wealth, in the form of money and debt. Soddy contends that real wealth is subject to entropy and will rot, rust, wear out, or be consumed over time, while money and debt (as artificial accounting devices) are subject only to the laws of mathematics, not the laws of thermodynamics. As debt compounding at some rate of interest, virtual wealth will grow effortlessly over time and without limit, instead of diminishing with use as does real wealth. Soddy uses actual occurring examples to demonstrate what he considers a major flaw of prevailing economic theory.


[23] 'please baby not so fast', and 'don't angle your dangle at me!'


If this doesn't push the topic into PnR, your response likely would. So, back to the news!

https://futurism.com/the-byte/army-bottled-water-thirsty-soldiers-drinking

https://futurism.com/the-byte/massive-3d-printed-building

https://futurism.com/the-byte/criminals-counter-strike-loot-boxes-launder-money
 

[Mike A]

Its cute that you think somebody is going to read any of that.

[Osirus23]

How much do you get paid to advertise for that site?

[jennifer]

The climate has been changing since the start of time, So before you go out and start maxing out your credit cards thinking the world is going to end you may want to consider for a minute those facts of yours were based on falsified information...The sphinx in Egypt for example once stood on the edge of a jungle, before the pyramids were built non-the -less, and long before capitalism...but as evidenced by the water damage that would have put its construction around 10,000 years ago as evidenced by FACTS...Now it sits surrounded (and one time even buried) by sand climate change in antiquity perhaps? ...Man made climate change is nothing more than that, A hoax.

[Mike A]

Well you think that cigarettes are a health snack.

[jennifer]

Well you think that cigarettes are a health snack.

Well I never said they were good for you. 

[Mr. Peabody]

Its cute that you think somebody is going to read any of that.

You assume I think people will read it. The degree of niggardly-ness you experience is a function of your make-up. I love and look out for you.

How much do you get paid to advertise for that site?

Why? Need an extra gig?