Soon There’ll Be No Sand Left…

^{2023 Sets Record for Highest Global Fossil Fuel Emissions}

I wonder just how many of the eight billion humans presently on the planet are as sick to death as I am of the people in charge? Isn’t it time we did something about it? Why, I ask myself, even in so-called democracies do we go on voting the turds of humanity into power over us?

Do we, as I suspect, still suffer subconsciously from the master/serf syndrome? Are we scared to point out the failings of some toffee-nosed politician just because they came from Oxford University, or Harvard? Are we really so dumb that we’d as soon have a lump of human faeces like Putin or Orban or Lukashenko controlling our lives, than decent democratic governments run by people who actually put normal, ordinary folk before the Zuckerberg’s and Musk’s and other billionaire business scumbags of this world?

Not content with their private jets and huge luxury yachts, these parasites of the planet are now coming for our homes and our very lives. They don’t just ignore the climate emergency, but actively work to perpetuate it. It’s not just the fossil fuel companies, though they’ve been the true culprits since the 1970’s. Their own scientists told them they’d end up making the earth uninhabitable, by way of the amount of C02 that their fossil fuels were pumping into the atmosphere. It’s all the other big international companies as well who support the fossil fuel industry, as without it they’s have to adapt to wind or solar power.

Perhaps equally to blame are the computing giants. The amount of energy required to run the huge data clouds, support Gmail and other enormous databases, is colossal. With the advent of AI technology, matters have become disastrously worse, as John Naughton of the Guardian makes clear:

“…AI requires staggering amounts of computing power. And since computers require electricity, and the necessary GPUs (graphics processing units) run very hot (and therefore need cooling), the technology consumes electricity at a colossal rate. Which, in turn, means CO2 emissions on a large scale – about which the industry is extraordinarily coy, while simultaneously boasting about using offsets and other wheezes to mime carbon neutrality.

The implication is stark: the realisation of the industry’s dream of “AI everywhere” (as Google’s boss once put it) would bring about a world dependent on a technology that is not only flaky but also has a formidable – and growing – environmental footprint. Shouldn’t we be paying more attention to this?”

Indeed we should, but we’re not. Why not?

Are we still so imbued with the inferiority complex of the master/serf relationship that we continue to bury our heads in the proverbial sand and just hope for the best? Meanwhile the parasites with the power continue to destroy our home and our environment.

Sea levels have already risen by 101mm (4 inches) since 1993, and 21-24 cms (8-9 inches) since the start of the industrial revolution (1880).  It will continue to rise at an ever more alarming rate.

Before long there’ll be no sand left in which to bury our heads.