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Made me look for the bad news. There doesn't seem to be any luckily

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-calls-for-managed-retreat-from-beachfront-properties-20250124-p5l6xp.html

I see that the available land area is shrinking at an increasing pace. Pretty sure water resources are dwindling similarly too. I see zero reasons to so much as congratulate pregnancies these days. The gains, which are codified in laws in the form of rights, to me, look basically like promises made by lawmakers to their citizens. Lawmakers are people too. And people keep their promises on a best effort basis. With dwindling resources, I see the ability of lawmakers to uphold rights shrink and dwindle too.

Like I said at the start, verboten, and I'm fine being alone on this. Though would be good to have company.

💯 I used AI as a placeholder for any tools or methodologies we might use

Australia alone cannot repeal those laws and expect to make a scratch if that. I was referring to every government across every jurisdiction all over the planet. I doubt that low birthrate would be seen as being so painful when businesses are not required to keep delivering growing profits every quarter.

No civilization ever studied is known to have survived its own localised climate catastrophe or some other catastrophe. Every one of them either perished or, accepted the limitations imposed by land, air, water and lived within those limits. We might want to look inside ourselves for refusing to accept this.

I can think of two things that are utterly verboten yet will force us to do some soul searching.

One is to repeal every law across the board that requires businesses to keep delivering growing profits. Those laws have done their job splendidly and are causing harm as their expiry date goes farther into the past.

Two is, repeal every law across the board that requires parental leave, daycare rebates and such other things. You just cannot continue to congratulate those who bring infants into this gas chamber of a planet.

What laws to have instead of these two? What to do with our own lives after repealing these two laws? I don't know. I'm merely hoping that the collective intelligence of 8 billion aided by AI and whatnot will see a way forward after these roadblocks are removed.

Reminds of

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal

By Henry Kissinger

TIL 👍

The first thing that came to my mind is perhaps October Surprise is something pleasant and giving a feeling of relief after Eternal September

Addictive tobacco has reinvented itself. Vaping, gummies, and probably more.

New Shepard (of Blue Origin that dick shaped space flight in which Jeff Bezos took off for his first mission)

Given what happened on the stock market, looks like this is a step towards bracing for the impact that recession might bring. Not that everyone would line up at the shops in the CBD recession or not as it feels like one anyway. Just a cop out to say that we tried by bringing your potential customers in your vicinity. What fun times to look forward to.

Answering the question with a counter question

Why do we ask a question whilst already knowing its answer?

Calculated misery by Tim Wu explains a lot of this. Goes on to show how airlines and other industries as well. I think the paper was published in 2014.