RE: Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
January 16, 2023 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2023 at 9:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We're more likely to come up with workarounds for the mess we've caused than clean it up. Ever was it thus.
I'd say to imagine the absurdity of living in a world where other people get to refuse to allow us to do such a thing..but....we don't have to imagine it, do we, lol. Building codes are my favorite example. In theory, a great idea that could be used to build a more resilient future. In practice, they largely fail to protect the occupants, locking builders in to dangerous and costly levels of risk, wile protecting and boosting specific industries' products. This is according to FEMA, mind you, whose hands are as dirty or dirtier than anyone's with respect to why our buildings are not well suited to the current environment, let alone the expected future risks. This was a part of their rationale for pulling back flood subsidies and corporate bailouts that should have never existed in the first place, for example, which drove building trends and product selection....all backed by their intentionally frozen stats. Their preferred solution is decidedly -not- climate facing now, but once again product and industry facing. Just a new set of beneficiaries.
In a nutshell, our building practices have palpably created the risk, not just in their shoddy nature but in that the construction of the materials and the maintenance of the structures is a major driver for climate change. The solution..not to stop doing that. To do it harder, with even more destructive materials, so that our buildings can withstand the more destructive events that their creation and existence causes. The workaround, lol.
I'd say to imagine the absurdity of living in a world where other people get to refuse to allow us to do such a thing..but....we don't have to imagine it, do we, lol. Building codes are my favorite example. In theory, a great idea that could be used to build a more resilient future. In practice, they largely fail to protect the occupants, locking builders in to dangerous and costly levels of risk, wile protecting and boosting specific industries' products. This is according to FEMA, mind you, whose hands are as dirty or dirtier than anyone's with respect to why our buildings are not well suited to the current environment, let alone the expected future risks. This was a part of their rationale for pulling back flood subsidies and corporate bailouts that should have never existed in the first place, for example, which drove building trends and product selection....all backed by their intentionally frozen stats. Their preferred solution is decidedly -not- climate facing now, but once again product and industry facing. Just a new set of beneficiaries.
In a nutshell, our building practices have palpably created the risk, not just in their shoddy nature but in that the construction of the materials and the maintenance of the structures is a major driver for climate change. The solution..not to stop doing that. To do it harder, with even more destructive materials, so that our buildings can withstand the more destructive events that their creation and existence causes. The workaround, lol.
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