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After much reflection, the term "Megamachinocene" seems to me to be the most accurate: it emphasizes the advent of technical-organizational systems (Mumford's "megamachine") which, much more than the human species in general, are responsible for the current geological transformation.
#philosophy #science #geology #mumford #megamachine #domination #colonization #industrialization #capitalism #plantacionocene #anthropocene #megamachinocene #GeologicEra #capitalocene #entropocene
https://www.europesays.com/2105098/ IMF Projects Indonesia’s Unemployment Rate Second Highest in Asia; Economist Comments #China #Economist #Economy #IMF #Industrialization #InternationalMonetaryFund #UnemploymentRate #worker
Chloe Ahmann’s debut book, "Futures After Progress," is a well-researched and a unique publication in that, instead of focusing only on humans and human activities, this book takes into account non-human facets too. #History #Urbanization #Baltimore #Ecology #Industrialization #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-513-en/
Chloe Ahmann’s Futures After Progress offers a delightful…
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@nemo@mas.toI’ve had this theory for a long time: the main export of capitalism seems to be pollution and environmental toxins. Every time I read or see something about this, I get uneasy shivers. Just look at the mercury levels in tuna-an everyday example of how profit-driven production impacts our environment and health.
#Capitalism #Pollution #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Toxins #Industrialization #ProfitOverPlanet #EcoAnxiety #Tuna #Sustainability 
@kkarhan@infosec.spaceAnd yes, the #Trump #Regime is dellusional thinking the #USA is irreplaceable when in fact it most certainly is!
Noone in the #EU wants their gas-guzzling, oversized #SuperUselessVehicles and wannabe-#Trucks because they completely go against any #regulations and #norms in #Europe, being overweight, inefficient, polluting and not even legally #trucks to begin with!
#Manufacturers like "P.R." #China, #Vietnam, #Japan, #India et. al. are quick to #pivot to other #markets like the #EU and the #GlobalSouth.
Just like penalizing #tariffs and #taxes in #Brazil didn't really get them much #industrialization and instead merely made certain items and products just unaffordably expensive to import and buy.
The matter of the fact is that this ain't 1945: the #US needs the #world more than vice-versa, espechally since the world moves on and both #EU and #NATO will continue to exist, thrive and expand even without the USA!
In fact, #SouthKorea and #Japan are already #cooperating re: #defense with the EU and most nations bordering "P.R. #China" start to work on contingencies not only re: #Taiwan, but also #Beijing's aggression and #Pyongyang|s continued violations as well as #Russia|n activity...
@Vagrarian@vivaldi.net"The Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train," Claude Monet, 1877.
You all know Monet.
This is one of a series of 12 he did inside a Paris train station. It's also regarded as one of this greatest works, with the billows of smoke/steam filling the cavernous terminal, and the blues that dominate the color scheme.
The series depicted the station in different weather conditions and from different perspectives. It also differs somewhat from the Impressionist cliche of gardens and parks; here Monet looks at industrialization in a world shedding the past and taking on modernity.
And now these trains seem quaint and old-fashioned.....
From the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.
#Art #Impressionism #ClaudeMonet #Trains #GareSaintLazare #Industrialization
Thomas Moran’s "Smelting Works at Denver" captures the tension between industrial progress and environmental impact. A somber reminder of a time when factories heralded growth. How do we balance development with environmental stewardship today?
#Art #ClevelandArt #ThomasMoran #EnvironmentalArt #Industrialization
https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.56
The Transformation of Agrarian Monads in the Context of Industrialization
From land to factory: The transformation of agrarian monads in the context of industrialization has created a double dependence that threatens our planet. Stay tuned to explore these issues! #Industrialization #SocialTransformation #Ecology The advent of industrialization, particularly in England, marked a decisive turning point in the evolution of social and economic structures. This process…
🏭 From land to factory: The transformation of agrarian…
Homo HortusI wrote this several years ago... [Long Post]
#Insurance is about pooling resources and sharing risk. A simple thought experiment will help illustrate why “health insurance” is a misnomer.
Consider a group of one thousand homeowners who are worried about house fires. They band together and create an insurance pool for protection against such losses. If homes are worth $100,000 and there is one fire per year, annually they would have to chip in $100 each. Fortunately the risky event is rare, so the cost of insurance is low.
Compare this with #HealthInsurance (which is actually insurance against illness). We have the same thousand people, of which half (500) consume an average of $10,000 of healthcare services each year ($5M).
#Illness is NOT a rare event and the annual premium jumps to $5,000 per person! Many of the younger, healthier people ask why they should be paying for somebody else’s infirmity? They withdraw from the pool and premiums skyrocket. Eventually the pool collapses and those who actually need care loose their coverage. In some cases financial ruin ensues. The U.S. is the only major society in the world where Medical Bankruptcy is not only possible, but common!
The key difference is that almost everyone will utilize healthcare services at some point in their lives. The insurance model breaks down under these circumstances. We are no longer sharing #risk but rather #sharing #cost.
This is expected—a feature, not a bug. It stems from the #industrialization of #medicine in a #capitalist environment. #Capitalism seeks profit as its major goal, regardless of other outcomes. "Outcomes" that include life, death, and disability! Once the practice of medicine becomes a business, my Father [a radiologist] once opined, "We can #lie, #cheat, and #steal with the rest of them."
The #Ontario #Conservatives are taking an interesting position on prime farmland. They want to protect it from #solarfarms , but have no problem pushing local governments into #industrialization ... 
"Long gone are the days where Queen's Park imposes projects on unwilling communities, undermining those agricultural areas," Lecce said.
Certain solar farms will be banned on prime agricultural…
www.lakelandtoday.caShota Moriwaki in the Asia-Pacific EcHR estimates production functions on rich micro data to argue that metal/machinery manufacture expanded quickly in 1930s Osaka without mass production by subcontracting & outsourcing to small plants, using K efficiently & paying subsistence wages. OA!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12286
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Japan #industrialization
This is priceless. @baldur explains the popularity of software development tooling with managers as a function of how useful they are in "labour arbitrage"; reducing skilled developers to cogs in a software production line;
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
Ironically, this mirrors the early days of industrialisation, where skilled craftspeople like weavers were revolting against being reducing to cogs in a production line. We know them as the Luddites.
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com#Ontario 's #WaterlooRegion is so flush with cash, that after purchasing a portion of the acreage they say they *need* to develop a mega industrial site, they proceeded to plow under 160 acres of corn. That crop, if left to complete the growing cycle to harvest would have produced 200 bushels of corn per acre, which, at $5 a bushel would have been worth over $160,000 !!!
Food - gone!
Money - gone!
With the cost of living and food bank usage being at an all time high - it's unconscionable how anyone could come up with a plan to destroy any, but in this case, such a large quantity of food 
The Region of Waterloo has officially begun work on…
www.cbc.ca[Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender. This may feel like an attack to some, but read his words all the way through. He spoke truth!
"The ‘Green New Deal,’ like its parent ‘Green Economics’ are meant to sustain the US #settler colonial project and the #capitalist relations whose interest lay within the specificity of continuing the ongoing exploitation (destruction) of the whole of the Earth, while cashing in of course. In the case of the Green New Deal, which in many ways begat its own child, that of the Red New Deal, who aside from outright plagiarizing, fronting, and co-opting the long-term #Indigenous #ClimateJustice work, the Red Nation’s ‘Red New Deal,’ proposes an anti-capitalist and woefully limited anti-colonial response that not only reinforces #industrialization but ultimately leads to the ongoing participation in capitalism proper, just ‘renamed’ and ‘reformed’ under a ‘transitional’ Socialist Rubric, that leads to their Marxist organization’s propositions for a ‘#decolonized’ authoritarian worker-run state as the best solution. So while we’re collectively dying from the air we can’t breathe, the water we can’t drink, or both priced out of accessibility in the here and now, we are meant to await the building of yet another Socialist Utopia. A utopia belt upon the current dystopia of growing wastelands and climate disasters on every continent. From deadly #nuclear power to lithium and rare Earth mineral #mining, the the privatization of water, the greening of any economy is still a war against #MotherEarth and all existence."
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#IndigenousAnarchy
#Ecosystem
#DefendTheSacred
#CorporateColonialism #Greenwashing #NoLithiumMining #WaterIsLife
Shota Moriwaki in the Asia-Pacific EcHR estimates production functions on rich micro data to argue that metal/machinery manufacture expanded quickly in 1930s Osaka without mass production by subcontracting & outsourcing to small plants, using K efficiently & paying subsistence wages.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12286
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Japan #industrialization
@helenczerski some related facts from a 2024 documentary called "You Are What You Are", based on a 2022 #Stanford study:
- By 2050 we will need 3 planets if we continue to eat the way we do
- The livestock sector produces more greenhouse gases than the entire global transportation sector
- More antibiotics are fed to farm animals than are used in all of human medicine
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#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #consumerism #globalization #industrialization #sustainability #netzero #anthropocene #PSA
From #Yosemite to #BearsEars, Erasing #NativeAmericans From #USNationalParks
The foundational myth of America’s National Parks is one of heroic preservation of “pristine wilderness” — but places like Yosemite were already home to thriving communities that cherished the #environment around them.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford
"Today, the foundational myth of America’s National Parks revolves around the heroic preservation of 'pristine wilderness,' places supposedly devoid of human inhabitants that were saved in an unaltered state for future generations. This is obviously a falsehood: Places like Yosemite were already home to thriving communities that had long cherished—and changed—the environment around them. #GeorgeCatlin’s paintings are vivid reminders that the vast expanses of our western frontier were not empty, but rather brimming with human cultures.
"'#NativeAmericans would later be put on display like animals in a zoo.'
"Though the National Park Service prevented wholesale #industrialization, they still packaged the wilderness for consumption, creating a scenic, pre-historical fantasy surrounded by roads and tourist accommodations, all designed to mask the violence inherent to these parks’ creation. More than a century later, the #UnitedStates has done little to acknowledge the government-led #genocide of #NativePopulations, as well as the continued hardships they face because of the many #BadFaith #treaties enacted by the U.S. government. This story is an elemental part of our National Park system, the great outdoor museum of the American landscape, but the myth continues to outweigh the truth. How did the National Park Service evict Yosemite’s indigenous communities and erase their history, and can it come to terms with this troubling legacy today?
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"Despite the obvious claims of indigenous peoples to their lands, white officials frequently justified their removal by claiming that #NativeAmericans weren’t good stewards of the new American frontier. In its excellent exhibition, 'Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations,' the National Museum of the American Indian points out the myriad ways the United States government repeatedly lied about, altered, and disregarded legal contracts intended to secure native access to the land they already lived on. Beyond this egregious, criminal behavior on the part of U.S. officials, they also relied on written documentation, disadvantaging tribal officials who were accustomed to oral agreements or not fluent in English. Sometimes contracts were even negotiated by individuals that had no power to speak for their larger native community."
#NativeAmericanGenocide #StolenLands #CulturalGenocide #LandBack #NationalParks #BearsEarsMonument
The foundational myth of America’s National Parks is…
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