An eco-modernist manifesto | Rachel Pritzker
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Rachel Pritzker has long been committed to living an eco-friendly life -- but she has also realized that demanding that people scale back or try to do more with less will never have the necessary impact. So, as she shares in this passionate talk, she and some others drew up what they call an “eco-modernist manifesto,” a way to use the very best of human creativity to enable a new, fulfilling life for all.
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Enjoy this unedited talk by Rachel Pritzker.
Filmed at TEDUniversity in 2016.
There are elements that sound good, but the over all tone of don't do anything we are already on the right track is setting off alarm bells. We should do some interest tracking on her. She reminds me of the industry "experts" that would stop by Feeney's Senate office back when I was an intern.
The idea that cities have low footprints, once you account for embedded footprints of all kinds - i.e., the footprint of all that material and energy servicing the city - is pretty delusional. The historical track record is dismal. Ecomodernism is a desperate doubling down on the global project of colonialism and neo-colonialism that ignores 1) the inherent inequalities and destructiveness of the capitalist-colonialist project of modernity that now dominates the world. It makes the kooky claim that this doubling down will solve all of the crises of inequality and ecological harm and destruction that it has caused. And it relies on a fantasy of ever-increasing efficiency in material and energy throughput that has no precedent in history - or in thermodynamics. This is a really creepy and scary video ultimately.
Move to cities? I live in a city. It sucks.
I live in the city and it's great
How on earth does urban migration lead to increases in agricultural productivity (globally speaking)? You're feeding the same number of people, regardless of location. One difference is that this results in increased traffic to deliver produce to growing cities thereby increasing the total carbon emissions of transportation. This vid is a little dated so the speaker can be forgiven for not being up to speed with concentrated solar operating 24hrs per day using molten salt storage. 4yrs on and reuse of nuclear waste is still a pipedream despite "promising research". I cannot get behind her statement that "if everyone... recycled, reduced consumption etc..." it would make no difference. Tell that to the people of Chattanooga. Individuals matter. All that is being asked here is that people keep drinking the same Koolaid and lets make it business as usual!
Because one large industrial farm is far more productive than 100 individual subsistence farms of the same size.
In addition to the above answer, for trivial reasons, the same amount on people living on less land means more land being left over for other uses (such as agricultural production).
The number one plant grown in America is grass for suburban yards. Imagine if all that land were used for farmland close to a small or big city.
also moving beyond dependance of natural resources seems impossible. she even contradicts herself as development of technologies as well as feeding populations depend on materials and nature itself which, guess what, are natural resources. this decoupling of humans from nature is what started the whole environmental issue in the first place
This is the only way. Humans won't change behaviors on a large scale.
Yeah, humans never learned to use LEDs instead of incandesants. Oops.
Moving everyone to cities isn't changing behavior?
excellent. practical, inspiring, solution-oriented, investor-forward.
ew
Lies,
Heresy
Ok
Boomer
@@ariihauu_mrs I wish I was, sign. They were. Much better generation than X, Z, or Millenial
just go vegan lol
And increase CO2 emissions through soy imports
@@rickrozen2341 The animal agriculture industry uses far more soy as animal grain that humans could ever consume.