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Tech Solutions Might Be Evil
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Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
Use a mine of your own
When you think of something like a coal mine, it’s easy to see that coal has enriched a few, enslaved many, caused some boom and bust economies, gotten some labor strikers killed/exploded, destroyed landscapes and extinguished species, and most obviously, heated the world — killing us all.
Oopsie.
Yet, some people are alive because of coal, (although, yes, they need cleaner choices) and people today still use it, or make a living from it. People like my spouse only exist because the industrial revolution came along and steam-powered the British Empire into the technical revolution that took the glorious carboniferous period stuff and changed it into steam ships, colonialism, and ‘dark satanic mills’. To say nothing of the railroads that exterminated the American buffalo — among other things. (Yes, we’ve been watching the documentary.)
The industrialists that ruled the world got very wealthy, selling not just oil, gas, coal, or other mined resources, but selling a globally sticky dream of prosperity.