If the interests of future generations were considered on an equal footing with those now able to vote and alive, something ten times more efficacious than the Green New Deal would already be in place, fossil fuel usage would be completely banned, and the world would already be radically different than it is.

Greta Thunberg is the only true climate realist in the public eye at the moment, because she knows climate change is likely to kill her.

I finally found the book and thus the series I’d been attempting to re-discover!

It is the Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry. I’ve only read the fifth book in the series (Extinction Machine) so far but will likely read all the rest of them now.

I had unknowingly read an entirely different series (the Rot & Ruin one) by this same author between reading Extinction Machine and then attempting to find it again. (I read a lot of books.) But after all these months of searching off and on I am glad to have discovered it again.

That something — like the nation-state — is a “relatively recent development” says nothing about it at all, qualitatively or morally. Washing your hands before you slice into someone on an operating table is a relatively recent practice, too. Should we also stop doing that?

I despise this sort of shallow thinking. It’s not really thought at all. It’s confirmation bias combined with shoddy ideation combined with pollyanna-ish wishful thinking.

About the nation-state specifically, I am not certain that it’s the best way to organize a society or a polity either. Perhaps there are better ways and we should almost certainly be looking for those ways. However, I’d never abdicate my responsibility to consider this sort of problem deeply, all just so that I could have some sort of mood affiliation with what makes others feel righteous and equanimous in their vacuous thought bubbles.

Europe Adopts Tough New Online Copyright Rules Over Tech Industry Protests.

This is going to backfire in a huge way against the copyright industry. While I’m no supporter of the tech companies, they are in the right here. This will hurt authors and musicians and will help big companies at the expense of everyone else.

Expect the internet to be even more censored, even beyond the dreams of the most censorious liberal thoughtcrime enforcer.