State of mind for a viable future

[eclectron]

this is also the state of mind for a viable future
plurality of opinions. re

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

An atomic bomb and we don't talk about it anymore.

[eclectron]

Or then a plurality of opinions?

[izentrop]

Green investing "definitely not going to work," says ex-BlackRock executive https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -investing

For Mr. Fancy, who now heads the Rumie digital learning association in Toronto, Canada, BlackRock's decision, and those it inspired, has a fundamental flaw: the climate crisis can never be solved by the current free markets.
“It's not because they're bad, it's because the system is built to extract profit,” he said.
Investors have a fiduciary duty to maximize returns for their clients and as long as there is money to be made in activities that contribute to global warming, no rhetoric about the need for sustainable investment will change this. , he believes.
“In many cases, it is cheaper and easier to market itself as green rather than go through the long work of improving its sustainability profile. It is expensive and if the government does not impose a penalty, in the form of a carbon tax or otherwise, this market failure will persist"

[eclectron]

My posts may seem disjointed but they are not, since absolutely everything is linked.
A sculpture attacks from all angles.
As Humanity, we are at a crossroads like never before:
demography, resources, ecology, economic system, function egoically in all of us.
We are coming to the limits of all these models of yesterday.

In this video, another example of the miracle of our society (abundance of nouruer ), miracle not to be reproduced identically

I do not detail, so as not to influence the "jury" , it's up to everyone to form their own opinion.

[Janic]

An interesting survey, once again, of multinationals that impose their lobbying on politics and where the health of consumers passes after their profits in a vicious cycle that fuels the industry of disease, wrongly said of health. Everything is connected!

[eclectron]

Another approach to life.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Another approach to life.

[eclectron]

What a strange way to see yourself, you're better than that, after all.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Tech. Published 26 / 12 / 2021
Beware of agriculture 4.0



Artificial intelligence will help us feed a growing world population. But we must now pay attention to the link between technologies and agricultural policies: it is up to the robots to adapt to the environment, and not the other way around.

Tractors, combine harvesters, surveillance drones: “current agricultural tools require controlled environments to operate”, observes Wired. That is to say, environments designed to be exploitable by these machines. In fact, in this system, it is “the entire cultivation process [which] bends to the needs of the machine”, continues Patrick Baur, American researcher on food systems.

"Couldn't we reverse this trend that is doing so much harm to the agricultural landscape?" asks Thomas Daum in the American magazine. For this German agro-economist, artificial intelligence and autonomous machines are great tools for responding to climate change and the massive decline in biodiversity.

Rather than adapting the environment to the needs of new technologies, we could program technologies to meet the needs of the environment.”

Future agricultural robots must be allowed to operate in natural ecosystems, argues the researcher. They can participate in the maintenance of the hedges along the land, or facilitate polyculture, a sustainable but costly practice.

“The deployment of robots capable of performing these kinds of tasks poses other problems,” counters Wired. They will need to be smarter than the current generation of lettuce picking robots, which means higher design costs. The construction of these machines contributes to depleting the environment, recalls, moreover, the American geographer Emily Reisman: “You have to extract minerals [to make them], you need energy to store their systems, and you will have to find a way to get rid of them at the end of their life.”

This ecological utopia envisioned by Thomas Daum – a “futuristic Garden of Eden” – could end up being a dystopia for workers, Emily Reisman also warns:

“In the best-case scenario, robotic innovation may simply prove useless because agroecologists will have demonstrated that small, labor-intensive farms can be highly productive while preserving biodiversity. In the worst case, it could exacerbate problems already existing in agriculture and high-tech sectors: exploitation in mines, workers programming algorithms in indecent working conditions, and the forced displacement of workers who cannot find a job.”

https://www.courrierinternational.com/a ... culture-40