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Danielle Hawkins

The Climate Change Lobby - Articles - The 'Clean Coal' Lobbying Blitz - 0 views

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clean coal reality coalition

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  • Since December, the Reality Coalition, a group of environmental interests led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, has run television ads of its own and plastered billboards in the nation’s capital with the message: “In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal.” The coalition also has Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen directing ads spoofing ACCCE as a pitchman peddling room-blackening air spray that “harnesses the awesome power of the word clean.”

    The latest ad from the Reality Coalition, an environmental group led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, was directed by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. David Hawkins, director of climate programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, supports carbon capture research but says ACCCE’s approach won’t spur needed private investment. “They’re going to argue any climate program should be so slow-acting that essentially it doesn’t change business practices in the next 20 years or so, and that is simply incompatible with the needs of climate protection,” he says. “They have concluded it’s not politically viable to maintain a ‘just say no’ position, so now it’s ‘just say mañana.’”

    Brian Hardwick, a spokesman for the Reality Coalition, won’t say how much his group is spending on advertising, but says it aims to continue to counter coal’s messaging. “They’ve made a business decision, that it’s cheaper to spend $40 million on lobbying and advertising than hundreds of billions needed to make coal clean,” he says. “They’ve made a calculation that if they can stall, delay progress and mislead, they can avoid that investment.”

Jared Slaweski

The Technium: What Technology Wants - 0 views

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shared by Jared Slaweski on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • then so can the growing, complexifying technological assemblage we have surrounded ourselves with. Its complexity is approaching the complexity of a microscopic organism.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is growing so fast that it is starting to have wants. Is technology eventually going to have many, complex wants like a human being? For example, robots. Technology is becoming more alive.
  • For the last 1,000 years, this techosphere has grown about 1.5% per year. It marks the difference between our lives now, verses 10,000 years ago. Our society is as dependent on this technological system as nature itself.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology changes so quickly that many people from previous generations can not keep up with new advancements. However, the world is now based on these technologies and could not function without them. Life over the past 1,000 years has been redefined because of this technium and has advanced our way of life in ways we do not even comprehend. No one could survive without technology.
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  • More ways, more choices. Over time technological advances invent more energy efficient methods, and gravitate to technologies which compress the most information and knowledge into a given space or weight. Also over time, more of more of matter on the planet will be touched by technological processes. Also, technologies tend toward ubiquity and cheapness. They also tend towards new levels of complexity (though many will get simpler, too).
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology will continue to get smarter, smaller, faster, and cheaper. Therefore, technology will be more widespread through out the world. These technologies will be able to hold more information and do more tasks while taking up little or no space. Technology will continue to change and reinvent itself.
  • • The varieties of whatever will increase. Those varieties that give humans more free choices will prevail. •  Technologies will start out general in their first version, and specialize over time. Going niche will always be going with the flow. There is almost no end to how specialized (and tiny) some niches can get. •  You can safely anticipate higher energy efficiency, more compact meaning and everything getting smarter. •  All are headed to ubiquity and free. What flips when everyone has one? What happens when it is free? •  Any highly evolved form becomes beautiful, which can be its own attraction. •  Over time the fastest moving technology will become more social, more co-dependent, more ecological, more deeply entwined with other technologies. Many technologies require scaffolding tech to be born first. •  The trend is toward enabling technologies which become tools for inventing new technologies easiest, faster, cheaper. •  High tech needs clean water, clean air, reliable energy just as much as humans want the same.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is a tool to create new technologies. These advancements will create a better life. Information will be even more easily accessed and shared. Which will hopefully will lead to new cures and inventions to better our planet.
  • None of these parts operate independently. No mechanical system can function by itself. Each bit of technology requires the viability and growth of all the rest of technology to keep going. There is no communication without the nerves of electricity.
    • Jared Slaweski
      Jared Slaweski on 27 Sep 09
       
      In nature, most things happens because of some other action. Land is created when lava pours out of a volcano. Technology follows a simlilar path. The growth of technology depends on the technology around it.
  • Once they discover electricity, their electronics will share some, but not all, attributes with our electrical devices. That which they share can be counted as the inherent agenda of electrical technology. Throughout  the galaxy any civilization  that invents nuclear power will hit  upon a small set of workable solutions: that set is the inherent "agenda" of technology.
  • ) More importantly, the major predecessor system to technology is organic life. Many of the dynamics of evolution and syntropy extend from living organisms into artificial systems, primarily because they share similar disequilibrial states.
  • In the long run, technology increases the speed at which it evolves and encourages its own means of invention to change. It aims to keep the game of change going.   
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