The longer we delay, the worse the problems caused by climate chan become, exacerbating the other, supposedly more urgent issues.

“Look, we can’t fight climate change, we need to think about national security.“ But climate change is already fuelling conflict.

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Similarly, the economic costs of climate change have risen, but the slower we are to act, the greater the risk of really major economic disruptions becomes, particularly through properties becoming impossible to insure or mortgage, or catastrophic losses in insurance markets.

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If we ”can’t afford” to act now, how will we afford it amidst an economic crisis?

So far, global harvests have held up well, but we’re beginning to see impacts on certain crops and certain areas.

The more warming we allow, the greater the risk of key crops failing becomes. Rice in Vietnam?

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Did i miss seeing James Scot’s Against the Grain mentioned? Seems absolutely relevant here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against...

(Lots of folks have written about the way in which bias is a discourse captured by corporations, one of my favorite entries is this n+1 piece by Laura Preston.)

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...

Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.

Of course we need more and better supporter teachers, but LLMs promise more teaching without paying teachers. (Ignoring the fact that we are collectively paying a massive price for LLMs)

But especially here:

I don't always agree with Reich, but I cheered here:

And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link

Teaching is hard, and it's frustrating when students don't buy into our passion and values. But if we're not articulating those values in the design and implementation of our courses and not modeling those values in our work as educators, claiming that "literacy is liberation" is bullshit. 8/8

By creating an "experiment" without the knowledge of the students, by setting a trap, you have designed your course not to affirm and encourage honesty and hard work (which the majority of the students affirm), but to model the very dishonesty you're supposedly fighting against. 5/8

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