The abolition of boredom and what it's doing to kids' psyches.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Ah thereβs definitely attention on this, through the attention of screen time.
That's indirect. Not all screen time is entertaining, and not all entertainment is screen time.
But digital devices are by far the most effective at endless entertainment.
The Biodiversity crisis and climate change effects. The topic has dies pretty quickly after 2022 and now every major country is chasing profit again.
Gaza, The Takeover of Palestine, the constant attacks on Lebanon, the not so sudden spike and hostility of the, statistically, most psychotic "country" in the world
I second this. The fact that this is not discussed or brought up more often then it should is quite alarming. Even with the number of photo and video evidences and social media that are avaliable, there are people who cannot make a rational conclusion that something terribly wrong is happening at those places.
People under appreciate how complex the life of animals is. I think people should pay attention to birds and animals around them more, they can amaze you sometimes.
And politically? Monopolies, and their lobbying. And not in a hypothetical sense. Look at samsung in south Korea and IndiGo flight incident recently in India, monopolies literally hold their Countries hostage and leaders look powerless against them.
When you pay attention to nature, you see how in sync everything is.
They can't hold it hostage if they are essentially the country.
Chaebol, Zaibatsu, Tech Giant
The fact that 99% of societies problems can be blamed on capitalism.
Religion/fake beliefs driving real decisions is a huge part of it too.
Who invented those fake beliefs? Oh capitalists.
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We are using up the remaining supplies of cheap and readily available energy sources.
I've seen a lecture where somebody said that if you add one more zero on the end of your cumulated sum to you energy bill this will be your future bill.
Specifically I've heard that about the Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI) which is the oil and gas industry's equivalent to Levellized Cost Of Electricity (LCOE)
for reference the spindle top formation in Texas (that started the oil boom and kicked industrialization into high gear) was an EROEI of 100:1. You burn a barrel of energy, get 100 barrels.
Nowadays things are far more bleak... Our average EROEI is around 12-14 as a global average. Tar sands is 2-4. Shale oil (fracking) isn't much better at around 4-6, sometimes less.
As an aside on why fracking is so low: you put a loooot of energy into drilling and banging, and then you lose 70% of your flow after a year. 2 years after drilling the well is dead and you need to do it all over again.
A lot of economists (and other experts) have placed a point of no return for the world economy around an EROEI of 7, which we should reach in roughly 10-15 years.
Once energy returns get that low the oil industry exists to support the oil industry. There isn't enough surplus energy to run a complex globalized nation. It's a bit like starvation when all we've known is a surplus of calories for 200 years.
The oil industry already only exists to support the oil industry, if I recall the majority of fuel usage is just moving oil and fuel around. Renewables are ready to replace oil, but greedy people are refusing to let go while they squeeze every last profit.
The thing is we still need carbon heavy fuel for fertilizers, medical plastics, chip making etc.
Not to mention oceangoing ships and airplanes. There is no battery on the horizon nearly energy dense enough to make that kind of transport work.
Sounds like they should be doing some materials R&D while switching to renewable energy and conserving oil for materials. Imagine if we actually worked to solve problems instead of make profit.
Battery density and transmission loss, that's the name of the game. Materials science for sure.
I was also pointing out that, as long as people want to fly planes or ship good across oceans, we have nothing close to the energy density of the various fuels used.
But everything else need to be going as green as possible as soon as possible.
Well when it hits 7 I mean they literally have no spare energy for anyone or anything else.
The death of the petrodollar will do a lot to encourage renewables. When you don't have the US breathing down your neck to buy oil in USD to support their empire you can buy it with whatever currency you want and decarbonize. The current world order and its financial system is what's kept us on fossil fuels for so long. You literally couldn't get off of them meaningfully or you would piss off the US. Any attempt to change that system was met with arrest, revolution, or death for those who suggested it.
This. And we are using remaining supplies of fertilizers as well (fossil sources of minerals) too, and pooping them into the rivers and oceans. So many one-way processes in our way of living.
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Covid. I've read studies showing the cumulative effect that repeated infections have on the immune system, and it's not good.
The oil crisis. Soon there will be no oil left in a lot of countries. This is much worse than anyone thinks. Seems to be toned way down, because they all thought the war would be over in 2 weeks.
The real thing with the oil crisis, is the lack of cheap oil look how we're already strugling with petrol above 2 EUR a litter. Politicians need to to massive investment in low-carbon energy source and public transport, and eco-friendly building, because if not people won't afford driving to work or heating their home.
because they all thought the war would be over in 2 weeks.
Please don't speak for the world. The only idiots who thought the Iran attack would be over in two weeks were in Washington.
And Tel Aviv.
Many lower/smaller animals are going extinct. We only hear about the big majestic ones.
Insects. Reptiles. Amphibians. Birds. Fish.
All decreasing in numbers.
Monarch butterflies decreased by 90% in the last decade.
90%!
When is the last time you saw a frog outside just around?
When is the last time you saw a giant moth.?
Pesticides are largely to blame. Insects and the animals that eat them are declining fast. Faster than people are realizing. Runnoff of pesticides and fertilizers poison fresh water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction[3][4] is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activity during the current geological epoch,[5][6] impacting diverse families of plants[7][8][9] and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,[10] fish, and invertebrates, as well as both terrestrial and marine species.[11] It is sometimes also called the sixth extinction[12][13][14][15] (though this can also describe the Capitanian[16]).
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And also their communities. That's our only strength against the oligarchs
Their breathing.