Luddite

It seems this story is now going viral among "climate-skeptics" and the like.

I learned about this because I got a google alert that organic search traffic to my technological antisolutions post is way up. Turns out the conspiracy theory crowd caught wind of the company Bill Gates invested in that is cutting down and burying trees to sell carbon credits, kodama.ai, which I wrote about in that post. They're obviously going nuts about it.

These kinds of greenwashing schemes are functionally indistinguishable from climate denial, so it's really no surprise that people are confused and angry about it.

The new Exxon carbon capture deal that Biden himself apparently helped broker is a perfect example. It checks all five of my criteria, but it really underscores the important of the fourth one: "It further entrenches existing power structures."

Carbon capture only exists because it allows capitalists to profit off creating the problem and its "solution." Technological Antisolutions maximize GDP in the climate emergency.

Original TA post: https://theluddite.org/#!post/technological-antisolutions-revisited

It is now possible to exist in a permanent state of professionalism, safe from registering the humanity of our remote colleagues or divulging our own. Everyone in a virtual meeting should be a perfectly smooth-faced professional inhabiting a blurred void. Anything less would be unprofessional.

I hope they do voices next. We shouldn't be forced to listen to normal people's real voices in business meetings, especially women's, when we have the technology to do sexy voice filters.