I see we're fighting the war against global warming hard.
Except we're on the side of global warming.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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The Carbon Liberation Front
From McKenzie Wark, who introduced the concept in her book, "Molecular Red":
"The history of the modern world from the French Revolution onwards is often thought of as a series of liberations — from tyranny, from mystification, and so on. Or, more positively, the liberation of the common people, of the slaves, of women, and so on. There’s even a movement now for animal liberation. But what if the thing that really got free in modern times was nothing human or even animal, but was an element: carbon? Capitalism runs on fossil fuels — on carbon. It “liberates” it from oil and coal deposits, runs the commodity economy on it, and dumps the waste carbon in the atmosphere and the oceans. So I coined the term “Carbon Liberation Front” as an ironic way of thinking about what transpired in the modern era, which is the era of the rise of capitalism."
doesn't even rank?
No pork or soybeans? No steel? Not even military hardware? How far America has fallen.
Just as a counterpoint to 2023, consider
- United States exported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth US$ 72,688,795.02 million.
- United States exported Monolithic integrated circuits, nes , worth US$ 32,346,350.94 million.
- United States exported Automobiles with reciprocating piston engine di , worth US$ 21,754,446.06 million.
- United States exported Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products, , worth US$ 20,873,046.78 million.
- United States exported Automobiles with reciprocating piston engine di , worth US$ 20,673,522.41 million.
2010:
- United States exported Petroleum oils, etc, (excl. crude); preparation , worth US$ 53,956,896.03 million.
- United States exported Monolithic integrated circuits, digital , worth US$ 26,313,841.52 million.
- United States exported Other medicaments of mixed or unmixed products, , worth US$ 19,279,313.61 million.
- United States exported Soya beans , worth US$ 18,638,247.75 million.
- United States exported Automobiles with reciprocating piston engine di , worth US$ 18,221,436.08 million.
- United States exported Monolithic integrated circuits, digital , worth US$ 40,653,034.32 million.
- United States exported Parts and accessories of automatic data process , worth US$ 23,829,296.47 million.
- United States exported Aircraft nes of an unladen weight exceeding 15, , worth US$ 21,041,094.06 million.
- United States exported Aircraft parts nes , worth US$ 12,968,588.90 million.
- United States exported Motor vehicle parts nes , worth US$ 11,176,274.28 million.
- United States exported Monolithic integrated circuits, digital , worth US$ 25,329,745.92 million.
- United States exported Parts and accessories of automatic data process , worth US$ 16,538,617.86 million.
- United States exported Aircraft nes of an unladen weight exceeding 15, , worth US$ 12,000,257.02 million.
- United States exported Automobiles with reciprocating piston engine di , worth US$ 9,644,634.11 million.
- United States exported Motor vehicle parts nes , worth US$ 9,071,806.46 million.
We basically just gave up on high tech exports over the last 30 years.
and they say we don't make anything here anymore