u/Anen-o-me

This is worth examining through the lens of democracy itself.

Russia has elections and formally describes itself as a democratic federal republic.

Yet an elected presidency can accumulate enormous authority over foreign policy, military force, and ultimately decisions carrying consequences for millions of people who never consented to them.

That points to a deeper problem than whether voters chose the right president: Why should winning an election give any individual or political majority the power to make decisions capable of putting entire populations at risk of war?

Democracy is usually presented as the alternative to rule by kings. But replacing hereditary sovereignty with elected sovereignty doesn't eliminate the underlying concentration of political power. It changes the mechanism by which its holders are selected.

The more important question for this subreddit is therefore not simply who should govern?

It is:

How do we construct political and legal institutions in which nobody acquires this degree of power in the first place?

The good news is that these, and similar, forces will be going into reverse for fossil fuels, and simultaneously cascading their decline.

The report identifies 5 key areas renewables have self-perpetuating feedback loops.

Clean electricity as the master cascade. Solar and wind have crossed positive tipping points in many markets; further scaling is now self-propelling.
Commodity supply chain transformation.
High-quality marine protected areas, locally managed marine areas and fisheries co-management. Well-designed and well-enforced ocean conservation produces visible recovery of fish stocks and biodiversity within years
Clean cooking and clean household energy. Around 2.1 billion people still rely on solid fuels for cooking.
Adaptation enablers. Things like anticipatory action, adaptation finance and climate-resilient infrastructure. Also, governance, monitoring and social tipping, climate-resilient health systems are explicitly identified as enablers of self-propelling adaptation.

Positive Tipping Points: Accelerating system change to repair our planet was developed by the University of Exeter’s Green Futures Solutions team, in collaboration with The Earthshot Prize

u/conserp denies the Tiananmen square massacre happened. This one's for you, buddy.

People are using AI chatbots to help decide who to vote for : NPR

Foreign influence in democracy, solvable only with a fully decentralized political system

The humanoid robotics company "Figure" made their older gen robots jump to their death. (Yes, they actually did this)

Marine biologist captured this octopus changing colors while she dreams 😮

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What Really Happened to Atlantis?

What democracy is...

Republicans are more likely than Democrats to support political violence. Political violence, “the use of physical force to advance political objectives,” includes targeted and terrorist violence. Republicans endorsed violence for a greater number of specific political objectives than Democrats.

Hey guys, check out the AMA we're doing with the former webmaster of Mises.org who saved the original legendary Mises Forums

Scientists successfully tested solar cells 32 feet underwater in the South China Sea, demonstrating that enough sunlight penetrates ocean depths to generate electricity and potentially power future underwater sensors, vehicles, and research equipment.

Check out this -historic- thread from the old Mises.org forums asking if Bitcoin could be a good money. We spent months analyzing it using Austrian monetary theory, from every angle...

Skyrim: Soviet Edition

Elected President of Russia threatens Europe with war: "Putin says deployment of European troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia"

BREAKING: The first naval battle in history between two unmanned surface drones has taken place in the Black Sea.

"Calls for Democrats to be shot go unchallenged at Republican convention" --- Are we starting to see the problem with democracy yet?

Diving on a tuna farm

Andy would love this

Dreams of a Seasteading Future --- Water Beach cup, a water polo tournament in Long Beach, CA

Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists. Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans.