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- 19.5.2022 – Bitcoin, Tether, Beanstalk
- On the Kremlin’s imperialism
- A Very Short And Fairly Understandable Introduction to Models
- What if we really tried to save our civilization? An introduction to Plan B
- Book review: McAfee (2019), More from Less
- Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement
Author Archives: J. M. Korhonen
Russian industrial mobilization cannot alter the outcome of the war
Could the Kremlin regime mobilize the Russian industry to produce enough war material to tip the scales in the war? In brief, the most likely answer is “no.” Russia does not have the industrial base required to produce enough modern … Continue reading
Posted in History of technology, Politics
Tagged Europe, Mobilization, Russia, Ukraine, United States, War
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27.5.2022 – What is good in life, on feedback loops possibly leading to collapse
In early 2002, I had an epiphany. I had been depressed for months and queried whether there is even any point in living any more: in the long run, we are all dead, and whatever we achieve will crumble in … Continue reading
19.5.2022 – Bitcoin, Tether, Beanstalk
Jessica McKenzie writes about the less known trend in Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin miners and fossil fuel firms, which increasingly tend to be the one and the same thing, are buying gas-fired generators and use them right next to gas wellheads. … Continue reading
On the Kremlin’s imperialism
Greetings from a Finnish leftist! The international situation has apparently left many people in the English-speaking countries confused. I originally wrote this thread in Twitter in the hopes of sharing a perspective I believe is widely although certainly not universally … Continue reading
A Very Short And Fairly Understandable Introduction to Models
Created Monday 29 June 2020 At …and Then There’s Physics , there was a post about the recent Nature comment on a “modelling manifesto”, “Five ways to ensure that models serve society”. I’ve despaired in the past about some of … Continue reading
What if we really tried to save our civilization? An introduction to Plan B
Our society and, indeed, our way of life is facing an existential threat. The situation is grim, but not hopeless. These words could have been used to describe the threat faced by the world’s democracies in 1939, and they could … Continue reading
Posted in Economy and the Environment, Energy, History of technology, Politics
Tagged Climate, Environment, Plan B
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Book review: McAfee (2019), More from Less
This is an interesting book which could be a good book if its key message – that technology and capitalism will decouple economic growth from resource use in time to prevent serious ecological disruption – were supported by research. This, … Continue reading
Posted in Ecomodernism, Economy and the Environment, Scarcities and constraints
Tagged Book review, Capitalism, Decoupling, Economics
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Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement
Hello again! This post about lessons we could learn from the 1970s Appropriate/Alternative Technology movement is derived from a presentation I gave at Helsinki Sustainability Science Days 2019, 9.5.2019. The entire presentation can be found here. The above presentation and … Continue reading
The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen 
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