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better link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html

This might be a better link: https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-climate-zeldin-power-plants-feb184286a7a9419aefddce293362e6b

Heading should be "Major Rollsbacks"?

The EPA has no mandate to prioritize corporate profits over the health and safety of Americans.

cf gimmicks, the gimmicks of sustainability for example

see 'couple' above

An object that anticipates our arrival and has already configured itself around our desires that themselves have been carefully prepared for it; the law before which Kafka's character waits; the enigmatic reflection of every soulful spirit in the bath house of Spirited Away

In order for x to work (resolution of union labor with much more productive capital technologies), something (extra workers) must be excluded. The principle for that becomes generalized processes of devaluation, e.g. race

ie race/racial capitalism?

The energy democracy or energy transition discourse among a community... its orientation and assumptions. We have to ask who they are, what they mean by key terms and what they care about. Make a list of what'w positive and what's negative in their discourse.

Not incorrect but a bit silly - also not clear this is only or primarily an IP issue

It is true that the current approach essentially means making a wide array of private actors happy enough that they wil invest inrenewable energy. And that means specific interests gate-keep, e.g. the blocking of projects in Ohio ostensibly on ideological grounds.

I am more interested in this positive aspects of their proposals than their criticism of the market based approach

seems unrealistic

Is this realistic? How would we know?

The discussion around unit costs is totally different from what they're talking about

the first and the second don't align. And if lower cost solar is being sold at higher cost coal prices, then surely that's an incentive to have more solar? -- does this make sense? logically?

this is important but over exaggerated.

market lethargy - who owns what and how much they work to politically hold onto it - probably is more significant

in other words, loan requirement prevent the government from guaranteeing the financial investment, meaning only if customers can pay will the project be financially viable using private capital

This is just a misinterpretation of what's happening. Yes they're playing for the service of having standby power on hand, rather than paying for the electricity itself.

I thought smaller players couldn't compete?!

Their program

kind of a confusing nonissue

i.e. the populist right could start demanding energy democracy, making that a flank of its power

seems worth it to discuss who or what the concept is oriented against - technocratic control, decision making by others, corporate profits

And I don't want self determination - for others. I want them to stop drilling for oil or burning coal. (Telling them what to do versus telling them they can't do things that hurts me and others)

?? unites?

Criteria for a more democratic energy system

i.e. people don't necessarily chose or organize around renewable energy

i.e. foregrounds the role of research and an objective (etic) definition of democracy

a culture of activism

Floating signifier

Surprised they don't emphasize neoliberalism or corporate actors

Why don't they improve?!

"Corporate sovereignty"

resource curse is how the problem is framed, leading to specific sorts of solutions/harsh medicine

pace Obama-Biden liberalism

Dutch disease refers to the economic phenomenon where a boom in a natural resource sector leads to a contraction of other tradable sectors, often causing currency appreciation and potentially hindering long-term economic growth. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]<br /> Here's a more detailed explanation: [1, 2, 6]

• Origin of the Term: The term "Dutch disease" emerged from the economic challenges faced by the Netherlands after the discovery of large natural gas deposits in the North Sea in the 1960s. [1, 2, 6]<br /> • How it Works: [1, 2]<br /> • A resource boom (e.g., oil discovery, mineral extraction) leads to a surge in foreign currency inflows. [1, 2]<br /> • This influx of capital strengthens the domestic currency, making exports from other sectors (e.g., manufacturing) more expensive and less competitive in international markets. [1, 2]<br /> • The increased wealth from the resource sector can also lead to increased spending on non-tradable goods and services (e.g., housing, domestic services), further straining the tradable sectors. [2, 6]<br /> • This can result in a shift of resources and investment away from tradable sectors, potentially leading to deindustrialization and a decline in competitiveness. [1, 3, 7]

• Consequences: [1, 2]<br /> • Currency Appreciation: A stronger currency can make a country's exports less competitive and imports cheaper, potentially leading to trade imbalances. [1, 2]<br /> • Deindustrialization: The focus on the resource sector can lead to a decline in other industries, including manufacturing, as they become less competitive. [1, 3, 7]<br /> • Increased Vulnerability: Over-reliance on a single resource sector can make the economy vulnerable to price fluctuations and external shocks in that sector. [3, 7]<br /> • Reduced Long-Term Growth: The contraction of tradable sectors and the potential for deindustrialization can hinder long-term economic growth and development. [3, 4, 7]

• Examples: [2, 6]<br /> • The Netherlands' experience with the North Sea gas discovery is a classic example. [2, 6]<br /> • Other countries that have experienced similar challenges include Norway, Nigeria, and other resource-rich nations. [2, 8, 9]

• Mitigation Strategies: [7, 10]<br /> • Sovereign Wealth Funds: Establishing a sovereign wealth fund to manage resource revenues and invest them in a diversified manner can help to insulate the economy from price volatility and prevent overspending. [7, 10]<br /> • Diversification: Investing in other sectors and promoting diversification can reduce the economy's reliance on a single resource. [7, 8]<br /> • Fiscal Discipline: Implementing sound fiscal policies to manage resource revenues and avoid excessive spending can help to prevent currency appreciation and maintain competitiveness. [7, 11]<br /> • Investment in Human Capital: Investing in education, healthcare, and infrastructure can help to create a more skilled and productive workforce, which can support the development of other sectors. [7, 8]

Generative AI is experimental.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutchdisease.asp[2] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/Series/Back-to-Basics/Dutch-Disease[3] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2010/wp10103.pdf[4] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2007/wp07102.pdf[5] https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/43dcc837-1219-54c9-a108-c28e459212f8/download[6] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/dutch-disease-an-economic-illness-easy-to-catch-difficult-to-cure/[7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/dutch-disease[8] https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5650&context=theses[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqT6PUbPxM[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMQeRHUPYs[11] https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/11977/oil/dutch-disease/

became merely an outpost of the US economy and hence politically subservient

But what is this exactly?

precision

organic time - temporality of material relations task oriented abstract linear time (a different set of material relations) sundial (local time) - astronomical time (sidereal time) - telegraphs and railroads Habit & discipline

cf energy slaves - how much work can be done in one day?

When does time become money? division of labor

Alienation

So we could call these cultural projects of different sorts

"we will pay the price but we will not count the cost" I think that is sacrifice

But I would argue a spectacular aesthetics also does not move the needle because it remains within exceptional time

Disaster becomes a kind of exception to modernity in which something like survival is placed into question and thus becomes a spectacle.

trans people, specifically trans youth, in trumpist political practice

unpack

Unpack

ie entrapment

Cognitive disempowerment

in the video: "we're good here"

A temporality of immersion, of being fully in the time-space of the powerful relations at hand

Culture of dominating the fire

Homes are built to withstand them to some degree

All energetic terms

Cannot assume that cities won't burn

What is fire

As the future unfolds

nehru is cool

There are a number of things entertaining about this brief and inadequate discussion of Peirce's notion of abduction.

First of all, there is no reason to require that 'A' must be a pre-existing explanatory hypothesis in the characterization that Frankfurt offers. The reading here is incorrect: one could impose here an additional step that would better capture (abduct) Peirce's thinking:

1. Surprising fact C is observed
2. What would be the set of conditions that would account for this rupture of our understanding of reality?
3. Imaginatively, a set of conditions 'A' might make C seem commonplace
4. Hence there is some plausibility for A

In this case, the surprising fact forms an event that requires explanation and hence sends the philosopher back to the metaphysical drawing board, as it were. The metaphysics must be adequate to reality: a new reality requires the invention of a new metaphysics.

The interpretation does not account for the fact that, in Peirce's explanation, the new fact is unexplainable according to accepted understandings. Furthermore, Douven neglects the status of imagination and speculative reasoning in Peirce's understanding of abduction (a kind of theft, etymologically) and in his understanding of value-laden epistemology. The author's subsequent shift from inventing to adopting pre-existing hypothesis (as if all hypotheses were already pre-existing) fails to recognize the philosophical question that Peirce was grappling with, namely where do ideas come from? How is it that we have hunches that turn out to be pretty good, even if we can't explain why we intuited a particular idea? And more fundamentally, through what activities can our metaphysics conform to diverse realities?

euphoric or dysphoric empowering disempowering

i.e. the laws can't be observed directly very easily, but they can be used to explain other phenomena

his name

father-daughter tale

a sense of omnipotence

cf above

I guess that's a euphemism

question about whether it is possible to hold onto happiness in dire circumstances - and for whom

huh, interesting

Last line is coefficient of transmissibility but the values seem surprsingly high. Why didn't he do more wavelengths? Where is the dark band he refers to in this paragraph? Are these data plotted? They don't look anything like Plate 6 Still confused about the above but these are for one night's observations

illusory

a million corrections...

daily calibration of measuring needle deflectin

Wavelength table with corresponding angles of deviation Note orange light = 0.5890

Prelude to the theory of the screen. He really insists that this is inherent to the possibility of observation because the moon's heat is so similar to the emanating radiation from the room, the screen itself, the apartment.

This is quite important. 1. Short focus concave mirror to concentrate light. compared with and without glass gives rough estimate of lunar radiation by subtracting the invisible (I think). Not otherwise differentiated by wavelength. 2. Same mirror - rock salt lenses and prism, to measure heat in different parts of the spectrum. 3. Long focus mirror for a larger image of the moon (30mm) to better measure varying wavelengths (although the measurable heat is more diffuse)

helpful

So this clarifies that signification has primacy over manifestation, which I suppose means that concepts have an inherited durability that antecedes the sage and affects their manifestation. This also calls into question the envelopment of the prior paragraph, because that sentence seems to imply the intentionality of the subject and control over signification. But perhaps I'm missing that that's only partly how it works - the clause 'this dimension also has a role to play.'

...stability (temporary, partial, cannot be assumed) of the signified concept.

then, desires and beliefs articulated in words depend on the primacy of concepts that make them significant. But desires are greater than the simple urgency of needs, and beliefs greater than simple opinions, so the quote points toward the congealment of a manifested [subject], someone formed by concepts (sense-events) that emerge out of prior sayables. But I find this quote does not at all establish the claim of the prior paragraph, which is making an altogether different point about the meaning (development) of words being independent of particular persons. And the tension between the subject who envelops signification and its later de-velopment is sloppy and seems attributed on the part of Bowden. 'signification... may also be developed (unwrapped) independently of any speaking person' - that's a fine point but I'm cautious about attributing it to Deleuze because it concerns the status of the subject which so far is thoroughly ambiguous, 'personal manifestation' - it seems to import much more general implications from a generic post-war continental philosophy.

ok, that's a different direction - conditions of possibility (underlying assumptions?) versus execution of truth. I'm still holding out for a distinction between the truth of sense versus correct facts.

Exactly - so how do we tease this apart? The truth of sense is not the same as denotative correctness. But what is the falseness of sense? A totally senseless comment is absurd, neither true nor false, but some superficially correct statements can be dangerously wrong if they carry along with them particular assumptions

Note also that the proposition itself is body, not event. But it presumably is caused by the event of the sayable.

When a proposition - perhaps a speech act - characterizes an event it is language used in a particular way which composes the event of sense, much in the way Derrida says somewhere that the event of an utterance or of writing is the sentence. Might be interesting to look again at signature event context.

Kimmerer - the being of the bay, the event of the bay

incorporeal event-effect = sayable, the thing that can be said logical dimension = Sinn = sense-events, the extra meaning of any statement is an event constituted in relation to the sayable. Sinn is an event that captures the sayable, itself an event.

tracking Derrida here

remember that paper I wrote I think for Ashley Thompson where I talked about the penumbral quality of things... But also th paper i wrote for Stephania in which the thing that exists is the thing (person) that continually is recreated - three papers now from early grad school I need to try to find!

Sinn could be sense or deeper meaning, meaning of life but also reason (eg senseless) or orientation, direction Bedeutung - dictionary definition, narrow meaning. these bear relevantly on my trying to figure out the meaning of meaning, mean, orientation, direction, intention - the etymology. Glass half full/empty - same bedeutung, very different Sinn. Zeichen = sign

Oxford reference" Sign" - "Gottlob Frege invented a method of investigating the relationships in such a triangle through mathematical modeling. His terms for the three parts of the sign are Zeichen, Sinn, and Bedeutung. His study proceeded through a meticulous and mathematically strict analysis of synonymy and in a novel manner linked the logic of representation to truth relations."

the event is a sayable in the sense that it is a [thing] that can be said. sayable /= the words but das ding.

To what extent is this a concrete situation, as Schmitt likes to say, or a knowable state of affairs? To what extent is it composed?

interesting, not totally sure I follow the ramifications

feels like we're gong to be talking about Zeno pretty soon

helpful

If void is the possibility of inhabiting is place something like inhabitation? See also place and Aion seem to anticipate Kantian categories, perhaps incorporeals could be see as alternatives.

calculus

discussions around pastoral power...

Wisdom as such (i.e. not being wise). A quality such as anger is a body. Bodies composed of matter and logos.

the point here is that it's verb centric. the verb process introduces time, it introduces multiplicity of being and it even makes it possible to say "alice" because the thing designated is apparent or immanent in its continuity across change.

see note ...the names of pauses and rest... interesting passage personal uncertainty is an objective structure of the event itself quote from LS 3. Events convey and essential irreality.

This is very close to what Bowden is saying about the Stoics in Logic and Sense

Related to JW Gibbs the physicist that Rukeyser is so into ? also of New hven

Do people's concerns with EDCs amount to sex panic, anxiety about gender normativity? This is the research question

Questions we may be prompted to ask

Empirical basis of claim

Key claim

link between method and vantage point, "by focusing on..."

Is concern about hormone disruption heteronormative?

cautionary note that adds nuance

bigger picture; brief historical background

Academic background literature discussion - hardly exhaustive, but rather a more curated, minimal discussion of highlights that academics have emphasized that give an unexpected vantage on the issues.

Deft introduction: something is happening, very brief background (1 sentence), position of what matters ('alarming data'... female organs in male fish')

He says that it was an assumption of black mobility (aspatiality) that played into black outmigration, but then he says they were in fact more mobile.

In the same way that many settlers played Indian or adopted a kind of indian repertoire, collecting artifacts etc

Why is this mythic exactly? And how connected to family, e.g. in the coal kin narratives?

Specific to how people's concerns are discounted, e.g. Black women's pain (or other truth claims for that matter)

http://www.coaleducation.org/technology/Underground/images/HighVoltageContinuousMiner.jpg

official praise or approval

Really? I'm trying to imagine this. 'I better not get a ticket because my car insurance will go up.' Not sure I would call that solidarity but I suppose something like responsibility is embedded in the price.

secular scientific materialism is key terrain for this as North American indigenous scholars have insisted

Doesn't really sound like the state to me...

Can't follow - put this in a map!

Finally

One question about the distrust and grudges between yuan - to what extent these are driven by water or somethign else

CS Holling

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I thought they were having major floods every 1.5 years

numbers quite incredible

Unpack

Answer seems to be 'no.' What then?

The game is to use your positino - often times your spatial or physical position - to take what you can from anyone you can take it from.

Not the yakuza

...

Pests vs valued species

Bovine frontier

Ch 1, 5, 11

Back to Empire (Hardt Negri)

Habitat diversity gradients in nutrients, energy, water, light, humidity, temperature, elevation, timing and amplitude eg seasonality, mechanical factors eg storms

Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism - the question is how do these influence evolution and diversification?

B is a generalist; A is a specialist and will outcompete B in the colder water

Notice

Unpack

Uneven, discontinuous nature of these changes; markets as institutions

How to attribute responsibility/agency?

Nice quote

Note this dynamism in this paragraph

Process

Limits of snapshot comparisons

Discuss this example

Discuss pests here going forward - fly, rats, plant diseases, rust...

Tell me about this

Unpack some of these effects

Define

What is a weed? Two definitions. Invasive species

note

Localized climatic changes

Burning as practice Mobility versus sedentarism as strategy Property as institution

Prelude to forest ecology

note

Beaver ecology

note

Reliance on markets becomes dependence on markets i.e. expecting fur commodities to bear your whole subsistence

Key changes follow

Ecological shift -> sedentarism

Key passages

Note

Yes

key

Discuss

The discussion starting from here is crucial to the understanding of the book

"Cultural" difference

Unpack

Discuss

Discuss

Discuss abstraction

Discuss land transaction

Discuss ecology

Discuss passage

Discuss following example

Alienation inalienable rights

unpack this

Discuss

This question only looks at administrators' role in that and doesn't ask anything about other factors

This question only makes sense of there is a good reason to expect a contrary course of action to be likely.

Can X help explain Y? How far will that go?

Also, you can imagine reading a newspaper article with your friends and debating why something is the way it is, then treating the most compelling explanation as sth testable

In theory... certainly not so strict in anthropology

Quantitative is often about proving or disproving quite specific or narrow claims whereas qualitative is about explaining and contextualizing at a level of generality. Quant often weak in terms of the underlying assumptions, e.g. how you lose specificity if you have standardized questions, whereas qual is maybe less tight in terms of hammering home whether something is in fact true. Sometimes more circumstantial evidence.

This is related to partial knowledge, i.e. insights that come from the researcher being a particular kind of person, having a certain background, experiences etc.

So in this case the 'theory' is the null hypothesis, the thing people assume to be the case or the accepted story. My research on 19th century atmospheric science

In your research, you will regularly identify specific questions you want to answer or hypotheses to be confirmed or rejected. Cf my Thailand research reports

Maybe not for an MA thesis

Comparatively, many quantitative studies make wild assumptions about the generalizability of their research. Why would a health study on Americans be relevant outside the US? One mistake is to use universal concepts for things that are historical or sociocultural in nature.

So these are separate parts of the study, using narrower datasets to answer specific questions. The overarching study is not one study but a big picture built up from smaller more focused research forays

Far more data than you know what to do with recursive data - it is allowed to change the research approach, assumptions etc. Reflexive data - the ethnographer's positionality and experience matters to the results interpretive - the interpretation is partial and defensible; it has to answer to the questions and skepticism people direct towards it