Rosia Evans

Clear Line Docs

These are notes on important things to help keep my thinking in a logical, clear line. Normally these notes will revolve around politics and ideas around how life should be lived. Expect my thoughts on Ego, Automation, Political Change, Gender and anything else I feel is important. The format generally follows a topic and then points relating to that topic I want to be able to confidently hold.

For a less structured set of views, see the Scribbled Line


Climate change is a genuine issue and it needs large scale action from world governments immediately

We're seeing the effects of climate change right now

The Guardian - Large-scale and intense wildfires carrying smoke across northern hemisphere

The Guardian - Firefighters try to save Jasper as fast-moving wildfire hits Canadian resort town --- Mastodon thread of photos from same wild fires

Spanish floods 2024 late october, years rain in less than a day, 200+ died

Climate change is an actual issue that will kill millions if not billions

To paraphrase "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace Wells (well respected climate journalist)

Global warming is not an arctic saga unfolding remotely. It is not exclusively a matter of sea level and coastlines, it is an enveloping crisis sparing no place and no life un-deformed.

There is no analogue to the scale or scope in human history.

It will involve:

At 2 degrees, 400 million more people will suffer from water scarcity. Major cities in the equatorial band will become un-livably hot. Even in northern latitudes, heatwaves will kill thousands each summer. There would be 32 times as many extreme heatwaves in India, each 5 times as long, exposing 93 times more people.

This is our best case scenario

At 3 degrees, Southern Europe would be in permanent drought, the average drought in central America would last 19 months longer and in the Caribbean 21 months longer. In northern Africa the figure is 60 months longer (5 years). The areas burnt each year by wild fires would double in the Mediterranean and sextuple or more in the US.

At 4 degrees, there would be 8 million more cases of Dengue fever (tropic mosquito virus) each year in Latin America alone and close to annual global flooding crises. There could be 9% more heat-related deaths. Damages from river flooding would grow 30 fold in Bangladesh, 20 fold in India and as much as 60 fold in the uk.

Globally damages could pass $600 trillion - more than twice the wealth that exists in the world today. Conflict and warfare could double.

You cannot rely on tech as a magic fix all to solve these issues, some of them are inherently political issues. Even if the tech does exist, we literally do not have the time to develop it. Stop treating tech as an endings machine that will solve all our issues. You just use it as an excuse to emotionally avoid the issue. Accept this is an issue, feel that dread, hold it and let it drive you to make positive change both within your community and outside of it.

We don't need oil to maintain our economy

  1. We aren't slowly scaling down, we are increasing out oil usages. More than half of the co2 exhaled in the the atmosphere has come from the last 3 decades. We have done as much to damage the earth since Al Gore published his first book on climate change than in all of history before it was published.

UBI has benefits and is doable

What is UBI spent on?

OpenResearch - Key Findings: Spending (alternatively, this is also evidence that UBI is good for the economy as it shows money given is spent)

Capitalism needs altering, if not replacing

Capitalism isn't the default

Trade has existed for a very long time but generally until the industrial revolution in the 17-1800s a lot of people basically didn't use money for anything other than large acts. They'd use common land and their gardens to graze cows harvest wood for fires and grow food. Only during enclosure did people get forced out of this and made reliant on money and work.

A good book for this would be Jeanette Wintersons essay "A loom with a view". A whole book about the idea of capitalism being the default is Mark Fishers "Capitalist Realism"

Transgenderism is good

Anyone anti-trans is likely also bigoted in other manners

James Finn via Medium - LGB is a hate group

Gender is a social construct

I can argue this on my own without external backup but something to send people if I don't have time or they arn't worth the effort. Prioritize in person explanation though.

Philosophy Tube - Gender

Transgenderism has been around since we've had the concept of gender roles

The Cass Review is not only bigoted but incredibly flawed

Points taken from TrashFutures "The Devon Report" episode and transactually's Cass Review Analysis

Issues with what it says

Extra details

Transgenderism has given me a unique worldview

Before my transition I lived for 5 years thinking about gender almost every day, I noticed it everywhere and came out of it with my own views I developed from my experiences, whether thats gender and what it is, gender and how people relate to it, aesthetic and capitalism's exploitation of it, identity and belonging, the buzz word "woke" and why it's developed in people's consciousness or just flat out the concept of femininity

Transgender people are not inherently mentally unwell (Why is this something I have to argue????)

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