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Please don’t believe the hype that these technologies, in their manufacture and use, run on renewable energy: it’s mostly gas, oil, and ‘\u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beautiful clean coal\u003C/a>’.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>If we want to keep our dear Earth from going up in flames, it’s time to step away from the growth-based economy and embrace \u003Ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publishing/read/collapse-informatics-small-files-and-the-light-infrastructure-of-the-future\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003Ci>collapse informatics\u003C/i>\u003C/a>: sociotechnical design for radically decreased consumption. The wealthy parts of the world must model sustainable infrastructures on those of poorer countries. 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