Hi Dear Hellekin,

First of all, I would like to make it clear that I agree to exclusively fight against ideas and not against people.

Now think of the transformations that began to happen with the network sharing of images obtained by the cameras of cell phones available to people.

And now think about the possible changes when ordinary people have instruments for chemical analysis of water quality, available on their hands. And be able to share this information in the same way we share images?

I want to draw attention to the importance of raising the level of "risk perception" of ordinary* people to the water theme.

Because I believe that an increase in the "perception of risk" about water security can motivate behavioral changes.

*By ordinary people I mean people without technical and scientific knowledge about water.

Best Regards,
Markos


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Assunto: Re: [hackerspaces] Hacking, making, learning?
Data: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:30:59 +0200
De: hellekin <hellekin@dyne.org>
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Why the quotes in "for all"? As the global capitalist society continues,
we do not have enough drinkable water for all humans, let alone the rest
of the living. We've seen countless times how much water is used by
extractivist companies to remove metals or hydrocarbons from the ground,
and how these processes pollute water beyond sanity. As they do it with
impunity, I guess hackers would be able to stop them in their tracks by
extracting compromising information from them, or killing their
machines. At some point, DIY is not enough: you can certainly help build
water filters and purifiers from citizen science, but you cannot simply
stop the harm made to rivers, cultures who protect them, and stop the
massive fabrication of metal-based and oil-based products, including
vehicles and computers. It's war that makes capitalism possible, maybe
it's time to wage war on capitalism.

==
hk

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