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This is a 34-page extract of the 84-page comic Energy Slaves about Buckminster Fuller that I will, publish in mid-2016.
When I publish the full comic, I will include a reference list, and explanations of Bucky Fuller’s calculations into the quantity of ‘energy slaves’ needed for daily activities.
This website supports three options for navigating through the comic: mouse scroll wheel, left and right keyboard arrows, and touchscreen.
I am aware that we are using our nonrenewable energy sources up, and I would rather we save these sources for scientific and humanity-situation-betterment uses. My not-so-considered conclusion, though, is that we’ll just keep using it at the current rate or faster until it gets so expensive we change simply because it’s now scarce. Scarcity, not ethics, will reduce the use. When we finally are down to the last bucket of fuel-metaphor, it will be used to power a yacht and the rest of the world will have to figure out the next issue.
Which will be nonrenewable batteries for the storage of renewable energy.
Lovely endeavor. Keep it up.
nice work. but you should try to include arguments from the nuclear side of things as well.
I find your work very well, hope it will be a blessed end! :)) I’m a europanian muslim and we have Ramadhan, a month where we fast, that will be the only one comic for this month.
Have a good day. Blesses from Berlin 🙂
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here is some help
see this moive.
Losing Our Energy Slaves
http://youtu.be/QfYCrLq1DJU
@Gia: Slaves have been a constant factor throughout human history. Skin color is only associated with the word ‘slave’ in recent North American history. The very concept of ‘race’ as associated with skin color is a modern North American thing. I suggest that, instead of declaring the word ‘slave’ as taboo, we North Americans need to let go of our historically inaccurate understanding of the word.
It’s only very modern North American political correctness that tries to ban use of this descriptive and accurate word. Please let’s not do that. Please let us try to maintain a global long term historical perspective, rather than limiting ourselves to a local, short-term perspective.
Besides, ‘energy slave’ sounds so much better than ‘energy worker’, and conveys the concept in a more accurate way.
You are correct Gia and very clearly stated.
Hi Stuart
I must say I think Gia is right…
Otherwise great work.
Great Job Stuart! Extremely important work you are doing and so vital to get this message out there.
Please don’t concern yourself with the history of slavery, which has been a part of human culture for almost as long as there have been humans, but do please stay true to Bucky’s message. Thanks!
Hi Stuart, I’m a big fan of your work. Social justice comics are my thing. The “energy slaves” one really surprised and concerned me though. Keep in mind that Bucky was operating in a white supremacist paradigm where using the word “slave” and detaching it from the 400+ year painful legacy that white people have profited from, and continue to enjoy the legacy of, was probably acceptable. We know better. It’s important not to use the words “slave” and “worker” interchangeably. If you feel like you have to use Bucky’s phrase for historical reasons please write a note to clarify this. It’s especially troubling to see the “slaves” depicted in a sterile way as well fed, content, white men. It feels as though this erases the important context of the word “slave” which disproportionately victimizes people of colour and women. Is there an way that you could use the word “worker” instead? That seems to be the meaning Bucky was going for.