MrMakabar

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[–] MrMakabar 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are not called passports as the EU is not a country, but it is pretty close:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_laissez-passer

[–] MrMakabar 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It really is not. China has built a lot of green tech in the last few years, but economic growth has meant energy consumption grew faster then renewables. However Chinas economy has problems, which China tries to solve by going green. So you get renewables and things like EVs actually replacing fossil fuels.

At the same time China is not a saint and per capita emissions are above those of most European countries right now.

[–] MrMakabar 8 points 1 month ago

You are not going to easily convert a hardcore Republican, but a lot of undecided voters do not follow politics closely. Having the Republican describing himself as a Nazi is about as clear as it can get, which will convice a lot of them to vote blue. It is also a good way of bringing people who would vote Democrat to actually vote.

[–] MrMakabar 8 points 1 month ago

States like Louisiana or Mississippi have huge black minorities. If those voters turn up to actually vote in a non racist candidate the Republicans could loose.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is a light small car, which weights a third of a Tesla Model 3. W=0.5mv² so a third of the masd means a third of the energy needed.

[–] MrMakabar 3 points 1 month ago

Soylent Green needs people too.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago

This is only about land, land use and forestry. So the request is pretty much not to cut down forests. That is asked all the time, for very good reasons.

[–] MrMakabar 3 points 1 month ago

3billion trees sounds like a lot, but the area it takes to plant those trees is less the 1/1000 of the area of the EU. I highly doubt, that this would lead to a measurable decline in EU farm land and especially high quality farm land.

[–] MrMakabar 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Moving away from Office and Windows and so forth is a nightmare for any larger company. If you use specialized software, it might very well only run on Windows or only have an integration into Office. Even if you could, you then have to retrain staff to use Libre Office, Linux and other alternatives. You also will have problems converting, changing servers and so forth.

So companies just do not switch. That is how Microsoft makes money. They really do not care that much about private users. That is only usefull so people can use their products.

[–] MrMakabar 69 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] MrMakabar 1 points 1 month ago

Enough against small arms fire. That is good enough to surive a near miss of an artillery piece.

[–] MrMakabar 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of US oil wells are using fracking. Fracking produces oil and gas very quickly, but the well also declines quickly. First year decline for tight oil is 50% and second year another 30%. For shale oil itvis 34% in the first year.

Those two make up over half of the US oil and gas production. So no permits would mean US oil production falls by a third within 2 years or so.

https://jpt.spe.org/life-after-5-how-tight-oil-wells-grow-old

https://www.hartenergy.com/exclusives/why-us-shale-production-declines-are-higher-you-might-think-188251

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This law aims to put measures in place to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030, and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050.

It sets specific, legally binding targets and obligations for nature restoration in each of the listed ecosystems – from terrestrial to marine, freshwater and urban ecosystems.

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