ODGreen

joined 5 months ago
[–] ODGreen 2 points 22 hours ago

Not the tamaracks! They're such an icon of the Boreal forest. Hoping the treatment works.

[–] ODGreen 1 points 2 days ago

Extremely low bar tbh

[–] ODGreen 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Russia already is doing this!

[–] ODGreen 6 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] ODGreen 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This would be 8 million cars in the UK alone, which has a population of 68 million.

[–] ODGreen 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've only met one person who couldn't go veg, because they had allergies to everything: soy, legumes, nuts.

There's been a lot of obsession with protein in popular culture when in reality unless you're a bodybuilder you don't need a ton and a veg diet will suffice. And there are tons of vegan athletes.

The point I was making is that there is one step even the laziest can take to have an impact: just stop eating beef. Going full veg is better of course.

[–] ODGreen 2 points 1 week ago

I'm in Canada and there aren't a lot of shops with gyros. Tons of shawarma though, but that's all beef or chicken.

[–] ODGreen 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is lamb a regular dish or more of a Christmas and special occasion dish? I'm not in the UK so I genuinely don't know. Not sure that you can get lamb at a fast food joint like you can with beef burgers.

[–] ODGreen 22 points 1 week ago (10 children)

If eating no meat at all is too hard, from a climate perspective eating no beef will have the biggest impact. Eating no ruminants to be specific, but hardly anyone is eating bison/sheep/goat on the regular.

[–] ODGreen 6 points 1 week ago

They starve you intending that you go out and look for work. But you can't afford nice clothes so you get rejected because you look like shit. And you don't have a working computer so you have to borrow something to apply for jobs on. And then you're exhausted because you're stressed and hungry. You miss an interview because they slashed public transit and you showed up late. You get rejected because you walked an hour to an interview and you smell bad now. You've been drafted into the reserve army of labour. A living scarecrow to keep those who can find work terrified and working hard.

[–] ODGreen 6 points 1 week ago

Go bread 'em, Ukraine!

[–] ODGreen 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sampling DJ Bentham

 

...the authors caution that the current pace of decoupling is insufficient to meet the global climate target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Less than half of the regions will be able to achieve net-zero by 2050

 

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, told a climate conference in April: “Having oil and gas deposits is not our fault. It’s a gift from God.”

 

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

 

"Our genetic analysis shows a stably growing population from the 13th century through to European contact in the 18th century. This stability is critical because it directly contradicts the idea of a dramatic pre-contact population collapse," says Bárbara Sousa da Mota, a researcher at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at University of Lausanne and first author of the study.

"We looked into how the Indigenous American DNA was distributed across the Polynesian genetic background of the Rapanui. This distribution is consistent with a contact occurring between the 13th and the 15th centuries," says first author Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Asst. Professor at the Globe Institute's Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen.

 

Another huge hydro dam is being built in British Columbia, on Canada's west coast.

The article describes the coming destruction of farmland and wildlife habitat.

“We have to decarbonize our economy, but it can’t be on the back of flooding more river valleys.”

But as long as the economy grows, more sacrifice zones like this will be made. And if you don't like flooded river valleys, go take a look at tar sands pits or mountaintop removals.

 

Logging companies get to clearcut burned forests, including trees that survived the burn. Another way that capital can profit even from disaster. And the extractive state lays down the red carpet for capital to do it.

 

Specifically about coal plants.

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