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There's a great distinction that Norwegian philosopher and deep ecologist Anre Naess makes between long-range and short-range movements which I think helps explain the disagreement a little.

In the short term, we need to reduce CO2 for our own survival. Nuclear helps this, so from this angle it seems counterproductive for anyone who claims concern over the environment to object to its development.

In the long term, humans need to transition away from a society based on resource extraction, and long term damage. It's a lot harder to see how nuclear helps with this- mining and enriching uranium are destructive processes, and nuclear waste needs containment for thousands of years.

Our current situation is pretty critical, so I think it's pretty legitimate to think that we might need to make some compromises between the long and short term. But I think the distinction makes it a lot clearer about why people seem to be shouting passed each other sometimes.

Definitely concerning. Only tangentially related, but I feel like I see a lot of mud coming from the USA towards China's emissions. I do think it's important to call China out for emissions, but there's something that feels a little off about the world's most polluting country calling out others.

I find it really baffling that climate change denial is so strong in America given the ectreme effects the country is already seeing.

I hadn't heard of this project until I saw this meme. Can someone explain? Surely there's some kind of condition assessment right? Like, nobody would just plan a bunch of random trees in random soil when getting a scientist to carry out an assessment is such a fraction of the cost?

Think you're confusing the French Revolution (violent uprising of the French against their aristocratic rulers during the Enlightenment) with the French Resistance (Underground movement during WW2 that resisted Nazi occupation)

That's such a good/interesting point!

I guess by deregulation, I'm thinking removal of the kind of consumer focused safety regulations that I'd be interested in if I was buying an EV.

I think his politics are pretty far right, at least based on this video: https://youtu.be/nvQ-ZY460WQ

Putting aside my "I am absolutely terrified for what will happen in the USA over the next 5 years" hat, I'm interested in seeing how the likely economic deregulation pans out over exports.

As a EU citizen, if I have a choice between:

• Unsafe and unregulated EVs from the US
• More trustworthy and regulated EVs from elsewhere

No way in hell would I purchase a USA backed EV. Similarly, if (big if here) countries ever get round to putting carbon taxes on goods, then the "drill baby drill" philosophy winds up putting huge tarriffs on american goods which are now made with extremely high emissions compared to elsewhere.

I guess we'll see? Last time Trump was president, he started a full on trade war, but surprisingly the noticable impact in the EU was pretty minor, so I guess we'll see?

Here's my hot tip! (ok maybe luke warm)

Write as much of your CICD in a scripting language like bash/python/whatever. You'll be able to test it locally and then the testing phase of your CICD will just be setting up the environment so it has the right git branches coined, permissions, etc.

You won't need to do 30 commits now, only like 7! And you'll cry for only like 20 minutes instead of a whole afternoon!

I have a Fairphone 4 and would definitely give them the biggest recommendation I could.

Any part can be replaced with a screwdriver which is an order of magnitude better than I've seen with other brands. I dropped and broke my phone screen and although I had to buy a new screen, after that I had a phone working as if it was brand new.

I also got mortar into my usb charging socket and was able to replace the charging socket.

You might be able to tell that I'm not the best at looking after things, I'm working on this but in the meantime, fairphone have saved me at least two situations where I'd normally need to buy a new phone. Can't recommend them enough.

Man, I sure wish cybertrucks had been around to deflect when I spent 7 years driving a Fiat Panda.

I think that's a really good point to be fair. Would be interested to see what it was on a consumption basis - like other people are pointing out, the lifestyle of the ultra rich is definitely pretty carbon intensive.