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Oh, where is Admiral Ackbar when you need him? If it is about what people, not mostly corporations, need to do, then it is probably a trap/distraction. Or some
by gmuslera 6y ago
Oh, where is Admiral Ackbar when you need him?
If it is about what people, not mostly corporations, need to do, then it is probably a trap/distraction. Or something that people must do that will destroy a lot of corporations, like full stop all international travel and most city travel. And those fortunes won't accept that peacefully.
I hope that there is a solution, even if is backed by him. But inertia is something hard to stop, both in economics and in climate mechanisms.
The situation by now is that we have a lot of excess of carbon in the atmosphere already, we are adding most of the produced 100 million/day barrels of oil, and a lot of positive feedback processes (like methane being released near polar regions, or gases released for the each time bigger/more frequent forest fires, or losing albedo). Going from that rate of emissions of long lasting greenhouse gases to effectively reaching negative emissions will be hard to plain impossible or just too risky.
- corobo 6y agoYeah I stopped really caring so heavily about recycling when I realised just one dominos shop causes more rubbish in a day than I do in a year. You can't recycle greasy cardboard. Corps first or fail
- klyrs 6y ago> You can't recycle greasy cardboard. You can compost it, though. It's a slow process, but you can grow trees in that compost. I'd argue that this is an adequate form of recycling, if we have enough managed forest land. OTOH... you're not wrong, corps gotta lead the way. I lived in Seattle when we made it illegal to throw away recyclables. Great start, right? No, corps got a carveout. Starbucks made a big show of letting customers sort their recycling, compost and garbage with fancy new lids on their bins. But ultimately, there's a single bag under there, and it all goes to landfill. Ridiculous.
- zests 6y agoThe carbon that makes up the cardboard was carbon that was once in the environment. I’d rather landfill it and remove it from the carbon cycle than spend resources attempting to reuse it.
- gmuslera 6y agoYou have to take into account that both the 100m oil barrels/day, and all the carbon that is being released in the artic was not in the environment/carbon cycle. And those volumes are several orders higher than the amounts that recycling takes out.
- dave333 6y agoThere is a solution, and it was just demoed in Washington earlier this month https://brilliantlightpower.com/suncell-demonstrations-in-washington-dc/ https://brilliantlightpower.com/suncell-demonstrations-in-wa...
- pluto9 6y agoLet me save everybody a click. From their website: > Suncell® directly generates electricity from reaction of hydrogen to dark matter using water freely available in the humidity in the air. Lol