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Here in Berlin I’d much rather the traditional 25c summers over the 35c+ summer of ’22 (fortunately ’23 summer was relatively mild and rainy). I do appreciate t
by ido 3y ago
Here in Berlin I’d much rather the traditional 25c summers over the 35c+ summer of ’22 (fortunately ’23 summer was relatively mild and rainy). I do appreciate the mild winters tho!
- mewpmewp2 3y agoThere could still be a lot of improvement in both summers and winters in more north of Europe. And hopefully we could nuke something in some way that would balance out the sun so that summers wouldn't be constant light and winters completely dark. It is just depressing. It is unclear what our ancestors were thinking moving here. Probably forced.
- thriftwy 3y ago[flagged]
- hef19898 3y agoSo, following your logic, as a German I have no right to opposse genocide? Strange logic, to say the least. And using some climate engineering fantasy from a book as a basis for discusion, really?
- thriftwy 3y ago[flagged]
- hef19898 3y agoPay someone to not kill people they hate? What makes you think this works? By the way, there is different way to read your Russian pro-verb. Talking about Russia, how much money do you think Putin wants ij exchange for not trying to conquer Ukraine? Or Nethanyahu and his rihht wing nutjob allies to not deplace every Palistinian? You have a ballpark amount at least?
- thriftwy 3y ago[flagged]
- hef19898 3y agoOne can call out Western hypocrasy without abetting, and excusing Putins actions. Or defend them. Or spreading propaganda and other falsehoods. You can do so, too. I know it.
- thriftwy 3y ago[flagged]
- notachatbot123 3y agoSocieties and people can learn from their past mistakes and be wiser now.
- myrmidon 3y agoI'd like to point out that Europe IS restoring local habitats and species, see e.g. brown bears and wolves, which used to be essentially extinct in mid/western Europe. But I also think your argument is much weaker than it feels; why, actually, should the sins of your ancestors undermine your actions in the present? Is it misguided if the Italians of today act againt slavery and human trafficking because slavery was tolerated in ancient Rome?
- thriftwy 3y agoSo in Russia there's this Pleistocene Park, which is a part of tundra where grazing animals are left to be in hopes of recovering the ancient arctic steppe landscape. I hope they still exist and get some finance in the current polit-economical climate. Nothing prevents the EU from buying a large amount of Indonesian lands (Brazil, etc) and making it a Orangutan paradise. Like a national park but this time actually international. I guess everybody will be happy, including Indonesia who will sell or rent out this land, and private property laws will prevent deforestation. Instead of this EU just nags Indonesia that it should preserve its pristine nature instead of developing its economy. Stick is being waived and no apparent carrots. That looks highly hypocritical, given how European countries of the past absolutely devastated their lands for the sake of economic development. Even now, Norway is planning on killing every one of their wild boars[1]. I'm not sure how the effort to reintroduce wolves elsewhere compares with that plan. Reintroduce a couple dozen wolves, kill 2k boars? Returning to the Californians, with their urban sprawl they've already wasted a large portion of landscapes in their state, taking advantage of the awesome weather they are having. When they start telling other people around the world how they should be living and developing lands, the only appropriate response is "stop lecturing us, provide material help instead". 1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/19/norway-considers-boar-proof-fence-along-border-with-sweden https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/19/norway-conside...
- myrmidon 3y agoWild boars are neither endangered, nor are they native to Norway, so those do not detract from conservationist efforts in any way. Buying land abroad is simply not a feasible approach to prevent deforestation, for multiple reasons: 1) Prohibitive cost: Foreign actor is not interested in owning like 5% of the deforesting countries total land area-- he wants to spend the money for preservation, not to become a titanic landowner. 2) No legislative/executive power: Naked ownership is insufficient in preventing deforestation especially in less politically stable nations. 3) Sovereignity: Do you honestly think that countries would just sell high single or even double digit percentages of their total land area to foreign governments? This is a political powder keg...
- BlueTemplar 3y agoYou forgot the (/s) I hope ? This is just about geometry... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-being-wobbly-gives-earth-and-possibly-other-planets-their-seasons/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-being-wobbly-... So if you were ridiculously reckless and wielded enormous power, you could try to reduce Earth axial tilt so that there are no more seasons. Problem : this also makes the equator even hotter and poles even colder. (With even more effort you could try to increase the tilt even more, I'm not certain about all the implications, but it seems to roughly swap equator and poles ??) Without that kind of (did I mention reckless ?) power, our future instead seems to be of the opposite of what you are asking for : in a bad case scenario, we might end up the current Ice Age (that we lived in for the last 2.6 Ma, and which roughly corresponds to the oldest known tool industry that pretty much separates us from other animals), returning the Earth into its (more) normal state, which also involves the equators and maybe even the middle latitudes being uninhabitable for Humans and maybe even for mammals in general. So we might face a bleak future where our descendants are trying to survive in weird jungles (?) of the Siberian coast and Antarctica, where, unlike the current jungles, summers are indeed "constant light and winters completely dark". I have some doubts about whether any civilizations can rise in these conditions...
- hef19898 3y agoThe mild winters are problem so: - the risk of temp drops after plants started to sprout -> bad harvests - snow is a great water reservoir, having the snow as rain leads to floods, results in lower ground water levels and droughts -> bad across the board and also impacting agriculture - the permafrost in the alps is melting -> mountains litterally fall apart And we see all that already for years now. Edit: As rain goes rather quickly into rivers, and from there into the sea, it also compounds the fresh water issues mentioned in the article. Melting snow does so much slower, meaning it goes into ground water. Not having snow anymore really disrupts the water cycle in regions that had snow before.
- johnofthesea 3y ago- overwintering pests and diseases
- persnickety 3y agoThat was one hard sentence to parse. > (the risk (of temp) drops) after (plants started to sprout) The risk drops, why does it cause bad harvests? Otherwise, what is the "temp"? The presumably intended reading: > (the risk of (temp drops)) is nonsensical on a different level: risk always exists. It's the change that's interesting.
- CalRobert 3y agoSo do the ticks!