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by c1sc0 3y ago
Correct choice of site can eliminate the danger of creating toxic blooms. I bet you can do small experiments “under the radar” but in larger efforts you’ll have trouble leaving port. Ask George Russell about that last one.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Then I guess it’s better to take out the billionaires now while we still can?
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Because it stimulates the economy by making it easier to consume. Without consumption the whole house of card falls down.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
I’d like to add to this that a negative externality that is not priced in is a classical example of market failure in economical thinking. It’s an example of capitalism failing. I’m all for free markets, they are an extremely effective wa
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by c1sc0 3y ago
That’s exactly how many in that generation feel, let down & angry, which makes their actions easy to understand.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
It definitely would be better digested by the general population if their actions avoided targeting the working class, like they did recently with blocking private jets.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Deaths attributed to air pollution by fossil fuel alone are in the millions.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
… to their children who won’t have much use for said property because of how fucked up their situation has become as a direct consequence of how that property was earned in the first place …
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Good reading on this is “How to blow up a pipeline by Andreas Malm” … the disruptions we see right now are pretty mild & maybe this preventive detention is an attempt to reel in the more extreme activists before they do something trul
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Please explain how market economies deal in scenarios where externalities are involved. How do they price in those externalities? Also, how well do market economies perform for the common good when limited natural resources are exploited?
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Climate change is probably a bigger issue in the West than elsewhere because the developing world is too busy working to reach the same level of education / wealth / comfort. Maybe it's a little like how economic growth tends
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by c1sc0 3y ago
I’m all in. It’s clear that none of our governments are up to the task of taking on this global coordination problem. The science is clear by now, so let the engineers take over & do what they do best: solve the damn problem.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
This has been studied in pretty extensive detail & what I remember is that it’d require a custom plane design to get to efficiencies where this is worth pursuing. And the number of flights required would be hard to hide from a motivated
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Climate related deaths have declined by 98% over the last century. > Average life expectancy has increased because child mortality is down, do we stop medical research? You are 50x less likely to die of a climate-related cause than in 19
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Ask HN: How to convince someone man-made climate change is real?
12 points by c1sc0 3y ago|37 comments
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a disgusting attitude?
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Perfect is the enemy of the good. I had the same reflex as you: carbon credits are just a modern form of indulgences but they also finance carbon reduction projects that wouldn’t get built / researched. So it’s still a positive contrib
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by c1sc0 3y ago
We never should have gone beyond context-based ads. Hyper-targeting just feeds the enshittification of everything. The advertising business was doing just fine before the web.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Reprocess until it’s about 100y unsafe then dump it down a deep shaft and seal with concrete. Done.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
I’ve come to the following conclusion: scienctists have proven beyond doubt that anthropogenic climate change is real. Politicians and business interests have proven to be equally useless in addressing it. We know it’s a problem. Now it’s u
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Does it, though? Isn’t this a rich individual or small group of individuals can pull off in clandestine ways? Or at least get started developing the technology for? I know there are people on this forum who are doing exactly that.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Why not both?
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by c1sc0 3y ago
IF the correlation between sulphuric oxide contents in shipping fuel and these measures changes are true then we have the solution in the article right there. The best day to start solar radiation management was yesterday, the second-best i
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by c1sc0 3y ago
You don’t even need to convince the handful of people in charge. Independent geoengineering will become a thing faster than you expect.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
Same here. And in many ways it’s been the curse of my life.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
And it’s not just salt. Other chemicals can be harvested from that brine before you need to dispose of the leftovers, e.g. magnesium carbonate. I know because I run a climbing company that sells chalk (MgCO3) from that production pathway.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
In the 70s the top 1% couldn’t even conceive of the power they’d have in their pockets one day. Today both billionaires and the rest of the world can have access to that same power. We’re all carrying the same phones in our pockets after al
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by c1sc0 3y ago
What’s the state of the art in subvocalization. I would love to have that as a voice input option.
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by c1sc0 3y ago
“Not having a smart phone” already is a warning sign in some countries.
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by c1sc0 4y ago
Don’t you know most returned products simply get destroyed?

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