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by esarbe 5y ago
How about we start getting rid of subsidies for fossil fuels, direct and indirect? That's just one, I've got more. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/923668 https://www.eesi.org/papers&#
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by esarbe 5y ago
How about these guys: https://rebellion.global/ ?
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Why shouldn't we talk about it. I mean; Yeah, we're pretty much done for. I don't see how we are going to survive the social upheaval created by millions and millions of displaced climate refugees. We've seen how Europe
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by esarbe 5y ago
"Using the data from 20,811 populations of 4,392 species, the 2020 global LPI shows an average 68% decline in monitored populations between 1970 and 2016 (range: -73% to -62%)."[0] [0] https://www.zsl.org/sites&#x2
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by esarbe 5y ago
So,the position that was drafted without any personal experience of how a pandemic progresses and how to best behave during a pandemic was revised once the people doing the drafting had the chance to actually get some first-person experienc
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by esarbe 5y ago
>> Since the middle of the 20th century, we've lost about 75% of biomass and roundabout the same in biodiversity. > That’s obviously untrue, I've provided quite a bit of material for your research. Here are some highlight
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by esarbe 5y ago
> your rant. Uff! I certainly didn't write it as a rant. But fine, I'll take that. But my intentions are good. I just want to make it clear to all of you that we face calamity and destruction and that there's no magical te
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Two reactors with each a bit more that 1TWh About 1,100 MW each. Silly me.
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> Are you intentionally clowning me here? Let's assume good faith on both sides, otherwise this discussion will go nowhere. Agreed? > They’re not the total biomass No, they're not. I never claimed that. My claim was that &gt
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by esarbe 5y ago
The budget - and I think you are talking about the budget reconciliation - includes a lot of stuff besides infrastructure. It's the budget after all.[0] Well... one half of the country is working on such a budget. The other half is doi
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by esarbe 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology) "The biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time." Of course fish and insects are part of the biomass.
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by esarbe 5y ago
That doesn't change that fact that the ground is getting closer and closer and we're still accelerating. We're burning the planet.
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We're certainly already in it. We're witnessing the last few acts.
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On a large enough timescale, everything becomes irrelevant.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Did you mean to qualify this somehow, like “non-livestock mammalian biomass”? That would still be incorrect, but at least might not be off by orders of magnitude. Not necessary. The loss in biomass in fish[0][1] and insects[2][3] and t
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by esarbe 5y ago
Nah. Running out of oil would just end our way of life. Climate change and our predatory exploitation of natural resources on the other way will end our lives. We've already lost more than 70% of biomass and roundabout the same number
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> If the ecosystem and climate collapsed, us rich folk could live in air conditioned houses powered by solar or nuclear power, eat food grown in green houses and drink desalinated water. Eh, no. We don't have the infrastructure to
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by esarbe 5y ago
You are absolutely correct. What amazes me is people's ability to put their fingers into their ears and go "Lalala, I'm not hearing you. I'm not seeing the problem, lalala!" Every rational observer should be able se
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by esarbe 5y ago
Absolutely. People always forget how population migrations can bring down empires. What do you expect these climate refugees to do? Die quietly? "Well, we earned it, not being born into wealthy societies. We've got no one else to
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by esarbe 5y ago
No, the crash will come from a total systemic collapse, caused by the ecosystem destruction we are wrecking. Climate change by greenhouse gas emission is just the cherry on top. The knife to the eye, so to speak. Since the middle of the 20t
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by esarbe 5y ago
The problem is not that we could not revert to even just 1950 levels. The problem is that it's advantageous for everyone to continue to externalize the costs and let everyone else pay the bill[0]. Since everyone is doing the externaliz
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by esarbe 5y ago
Let me paint the shape of the calamity to come: Our predatory exploitation of our biological life-support system and the massive reconfiguration of the climatic setup will cause enough disruption so as to lead to a breakdown in global coope
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by esarbe 5y ago
I'm still kinda surprised that there are people that actually question that premise. Yes; our civilization is going to collapse and it's going to collapse quite soon-ish, in the next 30 to 50 years. I think people are a) hard-wire
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by esarbe 5y ago
Well, the Christians' have been doing it for 20 centuries on the basis of spiritual interpretation of religious texts. The expectation that civilization will collapse nowadays comes from scientific knowledge based on verifiable data. W
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Breeding seabird numbers in Scotland almost halved since 1980s(bbc.com)
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According to IUCN report nearly 30% of 138,000 assessed species face extinction(france24.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
Food prices in industrialized countries are way too low. A decent increase to pay workers in developing countries should be a no-brainer.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Well, it's not technically wrong. Humans _are_ primates, after all. But since I doubt that the algorithm has problems deciding on a species for white male homo sapiens, I guess that there's quite a bit of work still to be done.
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by esarbe 5y ago
A stable price, yes. Not necessarily a honest one. Otherwise there would never have been a need for food stamps, right? The US has fairly low regulations with regards to employment of workers and also quite low taxes, but struggles with hon
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High five! The question is, how are we going to get the corporations to pair a honest salary? Because I don't think they are going to do so by themselves. Just think of how much they are willing to spend on lobbying against a minimum w

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