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by mrpopo 6y ago
The author is conflating the "fun of driving" with the necessity of driving 20km every morning and evening to get to work. Many people who don't really enjoy cars are now caught in a car-centered society where they have no ch
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by mrpopo 6y ago
There was couch surfing for the "personal experience". AirBnB really just added money to the mix. It didn't enable it.
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Except it doesn't cut on the gigantic waste of electronic components that IoT is creating, and no one is talking about.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> or maybe not, you'd have to study the whole cycle from lithium mining to end of life disposal It also depends on the electric mix, but an electric car will almost always be a net positive over its lifetime, due to its much better
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> Going by “national security” reasons most countries should ban Facebook and google, not to mention amazon, Microsoft, oracle, Cisco etc. since the us government has already shown willingness and ability to spy on anything they can get
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by mrpopo 6y ago
So that more multi-million dollars scams can pop up?
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by mrpopo 6y ago
It is a hard topic, as it will depend on things like life-cycle analysis of network devices, but if you google a bit, all reports are in the 7-12% range. Around 10% of the world’s total electricity consumption is being used by the internet,
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> My view is that the best way to speed up the transition to clean energy is to vastly increase demand for electricity. No. Historically, and globally, when electricity demand increases, electricity sources stack up. We may create more c
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> To pretend that producing a new genetic therapy is the same as grazing one million more goats is asinine. You're the only one pretending that? Of course, 0-impact is impossible, except the scale at which we are destroying our envi
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by mrpopo 6y ago
The sentinelese (as well as all farmers in low-income countries) are directly impacted by environment degradation caused by the richest people experiencing "accelerating quality of life". Thinking that our way of life is not impac
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by mrpopo 6y ago
The problem is to move capital from where it's not useful (in the bank accounts and portfolios of ultra-wealthy) to where it's useful. A tax on consumption will have a bigger impact on less wealthy people whose income is spent tow
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Why should we believe that Bill Gates has a valuable opinion on wealth inequality and its causes? His point on 1780 rentiers just doesn't hold since most of the wealth in the world was created since the 1950s. Also, Bill Gates's f
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> There is nothing being forced upon anyone. There is something. Automation. With automation, Amazon is able to squeeze every inch of performance out of a single worker, which means less workers needed, salaries down, people more hungry
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by mrpopo 6y ago
If you have ever cycled on a national road, you know that this "mutual trust" fades away rather quickly in favor of "I can save 1 min and probably will avoid killing this guy if I accelerate right now".
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> I denounced it online several times, that's all I can do. You can talk to your representatives about it. You can start actively boycotting Chinese-made products (not so easy, I know). You can donate to NGOs such as the UHRP (Uyghu
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> As late as 2004 leading newspapers editorialized that eradicating malaria in Africa outweighed the environmental damage This doesn't make sense. Eradicating malaria in Africa is beneficial to the human species. Environmental damag
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by mrpopo 6y ago
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by mrpopo 6y ago
> We need less people. Trying to convince 8 billion people to do something like never eat meat or fish seems like an impossible goal. Again this is the problem I'm mentioning. You're picking an impossibly high goal and concludi
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Money, and space, and natural resources for the CCS membrane / infrastructure, etc. No guarantee that none of those will run out if we try to do this at the required scale.
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> No mammal killing in agriculture? Good luck. Even biological agriculture farms have snake shelters to keep the vermin numbers in check. Just like the other comment explained, while accidental marine mammal bycatch will always happen, i
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Whether used or not, if they own a car that they don't use, another car will be built and put on the market instead, as long as other people need them.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
You seem to clearly understand what's at stake and yet you still passive-aggressively attack me. Everything that you said is true, and it should be evident by now that baby steps like a couple of people carpooling in an EV when it&#x27
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Why 3 cars though? You did your research, you must be aware of the grey energy associated with manufacturing ~5 tons of extremely inefficient transportation vehicles.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
We made LED lighting white because we wanted it. We can make yellow LED lighting as well. This should be suggested to city councils, if changing the wavelength would be beneficial to insects with no downsides.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
I didn't assess the study itself, but it focuses on the wrong metric. Even if a single coffee pod were to be more CO2-efficient than an espresso from an espresso machine, the popularity and consumerist approach makes it so that you wil
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In the long term if they accept all kinds of trade offs I am afraid that they will become less and less relevant, and that's why they are taking a stance here.
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> Data centers consume about 1.5 percent of the world’s electricity and are responsible for about 0.5 percent of carbon emissions. And the Internet overall is reducing greenhouse gas emissions because it distributes goods digitally that
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Do you know more about hydrogen transport? I heard it is quite more complicated and expensive than LNG (closest equivalent), because hydrogen leaks more easily.
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Strange answer. Most importantly, they consume a lot more energy, be it from coal or from wood.
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by mrpopo 6y ago
Then why are rich people bigger meat consumers and bigger CO2 emitters than poor people?

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