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by mrpopo 7y ago
This is a pretty common fallacy that I read every few days on HN. Air transportation is a major contributor to CO2, if you limit the scope to the people who use it. It is estimated that about 80% of the world's adults have never taken
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Yes, I do, and I cannot believe they took every step of the life cycle into account, else the number would be 3-4 times higher. That's why I was hoping for more details. But obviously this is not something we like to talk about, and it
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> Total greenhouse gas emissions of 176 kg CO2e based on Life Cycle Assessment. This is definitely lower than the real number. Is there any more info on how this carbon accounting is done?
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Air transportation is a major contributor to CO2, if you limit the scope to the people who use it. It is estimated that about 80% of the world's adults have never taken a flight, and 94% of the world's adults have not taken a flig
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We use plastic for single-use because of their low price. If the parts are to be re-used, I assume we could use silicon/glass/metal.
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> I don't think a ribeye steak from a grass fed, free range, antibiotic-free animal is particularly unhealthy. It's unhealthy as in "not bringing enough diversity in nutrients". Kidney, liver meat are much richer sour
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> There are many problems with modern industrial agriculture and mass produced food, but efficiency is not one of them. There is very little waste in these operations and those kidneys, livers, and marrow bones are already being put to g
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Maybe this should be called "lower-grade". A ribeye-steak is very high-grade protein, but it doesn't mean it's healthy (neither for humans nor pets btw). For the record, I don't think that everyone is feeding steaks
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Although it's most likely the opposite for covid19 (it survives better at colder temperatures), climate change does have an impact today on the population and habitat surface of ticks (spreading Lyme disease) and invasive tropical mosq
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> adventured listed at least one - Sweden. Yes, I would like to know exactly when Sweden accidentally turned to authoritarianism. > In today's world where too many people still live in extreme poverty, stagnation is condemning mi
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> They've taken it as far as it can go, before tipping into authoritarianism. Can you expand on that? What countries are you talking about? > as they rolled into stagnation. In today's context of over-abundance: why is &quot
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> What kind of system is he proposing in which capital doesn’t create leverage? Creates less leverage (per unit). Make it less efficient for a single investor to invest a lot and reap all the profits, giving more room for multiple people
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> the admin of these domains returns fake addresses to Cloudflare from their authoritative DNS server Why?
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by mrpopo 7y ago
1) This is a false dichotomy. We need to reach net zero by 2050 to keep warming below 2 degrees (if we're lucky), therefore we need to solve both. 2) The 100 million people who fly have the most concentrated wealth and therefore have m
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This is a reasonable question to ask, although it's also a terribly wrong assumption. First the ship has already sailed for most of Asia, where the fertility rate is already below 2 or near 2, and the billions extra are just from peopl
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The climate system itself doesn't, but the total carbon budget has to be allocated to and split between 7 billion people one way or another. What is a fair split? Of course, if you want to keep flying at 800 km/h around the globe
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This comment makes no sense because it doesn't state how many people get electricity and how many people fly. The carbon footprint of one transatlantic flight is on the same order of magnitude as one person's yearly electricity co
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Air transportation is a major contributor to CO2, if you limit the scope to the people who use it. It is estimated that about 80% of the world's adults have never taken a flight, and 94% of the world's adults have not taken a flig
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> I don't understand why we're accepting medical analysis from a random trader. This CoVid19 outbreak in the age of social media has caused too many wanna-be epidemiologists to post their unfiltered, unscientific opinions and p
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> Anyway, the law went into effect and some guy got fined just over $2000 for using CC instead of BCC on his personal mailing list of 150 people. There are a bunch more examples just like that [1]. > Details on the 2k€ fine; the guy
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> Except that at the point at which System1 crosses the line, MrAlex94 can fork the code (since it's all FOSS), create "Earthfox" (or whatever) and start again. You know that's not the whole picture. Most users don&#x
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The iFixit guide was b---s---, they froze the phone for no clear reason, and destroyed the entire phone. I almost gave up on buying because of them. Here is a tutorial by fixEZ. All you need is a heat gun (I used a hairdryer) and a playing
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Clean tech 'won't solve warming in time'(bbc.com)
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> The reason to invest in research and new technology is because it gives a way out of the conundrum. No, it doesn't. At least not by itself. We need a combined response of energy savings, energy efficiency, behavioral changes and g
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> Even with trade pressures, etc. cheap energy is going to get used to increase the living standards of developing nations. This is often touted as a reason why we developed countries cannot do anything to mitigate climate change risks.
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> a competent leader (which Gates is beyond a doubt) is going to be more efficient at executing on a goal ... Bill Gates was perhaps a competent businessman, exploiting his powerful network, intellectual property laws, destroying the com
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> Pip needs to be common API driven (as Chrome is) Ah yes, Mozilla should follow the steps of Google's web experiments playground, the Chrome browser. Every month we hear about a new self-serving feature implemented by Google/C
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Increasing a chance of collision or not is not the same as losing a minute over a traffic light or annoying a few people. It does not appeal to the same emotions, it has a much deeper meaning. I believe the comparison is flawed.
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The problem is, of course, tech. As explained in the article, websites have become more energy-hungry over time. This is partly explained by the rebound effect (Jevons paradox). More efficient hardware leads to faster page load times. Unfor
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> But what happens if the people who you took the wealth from stop creating new wealth? Did Jeff Bezos create 100 billions of dollars in new wealth by himself? If Bezos was gone, would no one be able to create an other online marketplace

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