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by mrpopo 7y ago
Yes? That means billions of people could afford a bicycle to go to the local markets, a trailer to fetch water, tools for growing food.
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> I thought that extreme poverty has been steadily declining for years according to several reports A couple chosen paragraphs from this opinion piece written during last year's Davos summit [0] : > What Roser’s numbers actually
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Repurposed to use more modern AND sustainable agriculture techniques (regenerative agriculture, permaculture, conservative agriculture, ...). You certainly have heard of some of those. As for how we will feed 11 billion people by the end of
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Let me use an analogy. If you are going to cut down a forest, I don't care that you're doing with a modern solar-powered and drone-controlled circular saw or a petrol-powered chainsaw. There is a more important problem that is dwa
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> What are the CO2 emissions per bushel of grain for the practices you've described? Just to clarify, because it is important. My point is that emissions from land transformation due to unsustainable farming practices dwarf any eff
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> there are less carbon emissions doing so. Intensive farming as practiced by corporations today is among the worst culprits regarding carbon emissions. It is more profitable to practice intensive till-heavy farming since it takes advant
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I agree. This actually demonstrates that low meat consumption in China is maybe in part a cultural factor, but first and foremost an economical problem.
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Would you prefer this article then? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/02/amazon-... Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies
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> China has rich tradition of vegetarian cuisine due to Buddhism This is less and less true. Chinese meat consumption increased nearly 3-fold in the 1990-2013 period (from 25kg/y/cap to 62kg/y/cap). Meanwhile, meat co
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In the US, the gap between rich, middle-class and poor has been widening for 50 years straight. This is absolutely, entirely, 100% caused by insane economic policies, going back all the way from the Reagan era. There is no denying this. ht
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I don't have an idealistic view of the world. Rather the opposite. Nuclear power can provide for part of the growing energy needs of the ever-growing human population, while petrol supplies will start declining at some point in this ce
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Not exactly tomorrow, but we're facing a problem today. What are we supposed to do to reduce CO2 emissions between today and the mythical day we will have unlimited amounts of synthetic fuel available shipped by tankers from Morocco?
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Ok; until then, we have to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% each year from now until we reach net zero in 2050. Even if we figured out fusion today (highly unlikely), it won't be deployed at scale by then (a modern fission reactor takes 10 y
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> All we need to do is make it carbon neutral and our existing aviation tech won't even need to change. Except making it carbon neutral will require enormous amounts of energy, shift the price up, and make aviation available only to
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by mrpopo 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan#Recommended_dietary... Soybeans: 0.59g/100g of food Beef: 0.23g/100g of food Chickpeas: 0.19g/100g of food Doesn't look like a vegetarian or vegan
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by mrpopo 7y ago
The comments from noel@chromium.org in this bug report are scary. "We're not doing as the spec tells us to, BUT that probably gives us performance gains, most users don't care about it anyway, I prefer it that way, webdevs sh
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> Aside from CO2 what's the problem with energy consumption in itself? I agree with this entirely. Some countries managed to reduce CO2 emissions from their electricity production. However when you look at primary energy consumption
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> I suggest that instead of obsessing with the NRJ/POP term in the equation we focus on GDP/NRJ instead. That's what absolutely everyone has been doing for the past 70 years. What happens usually when energy efficiency is
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by mrpopo 7y ago
The problem of excessive energy consumption isn't caused by the people in poor countries though.
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It's absolutely not obvious whether digital technologies reduce energy consumption globally. E-mail reduced the amount of letters, but Amazon increased the amount of packages. Over-the-air TV broadcasts consumed way less energy than FH
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> But it's intellectually interesting, so people work on it. No. It's a financially sound way to use time, so people work on it. Anything can be intellectually interesting. What kind of academic research does not create value?
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> Most pickups are driving office dudes like me to our office jobs every day. Given the price of that thing, you should just buy a second, smaller electric car (maybe even a Twizy). If you care about your CO2 emissions, it's better
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> Is nuclear propulsion for ships a viable option? Yes. There are half a dozen countries with mature viable nuclear naval propulsion technology, another half dozen in development. Hundreds of vessels already built. The fuel cell technolo
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In today's world, is such a marginal progress worth the ecological sacrifices being made in its name?
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> Parking could be deliberately placed far away: Cars could drop you at the front doors, then drive off and park themselves, returning to pick you up when you are done. > This could revitalize downtown shopping districts, for example.
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Reminder that every single sentence in the IPCC report must be approved unanimously by a panel of government-appointed authors from various countries, including e.g. Saudi Arabia. Therefore IPCC reports are to be considered as quite conserv
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by mrpopo 7y ago
I am sorry that you think like that, but the government is nothing without its people. The moment you start saying there is nothing you can do is the moment you lose. Russian dissidents etc. Chinese middle-class is complacently trading free
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I've seen this a lot more with Google search actually. Google tries to outsmart me and show me what they think I want instead of what I'm searching. And I can't believe that you would get thousands of non relevant results. Pl
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> But in the first half of 2019, only 35 wind turbines were added — an 82% drop compared with the first six months of 2018. Last year was bad, too: Just 743 turbines were added, compared with 1,792 in 2017. How do you explain that drop t
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by mrpopo 7y ago
> why are they to blame for it? Because they are manufacturing it.

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