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by mrpopo 7y ago
> The waste management practices are the responsibility of parties such as governments. Coca-Cola manufactures billions of plastic bottles a year. Governments don't create waste. If you think waste management would solve it, why is
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I think it's a problem to always point at consumers behavior regarding waste. It's shifting the blame. Why are the companies selling their products not accountable for the lifetime of their products? Coca-Cola would have to spend
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How would deploying greenhouses be helping to fight climate change? Many greenhouses now use energy for heating. Or maybe are you talking about passive greenhouses only?
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There are delegates from more than 120 governments that have to approve every line from every report. Government-appointed delegates from Saudi Arabia have the same weight as from France, UK, the US. The whole thing is mandated and sponsore
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Every statement in the IPCC report must be approved unanimously by a panel of authors from various countries. The theories that are not reaching consensus yet cannot be part of it. That's what gives the reports so much weight. Literall
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It's not an inferior product, it's just an effect of the "muscle memory" your brain applies when doing internet search. After a few weeks/months of usage, I found myself more comfortable with using DDG/ecosia f
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I'd go one step further and say that most people don't want updates, precisely because updates will potentially break things they rely on, and the Android ecosystem moves so fast that it's almost always the case, at least in
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Can't they just use the website anyway? https://hkmap.live/# Or is that blocked in China too? Does the great firewall affect HK as well?
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> “I think it’s extreme and there should be a compromise. Everybody pays taxes — not just the people in the buses.” I would make the opposite argument actually. Car drivers pay the same amount of taxes despite taking up more space on the
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by mrpopo 7y ago
Thanks for the advice, I'll use another phrasing from now on. I don't want to convince skeptics. I want people who are aware of the situation to take actions themselves, and ask for actions from others, be it their representatives
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I don't believe that cities in developed countries are becoming denser. Rather, the commercial area per person is increasing.
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There are going to be drastic changes to our ways of life, and without any action it will be much worse later. But don't trust me, please read the latest IPCC and IPBES reports and make your own mind.
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On another article, a user is wondering why there isn't a public uproar and why isn't absolutely everyone writing to their representing politicians about car rental companies ripping them off of 15€ for their Hamburg-Milan cross c
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> They are counting all textile waste in the country. Not just fashion related, not just clothing, and not restricted to consumer goods. I can believe that consumer clothing wouldn't make up a majority, but I really want a breakdown
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DailyMotion was finally acquired 2 years later by Vivendi : https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/30/vivendi-buys-80-of-frances...
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Even if this was the case, and even if there was no realistic workaround to it (the article you linked mentions aerosol emission mitigation), this will happen at some point. Would you rather this happens now, or when the world has warmed 5
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> For example airplanes emit tons of CO2, but if the same 300 people in a plane drove the same distance it could be much worse. Technically true, however airplanes provoke a rebound effect. By making travel so efficient and fast, it make
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It makes sense. Not enough people care about it enough to go through the ordeal. By offering an option for concerned people, they can avoid bad publicity about what they do.
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See the Amazon Fund project, mainly funded by Norway, where donations are invested to fight against deforestation. http://www.amazonfund.gov.br/en/home/ Unless it gets 100x bigger, this is a drop in the ocean, tho
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Probably a small fraction of the total sales, given that the average new car price was about 3 times less (and many people buy second-hand cars). Therefore, private self-driving cars will only be available to a very small fraction of the
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by mrpopo 7y ago
OP's position is a bit extreme, but I wanted to share this as it's somehow related: forced sterilization under Japanese Eugenic Protection Law. About 16,500 people, mostly women with disabilities, were targeted between 1948 and 19
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Said in another way, other phone companies may be able to lower prices by negatively impacting the environment and exploiting workers.
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The fires were man-made back then too and there was uproar about it, and the situation improved a lot. But even then deforestation was still ongoing. So it's a step back, meanwhile the deforestation rate never reached 0.
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They burn the amazon to leave way for cattle. The abounding biodiversity there will be replaced by cows for mass consumption. His point holds.
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Related : Accelerated phenology of blacklegged ticks under climate warming (ticks can survive in more areas and breed faster) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201... Ticks (and tick-bo
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> The root cause is poverty and corrupt, ineffective governments. The root cause is human nature coupled with literally covering everything in plastic. Effective governments can help put a curb on this by restricting plastic usage. Weste
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The environment is being destroyed right here and right now. Are you willing to risk it being destroyed more because you want toilet seat warmers and a clothes dryer? Sorry if this makes you feel more guilty.
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> The reason people don't prefer the train vs. almost every other mode of transportation is because its extremely expensive. Making it faster isn't going to solve the root problem. Many companies choose the faster transportatio
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Even if veganism caused diminishing meat demand around the world (it does not, see other comment), I see no reason why artificial meat research would be impeded. The meat industry will try to optimize their production cost, no matter what.
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Regarding transportation, it's in my comment. Put an end to the individual car and promote public transportation. Replacing ICE cars with electric cars looks like it's better than nothing, but it's only gonna promote the busi

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