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by mrpopo 4y ago
If you are worried about that, then raise your own meat and stop complaining about "elites". Too many people take the current consumption society for granted. It is not a human right.
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> seems NOT to be effective against parasites in insects. I don't see this in the article. They explain in a paragraph that cooking and/or freezing are effective, and that simple drying was "considered promising". Wit
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https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ If you don't see the decreasing trend in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s mean curves, I can't help you. Another thing missing from this measurement is t
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I didn't know about that. For me this is also an ethical issue. Raising a household pig and feeding it your own food waste and leftovers is fine, but when done on an industrial scale, for commercial purposes, we are bound to see regula
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Korea is another great example in recycling food waste. The country's food culture historically created a lot of food waste (although the total food waste had been reducing lately), and being a limited territory like Singapore, they re
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When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immun
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by mrpopo 4y ago
People are only using the metrics that make them/their country look best. The USA is topping the chart in cumulative GHG emissions, which is objectively the cause of climate change (carbon stays in the atmosphere).
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> Then tell the EPA to start lobbying the NRC to start building new nuclear plants No, stopping the coal plants is the end goal. Whether it's by saving energy or building alternative sources like solar/hydro/nuclear is irr
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"Third lowest" says a lot about Blizzard's recent releases. They might have made more money in the short term, but their reputation is thrashed.
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Seoul real estate prices are through the roof right now because of a heavily speculative market and shaky regulations though. A 100m2 in an apartment complex in the out-of-center parts of Seoul will cost you roughly 1 billion Won (1 million
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by mrpopo 4y ago
The US is a pretty disparate place. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_vehicle... If you compare to Iceland and New Zealand, you have to compare with rural US states. But still, not as ba
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by mrpopo 4y ago
> It has been translated into laws and social contracts backed by established enforcement So, the "long dick" of the US government that grand-parent was talking about. Society creates value.
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Also interesting that this is this person's only blog post ever, and dating from 2017.
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They can both harm living things and are the 2 leading causes for young people deaths in the US. Some US cars are obviously built to look threatening.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Erm, yeah, not sure what my intent was, but that was not the right wording. We should definitely fight for equal rights and treatment of workers.
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> But pretending they're peers of engineering and lamenting that they aren't treated as equals is just based on a fantasy. You have just built an elaborate strawman. No one argued for equal rights/equal salary/equal t
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Helmets protect against falls. They don't protect against cars.
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Which they mentioned in the article: “A major cause of head injuries is going over the handlebars, which is not possible with a 3 metre long bike. Helmets protect against falls. They don't protect against cars.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Plastic production worldwide is 300 million tons. I am not sure how this would convert to tons of CO2 as it burns (each carbon in the polymer chain associates with more oxygen in the air so it becomes heavier) but the world's CO2 emiss
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Mosquitoes are among the most prolific pollinators and many ecosystems depend on them. Wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone because elk populations grew so large that they unbalanced the local ecosystem (overgrazing). Ecosystems are not
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by mrpopo 4y ago
> neither have we met with any sort of defeat. Defeat against whom? Is human race at war with someone? Earth overshoot day isn't about survival of human race, it's about human being in balance with Earth. Countless species are
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Sad that she got shot. There are less than 500 Siberian tigers left.
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This also depends a lot on the electricity source mix that you're powering your car with today and in the next 10 years. As a matter of fact, electric cars would be more efficient than ICE cars even with a very high-carbon electricity
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Regulations. Cars are heavily regulated for safety reasons. Also brand trust.
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Nuclear waste literally comes from power plants. If their residual heat could be used to generate electrical power, it would be done already. It can be (and is, although not everywhere) used, for cogeneration - residual heat from any ther
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Crop rotation is not an old esoteric practice. It's widely used in European fields with 3 or 4 types of crops, including cover crops, and actually improves yield. The USA farming practices keep it to a strict minimum, I believe to redu
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Farmers have practiced crop rotation for nitrogen fixing for millenia, among many other benefits : less favorable conditions for weeds and pests due to changing conditions, diversification of nutrients, improved soil structure which in turn
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Fruits are lacking vitamins and minerals, not sugar. In fact, the carbohydrate content in fruits is increasing with increased CO2 concentrations (explained in the article). Anyway, the reason why this is a problem is explained in the articl
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Turning off modem/router for the night saves a bit of energy though (about enough energy to boil the water for my morning tea), with the added benefit of preventing me from compulsive internet browsing on my tablet at night. This obvio
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Obviously, unless we manage to somehow get usable sea-water based batteries, any mass-market battery technology will have a tremendous impact on the environment. The problem is not manganese or lithium, it is the mass production and consump

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