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by myshpa 3y ago
> fart and fart and fart Funny. https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/weve-lost-35-pe... https://www.globalwitness.org/en&#
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> Natural forests should remain natural forests and converting them to grasslands to satisfy our unsustainable meat habit is also bad. True > Cows have a place in the natural grasslands cycle Not really true. Cows graze on different p
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You're wrong (and I seriously doubt you're a vegan). Such a change is absolutely needed, and it's one of the best things we could do. We have to stop fossil fuels, absolutely, that's a prerogative. But animal agriculture
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Do you know how many cattle we do have? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120 The total mammal biomass: - livestock (≈630 Mt) - humans (≈390 Mt) - wild marine mammals (≈40 Mt) - terrestrial wild mammals
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Cattle's main problem is not their farts; that's probably just a greenwashing attempt to discredit a critique of animal agriculture and the need to switch to plant-based diets. Some effects of animal / cattle farming: Greenho
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> https://energytalkingpoints.com/ What a load of pseudo-scientific bullshit. Maybe stay away from political for-profit think tanks if you're interested in truth.
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We desperately need wild bees(arstechnica.com)
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Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds(nature.com)
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Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change(iopscience.iop.org)
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Do you have children?
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History is full of communities that were eradicated and buried in the ditches meant to protect them.
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Paper straws not so eco-friendly, 90% contain toxic “forever chemicals”(newatlas.com)
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The next pandemic could strike crops, not people(grist.org)
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Yet e.g. fracking or animal agriculture gets subsidized, no reasonable limits are being enforced, while doing most of the damage.
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> how do we deal with the Tragedy of the Commons? How do we make hidden externalities visible & accurately priced We do (pretend to do) when it's easy enough. But mostly we don't. Some examples: - (micro)plastic pollution -
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by myshpa 3y ago
Sure. I see DNA as a code that has been written by nature over millennia. We don't understand the genetic code well enough to hack or rewrite our DNA to grant us longevity. However, we might discover a species in nature with relevant g
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We're diminishing biodiversity to our own peril and disadvantage. The primary driver of biodiversity loss and deforestation is animal agriculture. Act accordingly. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892
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Discovered in the deep: an octopus’s garden in the shade(theguardian.com)
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Emperor penguins risk ‘quasi-extinction’ from sea ice loss in Antarctica(euronews.com)
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I have found the source. https://theconversation.com/record-coral-cover-doesnt-necess... The finding of high coral cover may signify a reef in good condition, and an increase in coral cover after disturbance may signify a r
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Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests(cnn.com)
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I don't remember the source, but (IIRC) the problem with this is that the monitoring of the coral cover is conducted from boats at a height, and it doesn't take into account the biodiversity of the corals. A few species may return
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You're aware, I'm aware, and they are too. The thing is, it's not a solution; it's just temporarily masking/hiding the root problem, allowing it to grow larger and larger until it may become unmanageable.
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Ecological doom-loops: ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected(phys.org)
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-... Dismissing SRM technology, Prof Joeri Rogelj of Imperial College, London, called it “irresponsible, dangerous and a threat to the manageabi
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Trouble in the Amazon: it's starting to release its carbon, tipping point ahead?(nature.com)
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Especially due to animal agriculture (80% of agricultural lands). Animal ag is the leading driver of biodiversity loss, deforestation, droughts, water usage, eutrophication etc. We could switch to plant-based diets, reforest the pastures (t
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That's not complete. 6. Let's (try to) do something about it.
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> the current rate of extinction is extremely high, and on par with (if not exceeding) that of other mass extinction periods in our planet’s history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction "The curre
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The necessary changes are situated on the production side.

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