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Nearly half of environmental users went inactive post Musk's takeover of Twitter(theverge.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Very good points, thank you. > that if you are faced with a global problem, say, climate change ... The issue with animal agriculture is larger and graver than climate change (it's merely one of the symptoms of overshooting the envi
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by myshpa 3y ago
> I wonder how many people go vegetarian purely for climate reasons ... to what degree? The numbers are growing steadily, enough to make producers of animal products increasingly nervous. > giving up air travel, private vehicles, impo
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> Take collective action There aren't enough environmentally and collapse-aware vegans ... yet.
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The abolition of slavery is imho a significant global achievement, with its roots often found in individual acts of resistance and advocacy. However, as you rightly pointed out, it's essential to recognize that forms of modern slavery
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Where water is running out in the world – and why(washingtonpost.com)
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The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions(washingtonpost.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
> there is literally no point at all doing anything, as an individual or a company or even a nation "We can only solve these problems with active participation by everybody, because if everyone just waits for someone else to solve t
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by myshpa 3y ago
Meaningful global change often begins with individual actions, as they can inspire reflection, shape societal norms, and create a foundation for collective transformation. Historical examples like the civil rights movement, where individual
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by myshpa 3y ago
> ancient humans decided not to eat all the elephants Who knows why? Larger size, slower reproductive rates, and adaptations to colder climates? Maybe elephants were more socially organized and were harder to hunt? Maybe their habitats w
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https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline "What’s most shocking is how few humans were responsible for this large-scale destruction of wildlife. There were likely fewer than 5 million people in the world. Around h
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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/woolly-mammoths-death-... Last mammoths died 4000 years ago, and they might have even lived longer, if short-term events hadn’t tainted their water and drained their
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The father of this method is Masanobu Fukuoka - One Straw Revolution, aka natural farming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka "in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farmi
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Extincti... Humans were the reason, on all continents. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline "By around 10,000 years ago
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- literally every human https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
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A New Climate Frontier – the long-term global warming rate acceleration +50%(neuburger.substack.com)
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Climate wildcard – Greenland melt lakes [video](youtube.com)
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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995593 Analysis: Most research on PFAS harms is unpublicized ... significant links between PFAS exposure and risks of preterm birth, ovarian and breast cancers, osteoporosis, a
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by myshpa 3y ago
The ceaseless proliferation of polluting substances like forever chemicals, plastics, and pesticides stands as an unequivocal testament to humanity's reckless disregard for the wellbeing of our planet and its inhabitants.
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Rising methane may indicate Earth's climate in 'termination-level transition'(theconversation.com)
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Original title: Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’ Shortened due to title maxlength limit.
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Google and Meta over-hired thousands of employees who do 'fake work,' says PayPal Mafia's Keith Rabois https://www.businessinsider.com/google-meta-staff-do-fake-wo... Alphabet's Google and Facebook owner
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://libcom.org/article/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr... Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun...
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Simply ... no. > Humanity is in overshoot — global heating, plunging biodiversity, soil/land degradation, tropical deforestation, ocean acidi-fication, fossil fuel and mineral depletion, the pollution of everything, etc., are indica
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Human beings have been naturally programmed for exponential growth, resource consumption, and territorial expansion. While nature historically provided negative feedback to limit this, advancements like the scientific revolution and fossil
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St. Matthew Island(stuartmcmillen.com)
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The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable(mdpi.com)
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Something even more rarely mentioned is that urban and built up areas are just 1% of habitable earth, forests (37%), urban crops 10% (providing 82% of calories) and animal agriculture 35% (for those remaining 18% of calories). If we'd
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by myshpa 3y ago
When one wants strictly a meadow, then you're probably right. I'm doing that in a garden for a decade or more, and we have a mix of grass and wildflowers and "weeds", with abundant biodiversity.

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