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by myshpa 3y ago
> Advertising, by its very nature, is emotional manipulation with the goal of getting you to give up some of your money for something you most likely don't really need and won't improve your life all that much I've heard s
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Temperature the human body cannot survive is identified(rte.ie)
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Agree 100%. > Roughly half the surface area is agricultural land That's true almost everywhere (50% of habitable land is agriculture, animal farming then 80% of that). https://ourworldindata.org/land-use > Move c
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by myshpa 3y ago
> In The Netherlands the government tries to buy out farmers You're right, I've read about that. > they have to promise not to start a farm elsewhere They can farm elsewhere, but not in animal agriculture, right? I may be wr
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by myshpa 3y ago
> is currently restructuring its farming subsidies to, among other things, encourage sustainable farming and mitigate food security risk ... reduce their flock by 90% or so That seems reasonable to me. The UK has experienced heavy defore
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by myshpa 3y ago
I just went through that article again ... I see not a single mention about "governments ordering farmers". Have I missed something?
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The climate wrecking ball striking food supply(axios.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
My words ... whole air travel is 1.9% of emissions, animal ag is 15%, aprox? Phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, stop subsidies for animal agriculture (redirect them to regenerative ag. and vegetables), start massive afforesting. Right?
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by myshpa 3y ago
I spent a lot of time on this reply. When it led nowhere due to complex topics and numerous questions, I saved the draft for another response and turned to ChatGPT instead. I have work to do, so I apologize in advance. --- You might think e
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by myshpa 3y ago
> If motivated leaders can’t find a credible pathway over decades Define motivated, define leaders, define can't find ;) > I’m skeptical that an “urgent system wide transformation” is possible or desirable The only other alternat
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by myshpa 3y ago
Climate change is just one of many problems our civilization faces. Our civilization is an extemely complex system. I appreciate it as much as you do, but its negative externalities endanger both our continued existence and the health of ou
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uMatrix & uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/How-to-work-in-hardc... Deselect everything except 1st-party CSS, image, and media. No ad or popup in years.
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by myshpa 3y ago
The article is not solely about the US.
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Impending Collapse: Our System Is on the Cusp of Failure(knopp.substack.com)
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Over $1T needed for developing nations' climate transition(cnbc.com)
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PFAS Contamination in the U.S.(ewg.org)
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025595 Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022 As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that green
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by myshpa 3y ago
Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022 As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions
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Why Does Incrementalism Dominate When the Environmental Crisis Is Getting Worse?(transformatise.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Come on... nobody has even started talking seriously about it yet. You'd surely hear about it if it were being worked on. It's so complex that politicians, with their short-term outlook, must be scared sh*tless just thinking about
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by myshpa 3y ago
And some already are. https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/transfarmation-ani... A ‘Transfarmation’: Meet The Woman Helping Animal Farms Turn Vegan Heiligtag has helped 125 farms in Switzerland, Austria, and
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by myshpa 3y ago
“If dairy farms had glass walls, everyone would be a vegan.” - myshpa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
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by myshpa 3y ago
I believe empathy isn't zero-sum. Feeling for animals doesn't mean their empathy for humans diminishes. Btw, most vegans used to be meat eaters previously. As my SO says: "they (carnists) just don't know ... yet".
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by myshpa 3y ago
The problem is exponential growth (economy) in a finite environment (Earth). https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc... We've already crossed safe earth boundaries: https:&#x2F
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Texas Power Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat(bloomberg.com)
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Degrowth (we're consuming resources of 1.7 earths/year) & UBI
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by myshpa 3y ago
A single solution won't suffice. That could have worked 50-70 years ago, not now. Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and overfishing are all symptoms of eco
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> As a meat eater ... I don't lack empathy for humans. As a meat eater ... you cannot yet know what you lack/you'd gain ;) > pet owners, their empathy for pets seems to reduce their empathy for fellow humans It's f
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by myshpa 3y ago
We have the solution, and not just for the warming, but for most symptoms of the overshoot, we just don't like it. Climate change, resource depletion, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, overpopulation, soil erosion, and ov
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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” ― Paul McCartney

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