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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-... SRM: “It is not a solution but an extremely dangerous band-aid that covers up the global warming problem without healing it, creating a fal
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683 Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28506017/ Prevalence of serious psychological distress among slaughterhouse workers
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The pork industry’s forced cannibalism(vox.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Don't look up!
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The world nears feared global warming 'tipping points': 5 disastrous scenarios(usatoday.com)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020069
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by myshpa 3y ago
> that's an entirely different argument That's not an argument, that's just a remark. > Right now we're debating whether natural habitats can be protected while current consumption patterns are maintained and rampe
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by myshpa 3y ago
> their standard of living will decline I'm vegan ... my quality of life isn't lower because of it. When people switch, they realize they've been taking something that wasn't theirs in the first place. > it will ta
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> Pigs sleep and root in sht Because we force them to. We've domesticated the most docile and gentle animals, and they all have their personalities. There's not much difference between a dog and a pig; oh, pigs might be smarter
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by myshpa 3y ago
> the most rapid rate of economic growth in human history, amidst mass-extinction, huge reductions of natural habitats and the collapse of numerous ecosystems And that's supposed to be a good thing? > We can continue to expand ev
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The Truth About Your Bacon(nytimes.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
1] less cars 2] get cars our of cities (see Amsterdam, for example) 3] smaller cars Smaller cars hit your legs and throw you over the car. SUVs/trucks hit you in the chest, and drag you under the car.
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Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin(reuters.com)
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Would "U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for August 1, 2023" be a better title? The sentence was taken from the third paragraph: "Warmer- and drier-than-normal weather was associated with the ridge over the contiguous U.S., Hawaii,
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The Great Simplification – Film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future [video](youtube.com)
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As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction(washingtonpost.com)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/2... As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction Some 100 native tree species could die out amid an onslaught of invasive i
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by myshpa 3y ago
Weird? How? That's standard around here.
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More than 500 daily high temperature records were set across the U.S. this week(ncei.noaa.gov)
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37012248
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by myshpa 3y ago
> a natural process that global warming makes worse https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm3468 Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century https://phys.org/news/2023-04-dev
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by myshpa 3y ago
Modelled dietary scenarios often fail to reflect true dietary practice and do not account for variation in the environmental burden of food due to sourcing and production methods. Here we link dietary data from a sample of 55,504 vegans, ve
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Vegan diets cause far less climate pollution, study shows(wpln.org)
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Click it. The data is from 2017 That graph is from https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions , same page you've got your data from. Even if you'd update the graph it wouldn't change much. If you have bette
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by myshpa 3y ago
> India ... has one of the lowest consumptions of animal protein and yet low life expectancy False cause fallacy. > You don't have to eat a lot, but you have to eat some Because you say so? Or do you have a source for your claims
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by myshpa 3y ago
Hm, you should have included it all :) > Many of the proposed solutions, like plant-based diets and renewable energy (via home solar) can and should be implemented by individuals on a small scale, but Earth Overshoot Day points out that:
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by myshpa 3y ago
> See the third image from the economist That's our world in data graph. > the pollution reduction in the US is largely due to offshoring polluting activity, but it's not true. If it were, the gap between production vs consu
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Newborns not given mother's milk are worse off than those that receive maternal milk Breast milk is perfectly vegan https://www.healthline.com/health/breastfeeding/is-breast-mi... > those that eat far
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This Heat Is Shaking Plankton – The Foundation of the Ocean Food Web(wired.com)
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Humanity will use 1.7 Earths' worth of resources this year(electrek.co)
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