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by myshpa 3y ago
True, but how feasible is that without public support?
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The climate benefits of veganism and vegetarianism(bbc.com)
3 points by myshpa 3y ago|1 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
True, we should let them search for food, especially when there's enough food around. When food is scarce (winter) it may be a different story, though. And water fountains in the summer are good not only for the birds, but for other wi
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by myshpa 3y ago
> not many care about the responsibilities like taking care of nature Our farming practices (deforestation, pesticide/herbicide use, insect die offs ...) and diet preferences are driving many species, including birds, to extinction.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Good points. Human dams are also an obstacle to migration and cause habitat fragmentation.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> If left unchallenged, they would do as goats do, destroy. Do not equate goats and beavers, their impact is not the same. Goat (and cattle) herds overgraze vegetation and kill the soil microbime by it, prevent afforestation and exacerba
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A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization(nytimes.com)
10 points by myshpa 3y ago|3 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
Sure, thanks, my bad.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Yep, sorry, I overlooked the context. Other zoonotic diseases though ;)
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by myshpa 3y ago
False Cause fallacy
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.popsci.com/nutrition-single-food-survival/ For all of 2016, Andrew Taylor ate only potatoes. There were a few caveats to his potato diet: He ate both white potatoes and sweet ones, and sometimes mixed in so
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Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland(e360.yale.edu)
272 points by myshpa 3y ago|143 comments
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Neuro study: misinformation sharing among devoted conservatives(psypost.org)
2 points by myshpa 3y ago|0 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
> But all they insist upon is lowering the living standards https://i.imgur.com/LaEFQmV.png > if there is one thing solved there’ll be the next thing at hand to continue the program https://en.wikipedia.org
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by myshpa 3y ago
Urban & built up land is 1% of habitable earth. Animal agriculture is 35% (80% of all agriculture lands). https://ourworldindata.org/land-use Both are destructive for our environment. But one is worse that the other.
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by myshpa 3y ago
The only chance we have is to fix everything at once, as soon as possible. The big rewrite or the really hard crash. The more complex the system you have (and our civilization is pretty complex), the less is enough to take it out of balance
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by myshpa 3y ago
Wow ... you're in for a rough ride, my friend.
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by myshpa 3y ago
The biggest problem of all is that the whole system is the problem.
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by myshpa 3y ago
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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by myshpa 3y ago
There are microplastics in the contents of those bottles. Just by opening those bottles you're releasing countless microplastics into the air. Even if we'd manage to collect all those bottles, it would still pollute. Yes, governme
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by myshpa 3y ago
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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by myshpa 3y ago
I started for the environment, for the biodiversity and because the switch to plant based diets is a must for preserving the Earth for future generations (many reasons for that claim). No words and social media comments can describe the she
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by myshpa 3y ago
Maybe. Or maybe you export your trash to other countries, to whomever takes it for the least amount of money, and they dump it into the river. We'll never know. I'm not against soft drinks, again. I'm against plastic pollutio
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by myshpa 3y ago
> I'm doubting whether the effect applies specifically for coke I'm not pretending I'm the expert. > What you're doing I'm cited the source. > it's caused by alcohol because the driver ate some bread D
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by myshpa 3y ago
> government action has worked I don't think that it did. And I don't care about what the humanity is consuming, as long as it doesn't pollute the world excessively. Your rights end where my rights begin, etc.
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by myshpa 3y ago
The link I've posted has links to sources for their claim (there are more): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24829986/ A Classic Innate Behavior, Sodium Appetite, Is Driven by Hypothalamic Gene-Regulatory Programs
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by myshpa 3y ago
It's not important why ... just that it does. Coca Cola (etc.) has 2.37-3.10pH, and the acidity is from phosphoric acid. https://www.foodchamps.org/is-coca-cola-acidic/ "Due to their high sugar and acid conte
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by myshpa 3y ago
But i'm not talking about health effects of salt in Coca Cola ... I'm questioning the reason why it's included at all. As you said ... it's not much, you won't even notice it. So the reason it's there is to inc
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by myshpa 3y ago
> It's not like Coca-Cola goes around and throws their cans or bottles in nature They as well could. They choose to profit from producing the stuff. They could as well use glass as they did for decades, or sell reusable bottles and
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by myshpa 3y ago
Sorry, but (sugary) drinks in plastic bottles are just bullshit products that should not exist at all. Production costs are almost zero, health and environmental impacts are extreme. Warren Buffett is the villain. Coca-Cola too. Governments

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