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by myshpa 3y ago
> You must be fun at parties. Yep, that's me ;) > a gradual decline in population, growth, and economic activity No time for that, probably. And it's not even on the horizon ... all policies have economic growth encoded in t
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by myshpa 3y ago
1. the planet is a finite system, it has a defined size and limited resources, and the amount of solar energy available to earth is not infinite 2. no, we can replace melanin with chlorophyll and we'll be ok, if we can imagine it 3. ha
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-lev... "The consensus statement at the moment would be that this is largely anthropogenic forces that have caused the ocean to warm, for the atmosphere
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by myshpa 3y ago
80% of bugs are gone. https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-fl... We're driving 1 million species to extinction. Tens of millions of Chinese died in famine when they got rid of sparrows. https:&#x2
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by myshpa 3y ago
> which is why estimating peak oil has been so difficult Peak oil or not, the declining EROI of oil however could make the continued functioning of the industry economically unviable in the 2030s. https://bylinetimes.com/
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Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
2 points by myshpa 3y ago|1 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
No paywall: https://indi.ca/how-mathematically-were-fucked/ Great acceleration graph: https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc... Exponential growth vs. carrying
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by myshpa 3y ago
4 sigma is once every 43 years (twice in a lifetime) 4.5 sigma is once every 403 years (once in the modern era) 5 sigma is once every 4776 years (once in recorded history)
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Today's North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature (4.8 Sigma)(imgur.com)
66 points by myshpa 3y ago|24 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
Yes, it's gonna end up badly for most.
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by myshpa 3y ago
All significant changes in the past came from people loudly demanding change, be it through mass protests, civil rights movements, revolutionary actions, or the collective voice of individuals seeking justice and progress. These impassioned
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by myshpa 3y ago
> No, it's the other way around When everything works as intended. In a collapse everything changes. Imagine energy grid not working, no tap water, non-existent food supply, money is worthless ... such kind of future.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> he would know more about what's happening on his land than not If you want to make policies, we need scientific facts, experiments and measurements, not gut feelings. Otherwise you might end up killing tens of thousands of elephan
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by myshpa 3y ago
Science isn't about belief or religion; it's about objective inquiry and understanding the world based on evidence. It's okay to question and be critical, but dismissing scientific consensus without proper examination won&#x2
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Why aren’t we more scared of the climate crisis? It’s complicated(theguardian.com)
6 points by myshpa 3y ago|7 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
I should not have reacted in the way I did, and for that I'm sorry. I've tried to debunk your comment, but it would take a long time, so I rewrote it instead. "We are not doing it so the nature will destroy the economy and wh
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by myshpa 3y ago
> when the alternative is decarbonizing using cleaner technologies There (might not be) enough fossil fuels left, and EROI is falling fast, so the question is whether we'd able to do this before the energy runs out and our economy w
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by myshpa 3y ago
‘It’s Pseudoscience’: George Monbiot Blasts Regenerative Grazing In Heated Debate with Alan Savory https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/george-monbiot-r... Monbiot said that there was no empirical evidence
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by myshpa 3y ago
Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for it https://grist.org/climate-energy/cattle-grazing-is-a-climate... Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene https:/&#
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by myshpa 3y ago
> It's us. We're the ones consuming the bulk of these resources Agree. > What if some process ends up accelerating things faster than expected? I think we're already there (for example, in quite few studies 2030 is the
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by myshpa 3y ago
I don't believe in systemic changes coming on its own anymore. They will be forced by angry citizens, or not at all. We've had 50+ years of climate change warnings, and nothing has really happened. We're still not doing much.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Check this thread, I've already provided some of the sources. All those sectors you've mentioned are absolutely problem too. Animal ag is 15-26% of our carbon budget, depending on which source you'll pick. That's already
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by myshpa 3y ago
Climate change is a symptom of overshoot of the carrying capacity our our environment. The financial system is based on growth, with the majority of money (97% IIRC) being debts we must repay with interest. This leads to exponential growth,
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by myshpa 3y ago
It's not just fossil fuels. "The factory of ignorance": Arte tells about these industrialists who manipulate science https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-02-23-%0A---%22the-fa... Inside big beef’s clim
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by myshpa 3y ago
Towns have no future in a collapse. Too hot, too water/fossil fuel dependent, too unsustainable.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Do we really want to live and grow our food underground, wear pressurized spacesuits while on the surface, make our air from algae vats, build our villages under big domes? How many would be able to live like this, how many would die until
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by myshpa 3y ago
Animal ag. is the leading culprit of the mess we're in (together with fossil fuels, ofc). The reason nobody at political level talks about it is because they feel it's a political suicide. If there was a significant portion of the
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Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted: Report(forbes.com)
3 points by myshpa 3y ago|1 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi This quote emphasizes the idea that if individuals embody and practice positive values and actions, it can lead to a significant impact on the world around them.
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by myshpa 3y ago
From the article you've linked: "In a hypothetical scenario in which everyone in the world went vegan by 2050, the regrowth of trees and wilderness could sequester around 547 billion tonnes of additional CO2. Each year we emit aro

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