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by myshpa 3y ago
> Enjoy living now that you still can. Here, repaired it for you.
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by myshpa 3y ago
We should send people like you together with phone sanitizers to search for a new planet. You'll go first, the scientists will go in a second ship.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Sure ... but without a significant portion of people in the population being vegans it's a political suicide to even suggest that. It has to start in our own kitchens.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> some smart people roam, touching their meat (like, eating LESS of it, not quitting altogether) will make them into incoherent angry (I guess) men Not so smart then. > The only way will be if governments decide to step in That's
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by myshpa 3y ago
Such a load of bull. I'm sick of people ignoring the science. Educate yourself before writing anything next time. It's clear as day you're wrong. It's the most impactful thing you can as an individual do. We need to stop
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by myshpa 3y ago
I see a lot of dead people and violence. Loss of glaciers in Himalaya ... 500 mil people on the move Tropic & wet bulb or 50+C temperatures ... 2 mld. people on the move Deforestations & droughts ... mass migrations, almost everybod
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by myshpa 3y ago
That's not a solution.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Should we wait until predictions of bad outcomes become true That's the way we're on. > and only then react? Worse it gets the less remain to be done. Nothing will be done even then.
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by myshpa 3y ago
No, our real problem is "overshoot" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population) ) and the the "Great Acceleration" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration
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by myshpa 3y ago
Wow, spot on :)
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1675/2023/ We've added the energy of 25 billion nuclear bombs to the Earth system in just the last 50 years. https://www.cbsnews.com/news&#x2F
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by myshpa 3y ago
> this is about the difference between localized, grass-fed beef which can be raised where crops cannot Sure, that's obvious. But we don't need those calories to sustain ourselves. > the environmental impact of the feed, whi
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by myshpa 3y ago
There's a difference between sequestering and storing carbon. Also we should not compare "regular" agriculture and "regenerative" farming, but natural ecosystems and "regenerative" farming. What's bet
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by myshpa 3y ago
Human consumption of soy & corn is not the problem. > large fields of soy https://ourworldindata.org/soy "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of t
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by myshpa 3y ago
What you're missing is that half of the year they live on soy from deforested Amazon. https://ourworldindata.org/soy And that "unproductive dry grassland" used to be natural habitat for wildlife, until we too
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by myshpa 3y ago
> The anti-meat take is always lacking in nuance The pro-meat take is (as always) lacking scientific basis for their claims, and ignores the biggest problems of the field, like biodiversity loss, deforestation, eutrophication/pollut
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by myshpa 3y ago
> environmental disaster ... high amounts of chemicals to make it palatable Sorry, but this sounds like animal ag. propaganda. Most faux vegan meat substitutes are just vegetable protein (essentially plant-based flour), fat and few spice
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Quite honestly, it felt like a cult. > I get why they're so passionate. Hm, it seems like it didn't "click" for you just yet. I'm in it for environmental reasons, something that's also frowned upon ther
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by myshpa 3y ago
Thanks (turning JS off also works).
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Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast(theatlantic.com)
37 points by myshpa 3y ago|19 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
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by myshpa 3y ago
> meat making machine reached an economy of scale that surpasses even plants No, the problem is subsidies (and lobying). "The U.S government spends $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, but only 0.04 perc
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Rampant heatwaves threaten food security of entire planet, scientists warn(theguardian.com)
4 points by myshpa 3y ago|0 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
Real hackers get: "Sorry, you have been blocked" "You are unable to access dignitymemorial.com" ;)
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by myshpa 3y ago
I can't edit my other comment, but this is even better source to explain the lack of action from our governments. "What is ecologically and socially necessary for sustainability is not polically feasible, but the politically feasi
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Things are never going to get better, they are only going to get worse. How much worse depends on what we do today. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcGo6a-yKuIubvDb6mIy...
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Unprecedented ocean temps “surpassing model predictions,” warn experts(cbsnews.com)
37 points by myshpa 3y ago|29 comments
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How to Enjoy the End of the World (Sid Smith)(youtube.com)
4 points by myshpa 3y ago|0 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
The filters really have changed. I started using it relatively late, but earlier in May, you could have given it a DOI link, and it would have summarized it for you. Now, it argues that it's not a database and that it can only summariz
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by myshpa 3y ago
What we need to do is to prevent such occurrences from happening by enforcing regulations that require companies to demonstrate the safety of their products before manufacturing them for extended periods, instead of concealing data and faci

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