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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Agrivoltaics [1] has enormous potential. [1]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/p...
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
It’s known as agrivoltaics [1]. It works especially well with highly shade-tolerant crops like leafy vegetables, stone fruits, berries, etc., but also works with grazing or arable cultivation. There are various possible configurations of pa
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
That one image very powerfully captures the total and utter idiocy of car-centric development. Imagine if that thin sprinkling of actual buildings were reconfigured into one dense, car-free urban core…
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Methane’s much higher global warming potential (versus carbon dioxide), implies that there’s a threshold of methane leaks above which the warming would be worse than if you did nothing at all.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Incidentally, do you have any advice or resources for assessing the credibility of carbon offsets (for purchase by individuals I suppose, not that it should make much difference)?
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
On the claim that it’s all just information, consider that a book represents a substantial portion of the life of the author(s) and editor(s). Contrast that to the cheapness of publishing online. Of course, whatever works for you works for
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Perhaps public health officials need to pay more attention to the iterated trolley problem . Difficult, for sure, when dealing with the pandemic in front of you, and not the next one that comes, but our encroachment on animal viral reservo
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
I can’t do as you ask, except to say that vaccine skeptics will point to any and every health problem in a vaccine recipient they know as having been caused by the vaccine. (I’ve found that) it’s very difficult to counter that anecdata.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Hold on a second. In no way did this person “cause” people to contract Alzheimer’s. Let’s remember that all of medicine is an intervention. There’s nothing to say that research going in a different direction would have lessened the sufferin
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
What does this mean for the hordes of remote workers / digital nomads I wonder?
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
> The point is that society has decoupled wealth creation from mineral extraction to a large degree. Have we really though, or is the coupling just obscured to the point of near invisibility? Take software development. In a bounded conte
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
This heatwave is nothing like that of 1976: https://mobile.twitter.com/scribblerlex/status/1548592171133...
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
I elided a whole lot of detail, but the claim is that exposure to sunlight is implicated not just in vitamin D production, but also in a whole raft of beneficial biochemical processes, including nitric oxide release from stores in the skin
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
More absurdity: Slap on sunscreen, then use statins to counter the high blood pressure (rather than get free exposure to the sunlight we all evolved to live under). Have both parents in full-time employment, while kids get warehoused in day
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Put another way, AC allows rampant population growth in places that are going to become otherwise uninhabitable to extreme heat (if they aren’t already). Swings and roundabouts.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Quite. When there’s a profit motive behind one of two things being compared, and the other is the way things have been for quite literally millions of years , skepticism towards the former should be turned up to full. See also sunscreen [1
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Cunningham’s Law in action (unintentional on my part) [1]. Thanks for the detailed response, that gives me plenty to read up on further. Agrivoltaics looks like a very clear win, especially for shade-loving crops [2]. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Indeed. It is a considerable oddity how very material the lives of us wealthy knowledge workers are, yet how immaterial our labor.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Such a shame that more is not available, that was an extremely enlightening work of history and analysis. Thanks for sharing. I’m struck by his closing remarks: > Today, the painting is housed in one of the two remnants of the 17th centu
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Is that really how the financing of these projects works, though, to say that dollars are simply diverted from renewables to fission? I think not. As a civilization, we surely have the capacity and the imperative to do both. (That said, we
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
The thought alone of playing Dark Side Of The Moon on shuffle makes me shudder. Why anyone would butcher albums that way is beyond me. Even my own playlists (of electronic music, which doesn’t tend to be released as albums) very quickly a
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Active listening is a real pleasure. Qualitatively, it’s a very different experience to having music on in the background while doing some other activity, and it merits listening on repeat. Mentally separating out the different voices in th
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Notably, the supply of Bitcoin was supposedly calibrated such that dollar-parity would be relatively quickly achieved, and there were indeed headlines made, despite it being a totally arbitrary milestone.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Worth considering that OPEC members hold ~80% of known crude oil reserves.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Who even are the victims in the Ulbricht case?
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Rejecting human exceptionalism is not the same as saying we are indistinguishable from non-human animals (which would be absurd to argue), rather that our distinguishing features do not make us inherently more worthy.
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Indeed we should be paying attention to bees. Wild pollinators are being assaulted by pesticides and by honey bees outcompeting them. This matters because honey bees do not pollinate all the plants we care about. Whole regions of China have
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
I think the answer lies in your question. We have not observed such behavior (conscious dietary preferences), but that says nothing of capability. Opting out of meat is only really possible for us because of farming. Other species lack th
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
I think one extremely problematic part of this trend is that civic participation necessarily suffers when one’s life is in such close orbit around the workplace. If one scarcely has the time to be informed about the state of the world, th
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by pawsforthought 4y ago
Quite right, and you’ll find that Chen (the author and interviewee) is not really pointing to the aspect of adaptation as being problematic, more so the ends to which Buddhist practice is being repurposed. A few relevant excerpts: > The

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