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by perfunctory 5y ago
They have. But it doesn't change the fact that the bailout helped them to maintain their market dominance which they now perpetuate by abusing the rules.
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Blockchain’s Two-Flavored Appeal (2018)(circleid.com)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
So this is how Lufthansa spends its covid bailout money. Nice.
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Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected (2020)(research.noaa.gov)
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Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global Bitcoin mining operation(theguardian.com)
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We should ban all new oil and gas fields(theconversation.com)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
Reading stories like this makes me very sad about the state of my profession. Something that is supposed to be a simple stupid logging library is on the front pages of the mainstream media due to all the havoc it's causing. We really h
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Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go on Trial(bloomberg.com)
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Russia vetoes UNSC resolution linking climate crisis to international peace(theguardian.com)
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Arctic Fires Are Melting Permafrost That Keeps Carbon Underground(bloomberg.com)
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Wildfires in 2021 Spewed CO₂ Equal to Half of EU's Annual Emissions(bloomberg.com)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
> Fear not, we can pipe water in from other places And then you find out that another country wants to pipe water from that exact same place.
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'Great Flirtation': Should workers constantly job hunt?(bbc.com)
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Australia’s spy agency predicted the climate crisis 40 years ago(theguardian.com)
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Pakistan orders Monday closure of schools and offices in Lahore to cut smog(theguardian.com)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
Russell's essay has the answer: > The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are
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by perfunctory 5y ago
Unfortunately there is no enough grassland to maintain the current levels of beef consumption. Most beef we consume is not grass-fed. So if you want to feed the world by converting grass into protein, that would mean just the same - radical
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Land Use(ourworldindata.org)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
cop26 has barely ended as everyone happily forgot all the climate pledges.
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US wildfires have killed nearly 20% of world’s giant sequoias in two years(theguardian.com)
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Executive Order Takes Aim at Non-Competes(forbes.com)
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Biden Promised to End New Drilling on Federal Land, but Approvals Are Up(npr.org)
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Providing decent living with minimum energy(sciencedirect.com)
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A Luxury Carbon Tax to Address Climate Change (2020)(ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org)
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by perfunctory 5y ago
For every resourced person motivated to capture co2 there will be another resourced person motivated to release it. Do we really want to find out who is gonna win the race. No matter how you spin it, we won't solve the emissions proble
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by perfunctory 5y ago
> because you don't have to convince/force 7 billion people to do something. Well, at least you'll have to convince them to pay $100 per tonne captured.
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by perfunctory 5y ago
I always felt that trying to remove co2 out of the atmosphere without decarbonizing energy production is like trying to build a perpetuum mobile.
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by perfunctory 5y ago
> Gas infrastructure is few underground barrels. I am not sure if you are being serious.
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by perfunctory 5y ago
> It’s absolutely unrealistic dream removing all petrol and diesel cars from the roads. When I hear people say these sorts of things, I always imagine someone from the end of the 19th century complaining about removing horse carriages fr
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by perfunctory 5y ago
I always felt that trying to remove co2 out of the atmosphere without decarbonizing energy production is like trying to build a perpetuum mobile.

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