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Monkeys banned from eating bananas at Devon zoo (2014)(independent.co.uk)
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> “But isn’t the point to taste the chicken?” Furious and foreign, I replied: “No! It’s just the opposite! Cooking is about messing with the chicken! Cooking is about adding flavour!” One cannot blame people for wanting to add flavor to
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Freedom to Roam(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Short History of Enclosure in Britain (2009)(tlio.org.uk)
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The Tragedy of Enclosure (1994)(monbiot.com)
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Over One-Tenth of Global Population Could Lack Drinking Water by 2030(truthout.org)
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No diet, no lifestyle, and not even history https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24811552
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I share your position, but it is unfortunate that the word personal is prompt to such semantic abuse nowadays. It is not personal liberty that is being preached, it is property liberty. Liberty bestowed not based on the unchanging measure o
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Governments punishing people, who try to save the lives of those fleeing from climate meltdown, is the current state of things (in Italy and the US at least).
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Yes, sadly. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european... Let alone the fact that around 40% of the current population is sustained by synthetic fertilizers. The Haber-Bosch process rep
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Scientists in Florida have detected the largest seaweed bloom in the world(gizmodo.com)
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"Intellectuals don't make studies about themselves." - Noam Chomsky (probably paraphrased because I can't find the source, although I'm sure I've heard him plenty of times say this.) I think intellectuals (incl
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I think the technologies we need in order to change culture are in the realm of creative destruction, as in creatively destroying certain structures that keep the economy from working in a coherent way. Three things that come to mind are: 1
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The Haber-Bosch process consumes around 1% of energy the world generates. "Industrial farming is tapping underground aquifers faster than they can be replenished, threatening global water supplies. Nitrates from fertilizers contaminate
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Thanks, I stand corrected. I abused the term. I meant to say civilization as a society where humans depend primarily on agriculture for their survival, as the appearance of such a society coincides with the start of the Holocene.
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I can't upvote this enough. The way I see it, the Holocene is over, no more neolithic civilization, unless we keep powering the machines with lots of energy in order to cling to the past (which is a big part of the use we have been giv
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I am now remembering that book by W. Heisenberg "Das Naturbild der heutigen Physik," which talks about how Physics and Mathematics overcame the Cartesian mindset. I think that Cartesian mindset needs to be questioned more than eve
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I think a new normal, in the sense of a new steady (less favorable) state of the climate, is not something that is being suggested by the science. Just to point out one relevant fact, consider that the current CO2 levels were present at lea
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Well said. And here's some reference https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/1/1671884...
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And the ones that realize it too well tend to get killed in the name of progress. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos even joked in one of his videos that "the difference between terrorists and environmentalists is that,
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Maybe they are thinking about such things as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox , or https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist... . Or perhaps they feel the mode
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Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert(theguardian.com)
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I would add ... and other current life, including life on which humans depend, for which humans have already contributed to their extinction independently of climate change (see 75% loss of crop diversity in a century as posited by the FAO)
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This makes me think of premature optimization. There is such thing as energy homeostasis in biology. Most things about diet are going to be imprecise, and the target system is adapted to imprecision.
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I should cite from that Harvard link: "Generations of Americans are accustomed to the food pyramid design, and it’s not going away. In fact, the Healthy Eating Pyramid and the Healthy Eating Plate complement each other."
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I agree with that. But are cheese, butter, lard, and panela (dried sugarcane juice) unhealthy? Should you buy cheese that is unsalted but contains other less studied food preservatives or just eat less cheese?
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A few years ago I was talking to friend who lives in Peru. He was finishing his studies in something similar to a Computer Science degree. Despite being a well educated person he did not understand that refined sugar was basically nutrition
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I can't agree more with this. I'm in Chile right now, and they have put warning labels on all sorts of food here, saying things like high sugar, high fat, high sodium, and so on. Well, now it seems all food is unhealthy, so you mi
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I had in mind what you are saying re CFCs, and more specifically that the approach was not "messing up first and cleaning after." The harmful practice was discontinued early enough to allow natural recovery processes to take place
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Abusing its power to exceptionally shield itself from international justice, while at the same time practicing extraterritorial judicial reach, is also not a good sign of being a net force for good. https://www.reuters.com/a

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