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by realreality 4y ago
Journalists with cushy jobs and comfortable urban lifestyles are grappling with cognitive dissonance. They know that proper mitigation would spell the end of their comforts (no more flying, for instance), but they can’t bring themselves to
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It's relevant where the resources come from. If a city depends on importing from nearby or distant fields (as well as distant mines and factories), what happens if the people who live in those places do not want their land exploited fo
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I don’t see how 2 people living in a 500 square foot house in the mountains would have significant cooling needs. If you’re talking about high density in a concrete city, then cooling is a problem.
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by realreality 4y ago
Cities have never been and will never be sustainable. You can cram 100 people into an apartment building, but you’re never going to be able to grow all of their food in a rooftop garden. Although high density can be more energy efficient, i
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by realreality 4y ago
The easiest way to go lower is to live in a smaller house. Two people don't need 2,400 square feet.
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And if you factor in the embodied energy from building the car, you wouldn't be able to drive it, at all.
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by realreality 4y ago
Don’t try to emulate entrepreneurs; they are sociopaths.
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by realreality 4y ago
Congress actually made it more difficult to receive compensation for a COVID vaccine injury. Despite thousands of reports of injuries, including death, I don’t think anybody has been compensated. https://crsreports.congress.gov
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by realreality 4y ago
I think it's folly to try to essentialize "the Buddha", when it's likely that Siddhartha Gautama never even existed. My point in bringing up Ugra was to show that many/most sects of Buddhism have been predominantly
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> It gets rid of all the bad stuff. That’s laughable. Who decided what “the bad stuff” was? The early adopters were people who rejected western religions but projected western, individualistic culture onto eastern traditions.
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Part of the problem is that Buddhist institutions in the west are organized like non-profits or social clubs. They have hierarchies of lay people and boards of directors. They have to appeal to rich people for fundraising, and they become e
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by realreality 4y ago
If you read the “Inquiry of Ugra”, you’ll see that the ideal layperson is nothing like the average American Buddhist. The layperson is supposed to live like a monk and hope to be reborn as a proper monastic. https://en.wikipedia.
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by realreality 4y ago
Lead acid batteries are commonly used for solar storage. They require more physical maintenance than lithium ion, and they have more specific charging requirements.
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by realreality 4y ago
According to Oxfam, if you earn more than $30,000 per year, you're in the top 10% of the world's wealthiest.
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by realreality 4y ago
It's right on the wikipedia page, under "Operations": > In 2018, the US airlines had a fuel consumption of 58 mpg‑US (4.06 L/100 km) per revenue passenger for domestic flights We should take a system-wide view. The
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by realreality 4y ago
Seems like the “ghost flights” were a more recent issue: https://www.wired.com/story/airplanes-empty-slots-covid/ As for the fuel efficiency, this says 58mpg. Business class or first class are much worse, of cours
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by realreality 4y ago
Yes, the United States military is the biggest institutional carbon emitter in the world. If we're not doing anything to eliminate the military industrial complex, we're not serious about climate change, either.
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VS Code obviously contributes more to climate change than Vim.
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Yes, I think airlines should go extinct. They're inherently unsustainable. The problem is, I don't have any say in the matter, while corporations have a lot of power, and rich people depend on airlines. So, it's unlikely th
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by realreality 4y ago
Airlines are not efficient. The carbon footprint per passenger is about the same as driving a car for the same distance. And airlines have been flying empty planes during the pandemic. That's ridiculously wasteful.
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by realreality 4y ago
$100/tonne is bogus. Overall emissions need to drop more than 10% per year [1]. There is no sustainable scenario where airlines continue to operate. That's why I said an appropriately high tax. Any tax that can easily be absorbe
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by realreality 4y ago
An appropriately high tax on jet fuel would price the airline industry out of business. Obviously they’re going to resist that, so what’s the solution?
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by realreality 4y ago
Climate migration isn’t the only problem. We’re locked in for: topsoil depletion, desertification, peak mineral extraction, biodiversity collapse, complete melting of the arctic, wildfires, ocean acidification, uncontrollable methane releas
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by realreality 4y ago
I never say “trust the experts” when the experts are economists talking about climate change. When there are tens of millions of climate refugees, widespread drought, and compounding natural disasters (as predicted by actual climate scien
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by realreality 4y ago
Any calculation of GDP losses due to climate change is based on completely flawed reasoning. Steve Keen has thoroughly debunked this nonsense, which has mislead many people into complacency: https://www.patreon.com/posts&#x2
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by realreality 4y ago
> Soon, the focus will shift from weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and into, "What can we do with all this cheap energy to make life better?". That's not going to happen. People basically don't understand where ene
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> Looks like the vaccine creates a broader set of antibody responses than natural infection does. That's not true. It's narrowly targeted at the S-protein, whereas natural infection will result in antibodies to the S and N prot
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For Chicken Pox, they will accept a positive anti-body test. If a student had Chicken Pox as a child, they'd be exempt. But if a student had COVID last semester, they still must receive a booster shot (against a strain of SARS-CoV2 tha
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by realreality 5y ago
There's one important difference: not everybody who's exposed to SARS-CoV2 will become infected and replicate a large amount of viral proteins. But everybody injected with mRNA will become a spike protein factory.
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by realreality 5y ago
You're making a false dichotomy, ignoring the existence of other treatments, the fact that 50-80% of infections are asymptomatic, and the fact that cross-immunity from previous coronaviruses means many people may never develop COVID, e

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