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The last ice age had average global temperatures that were about 6-8 degrees (centigrade) lower (if I remember correctly) than global temperatures in the 19th century. Large parts of Europe, Asia and North America were under a permanent ice
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The OP was talking about uber eats and similar apps potentially shutting down in New York if delivery drivers have to be paid minimum wage. None of these apps currently have a sustainable business model if they have to treat their drivers a
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If their existence is predicated on the exploitation of gig workers they should go under. The general demand for food won't be impacted by that one bit. Either people will be willing to pay more for their fancy burger or demand will sh
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Even in the kinda rural area I grew up in it was common for Italian restaurants to have their own delivery drivers. Many still do, because the customer experience of the delivery apps is often inferior. If we go back to a pre-food delivery
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Do you know if the contamination of fruits/vegetables is due to the contact with earth (i.e. superficial and could theoretically be rinsed off or something) or is it actually "ingested" by the plant?
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Mostly capture of politics by shareholder interests. Once a political system becomes thoroughly permeated by the interests of a specific industry (i.e. through campaign contributions, individuals moving from industry into politics, labour i
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Yeah, the new Berlin government is a real bummer. They really missed the train in terms of fostering positive change for actual city-dwellers. I think there are reasonable arguments on how to conduct the transition from a car-first to peopl
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The effects of climate change are already apparent and are impacting millions of people negatively every year. That is exactly what the lawsuit in question alleges regarding this single county. And on a global level, waiting for a risk to t
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You can sue people for illegal behavior. Simply consuming (or producing) hydrocarbons likely isn’t so nobody will sue over it. Recklessly disregarding a negative impact of a product you are peddling potentially is illegal, so people sue ove
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And maybe the people who never had reliable access to energy but suffer the consequences of excessive CO2 emissions? There are quite a few of them. As is argued elsewhere in this topic, energy companies already have billed everyone for the
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Every single positive aspect of the production of oil you listed has been paid for by some consumer at the pump or in the store at some point. And by governments/taxes through subsidies for oil companies. Consumers and citizens not onl
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You are correct sorry for the mixup (I guess "blood agent" would be more correct). Its primary use is of no consequence for this analogy, though. The company that manufactured Zyklon-B did provide it to concentration camps knowing
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I am not a climate scientist so my ability to adjudicate the finer details of climate science is very limited. But I have a decent understanding of how science works in general. If I am confronted with two rivaling interpretations of the da
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People paid for the positive externalities i.e. heating their homes, driving their cars. Those who didn't pay also didn't share in the benefits, their homes remained cold. Society does not owe the companies anything for the positi
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What are you even attempting to argue? From your source: "However, if—as the data seem to show—extreme cold is relatively unimportant, then a few degrees of warming will not yield a large reduction in cold-related mortality. Moreover,
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How about an "all of the above" approach: - you are morally wrong if you don't factor climate change and its repercussions on you, your children and other people into your voting decision - shareholders should be held account
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The study you are linking is written by four authors, three of which are without any climate science credentials (at least two are nuclear physicists). One of those three has been disowned by a former institute he has worked at because of h
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Cigarettes are still legal and oil should remain so but the price of oil should include its cost to society, not only profit maximization considerations.
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There is enough blame to go around but simply ignoring the responsibility of oil companies doesn't serve the debate, either. By that logic, the producers of Zyklon-B should have been cleared of any wrongdoing because they simply satisf
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The plaintiffs in this case do not argue that one or another party is responsible for the ultimate emission of CO2. They argue that the oil companies recklessly and with the aim of increasing their profits deceived the public about negative
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you can’t definitively prove or disprove that. What you can prove is that oil companies actively deceived consumers about negative externalities associated with their product.
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By that logic everything that has any positive externality at all would be legal. The plaintiffs specifically argue that the companies behaved recklessly motivated by profit seeking. They actively misled the public about a negative external
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Climate change increases the number and severity of extreme weather events in a given year. That is well documented by now. So you can’t attribute all heat wave deaths to climate change, but you you can have a high confidence in attributing
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99% of people are „slow and easy“ hikers so I’m in good company (though I have hiked a couple of alpine long distance trails). We buy synthetic shoes because they are cheap, look flashy and are marketed on Instagram. I’m not saying that peo
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So you got climate science denial, a global media conspiracy, and shadowy political/business interests directing the fate of the world. Very original. I've worked in media. If there ever was a profession incapable of being part of
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A note on the contractor question: The basic construction of the house is quite simple (post and beam not too dissimilar to the German "Fachwerk") and given the right tools and location could be done completely DIY. Check out this
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Germany, actually ;-) We chose wood fibre because we wanted the house's CO2 footprint to be as low as possible. We are slightly above passive house levels in terms of ongoing energy use (mostly because the house has an inefficient shap
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Man made (hint hint) climate change was first described more than 50 years ago and while the window of cheap opportunity arguably has closed by now, it could easily have been addressed without too much cost up until about the year 2000 or s
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This topic is about plastics getting into the environment in an uncontrolled manner being a huge problem. The first step to do something about this would be to make sure that you collect as much of the plastic currently in circulation as po

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