Climate Change
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- Last post 22 days ago
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- grafician-2
"Wind and solar power have made up a record 24% of the European Union’s electricity mix since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, a new report says, a boost that has also helped the bloc battle soaring inflation.
The growth in renewable power capacity has saved the 27-nation bloc €99 billion ($97 billion) in avoided gas imports between March and September, which is €11 billion ($10.8 billion) more when compared with the same period from last year, according to the report published by climate think tanks E3G and Ember."
- grafician-2
"After a century of geopolitical tension over access to oil, experts now worry that the global transition to clean energy is creating new dependencies on so-called critical minerals necessary for solar panel and battery production.'
- Nairn8
The solution really is incredibly simple - just get rid of the 6+ Billion people whose lives are basically entirely the product of the last century or so's hydrocarbon depletion. From expanded settlement catchment areas to nitrogen fixation and farming efficiencies, fossil fuels directly correlate to massive population increases.
It's very simple. A cull is in order.
Everyone other than me and my own though.
- old mother gaia is working on this alreadyhans_glib
- Cruise ships
- Bill Burrpalimpsest - I'm happy to go back to 1700's lifestyle of riding a horse, work from home - as a black smith or cooper, etc. Occasional sail-ship trip to some exotic land.shapesalad
- Fucking sheep.palimpsest
- BaaaaaaaahContinuity
- Riding a horse, you say? PonyBoy, you in for a career change as shape's conveyance?Continuity
- You should check out this guy hitler he also felt a cull was in ordernb
- If climate activism convinces the majority that the solution is to reduce humanity, we are in for a doozy of a holocaustnb
- Isn't a holocaust what we're fearing? We would just be beating mother nature to the punch.palimpsest
- @Nairn You'd like the plot of the UK version of UtopiaChimp
- @Chimp, yes, it's a 'favourite'. This shit's been banging around my head as a mental management for the scale of the problem, since my mid-twenties.Nairn
- #ThanosWasRightdee-dubs
- I've seen so fucking many people and articles about why overpopultion isn't the problem. Musk is a HUGE advocate of this.Projectile
- It's so obviously pushed by people that benefit from having more people under them to power their car batteryProjectile
- Just stop accepting things you buy being wrapped in so much plastic.microkorg
- wait, there is a gentler but more effective overpopulation killer called EDUCATION. Countries with a high level of education have far fewer children. Effective!api
- Musk’s problem can be easily solved by relaxing immigration requirements but he can’t advocate for that.nb
- You have to be careful with mass immigration as it’s not working out too well in Sweden.Chimp
- I think Pol Pot had a similar idea. We should check in with him and see how that worked out.monNom
- You get the first ride, Continuity. <3
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The rest of you can 'hoof' it. GEt it??! GET IT?!!PonyBoy - No one said “mass migration”. Yes you have to be careful. America’s immigration system is ridiculous today. We’re letting in more “illegals” than “legals” andnb
- doubling down on walls and enforcement ?! Lol how’s that working out? Oh, it’s not. Surprise surprise.nb
- The US needs to slowly, gradually increase intake of educated immigrants from a wide set of cultural backgrounds. Not hard to do, but politicians refusenb
- The problem with America is that the GOP's gameplan since Reagan was de-education. They have monetarily raped our schools for decades.garbage
- A dumber populace is easier to rule because they're all a little dim.garbage
- @garbage https://youtu.be/cPA…Chimp
- grafician-2
#BREAKING Climate pledges still 'nowhere near' enough to limit warming to 1.5C: UN
- Ianbolton2
Is this still relevant?
- Is showering still relevant?Chimp
- If we completely clean up the planet, we'll never get dirty, right?Ianbolton
- i could probably get behind capitalist individual usage arguments if industrial energy/ water usage was reflected in the price of a productkingsteven
- I feel as though the supply/demand argument is always relevant. The more we switch to renewables, the more it becomes economically viableIanbolton
- So we are making substantial progress. But the Just Stop Oil movement seems daft. We can't Just Stop it, at the click of our fingers.Ianbolton
- if corporations were taxed by the gallon, the idea of individual access to water as a human right would be a no brainerkingsteven
- oil is a finite resource, and the two go hand in hand ie. cotton production = shit ton of water, polyester = shit ton of oilkingsteven
- i'm 100% behind the idea of Just Stop Oil, but 100% agree they're a bunch of twats.kingsteven
- oh, btw. the just stop oil campaign is to persuade govt's to stop licensing new oil projects, not 'just stopping oil production' that would be daftkingsteven
- ah, right. That messaging wasn't obvious - but yeah I am totally behind the campaign as a whole - but the way they're going about it is ridiculous.Ianbolton
- I think change has to come both from the top and bottom but things would happen a lot quicker if it were from the top.Chimp
- We saw how quickly unprecedented things could happen from the top down when Covid hit.Chimp
- i think that vague messaging is deliberate, if they were 'just stop fracking' their actions could be harmful to the real indication that we need to reel it inkingsteven
- It's also a good way of shifting blame from corporations on to the people.Chimp
- it's extremist activism, like far-right politics it just hopefully shifts the perception of what is regarded as centrist / majority opinion.kingsteven
- soz chimp got in a muddle. was still on about just stop oil there...kingsteven
- There is a lot of good stuff in that video but I'm not sure what their solution is. Go live in a mud huts again? Perhaps I need to watch it again.Chimp
- However, personal change instills a conscious mindset in the population that might convert into change on a larger scale.jagara
- grafician-1
"The global economy must green faster to stave off climate catastrophe, a report warns ahead of UN climate talks in Egypt
Earth's surface has already warmed 1.2C, enough to unleash a deadly and costly crescendo of storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves"
- AFP
- "Most up-to-date national emissions cutting plans put Earth on course to reach up to 2.6C of global warming this century: UN assessment"grafician
- PhanLo1
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- inteliboy1
A TVC job I did this year for a "green energy" company.... Client super concerned about backlash from ex-employees of their decommissioned coal mine and coal power plant. Really worried. And it was headline news, huge fucking deal that workers lost their coal jobs, the Murdoch climate-denying vitriolic machine in full effect.
So I looked it up, what this client was so worried about... it was 18 workers who still had yet to be retrained and given new jobs. 18 people.
Meanwhile post-covid Elon, Bezos and all manner of asshole CEO's in other industries fire 1000's of employees left right and centre and no one gives a shit.
- Yeah, but those are 'real man' jobs. Where they'll die of a lung disease in their 50's broken and unable to breathe like legends.
Not some sissy at a desk.PhanLo
- Yeah, but those are 'real man' jobs. Where they'll die of a lung disease in their 50's broken and unable to breathe like legends.
- PhanLo2
- Anybody listen to Jon Stewart's interview with Hillary Clinton? "Morally reprehensible" is a phrase that should be used much more often.MondoMorphic
- utopian4
A trash heap 62 meters (203 feet) high shows the scale of India’s climate challenge.
Fires caused by heat and methane gas sporadically break out – the Delhi Fire Service Department has responded to 14 fires so far this year – and some deep beneath the pile can smolder for weeks or months, while men, women and children work nearby, sifting through the rubbish to find items to sell.
Some of the 200,000 residents who live in Bhalswa say the area is uninhabitable, but they can’t afford to move and have no choice but to breathe the toxic air and bathe in its contaminated water.
Bhalswa is not Delhi’s largest landfill. It’s about three meters lower than the biggest, Ghazipur, and both contribute to the country’s total output of methane gas.
Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, but a more potent contributor to the climate crisis because methane traps more heat. India creates more methane from landfill sites than any other country, according to GHGSat, which monitors methane via satellites.
And India comes second only to China for total methane emissions, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Global Methane Tracker.
- So me using a miserable paper straw and driving a Tesla isn't going to solve climate change, then?ETM
- agree, fucking paper straws are going to be the death of me. lol_niko
- and BTW driving a Tesla is the new driving a hummer._niko
- just for supporting shit for brains and the sheer douchery of it_niko
- idiocracyimbecile
- grafician-1
- https://youtu.be/5Gk…Chimp
- Upps, I didn’t see this has already been posted.Chimp
- grafician-1
- 14-15 here today...grafician
- AHAHA what is this stupid fucking mapsted
- No need to even buy winter clothes anymore, unless you plan trips to the USgrafician
- at 3am in Romania its fucking cold when you're hungry and needy to get to the next gas-station. i would put money on that.sted
- 4 feeling like 4
"fucking cold" starts at -10 sted that's why you probably moved to australiagrafician - it shouldn't be the same in Bucharest as in Barcelona this time of year but heygrafician
- time to pull the conclusion that "fucking cold" depends on what you're used to...sted
- Smarter people than i'm an said that in 2020-2024 Europe enters into the new era of what we called Dark Ages.
Lot of temperature fluctuations and fog...sted - This map is still annoying dumb.sted
- Just say you can't read maps and graphs and leave it at thatgrafician
- neverscared1
we can do it... cmon 4.5.. i start bitcoining right now
