Climate Change

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  • sted1

    We should use plastic waste as payment, I am sure people would even fish for the micro-plastics in seawater.

    • Too smartrobthelad
    • Deposits on cans and bottles sort of achieve this - homeless people scour cities to cash them in. Not pretty, but a rounded sort of reasoning.Nairn
    • to easy to recreate and generate wealth
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    • this is the type of thinking of idiots running for public office with real belief they can change something. narrow views end only end game is what they see
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    • the reality to is instill such a thing you change the entire eco system. does one invest in a country micro plastic market or bonds. specualtive nature into
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    • any micro plastic farmer as a new gold miner, bit coiner. the value of legalized offerings. plenty of ways to game the system
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    • so many ways teh person who would lay down the rule never gave it a tenth of thought
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    • and if i remeber right you ar not american. hungarian i believe. think you know soemhting of gov promises and goals that dotn work out
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  • NBQ001

    Happy Earth Overshoot Day

    https://www.rte.ie/news/world/20…

  • Hayzilla2

    Bit of a side note to climate change, but I've always felt that all human waste/garbage/plastic should be granulated. In massive grinders. Turn everything into sand. Plastics can be used for roads, wood & paper burnt, food turned into fert. anything else can be buried. Should reduce the size of hole needed massively if granulated.

    • In that form it can wreak havoc in the oceans. It currently is already.monospaced
    • Well the idea is not to put the granules in the ocean innit!Hayzilla
    • Interesting idea but most of the plastics/garbage we generate aren't stable enough for that type of reprocessing.ben_
    • exactly to both points. plastic is not indefinitely recyclable. microplastic is ruining the ecosystem as it is being eaten and passed up the chainimbecile
    • nothing good comes from hydrocarbonsimbecile
    • They actually do grind up plastics and use them in roads in Scotland, Holland and Germany. Trouble is - what happens post-friction? More micro-plastic.Nairn
    • imho, waste post- post- consumer, no-longer recyclable plastic should be burnt for fuel or buried for future processingNairn
    • "nothing good comes from hydrocarbons" Your love of fixing up cars and motorbikes seems to defy that stance :)Nairn
  • BarryEvans1
    • Exactly, the real danger is going to be the effect on societies around the world as some places become uninhabitable.yuekit
    • Political revolution, mass migration, war over resources. Funny how the people most concerned with immigration are also the least concerned about climate changeyuekit
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  • Nairn3

    Slightly unbelievable figure, but even if it's 1% it'd be quite impressive.. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…

    • so china, india and now africa.
      https://earthobserva…
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    • doing something in the right direction, while we still defending ideologies against another instead of focusing on solutions.uan
    • This is crazy, they are pretending that intensive farming counts as "greening" - that would not be helping the environment. Also they talk about change inzarkonite
    • greening... here in Canada we already have tons of forests, there's no room to grow. We're actually carbon negative, this kind of analysis isn't helping at all.zarkonite
  • R_Kercz3

    Helpful earth temperature timeline from xkcd

    https://xkcd.com/1732/

  • sted1

    Climate Cage

  • Bennn3

    Very good article : https://www.washingtonpost.com/g…

    For the people who believes climate change doesnt exist. think again.

  • Bennn1

    Underground cities are coming. Its cool in the ground.

  • Ianbolton2

    Why do we judge a country on its 'power'? We at least do this from a western perspective. It seems though, if we viewed things by 'competency', it would surely mean we change the tone in which we hold our own governments to a higher level of scrutiny. When you see the trajectories of say for example China, we begin to realise they seem to have at least some kind of goal/narrative they're working towards. Here in the UK we've spent 3 years concentrating on fucking Brexit and it seems America still don't believe in climate change.

    We need a global narrative, yet we don't even trust our next door neighbour, nevermind a ruling government.

    • Honestly, i think we're fucked. Humanz are too stupidz.Bennn
    • but a global narrative would be from a single view point. and if wrong would ruin everything. or more than likely setup a path for complete control based on
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    • goal narrative. freedoms could be crushed on whims and anything goes by those dictating to such goal/narrative.... hasnt this been done already?
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    • strange it always find champions to repeat itself in a new angle, form, adage.
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    • I don't agree. We all have our own inner stories, as we're narrative-driven species, and we're tribalistic in our nature - to some extent.Ianbolton
    • But to say that a global narrative would be a dictatorship is assuming that everything is based around power and we're forced to believe in one truth.Ianbolton
    • We all have our own individual stories that get us up in the morning, but i believe if governments came from a place of competency, not power, we'd be...Ianbolton
    • way more inclined to see positives in a forward movement to be part of nature rather than see our goal to control nature.Ianbolton
  • PonyBoy2

    Melting glaciers in the Russian Arctic reveal five new islands

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/e…

    "The Navy first spotted the islands in 2016 using satellite imagery, but only confirmed and mapped them in August and September during an expedition to the site, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday."

    • This is gonna make a mess of international bordersGnash
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  • PhanLo2


    Lol.

  • utopian-2

  • i_monk-2

    Office Workers Post Photos Of Greta Thunberg Near Single-Use Items To Shame Employees

    https://thedieline.com/blog/2019…

  • PhanLo4


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    Scifi.

    • Phan, let me tell u a secret but don't tell anyone. Australia has a real arson problem by people ranging in age from under 10 to 24 yrs, then in older age.robotron3k
    • Added to that they litterally slashed land management 60%, down to $825 million for the ALL of Australia. And done by the Turnbull liberal party! Ouch!robotron3k
    • Arson can start a fire but it doesn't explain fires spreading to the size of a small country. You need increased temps and drought for that to happen.yuekit
    • What are you talking about robo? I don’t understand what you are getting at?thumb_screws
    • thumb_screws - a bunch of climate change denying conspiracies are being trotted out that the fires were started intentionally, some suggested greens did it etclowimpakt
    • Yeah aware of all the green blaming that the Coalition gov and Murdoch’s cronies have been falsely spouting.thumb_screws
    • The situation is beyond fucked. Our current government is peppered with climate change denialists. The lack of leadership from a federal level has been awful.thumb_screws
    • Robo is feeding the chooks! What a load of absolute bollocks!sab
  • lowimpakt0

    this is a 100 year temperature trend (1910 - 2010) in Australia from the Government's Bureau of Meterology

    Also 2019 was their hottest year on record

    https://www.theguardian.com/aust…

    • The right wing, God fearing, racist, low IQ, Russian Lovin', Trumptards .... refer to this as fake news. Just watch Fox News.utopian
    • So 45-47 C but if it hits 50 C we'll have an entire continent lost to climate changegrafician
    • Australia government are idiots too https://www.thejakar…robotron3k
    • Send your money now! No time to wait! The planet is already died but your money can jump start poster making for protests. Posters protect the planet!robotron3k
    • whats a 1000 look like or a 100,000? relevance of perspective. not to mention logistical data measurements on short timeline
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    • a few years in a short time span would make people think the world is ending extrapolating the data... remember global cooling before our ages
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    • The Arsonists would be a good band name https://summit.news/…robotron3k
  • robotron3k-8

    Definitely the sun has some blame but finally someone writing about the possible causes of the fires. That's because 85+% of the "climate change" fires all happen off roads and near populated areas. They should make a list of local Australian arsonist to keep track of them, it's a pretty destructive hobby.

    Arsonist fever in Australia

    https://summit.news/2020/01/06/n…

    The liberals made Land Management efforts to control fires illegal

    https://harbingersdaily.com/envi…

    • california fires? arsonists too? amazon?renderedred
    • Siberia? Africa? Spain? Greece?
      GLOBAL ARSONIST CONSPIRACY
      Nairn
    • Mainstream political conservatism is primarily represented by the Liberal Party of Australia. The Labor party is the left wing party over there.T-Dawg
    • Fires happen all the time, in most warm and dry places. The point is less about their occurence more their extent and severity.Nairn
    • Just not to confuse this with US politics where liberals = democrats.T-Dawg
    • In Greece many fires were started by landowners wanting to circumvent very strict land use laws that protect forestsGnash
    • Major forest fire is natural & necessary. We have made fires more brief but intense through suppression & prevention, which allows forests to store up 'fuel'
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    • I know that playing dumb while knowing better is good for getting a rise, but, this is really stupid stuff, robo. Bit worried you actually believe it.Fax_Benson
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    • Ask yourself how many mining and oil companies failed on the road to its current state, all while taking big money subsidies. A century's worth.T-Dawg
    • We all know know new industry comes with hard lessons and failures. That's part of the deal.T-Dawg
    • ah yes sacrifices. tdawg. nuthin new nor claims of their virtues. we all know one must break an egg for an omlette
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    • and as the article states is the defense of such an issue. but i doesnt question the role of gov to user public funds for venture capital that may promote their
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    • political aims. im still a free market capitalist and support private investment. take tesla market cap for an example. a complete
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    • casino shit show and waste of money, but like a casino private funds. or shittard pensioners who should know better
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    • oil, mining, farming and even the early railroad should have all been private. and you will get better returns becuase simply private capital has more self
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    • interests. fundamentally speaking. of course there is plenty of private capital backed by public capital in various schemes and becoming a more popular route
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