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OIL PANIC posted:Anybody have any resources for building resilience in a municipality, eg., a US county? I know there are some decroissance/ degrowth works addressing this for other polities... Any case studies from places previously hollowed out by the loss of industry/ unmanageable costs of infrastructure? I know Detroit is trying some stuff, but I’m especially interested in smaller municipalities (altough if there are any relevant works re: Detroit, I’d still appreciate seeing those). Both socio-political and material frameworks would be helpful The stuff Detroit is trying mostly consists of handouts to billionaires and cutting property taxes to keep people from being priced out of their own homes by the post-pandemic RE bubble, do you want me to take some pictures of blight for you? There was a program for demolishing condemned houses but it got underfunded despite being a vanity thing for the mayor. Car Hater has issued a correction as of 20:55 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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bawfuls posted:not really your point but the pre-Colombian Amazon civilizations did extensive forestry of the rainforest They were pretty good at it too. Large swathes of the Amazon basin are covered in terra preta, a human-made soil that's remarkably good at absorbing and retaining nutrients and provides excellent crop yields without the need for introduced fertilisers. It's kind of crazy that modern agri-tech is just beginning to figure out why it's so good at what it does.
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Mar 6, 2024 20:56
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OIL PANIC posted:Anybody have any resources for building resilience in a municipality, eg., a US county? I know there are some decroissance/ degrowth works addressing this for other polities... Any case studies from places previously hollowed out by the loss of industry/ unmanageable costs of infrastructure? I know Detroit is trying some stuff, but I’m especially interested in smaller municipalities (altough if there are any relevant works re: Detroit, I’d still appreciate seeing those). Both socio-political and material frameworks would be helpful George Monbiot's Out of the Wreckage has some case studies.
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Mar 6, 2024 21:01
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The Oldest Man posted:They'll be jailed if they say genocide is bad. life comes at u fast 
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Mar 6, 2024 21:42
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cash crab posted:tulips are sprouting in my front yard. i have to feel like maybe it’s too early but what do i know It's snowing on the tulips and robins in my yard today
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Mar 6, 2024 21:45
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500excf type r posted:Healthy forests require effort which sometimes means culling bad trees, otherwise the bad trees ruin the good trees. Hope that helps That's a swamp you friggin noob. Shrek-rear end mfer.
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Mar 6, 2024 21:47
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:That's a swamp you friggin noob. Shrek-rear end mfer. It's 38C Hinkley Gravelly Loam 3-15% grade, more or less the second best soil type locally and was pasture and farm land for hundreds of years
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Mar 6, 2024 22:08
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OIL PANIC posted:Anybody have any resources for building resilience in a municipality, eg., a US county? I know there are some decroissance/ degrowth works addressing this for other polities... Any case studies from places previously hollowed out by the loss of industry/ unmanageable costs of infrastructure? I know Detroit is trying some stuff, but I’m especially interested in smaller municipalities (altough if there are any relevant works re: Detroit, I’d still appreciate seeing those). Both socio-political and material frameworks would be helpful It's around 15 years out of date, but check out Post Carbon Cities by Daniel Lerch. There should be a free copy floating around on Resilience.
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Mar 6, 2024 22:15
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500excf type r posted:It's 38C Hinkley Gravelly Loam 3-15% grade, more or less the second best soil type locally and was pasture and farm land for hundreds of years lotta words instead of just saying swamp 
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Mar 6, 2024 22:16
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Apologies, it is now too inexpensive to save the planet so no one is going to bother unless the profit margins improve. https://twitter.com/financialpost/status/1765033301553623348
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Mar 6, 2024 22:17
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https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1765476590371426653 hmmmm
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Mar 6, 2024 22:21
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a mere 18% increase over my lifetime. i'm sure we can do better
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Mar 6, 2024 22:35
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how many days till we hit the year of records
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Mar 6, 2024 22:38
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calling it now, we're going +1 C / year for 5 years straight
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Mar 6, 2024 22:40
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5 years for the death of all civilization? drat, that's not a lot of time for games
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Mar 6, 2024 22:45
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My video card is doing its part.
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Mar 6, 2024 22:54
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Car Hater posted:The stuff Detroit is trying mostly consists of handouts to billionaires and cutting property taxes to keep people from being priced out of their own homes by the post-pandemic RE bubble, do you want me to take some pictures of blight for you? There was a program for demolishing condemned houses but it got underfunded despite being a vanity thing for the mayor. Mayor also got busted due to giving contracts for demo and removal of dirt and debris to his buddies, who ended up not actually doing the work anyways....at least we have a lot of new parking lots around LSA
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Mar 6, 2024 23:34
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:lotta words instead of just saying swamp It's actually an "excessively drained soil" and it being swampy is because of ridiculous rainfall from the changing climate and being in a valley where the runoff collects. If you look carefully in the background of the bottom photo, there's a storm drain that just dumps on the ground where there is no natural waterway which is not ideal. "DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Excessively drained. Surface runoff is negligible through low. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is high or very high. USE AND VEGETATION: Cleared areas are used for hay, pasture, and silage corn. In the southern Connecticut River Valley, Hinckley soils are used for growing tobacco and truck crops and in eastern Massachusetts, truck crops. Most areas are forested, brush land or used as urban land. Northern red, black, white, scarlet and scrub oak, eastern white and pitch pine, eastern hemlock, and gray birch are the common trees. Unimproved pasture and idle land support hardhack, little bluestem, bracken fern, sweet fern, and low bush blueberry."
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Mar 6, 2024 23:36
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Scientist think that only half of the increase since 2006 is attributable to direct human sources(landfills, leakage, cow burps, whatever the hell you call the gas that doesn't burn when you light it)!!! We're only going to go up from here!
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Mar 6, 2024 23:40
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SniperWoreConverse posted:how many days till we hit the year of records The North Atlantic hit it a day or two ago, all oceans between 60 north and 60 south will hit it on the 14th
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Mar 6, 2024 23:41
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SixteenShells posted:Man I dont loving know. call it 50,000 years and and we might have stable enough local climates that a small regional trading network can start up in the northernmost bits of Russia. Recovery after the end-permian mass extinction took about 5 to 50 million years 
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Mar 6, 2024 23:42
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Argentum posted:https://i.imgur.com/m4QV4tk.mp4
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Mar 6, 2024 23:45
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500excf type r posted:It's actually an "excessively drained soil" and it being swampy is because of ridiculous rainfall from the changing climate and being in a valley where the runoff collects. If you look carefully in the background of the bottom photo, there's a storm drain that just dumps on the ground where there is no natural waterway which is not ideal. are you sure it's not a bog or at the very least a marsh
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Mar 6, 2024 23:48
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The Oldest Man posted:folks if you build an archive of human knowledge, let me assure you right now that the joyous work will not be complete until it lies in ruin opening the archive of human knowledge and only then discovering that the last archivist tossed everything in favor of andrew tate videos
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Mar 6, 2024 23:53
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lmao we are toast https://x.com/erictopol/status/1765506653754101829?s=46&t=NfFUqnrTGI_gdViBS3OzCg
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Mar 6, 2024 23:56
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maybe the lessons of industrialization will get immortalized into the religious traditions of post-collapse societies tales of how we dug up the flesh and blood of the earth itself, burned it for centuries and in doing so murdered Gaia who in turn destroyed our great works in her death rattle
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Mar 6, 2024 23:57
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Hubbert posted:Hmm, I guess that means it's time to enjoy my treats while they remain. I'm sure glad Helldivers 2 came out
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Mar 7, 2024 00:01
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lmao we are toast so just so that I'm understanding  this plaque has microplastics and nanoplastics in it for 58% of people, leading to a huge increase in mortality? owns
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Mar 7, 2024 00:05
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The biosphere has my permission to collapse once I've had my fill of dragons dogma 2
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Mar 7, 2024 00:06
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wish i wasn't full of microplastics
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Mar 7, 2024 00:19
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https://twitter.com/ProfTerryHughes/status/1765119163067199854
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Mar 7, 2024 00:26
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starkebn posted:I'm sure glad Helldivers 2 came out celadon posted:gaming while periodically glancing at the giant hourglass emblazoned with a symbol of the earth i keep ominously displayed in the living room corner edit: l o l JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lmao we are toast
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Mar 7, 2024 00:29
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Mar 7, 2024 00:35
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Thank you to the United Nations for this amazing research, and impressive graph! 
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Mar 7, 2024 00:39
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lmao we are toast loving horrible but given how ubiquitous and unavoidable they are, but it’s still surprising that 42% of people are walking around without microplastics in their artery plaque or whatever. i know plaque is bad whether or not it has microplastics, but what could the 42% of people be doing to avoid the microplastics?
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Mar 7, 2024 00:41
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kreeningsons posted:loving horrible but given how ubiquitous and unavoidable they are, but it’s still surprising that 42% of people are walking around without microplastics in their artery plaque or whatever. i know plaque is bad whether or not it has microplastics, but what could the 42% of people be doing to avoid the microplastics? Drinking their beer out of glass bottles
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Mar 7, 2024 00:42
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OIL PANIC posted:Anybody have any resources for building resilience in a municipality, eg., a US county? I know there are some decroissance/ degrowth works addressing this for other polities... Any case studies from places previously hollowed out by the loss of industry/ unmanageable costs of infrastructure? I know Detroit is trying some stuff, but I’m especially interested in smaller municipalities (altough if there are any relevant works re: Detroit, I’d still appreciate seeing those). Both socio-political and material frameworks would be helpful
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Mar 7, 2024 01:17
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kreeningsons posted:loving horrible but given how ubiquitous and unavoidable they are, but it’s still surprising that 42% of people are walking around without microplastics in their artery plaque or whatever. i know plaque is bad whether or not it has microplastics, but what could the 42% of people be doing to avoid the microplastics? Yeah, how do you even determine if MNPs are there? I'm gonna start donating plasma soon. Free money + rid me of plastics seems good imo
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Mar 7, 2024 01:28
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err posted:Yeah, how do you even determine if MNPs are there? Hmmm, thinking of making a startup called Bldr, where you can hook up with a naturopath who will do bloodletting to help rid the body of micro plastics and other modern toxins
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Mar 7, 2024 01:38
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reminds me of the POS system at work that displays the day of the week as a filled in bar on a seven data point chart every time I export a sales report. is the UN running Toast??
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