Horizon Burning posted:

not the browser but the human interface component. rename them to zip files, as instructed.

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New analysis shows that the capital’s poor air quality led to over 1,700 hospital admissions for asthma and serious lung conditions between 2017-2019
Over the same period, air pollution was responsible for 7 per cent of all asthma admissions of children in London
Evidence also shows how improved air quality has reduced the number of people admitted to hospital for these diseases by 30 per cent
Mayor says more needs to be done to protect the most vulnerable

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has said today that further bold action is urgently needed to tackle London’s filthy air, as new analysis by researchers from Imperial College London shows air pollution contributed to over 1,700 hospital admissions for asthma and COPD between 2017 and 2019.

Poor air quality stunts the growth of children’s lungs, creates new respiratory conditions and worsens existing chronic illnesses, such as asthma, lung and heart disease. The Mayor called today’s analysis ‘a stark reminder’ that the health of Londoners is being damaged by air pollution.

The new evidence, published today via Imperial Projects, shows:
The rapid improvement in air pollution levels reduced the number of hospital admissions for asthma and serious lung conditions by 30 per cent – from 2,450 (2014 – 2016) to 1,700 (2017 – 2019).
The largest percentage improvement was among children under the age of 14 – between 2014 and 2016, around 1,000 of those admitted to hospital with airway diseases were children under 14 with asthma. Between 2016 and 2019, these air pollution attributable admissions were reduced to 700, a 30 per cent reduction.
For some diseases, improving air quality has a direct and immediate benefit for public health.

Platystemon posted:

Libertarians love the statistic that the United States has more forested land today than it did in 1900.

Yeah, dipshits, decades of industrial logging had wrecked the place by 1900.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

treechat

this is a really good book on the topic in the us

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12988518-american-canopy

it’s also basically a history of the us ripping out every tree it can find to build railroads and houses. some truly staggering statistics.

the late 1800s were hell

Hexigrammus posted:

I wonder how much coal mines contributed to the total demand. Workings were extensive and they had quite an appetite for props.

Same for WWI. Once the combatants got bogged down and dug into trenches they started digging tunnels trying to get underneath each other. The stats on wood needed is impressive. I'm curious how much of Scotland was deforested (again) by the war.

Forest on Fire posted:

The idea of trying to preserve or cherish an old growth forest doesn't really make sense anymore. It's drying out and heating up so quickly that the forest is a huge fire liability, it's just a question of which year it all explodes. The planet can't really support that sort of system anymore, even if we fenced off huge areas and tried our hardest to prevent the fires it's still going to burn down.

This is not really true in the tropics where it's humid and rainy all the time. Yet.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

treechat

this is a really good book on the topic in the us

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12988518-american-canopy

it’s also basically a history of the us ripping out every tree it can find to build railroads and houses. some truly staggering statistics.

the late 1800s were hell

Pryor on Fire posted:

The idea of trying to preserve or cherish an old growth forest doesn't really make sense anymore. It's drying out and heating up so quickly that the forest is a huge fire liability, it's just a question of which year it all explodes. The planet can't really support that sort of system anymore, even if we fenced off huge areas and tried our hardest to prevent the fires it's still going to burn down.

This is not really true in the tropics where it's humid and rainy all the time. Yet.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

If trees didnt want to be cut down they should have evolved better

Platystemon posted:

In some areas they have developed a symbiotic relationship with certain apes.

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On 8 May 1987, George Alexander, a millworker, was severely injured when a saw blade shattered after contact with a tree spike and cut his jaw in half.

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

BIG HEADLINE posted:

strip clubs

Platystemon posted:

One of the last tracts of old growth forest in the South was owned by the Singer sewing machine company.

The trees were gone by 1950 and with them the ivory‐billed woodpecker.

Pryor on Fire posted:

The idea of trying to preserve or cherish an old growth forest doesn't really make sense anymore. It's drying out and heating up so quickly that the forest is a huge fire liability, it's just a question of which year it all explodes. The planet can't really support that sort of system anymore, even if we fenced off huge areas and tried our hardest to prevent the fires it's still going to burn down.

This is not really true in the tropics where it's humid and rainy all the time. Yet.

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

Whats the plan, do you think we should cut em all down now before they burn?

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

Dont wanna waste the wood?

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

Whats the plan, do you think we should cut em all down now before they burn? Dont wanna waste the wood?

BIG HEADLINE posted:

"It just seems to me seems to me, that only a really low IQ population could have taken this beautiful continent, this magnificent American landscape that we inherited… Well, actually, we stole it from the Mexicans and the Indians but. Hey, it was nice when we stole it. It looked pretty good. It was pristine. Paradise. Have you seen it lately? Have you taken a good look at it lately? It’s loving embarrassing.

Only a nation of unenlightened half-wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today, a shopping mall. A big, loving shopping mall. You know that. That’s all you got. That’s all you got here, folks. Mile after mile of mall after mall. Many, many malls. Major malls and mini malls. They put the mini malls in between the major malls. And in between the mini malls they put the mini marts. And in between the mini marts. You’ve got the car lots, gas stations, muffler shops, Laundromats, cheap hotels, fast food joints, strip clubs and dirty bookstores. America the beautiful. One big transcontinental commercial cesspool.

And how do the people feel about all this? How do the people feel about living in a coast-to-coast shopping mall? Well, they think it’s JUST loving DANDY!"

Mola Yam posted:

SniperWoreConverse posted:

Big tree talk:

The eastern half of North America also used to have enormous trees in the form of chestnuts which are now nearly extinct. At one point they helped feed a major chunk of people who lived even slightly close to the forests. Roasted chestnuts were free for the taking and lasted well even for a year.

A very small number of them are naturally resistant to the permanent blight conditions introduced by humans, or were remote enough to avoid exposure. There's a project to selectively breed a stable population that will send you seeds if you want to help, and iirc two other projects to attempt to genetically modify them with genes from other species.

Most likely they're gonna die with all the other charismatic species of the earth. It's due to a quirk of their biology they weren't gone already.

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

the baobab family (of which the kurrajong is the southernmost member) are also fire resistant because their trunks are almost succulent, they're like a giant carrot

maybe it's time to introduce them to the americas. at this point it could hardly make things worse

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

threads is one of the most hosed up movies ive ever watched

only watched it once

quote:

No one ever forgets the experience of watching Threads. It is arguably the most devastating piece of television ever produced. It's perfectly crafted, totally human and so completely harrowing you'll think that you'll probably never want to watch it again.

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

one interesting fact about the kurrajong, they're a poo poo timber tree

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

Platystemon posted:

There were more than a few Doug‐firs rivalling the tallest redwoods all up the Pacific Coast, into British Columbia, but they were logged even more voraciously than the redwoods.

Here’s an article on the search for the remaining tallest Douglas‐firs.

They cite a paper by Sillett, here, and it includes a photograph showing more of this tree, via this USDA bulletin from 1930.



Here is a different very large complete tree that once lived in Skagit County.