blatman posted:

quoting this post because it owns

bag em and tag em posted:

I have 1000 mugs already. When everything collapses I won't need to dry out a ding dang gourd to drink out of. Now, clean, safe water to put IN my 1000 mugs is gonna be an issue.

Mayor Dave posted:

i only recycle glass, aluminum, and clean cardboard, everything else goes in the trash

Cloks posted:

went to the shores of lake erie today and everywhere i looked, plastic waste on the beach

mediaphage posted:

my spouse is a potter and i’ve also taken classes with them. i think it’s hilarious to suggest that society may collapse to the point of not having containers but goons are suggesting that natural clay would be inappropriate because their infrastructure-powered kilns would still be working fine.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Lol thinking about how i didn't learn until I was like 32 that almost all recycling is a scam.

Karach posted:

My partner and I have both watched the Marketplace video where they go to Malaysia to track recycled plastic from Canada and they find out that most of it is just being piled up or burnt. Which means putting your plastic in the recycling bin is objectively worse than landfilling it locally or burning it. But I can't stop her from washing out every piece of plastic and putting it in the recycling bin. It's been drummed into us so hard that Good People Recycle.

IAMKOREA posted:

Whoa, what if you coated the inside of the gourd with molten aluminum beer cans? gently caress yeah, now we're apocolpsin'

Karach posted:

My partner and I have both watched the Marketplace video where they go to Malaysia to track recycled plastic from Canada and they find out that most of it is just being piled up or burnt. Which means putting your plastic in the recycling bin is objectively worse than landfilling it locally or burning it. But I can't stop her from washing out every piece of plastic and putting it in the recycling bin. It's been drummed into us so hard that Good People Recycle.

God Hole posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7_SFdSdE4

Lackmaster posted:

I knew, conceptually, that this was the case. But something about seeing them pour the beer out of the flaccid floppy plastic bag at the end really crack-pinged the ol’ noggin.

God Hole posted:

thankfully not all of our plastic goes to Malaysian villages to be burnt: a bunch of it ends up in the ocean on the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7_SFdSdE4

Trainee PornStar posted:

lol

I was about 25 when I met a guy who did toxic waste disposal... he used to drive a tanker around the m25 with the tap at the back dripping..
According to him, it was cheaper.

Karach posted:

My partner and I have both watched the Marketplace video where they go to Malaysia to track recycled plastic from Canada and they find out that most of it is just being piled up or burnt. Which means putting your plastic in the recycling bin is objectively worse than landfilling it locally or burning it. But I can't stop her from washing out every piece of plastic and putting it in the recycling bin. It's been drummed into us so hard that Good People Recycle.

Rime posted:

I did a climate thread insider expose on the scam of plastics recycling, when I was working in plastics and plastics recycling way back like six years ago.

Crazy to think of how dire the content of these threads have gotten in the nine or so iterations since the, and goons are still discovering that plastics recycling is a lie.

Mayor Dave posted:

i only recycle glass, aluminum, and clean cardboard, everything else goes in the trash

Homeless Friend posted:

goons ambling around the wasteland with gigantic gourds at their waist, flicking their sleeves at the water beggars

Cloks posted:

did you have stairs in your house

World Famous W posted:

I'm sure I can fart around then starve to death

God Hole posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7_SFdSdE4

hobbez posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/climate/biden-drilling-oil-leases.html

hell yeah JOEY B

hobbez posted:

K FIXED IT!

God Hole posted:

quote:

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands, but would also raise the federal royalties that companies must pay to drill, which would be the first increase in those fees in more than a century.

The Interior Department said in a statement that it planned to open up 145,000 acres of public lands in nine states to oil and gas leasing next week, the first new fossil fuel permits to be offered on public lands since President Biden took office.

The move comes as President Biden seeks to show voters that he is working to increase the domestic oil supply as prices surge in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But it also violates a signature campaign pledge made by Mr. Biden as he sought to assure climate activists that he would prioritize reducing the use of fossil fuels.

“And by the way, no more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period,” Mr. Biden told voters in New Hampshire in February 2020.

Upon taking office, Mr. Biden issued an executive order calling for a temporary ban on new oil and gas leasing on public lands, which was to remain in place while the Interior Department produced a comprehensive report on the state of the federal oil and gas drilling programs.

That report, issued in November, recommended an overhaul of the rents and royalty fees charged for drilling both on land and offshore. The report noted one estimate that the government had lost up to $12.4 billion in revenue from drilling on federal lands from 2010 through 2019 because royalty rates have been frozen for a century.

In opening up the new public lands for oil and gas permitting, the Interior Department will raise the royalty rates that companies must pay to the federal government from 12.5 percent of their profits to 18.75 percent, an increase that could bring in billions of dollars of new revenue.

“For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact on our air and water, the needs of tribal nations, and, moreover, other uses of our shared public lands,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said. “Today, we begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans’ resources for the benefit of all current and future generations.”

The new lease sales marks the second major step the Biden administration has taken to open up public lands and waters for drilling. Late last year, the Interior Department offered up to 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for drilling leases, the largest sale since 2017. The administration was legally obligated to hold that lease sale after Republican attorneys general from 13 states successfully overturned a suspension on sales that Mr. Biden had tried to impose. Environmental activists criticized the administration, saying the lease sales represented backsliding on Mr. Biden’s already-stalled climate change agenda.

“The Biden administration’s claim that it must hold these lease sales is pure fiction and a reckless failure of climate leadership,” said Randi Spivak, director of the public lands for Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s as if they’re ignoring the horror of firestorms, floods and megadroughts and accepting climate catastrophes as business as usual.”

But it comes as part of a recent series of steps that Mr. Biden has taken as he attempts to assuage voter anxiety over rising gasoline prices. This month, he announced the largest-ever release of oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, reached a deal to increase natural gas exports to Europe, and called on Congress to enact legislation to compel oil companies to drill on their leases.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

look, we waste 40% of our food so we have +40% food modifiers we can use whenever we want