SKULL.GIF posted:

"... until eventually it's your camera doing the recording."

Evil_Greven posted:

lol

lmao

Rah! posted:

it's the only way

we have to blow up the earth's core

RIP Syndrome posted:

Hey Bernie, we fixed it

Minrad posted:

just realized rime named this thread as such to help stop posting in the dnd climate change thread

lol but also lmao because its stopped me from posting there once now already

Basic Poster posted:

Just in time. Now they are slowly discovering their tree planting search engine is a total fraud, and if switching email hosts from Gmail to punish Alphabet for their climate crimes will be impactful? Also really excited to see how this "should energy be put into raising the awareness on the amount of almond flower in keto products to gym bros? It's at least a way to move the needle" thing turns out.

Minrad posted:

drat im learning so much about bamboo now holy poo poo

gently caress plastic make everything from bamboo

Homeless Friend posted:

Turtle Sandbox posted:

They just dont want to admit they arent willing to change their lifestyles one bit, at least they could have the intellectual honesty to own it.

Homeless Friend posted:

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1439622557666185217

brakeless posted:

[Me in my ideal future career] In this paper, we will demonstrate that governments can still reach their Paris agreement goals if they mandate, effective immediately, that all citizens move into cities constructed of multi-storey log cabins, with transport provided by log-based pedal-powered carriages on rails

Simon P. Michaux posted:

Current expectations are that global industrial businesses will replace a complex industrial energy ecosystem that
took more than a century to build. The current system was built with the support of the highest calorifically dense
source of energy the world has ever known (oil), in cheap abundant quantities, with easily available credit, and
seemingly unlimited mineral resources. The replacement needs to be done at a time when there is comparatively
very expensive energy, a fragile finance system saturated in debt, not enough minerals, and an unprecedented world
population, embedded in a deteriorating natural environment. Most challenging of all, this has to be done within a
few decades. It is the author’s opinion, based on the new calculations presented here, that this will likely not go fully
to as planned.

In conclusion, this report suggests that replacing the existing fossil fuel powered system (oil, gas, and coal), using
renewable technologies, such as solar panels or wind turbines, will not be possible for the entire global human
population. There is simply just not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target set by the World’s
most influential nations. What may be required, therefore, is a significant reduction of societal demand for all
resources, of all kinds. This implies a very different social contract and a radically different system of governance to
what is in place today. Inevitably, this leads to the conclusion that the existing renewable energy sectors and the EV
technology systems are merely steppingstones to something else, rather than the final solution. It is recommended
that some thought be given to this and what that something else might be.

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It is recommended
that some thCRACKought be given to this and what that something else might bPINGe

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Consider these facts: the source of much of the world’s food – seeds – is mostly in the control of just four corporations; half of all the world’s cheeses are produced with bacteria or enzymes manufactured by a single company; one in four beers drunk around the world is the product of one brewer; from the US to China, most global pork production is based around the genetics of a single breed of pig; and, perhaps most famously, although there are more than 1,500 different varieties of banana, global trade is dominated by just one, the Cavendish.

This level of uniformity has never been experienced before. The human diet has undergone more change in the last 150 years (roughly six generations) than in the entire previous one million years (around 40,000 generations). We are living and eating our way through one big unparalleled experiment.

For most of our evolution as a species, as hunter-gatherers and then as farmers, human diets were enormously varied. Our food was the product of a place and crops were adapted to a particular environment, shaped by the knowledge and the preferences of the people who lived there as well as the climate, soil, water and even altitude. This diversity was stored and passed on in the seeds farmers saved, in the flavours of the fruits and vegetables people grew, the breeds of animals they reared, the bread they baked, the cheeses they produced and the drinks they made.

...

The decline in the diversity of our food, and the fact that so many foods have become endangered, didn’t happen by accident: it is an entirely human-made problem. The biggest loss of crop diversity came in the decades that followed the second world war when, in an attempt to save millions from starvation, crop scientists found ways to produce grains such as rice and wheat on a phenomenal scale. To grow the extra food the world desperately needed, thousands of traditional varieties were replaced by a small number of new super-productive ones. The strategy that ensured this – more agrochemicals, more irrigation, plus new genetics – came to be known as the “green revolution”.

Because of it, grain production tripled, and between 1970 and 2020 the human population more than doubled. But the danger of creating more uniform crops is that they become vulnerable to catastrophes. A global food system that depends on just a narrow selection of plants is at greater risk of succumbing to diseases, pests and climate extremes.

Although the green revolution was based on ingenious science, it attempted to oversimplify nature, and this is starting to backfire on us. In creating fields of identical wheat, we abandoned thousands of highly adapted and resilient varieties. Far too often their valuable traits were lost. We’re starting to see our mistake – there was wisdom in what went before.

Of the 6,000 plant species humans have eaten over time, the world now mostly eats just nine, of which just three – rice, wheat and maize – provide 50% of all calories. Add potato, barley, palm oil, soy and sugar (beet and cane) and you have 75% of all the calories that fuel our species. As thousands of foods have become endangered and extinct, a small number have risen to dominance. Take soy, domesticated in China thousands of years ago, a bean relatively obscure outside Asia until the 1970s and now one of the world’s most traded agricultural commodities. Used in feed for pigs, chickens, cattle and farmed fish, which in turn feed us, soy plays a starring role in an increasingly homogeneous diet eaten by billions of people. These dietary shifts taking place at a global level, all pointing towards uniformity, are unprecedented.

An individual human diet even a few thousand years ago was far richer in diversity than the one most of us eat today. In the Jutland peninsula of western Denmark in 1950, peat diggers discovered the intact body of a man who had been executed (or possibly sacrificed) 2,500 years ago. Inside the man’s stomach was a porridge made with barley, flax and the seeds of 40 different plants. In present-day east Africa, the Hadza, who are among the last of the world’s hunter-gatherers, eat from a potential wild menu that consists of more than 800 plant and animal species, including numerous types of tubers, berries, leaves, small mammals, large game, birds and types of honey. We can’t replicate their diets in the industrialised world but we can learn from them.

I am not calling for a return to some kind of halcyon past. But I do think we should consider what the past can teach us about how to inhabit the world now and in the future. Our current food system is contributing to the destruction of the planet: one million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction; we clear swathes of forests to plant immense monocultures and then burn through millions of barrels of oil a day to make fertilisers to feed them. We are farming on borrowed time.

Homeless Friend posted:

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1439622557666185217

bowser posted:

Has there been any "Climate doomerism is making millennials/Gen Z unproductive workers" articles yet? I'd like to start this morning with a good Walter White in the crawlspace laugh.

bowser posted:

https://twitter.com/PatrickAJansen/status/1439905467237548034?s=20

I've accepted that Death is Certain but mass starvation is a real bummer .

bowser posted:

Has there been any "Climate doomerism is making millennials/Gen Z unproductive workers" articles yet? I'd like to start this morning with a good Walter White in the crawlspace laugh.

CODChimera posted:

jesus christ. so what happened to the other vehicles there, did they make it out as well?