Minera posted:

i wonder how much energy it takes to keep that shack heated in the winter

Trabisnikof posted:

you’re all not thinking like an American, you don’t eat bugs to replace chicken and beef, you eat bugs in addition to continuing to eat beef and chicken.

Ruggan posted:

what animal is this? we should eat it

wynott dunn posted:

Topo Chico Debarge posted:

https://twitter.com/averytomascowx/status/1477387493695791104?t=8NeT592ecKr6rJ8JzDVRFw&s=19

Homeless Friend posted:

i hope to god you thought it was the left and not the bottom at least

Real hurthling! posted:

what happened to that paralyzing disease that was striking midwestern children but only every other year that was big in the news in like 2015?

Hubbert posted:

Don't forget brake pads too!

quote:

More than 200,000 tonnes of small plastic particles deposited on roads all over the globe are being carried by global winds into the oceans, the study shows.

Researchers believe most of the plastic is coming from tyres and brake pads on vehicles.

Ihmemies posted:

They used asbestos before plastics. Which is worse? I assume there are no good materials

Trabisnikof posted:

and how can a society survive for long if it can't even agree on what reality is.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

i remember reading something a while back, in this thread or the doomsday economics thread (lol they're all the same), about oil/fossil fuels being the currency of the world, not the dollar, not gold

was very well written and compelling, and i think about it a lot

Rime posted:

Enjoying Kazakhstan proving my thesis from like two weeks ago.

Rime posted:

This is where I am at right now. I have a long essay on the topic which I'm still fine tuning, but I'll give the cliffnotes version here:

Just as the government massively subsidizes Agricultural output in marginal terrain because low food prices keeps the population happy, so too will it subsidize and perpetuate the fossil fuel economy until the bitter end. Oil and Gas is quite literally the "divine right to rule" for modern governments, as soon as it goes away and takes cheap consumerism with it, these governments will crumble overnight. They know this. Fracking lost over $500 Billion in fifteen years without ever turning a profit, they kept it flowing through tax incentives to keep the price at the pump low.

As such, attempting to stop a pipeline or protest an O&G field is asinine and ignorant of reality to an offensive degree. At best you will be permitted to wave a sign and the minor financial disruptions from it accepted as the cost of pacifying the discordant left, at worst (in the event you achieve anything of note) you will be thrown in prison (See: Steven Donziger). As things break down further the mask will come off, you will be shot in the head, and you will be written off in the media as a terrorist. By and large the general public, having the mental capacity of a cow and fearing the loss of toys and steak your actions represented in a world where their comforts are already crumbling, will cheer your demise.

I am going back to all of my old oil-focused environmental protest groups, still busy pointlessly rabble-rousing about a pipeline owned by the loving government, and trying to encourage them to immediately drop that poo poo and pivot to an outreach model to build degrowth transition mutual-aid networks. So that whomever is listening, right loving now, has a snowballs chance in hell of not immediately dying when agriculture fails.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

quote:

But the Earth isn’t on fire, and the planet itself is not endangered.

Raine posted:

only if your cult has a cool name

petit choux posted:

Church of the Latter Day Hominids
Hello ladies!

vyelkin posted:

I honestly had trouble following who did and didn't want one (because I am very stupid), so for the sake of my sanity just quote this post if you want a sixer with a bdelloid rotifer as the image

kaxman posted:

Water does in fact increase in volume as it is heated

E: seems to be responsible for about 1/3 of sea level rise so not "most"

bi crimes posted:

is the nature abhors a dome person a goon? i've been linking their video to people and having them cease contact with me. lol. lmao.

mediaphage posted:

synthoffee

Radirot posted:

it’s cool staying alive to see how more hosed up things get.

Waking Life ch 13, October 19, 2001 posted:

Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced. Ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

r u ready to WALK posted:

how do we know they haven't been secretly lacing the drinking water with that drug for the last 10 years

RC Cola posted:

Is beckett coming back from the dead? He died heroically but no one stays dead in stargate except the other doctor who died in sg1 lol

an egg posted:

closing time by lenny c will forever be my apocalypse song. steer your way is another one, dance me to the end of love is the third. play them together

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Primo av/post synergy

Alobar posted:

brakeless posted:

when trains first came around people were afraid that simply moving too fast would cause damage to human bodies

a god drat idiot posted:

The arctic is in relatively reasonable shape compared to the past couple of years. I wouldn't expect a realistic shot at a BOE until 2028+. Systems are getting Very Weird so I guess it could all collapse in the next few months, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.

Car Hater posted:

You know, I am somewhat amazed that the "we're going extinct" thread lives in the subforum for managerial-socialist optimism of the will types

T-Paine posted:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/february-sun-climate-change-guilt-california-00008414

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

assuming that headline is even accurate,

absolutely pathetic that the president of the United States can’t tell the United States Postal Service what to do

I don’t care about whatever administrative explanation there is, it’s just loving pathetic. it’s just made up rules that trump already demonstrated you can ignore. what a broken country

The Voice of Labor posted:

by volume, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that cows have conquered the planet, using their human servants to convert forests into pasture, to feed and propagate them?

quote:

We provide the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a global scale. This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate. Of these trees, approximately 1.30 trillion exist in tropical and subtropical forests, with 0.74 trillion in boreal regions and 0.66 trillion in temperate regions.