Amazingly zooplankton does play a huge role in reducing CO2. The ocean carbon pump is a mammoth thing, and it’s effects are just from the combined movement of life, not phytoplankton’s direct FlCO2 storage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pump

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Doesn’t it? Surely the economics of less demand for meat = less meat production?

I think the biggest issue, especially in parts of the US, is just cultural inertia. It’s reallynot hard or.expensive to eat an easy, healthy and tasty vegan or vegetarian diet, but a lot of people, especially men, tie their identity up with eating meat.

Also, just in case anyone is reading this and thinking they not sure they’re ready- you can still:

• Go vegan for set days in the week
• Remove meant and dairy from, say, lunches
• Just eat less meat

Even if you don’t go full vegan, you’ll still cut emissions by transitioning your diet.

Yeah, trees are pretty amazing! There’s also a mammoth amount of carbon capture in the ocean (more than land) mostly via plankton but also sea grass and the like.

Trees play a massive role in the ecosystem we’re part of aside from just being carbon stores. If we just focus on carbon storage and invent new tech that does that, it might somewhat improve the situation, but we’re really just kicking the can down the road, and waiting for our extraction based economy to cause chaos somewhere else.

The main pictured on looks pretty goofy, especially because of the bright green, but this sent me down a youtube rabbit hole of seeing a bunch of reallymawesome house tours.

Side note: I find ‘new build ecofriendly’ architecture liks this awesome, but wonder a lot about adapting existing homes which is surely the most environmentally friendly option. If you were to go all out on making an existing home solarpunk, what would that look like?

I think this is a real struggle. I’ve felt massively depressed by the state of things in the past. I don’t have a silver bullet, but some stuff has really helped me:

• Do something about it! Even if it’s as small as talking to your friends, voting on green issues and signing petitions. Positioning yourself on the side of fighting against environmental damage, is a much happier place than watching it happen fron the sidelines.

• Remember the environment in the big and the small. As in, CO2 needs to be reduced, we should fight for that, but also, bringing more environmental stewardship in your life, whether joining a nature reserve conservation group, or just taking care of your houseplants and garden.

It might feel devastating sometimes to be witnessing the loss and danger that’s happening. But the people mist perpatuating climat change are the one’s who don’t even understand what we’re loosing.

Ronald Regan once said “a tree is a tree is a tree” to justify deforestation. What an idiot! Trees are beautiful and amazing and individual. I would much rather feel anxious than blind to the incredible beauty that exists in our world.

Not to be too bleak, but of course you’re being punished for caring. The status quo is owned by people who have huge profits in looking away from the environmental damage that is happening, by caring about nature, you’re going against the happy path that’s been laid out for you.

I think those are pros of nuclear. The alternative to a static system like that would be a very diverse flexible one with lots of different energy types and markets to encourage users to flex usage up or down.

I’m not trying to make a case either way though, just explaining what perspectives might lead people to be concerned about climate change and still anti-nuclear.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but who’s the db0 community?

There’s a great distinction that Norwegian philosopher and deep ecologist Anre Naess makes between long-range and short-range movements which I think helps explain the disagreement a little.

In the short term, we need to reduce CO2 for our own survival. Nuclear helps this, so from this angle it seems counterproductive for anyone who claims concern over the environment to object to its development.

In the long term, humans need to transition away from a society based on resource extraction, and long term damage. It’s a lot harder to see how nuclear helps with this- mining and enriching uranium are destructive processes, and nuclear waste needs containment for thousands of years.

Our current situation is pretty critical, so I think it’s pretty legitimate to think that we might need to make some compromises between the long and short term. But I think the distinction makes it a lot clearer about why people seem to be shouting passed each other sometimes.

Definitely concerning. Only tangentially related, but I feel like I see a lot of mud coming from the USA towards China’s emissions. I do think it’s important to call China out for emissions, but there’s something that feels a little off about the world’s most polluting country calling out others.

I find it really baffling that climate change denial is so strong in America given the ectreme effects the country is already seeing.

I hadn’t heard of this project until I saw this meme. Can someone explain? Surely there’s some kind of condition assessment right? Like, nobody would just plan a bunch of random trees in random soil when getting a scientist to carry out an assessment is such a fraction of the cost?

Think you’re confusing the French Revolution (violent uprising of the French against their aristocratic rulers during the Enlightenment) with the French Resistance (Underground movement during WW2 that resisted Nazi occupation)

That’s such a good/interesting point!

I guess by deregulation, I’m thinking removal of the kind of consumer focused safety regulations that I’d be interested in if I was buying an EV.

I think his politics are pretty far right, at least based on this video: https://youtu.be/nvQ-ZY460WQ

Putting aside my “I am absolutely terrified for what will happen in the USA over the next 5 years” hat, I’m interested in seeing how the likely economic deregulation pans out over exports.

As a EU citizen, if I have a choice between:

• Unsafe and unregulated EVs from the US
• More trustworthy and regulated EVs from elsewhere

No way in hell would I purchase a USA backed EV. Similarly, if (big if here) countries ever get round to putting carbon taxes on goods, then the “drill baby drill” philosophy winds up putting huge tarriffs on american goods which are now made with extremely high emissions compared to elsewhere.

I guess we’ll see? Last time Trump was president, he started a full on trade war, but surprisingly the noticable impact in the EU was pretty minor, so I guess we’ll see?

Here’s my hot tip! (ok maybe luke warm)

Write as much of your CICD in a scripting language like bash/python/whatever. You’ll be able to test it locally and then the testing phase of your CICD will just be setting up the environment so it has the right git branches coined, permissions, etc.

You won’t need to do 30 commits now, only like 7! And you’ll cry for only like 20 minutes instead of a whole afternoon!