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@DataDrivenMD

Sorry. We can't touch the subjects your referring to on Mastodon. The mods have a habit for suspending user accounts if anyone feels or feigns offence.

@paninid

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I've been thinking about clothes pegs and the vast superiority of wooden pegs. We dry our clothes on a clothes line and have a box of wooden and plastic clothes pegs.

The plastic pegs degrade in sunlight and eventually break. They'll fill a landfill or break into microplastics. Meanwhile, sunlight keeps rot off the wooden pegs and with regular use they may out last me. If they break, the wood can be tossed in the garden to rot.

Why are plastic clothes pegs even a thing?

#plastic #pollution

@largess

The paragraph appears to suggest that scientists are the problem. However, without the science cultures would not even know there was a climate problem.

We need a culture that forms it's ideas using the evidence. Lay people don't know how to do that.

For example, show me the empirical evidence (nobody can) that suggests "spiritual" is based on reality ( folk belief isn't evidence)

@0CynicalBastard

@Free_Press

Since they don't have "royalty" to wave their flags at.....

@exador23

The corporations will decide & provide a overly complicated & comparably expensive EV charge point network. For them, it's not about practical & affordable solutions, it's about profit & trying to win against the competition.

They destroy nature & say it's innovation

@godsouza

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This spells disaster for any hopes of having a large network of charging stations accessible to all #EVs anytime soon. And it's pitiful to leave the charging connector standard up to Elon and his whims instead of a standards committee.

#standards

arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/w

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Fossil bones found in Laotian cave are oldest evidence for modern humans in mainland South-East Asia, say scientists - ABC News abc.net.au/news/science/2023-0

They say the bones, some of which are dated up to 86,000 years, are the oldest examples of modern humans (Homo sapiens) found in South-East Asia, pushing back the known arrival time of our species in the area.

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George Soros propaganda is heavily on display at the Miami courthouse today. A good opportunity to remind #MAGA that #GeorgeSoros disinformation is Russian, antisemitic propaganda that's been around for decades.

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Every American must now understand that Kremlin collusion with the Republican Party is happening out in the open. It is not being hidden, and candidly has not been hidden since 2016. Any *disinformation* the Kremlin creates to help Trump beat Biden the GOP will promote. *Period*.

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Usually hard to spot in the forests of northern Scotland, the Red Squirrel is famous for being shy, except for this sub species. The rare show-off Circus Squirrel, captured here pretending to be in a tight rope act.

#Nature #Wildlife #Highland #Scotland #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #Loch #River #Island #Mountain #squirrel #funny

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The #Antarctic sea ice departure has actually grown in the last few days.

Summary of the related atmospheric drivers, like the Amundsen Sea Low, can be found from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/202. Interannual variability is very large!

Data from: nsidc.org/data/seaice_index

More graphs: zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice.

More media coverage: abc.net.au/news/2023-05-31/ant and wired.com/story/antarctic-sea-

@locksmithprime

But, on the flip side, at least the USA democracy is sufficiently functioning so as to investigate the rich & corrupt.

@juddlegum

Generally, Trump & Co gaslight their own followers by accusing others of corruption (when they're the general corrupting influence).

For example, Trump accusing others of being a danger to democracy, when Trump has financial backers from fascists that want to break democracy.

@hannu_ikonen

@woemi

The general business as usual trend I've noticed is that many businesses respond to questions regarding their plastic pollution by saying, to paraphrase "we are working on it".

But, years later, nothing has changed (still "working on it") besides there now been more plastic pollution (all non biodegradable plastic ends up as pollution. Because it doesn't biodegrade).

The unsustainable lifestyles of the successfully wealthy.

Imagine if a government encouraged people to live sustainable lifestyles.

This would be in stark contrast to the current neoliberal sociopolitical and socioeconomic paradigm that has encouraged unsustainable lifestyles in the name of economic growth. Ways of living that are based on increasing the amounts of resources society consume (e.g., bigger cars, houses and not sharing products)

"Consumerism" is an umbrella term. However, the most ecologically damaging aspect of consumerism is due to a "free" (where products are not free) market economy where business activities have not been linked to sustaining the planet's life support systems.

A market trades products and services. In other words, supply and demand. Therefore, to critically evaluate a business's environmental impact, the supply and demand environmental impacts of the businesses' and end consumers' activities must be analyzed.

Let's take a worst-case example of an extremely unsustainable lifestyle.

A Fuel Company Executive (FCE) who relatively receives a high income (e.g., millionaire +). The FCE managers business activities that use various methods to extract "fossil" fuels (Coal, crude oil, gas). "Fossil" fuels are Carbon Based Fuels (CBF). These industrial activities degrade (damage & pollute) or destroy natural habitats so as to extract the CBF (or metal, etc) that are under the ground (on land or the seabed). These extraction activities also use machinery that burns CBF (combustion engines. e.g., diesel) to extract the CBF, and transport and process the CBF (e.g., crude oil refineries > fuel stations). At the end of all these power and resource-consuming activities, the final product is incinerated (to fuel machinery). That's a linear-based economy that is burning finite materials. That's an unsustainable economy.

A Fuel Company Executive (FCE) generally works in an office. These office blocks or skyscrapers also burn Carbon Based Fuels (CBF) & use electricity generated by burning CBF (e.g., for construction, maintenance, heating, air conditioning, etc). Wealthy FCE live lifestyle (including personal business activities) that burns a relatively high amount of CBF and uses a relatively high amount of resources in general (e.g., large car, regular trips on Jets, etc).

Generally, people that are living lives that are only taking (e.g., consuming materials) and polluting (e.g., burning fuels) can not be sustained (evidently).

Imagine if a government encouraged people to live sustainable lifestyles. "Government" is fundamentally management. For a government to promote ecological it must understand the relevant subjects such as and . It must also have a long-term plan (e.g., hundreds to thousands of years). Generally, for a population of people in a democracy (e.g., in a country) to develop a sustainable culture the general population must have a form of intelligence that understands how the Planet's ecosystem functions (based on the evidence of the science of ecology). Also, the government must align with the voter's motives to live sustainable lifestyles (e.g., not greenwash the public as has been the norm with many governments. e.g., the UK's Conservative Party tend to greenwash the voters that they will mitigate the environmental problems in twenty years or so. Rather than dealing with them now by developing the appropriate fast-acting environmental policies now (they've been greenwashing the voters for decades)

Fundamentally, because a sustainable lifestyle is practically possible - qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

- the fundamental problem that is causing ecological degradation, therefore, climate change is political. More broadly psychological (e.g., uneducation, misinformation, corruption, disinformation, greed, vanity, ideologies, delusions, etc)

The Planet's biosphere (e.g., weather or more broadly in time and space climate) is the regulator of all human lives and activities. As human activities degrade (e.g., pollute) components of the Planet's biosphere, this is causing ecological negative events (for humans) such as climate change. These events will increasingly regulate human activities.

Consider a spectrum (e.g., more or less of a variable). The variable is human activities. On one extreme of the spectrum is the Fuel Company Executive (or the millionaire or billionaire lifestyle). These are the people that are evidently living High Ecological Impact Lifestyles (HEIL). At the other end of the spectrum are people that are living Low Ecological Impact Lifestyles (LEIL). For example, those people that have incorporated sustainable living into their lifestyle (their thinking). In fact, in practice, LEIL can repair the damage that the HEIL has historically caused to natural habitats by restoring the local ecosystems (whilst also growing food & providing other goods and services to the local economy)

Further reading and guidance about Low Ecological Impact Living. qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

The European Commission is launching a public consultation to gather people’s views on the EU’s intermediary target for 2040.

You can answer the public consultation here. climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your

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@woemi

When is Mars Inc.'s going to stop wrapping its products in (plastic) pollution?

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