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teqniq
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The British Medical Journal making the case for divestment from fossil fuel companies.
www.bmj.com
Investing in humanity: The BMJ’s divestment campaign
Health professionals and medical organisations must act now How do we restore hope for humanity? Many of us feel despair at a disintegrating political consensus to save our planet from fire, flood, disease, and conflict. We feel trapped in our high carbon lives and disempowered by commercial...
Looks like it’s time to get rid of all pets to reduce the impact of climate change.
Many pet owners are blissfully unaware of the true cost of the pet population on the environment. With the exponential increase in global CO2 levels, more attention has recently been focused on just how much carbon our furry friends contribute to this imbalance. In ecological terms, dogs and cats are apex predators, feeding largely on meat, which has a high carbon footprint to produce.
Pets are responsible for 64m tonnes of greenhouse gases per annum, which is the equivalent of 13m cars (Okin, 2017). In addition, they produce around 30% of the poop that Americans egest, which leads to 64m tonnes of methane and nitrous oxide greenhouse gasses, which have a twenty fold effect on CO2 on global warming.
www.transitionsta.org
Many pet owners are blissfully unaware of the true cost of the pet population on the environment. With the exponential increase in global CO2 levels, more attention has recently been focused on just how much carbon our furry friends contribute to this imbalance. In ecological terms, dogs and cats are apex predators, feeding largely on meat, which has a high carbon footprint to produce.
Pets are responsible for 64m tonnes of greenhouse gases per annum, which is the equivalent of 13m cars (Okin, 2017). In addition, they produce around 30% of the poop that Americans egest, which leads to 64m tonnes of methane and nitrous oxide greenhouse gasses, which have a twenty fold effect on CO2 on global warming.
Paw print, your pet’s carbon footprint. - Transition UStA
Pets have co-evolved with mankind for thousands of years. Domestic dogs were thought to have evolved from domesticated grey wolves in the Middle East around 15 000 years ago. Archaeological ...
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Are you a pet owner?
Even if not surely you understand that if people did not have pet cats and dogs there would be less animals required to be reared then slaughtered to produce dog/cat food, less amount of trucks transporting these foods, less factories to process these foods etc, etc.
I remember when talk of cattle methane wasn’t mainstream but now it is. I doubt however that the hypocrisy of green evangelists owning methane emitting pets will get much if any traction.
teqniq
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Ecocide is essentially what's being talked about here. It's been talked about a fair few times in the past but you can guarantee that the usual suspects will fight tooth and nail to stop this from becoming a reality.
thehill.com
We need an international environmental criminal court now
The world needs to get serious about protecting the planet.
thehill.com
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"An individual can help the global effort to tackle the climate change dilemma by being part of the collective solution, making bold decisions and sacrifices, and sharing their personal decisions with the community as a positive influence,"
Dr. Michael Notaro, Ph.D., the associate director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
teqniq
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I did not say that individuals could not help. I said it would be pissing in the wind unless the fosssil fuel industry is bought to book. Something they have sought to avoid with bought and paid for politicians, relentless lobbying and burying the facts every step of the way.
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2hats
Dust.
Has our resident climate troll been busy?
64 million tonnes fits inside the thin line of 'other' and 'waste' sitting on the top of this chart (for CO2 emissions alone).
Source: UN FAO via Oxford University.
64 million tonnes fits inside the thin line of 'other' and 'waste' sitting on the top of this chart (for CO2 emissions alone).
Source: UN FAO via Oxford University.
I should have stated - 64 million tonnes is for the U.S alone.
teqniq
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Governments funding the fossil fuel industry by indirect or obfuscated means:
Carbon emissions: Scale of UK fossil fuel support 'staggering'
The government is funding oil and gas projects abroad, despite a commitment to cut carbon emissions.
www.bbc.co.uk
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
executive summary: things will go to shit far faster than previously thought
www.nature.com
Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems - Nature Communications
Little is known about how the speed of ecosystem collapse depends on ecosystem size. Here, Cooper, Willcock et al. analyse empirical data and models finding that although regime shift duration increases with ecosystem size, this relationship saturates and even large ecosystems can collapse in a...
www.nature.com
An article concerned that there is no budget, or impetus, to prevent the deforestation of the Amazon.
www.reuters.com
Amazon deforestation could speed up in 2020: expert
Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest threatens to accelerate and draw increased global concern since no new fire prevention measures have been taken in the crucial run-up to this year's dry season, according to Tasso Azevedo, coordinator of a group called MapBiomas...
www.reuters.com
Aquamarine
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As per the OP and logging CC milestones, I saw on a FB CC discussion group that there is currently an initiative preparing mirrors to reduce the Earth's albedo that appears to have interested people with an understanding of the subject.
Without doing any research of my own whatsoever, is it at all feasible on the scale required to compensate to any extend for ice loss?
Aquamarine
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The discussion I read - about the Harvard Rowland Institute /work by Dr Ye Tao & team, suggested that technology to affect Earth's albedo is currently the only hope. There is more detail online and YouTube.
teqniq
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Money talks. Can they bring enough pressure to bear?
news.yahoo.com
$4 trillion fund holders tell Brazil to halt deforestation
Investment funds managing close to $4 trillion in assets called on Brazil Tuesday to halt deforestation of the Amazon in an open letter warning that biodiversity loss and carbon emissions pose a "systemic risk" to their portfolios. The managers from countries across Europe, Asia and South...
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
A properly pro-fission President would be raising a stink about the stupid and wasteful policy of not reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. They're up to their ears in stuff which could be recycled and put back into reactors. Fucking imbecilic.
2hats
Dust.
Greenland's ice sheet passes a tipping point: "Glacier retreat has knocked the dynamics of the whole ice sheet into a constant state of loss," said one of the co-authors.
news.osu.edu
Paper - DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-0001-2
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would continue shrinking. The finding, published today, Aug. 13, in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, means that...
2hats
Dust.
Climate change: Warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf
A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.
www.bbc.co.uk
The Arctic hasn't been this warm for 3 million years–and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet
phys.org September 30, 2020
phys.org September 30, 2020
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