You're absolutely right, but to be fair, it'd probably take a full growing season to swap all of the animal feed farms to human foods - so fixed by this time next year perhaps
Still much quicker than renewables and global electrification.
As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it
I generally agree, but I think NRDC's take is valid:
While bamboo is less environmentally friendly than recycled material and can be problematic if a bamboo plantation was established by clearing a natural forest, bamboo is a fast-growing plant with a much smaller land use and carbon footprint than Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) fiber, the form of wood pulp commonly used in tissue.
Essentially recycled > bamboo > everything else, which is why most bamboo brands got a B/B+.
What I think will be interesting is if we reach the point where the recycled paper market demand outstrips supply - I'm not sure if such a thing exists, but if there are any products out there that can work with recycled paper but not bamboo, then we may want to see more bamboo tissues to allow for recycled (other)
At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity.
>Methane spends a lot less time in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide; about 20 years after it’s released, most of it will have decayed, while carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. But methane also generates heat much more readily than carbon dioxide — about 80 times more in its first 20 years in the atmosphere — meaning it contributes significantly towards global warming in the short term. It is good news — sort of — because by the same token, any reductions in methane emissions will have more of an impact on the climate right away.
The Design Museum in London has opened a new free display called 'Tomorrow's Wardrobe', which explores a more sustainable future for fashion.
Tissue paper production is taking a devastating toll on forests. NRDC’s newest Issue with Tissue report can help you find earth-friendly brands.
As wildfires grow more intense, firefighters want better data.
A judge has rejected plans for the U.K.'s first coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for environmental groups.
Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly of Carbon Capture
"This incident puts an exclamation point on concerns communities across the country have been raising for years about the dangers the CCS industry poses to public safety and drinking water," said one climate group.
If it's purely on subsidies, then why, as stated in the article, are men consuming disproportionately more beef than women? Am I missing out on my secret man meat tax cut?
Only as long as the you shaped hole is lucky enough to avoid any studs.
True no cities are prepared for this, but this is exactly the kind of thing distributed solar helps handle well - heat waves are almost always paired with sunshine. The more distributed solar you get on the grid, the less of an issue this becomes.
Yes, I know you still have power challenges at sunset while its still hot outside, but fortunately that's also when things tend to start cooling off, and you lose one major contributor to heat stress - solar radiation.
It's not a perfect system, batteries could of course help, but it's a major step in the right direction.
Someone within 350 feet of this open WiFi network I hacked onto is low on rinse aid
Oh no, my privacy is ruined!
Lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% (lowest in history).
Obvious tax cuts for the rich.
That's all his financiers hear.
Constantly attacks marginalized groups.
That's all his voters hear.
Everything else goes in one ear and out the other, muddied up with enough "whataboutism" and "both sides" rhetoric from the financiers to keep the voters from actually considering alternative options.
Agreed! I feel like now, while we're thinking about these very charismatic creatures, might be a good time to remind folks about cattle, who form strong social and familial bonds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159114003128
We show that the dam and calf express behaviour suggestive of a strong bond even in the absence of nursing.
Cattle are naturally social animals and form small herds, the composition of which varies according to the species
The entire herd not only feeds and moves around as a colossal single unit, but individual animals will also gather around an injured or sick animal if it is threatened by predators
https://animalequality.org/blog/2024/08/19/dairy-industry-hurts-cows/
To keep the milk flowing, farmers artificially inseminate her about once per year.
A strong bond forms between the mother and her baby immediately after birth. Within a day or two, the mother cow will be separated from her calf. She will cry for her missing baby for days.
A male calf is considered useless to the dairy industry because he cannot produce milk. If he isn’t raised and sold for beef, this baby will likely be sold to the veal industry.
Food for thought
I wonder if those numbers have anything to do with the fact that Payday 2 is pretty regularly on sale for like $2,for a mature game, while Payday 3 is $40 for what is essentially a public beta based on the amount of things they're having to fix/change/update.
Unless they make major changes as proposed by one of their minority stakeholders.
You mean go private, lay off a bunch of their devs, and hope the games just produce themselves for free?
Also a good way to wear down your SD port if you remove this with any regularity.
Tariffs are great for his base because they see it as a tax on their perceived "enemies", when in reality they're the ones footing the higher prices.
This is fantastic! Now I know exactly which manufacturer to avoid at all costs, AND they've made it harder for their competition to use this shitty system. Dear Ford, please keep patenting bad ideas.
Wow! That's the skibidi combination I have on my luggage!
Imagine you run a restaurant, and a handful of people offer to pay to wash your dishes for you. Great deal right? But then you notice they start posting reviews of your food on Yelp, but only from the kitchen:
"Steak from the fridge was unseasoned and undercooked - 0/5"
"Chow mein was dry and stuck to the plate like it was sitting on someone else's table for an hour - 1/5"
"By the time the soda got here, it was flat and fries the waitress dropped off were cold and soggy"
At what point do you decide maybe this isn't actually in your best interest in the long run? How much do these rubes need to pay you in order to put up with their complications?
Does Spam need meat to be great? Feels like an easy swap to me!
My guess is you're seeing the L2 chargers outside a grocery store or some such. Those charge so slowly you aren't expected to stick around and look at them, you plug in and do your grocery shopping. If you're looking to charge a significant amount, these are not it.
I've never seen a Level 3 charger with an advertisement. Hell, 90% of the time I have to scour the parking lot to find the charger because they're usually hidden and unlabeled.
Bonus points, if you're fortunate enough to have access to a power outlet where you park, you can usually do 99% of your charging from home, ad free.
Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($96) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate.
“Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
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Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions
Food systems are responsible for around one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions – and beef has the largest carbon footprint of any food.
The first study to quantify what our felines eat on a global scale finds they have a significant impact on wildlife
A poll finds less than one-third of Americans want a fully electric home. It jumps to 60 percent if people can continue cooking with gas.
A knife-edge quest: Lord of the Rings resonates at COP28 climate summit | Larry Elliott
Tolkien’s hostility to rampant industrialisation should chime with the nations represented in Dubai
The international COP28 climate summit has reached an agreement on the logistics of a loss and damage fund, a mechanism to compensate vulnerable nations for the impact of climate change, organizers…
“It would have huge consequences — a lot of them probably not anticipated,” one researcher said.
One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat. A new poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that most U.S. adults said they eat meat at least several times a week.
WASHINGTON (November 14, 2023) – Global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are failing across the board, with recent progress made on every indicator — except electric passenger car sales — lagging significantly behind the pace and scale that is necessary to address the climate crisis, according to t...
Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. But given the nation's taste for them, science strives to make climate-friendlier cows.
"Wherever you go, whatever you do, if it involves revealing anything about the devastating impacts of animal agriculture... you are beaten down for it," said one advocate.
