Makes total sense: who’s working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?
Makes total sense: who’s working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?
How surprising - an artificially subsidised industry wants more subsidy
These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world’s stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China’s because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don’t fall for the tenor of this article, because it’s probably intended to distract you (“Why should I bother when China is really bad?”) and keep you consuming
m’=m-45. Fixed it for you
I got some of those Chipolo trackers shown in the photo. So far I’m pretty disappointed. Based on the locations being reported, I’m pretty sure my phone is the only one in my city working on the Find my Device system, and even that is intermittent. For example, I’ve left my bike, which has a Chipolo tracker hidden on it, in public places such as a busy train station. After two days on the station platform - with goodness knows how many Android phones passing by - the bike is still showing as being at home in my garage. Like, it didn’t even get logged on my own phone as I cycled to the station and left the bike and tracker there. The system really isn’t up to speed yet
fossil fuel companies farmers
It’s not even business - a lot of small planes are just hobbyists. So we’re getting poisoned (to say nothing of the noise pollution) by people flying in circles for fun
More people driving EVs won’t make (oil-based) fuel cheaper. Every person getting off oil makes producing oil-based fuels more expensive, as the economies of scale are reduced.
Go to extremes if that helps picture it: imagine you’re suddenly the only person on Earth driving an ICE car. How much would you be paying for a fill-up, which now involves finding, extracting, shipping and refining fuel just for you: more than today or less than today?
And you don’t see any link between ditching your ICE car and “Saudi Arabia quits drilling for oil”? Better to ditch your ICE car for no car, of course, but if you HAVE to have one, the smallest EV you can get away with is a step towards stopping that oil drilling. If everyone did it, that drilling would change dramatically
I’m not sure people in this thread get the significance of the song. If they don’t remember 1997, they might simply be taking the song title literally
Oh, I agree. I was deliberately talking in investor terms because it’s people who invest professionally who are being disingenuous here
Imagine owning a big share in an oil company and then being all shocked Pikachu face that they’re not in any way sustainable. Just divest already
Good. Absolutely ridiculous that this flagrant lobbying and disinformation organisation is classed as a charity
One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But… inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up
Everybody should read “Discourses of Climate Delay” for more on how things like this distract us from making necessary changes
It’s disappointing how the article mentions the big issue is people who can’t work work thanks to preventable ill health, but then the discussion doesn’t go on to address this - as though dealing with bad diets and lack of physical activity are not even work thinking about, and it’s easier just to magic up £100bn a year
Kind of. The first person to work this stuff out was actually Joseph Fourier in 1822
I didn’t say that. But please do list some of the things big corporations do that don’t end up being consumed by consumers. The only area that comes immediately to mind that doesn’t end up with consumers is the military - and even that’s arguable
I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that’s the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing