#climateDiary
Part 1: 2 minute video:
How can a business protect itself from accusations of greenwash?
A business measures its success in terms of dollars or euros.
But climate scientists use metrics like tonnes.
No wonder things start to get a bit fuzzy…
https://youtu.be/1PN65BdwyWA?si=gvp_PQg6DQecbAYI
In today's "nature I couldn't care less about" there's ticks. Evil little disease carriers. And each year they become abundant earlier in the season.
We're just shy of 2 weeks into Spring and there's June beetles flying around.
Michael Schwendinger vom Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ) hält eine Herabsetzung des Tempolimits für eine sehr sinnvolle Maßnahme. Sie würde wenig kosten und effektiv und schnell umzusetzen sein, so Schwendinger im Ö1-Morgenjournal. Darüber hinaus könnte man damit auch die Verkehrssicherheit erhöhen.
@RickGaehl I remember hanging eggs on them in my childhood. Since climate change, they bloom much earlier than even an early Easter in Alsace. Only this year we have luck because the cold with minus degrees conserved them.
#climateDiary
We’re told that renewables are ‘sustainable’ and yet they are for the foreseeable future dependent on non-renewable fossil fuel inputs for their manufacture.
We’re told that we are heading for net zero. (Though now not so much.)
What both these framings have in common are absolutes. In an era built on binary switches.
What would be much better is if we are more honest…
Hundreds and hundreds of articles on what to do about the rising price of oil, and none on new solar or wind installations.
Jonathan Schofield
Pepijn
tickfoot
tinderness
Petra van Cronenburg
David Whittle
Ben Fulton