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Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for satellites operators "Don't launch so many satellites." This is really pretty key to not destroying the night sky, LEO, and/or the atmosphere.
We really need to stop clear-cutting forest or erasing other habitat for solar arrays. We cannot afford to sacrifice biodiversity at the altar of climate action. Policy at every level should be prioritizing dual-use or multi-use siting for solar in the built environment, and directing development away from intact habitat.
I’m glad my parents did not have to live through the collapse we are experiencing.
I’m sorry that my children and my grandchildren will have to try somehow to survive it.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
A great lie of modern technological society: endless mineral abundance.
Consumers have swallowed the idea that gadgets will let us do more with less. Instead, we've dematerialized society entirely.
A top Tyee read this month. By Andrew Nikiforuk:
🌳 Tree-planting, while well-intentioned, highlights an unfortunate reality: non-native trees are beginning to make up significant portions of forests.
Learn more with German forester Peter Wohlleben in conversation with Arno Kopecky next month.
🪸 In good climate news: Two multinational oil companies have voluntarily given up offshore exploratory oil and gas permits they held in B.C. after environmental law charity Ecojustice and other orgs challenged the legality of the permits.
Michelle Gamage reports.
My friend said he really didn’t understand human cloning.
I said, “That makes two of us...”
What would happen if the richest 10% reduced their CO2 emissions to the EU average (which BTW is a nice standard of living).
Answer, there would be a 35% decrease in global CO2 emissions.
So, all would be fixed, if we could limit the excesses of the top 10%.
Prof. Sam Lawler
Bread and Circuses
The Duality of Xan
The Tyee
Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)