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Eliminating beaches

mercredi 28 octobre 2020 à 01:00

Sea-level rise is eliminating beaches that used to be economic hubs for tourism.

It will get worse and worse unless we stop our greenhouse emissions quickly. But don't attach substantive importance to the Paris treaty, which the wrecker is symbolically withdrawing the US from; it was never more than symbolic itself, since it was undermined in advance by planet roasters.

Consolidation

mercredi 28 octobre 2020 à 01:00

Consolidation in the meat industry enabled giant, Chinese-owned Smithfield to use its market power to whipsaw its smaller giant competitor, Maxwell Foods, into bankruptcy.

Each bankruptcy is likely to lead to an acquisition which will increase the consolidation and make the situation worse.

We need to make the big companies spit up into many smaller companies, in this field and all fields.

Carbon capture

mercredi 28 octobre 2020 à 01:00

Carbon capture and storage at significant scale may actually be practical now.

It is not guaranteed that scaling it up to this extent will work without a hitch. If it does, it will help avoid global disaster. However, if these two projects succeed in burying 27 million tons of CO2 per year, that will be a small fraction of the total annual UK emissions, which amount to around 450 million tons per year.

Writing to neighbor

mercredi 28 octobre 2020 à 01:00

A progressive woman writes to a neighbor that voted for the conman in 2016, but with whom she has some values in common, looking for a meeting of the minds.

Supreme court and global heating

mercredi 28 octobre 2020 à 01:00

*More than 70 science journalists [31]have signed an open letter warning that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's [32]close ties to the fossil fuel industry and [33]refusal to publicly acknowledge the established science behind human-caused [global heating] make her an enabler of "the ecological crisis of our times."*

The Republicans, bent on sabotaging the election, rushed her onto the Supreme Court on Monday. Their haste to do this before election day demonstrates that their intention is for the Supreme Court to throw the election.