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Goldsmiths College banned selling beef on campus

mardi 13 août 2019 à 02:00

Goldsmiths College in London has banned selling beef on campus, because of its greenhouse gas impact.

This is in addition to divesting from fossil fuel companies.

I support this change. However, the article errs when it says that the best way to reduce your climate footprint is to avoid meat and cheese. The real best way is to avoid having children.

Government saboteurs are making hard to protect species

mardi 13 août 2019 à 02:00

US government saboteurs are making it hard to protect species that are one step away from bring endangered. To start the protection later means more chance they will ultimately become extinct.

Invasive species threaten US forests

mardi 13 août 2019 à 02:00

Invasive species threaten 40% of US forests.

The death of trees means that trees will not absorb CO2 as we expected them to. In addition, it means that planting trees will be less effective that it might seem. Planting a sapling does no good unless it lives to become a large tree.

If a tree is going to die anyway, it could be better to cut it down and soak it in something that will kill the pests and keep the carbon in the wood, than to let pests convert its carbon into CO2.

Cure for Ebola

mardi 13 août 2019 à 02:00

There is now a more-or-less cure for Ebola. When people seek treatment quickly, over 90% of them can be cured.

US neo-Nazi leader

mardi 13 août 2019 à 02:00

A US neo-Nazi leader, who adores the bully, has been ordered to pay 14 million dollars in damages for leading a campaign of harassment against Tanya Gersh.

It is unfortunate that the article promotes the incoherent term "intellectual property". Since it "refers" to many unrelated kinds of assets, it would have been clearer simply to say "assets".