Current Events > Amazon rainforest now emits more CO2 than it absorbs

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but at least jeff bezos made more money than like 60% of the USA combined, thats a good thing. yay capitalism! it hurts nobody!

Son Of Spam posted...

Squall28 posted...

I encourage everyone to donate to reforestation efforts.

I encourage everyone to significantly cut their consumption of animal products, especially meat. They aren't just burning down the Amazon for the hell of it. They're doing it because of humanity's insatiable hunger for meat.

not just meat, also soy and palm oil products
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We have no choice, we need to kill the Amazon rainforest.

Republicans literally do not care about the good of humanity.

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I give humanity ten years before we're extinct.

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Fuck, maybe the apocalypse really is coming soon...

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Kloe_Rinz posted...

but at least jeff bezos made more money than like 60% of the USA combined, thats a good thing. yay capitalism! it hurts nobody!

Wrong topic?

Nah, poor bois never miss a chance to whine about the rich lol
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Mist_Turnips posted...

Nah, poor bois never miss a chance to whine about the rich lol

poor people who think they're just temporarily embarrassed rich people never miss a chance to simp for billionaires who don't give a fuck about them.

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Beating the shit out of CO2, in two simple steps:

teep_ posted...

not just meat, also soy and palm oil products

Soy by itself isn't all that bad. They're a good source of calories, protein, fiber, and iron, so they are a good crop to grow. The problem is we grow so much of it, and animal agriculture is the primary driving force of that. 73% of a soybean is the meal, which is human-edible and the most nutritious part of the bean, but 97% of that meal is fed to pigs, chickens, and farmed fish. Another 6% of the bean is the hull which is almost exclusively fed to cows.

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not the heckin ozonerino layer

BRB, gonna dump some iron filings into the ocean

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Son Of Spam posted...

Soy by itself isn't all that bad. They're a good source of calories, protein, fiber, and iron, so they are a good crop to grow. The problem is we grow so much of it, and animal agriculture is the primary driving force of that. 73% of a soybean is the meal, which is human-edible and the most nutritious part of the bean, but 97% of that meal is fed to pigs, chickens, and farmed fish. Another 6% of the bean is the hull which is almost exclusively fed to cows.

Yeah huge parts of our farming product is done to support the meat industry. Less meat eaten = less need for lots of cows/pigs = less need for entire fields dedicated to feeding cows/pigs.

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If this planet decided to reset itself, I hope the billionaires live long enough to see the concequences of their actions.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/

can build a bunch of these and reclaim the farmland for nature

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teep_ posted...

not just meat, also soy and palm oil products

They are only growing that much soy to feed to the cows.

Humans don't eat that much soy. This is 100% about meat.

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pure_temper posted...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/

can build a bunch of these and reclaim the farmland for nature

The main problem with vertical farms is the energy consumption required for them is high. Until we switch to renewables they will mostly be limited to leafy vegetables. But they definitely need to play a part in reducing our land usage going forward.

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Someone needs to work out vertical ranching.

Son Of Spam posted...

I encourage everyone to significantly cut their consumption of animal products, especially meat. They aren't just burning down the Amazon for the hell of it. They're doing it because of humanity's insatiable hunger for meat.

Guess I'll start with cutting out beef since that is supposed to be the worst one. One step at a time

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Someone needs to work out vertical ranching.

I guess you could say we are working on that with cultured meat. It uses 99% less land. I hope they can continue to get the price down and scale it up. It's going to be a massive disruption to so many industries. I just wish the technology was being pushed more decades ago because we need it now.

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I suppose vertical ranching could be done right now, but it's not going to be very pretty.

We gotta plant more trees man!

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Thanos was right. We will destroy this planet. I see it as inevitable.

There are too many people ignorant to this and they outnumber the people actually concerned.

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Oh buzz off with that. My catching and eating a flounder isnt touching the damage yalls gas guzzling vehicles do.

Heavy machinery and factories are doing more damage than car farts cmon now.

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MrDrMan posted...

Thanos was right.

Population decline is going to become a major problem fairly soon.
Thanos was misguided.

Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to every single person on the planet
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Population decline is going to become a major problem fairly soon.
Thanos was misguided.

I dont get how population decline is a problem. Less resources should be required. How is that bad?

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MrDrMan posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Population decline is going to become a major problem fairly soon.
Thanos was misguided.

I dont get how population decline is a problem. Less resources should be required. How is that bad?

At least here, it's a problem cause there's not enough young people to fund old people pensions. As a result, by the time I become a pensioner, the money I pay into the system will become worthless
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LinkDaLunatic posted...

and that's gg, everyone.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Jair Bolsonaro is a threat to every single person on the planet

wbloechel posted...

It's not like the forest is turning on us. It's cause we're fuckin' BURNING IT DOWN, all we have to do is STOP BURNING IT DOWN.

Jair says brazil doesnt owe the world shit its there country they can do what they want with the forest

g0ldie posted...

something about the moon wobbling is supposed to lead to a lot of flooding

Theres already like 1,300 people missing in Germany because of it.

Remember last year a bunch of idiot Republicans were blowing off all those forest fires in Brazil like it was no big deal

article is, like most things climate related, pure sensationalism for clicks

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hsvhighlife posted...

article is, like most things climate related, pure sensationalism for clicks

how do you figure?

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Wait so a burning rain forest is not the optimum configuration ?

teep_ posted...

At least here, it's a problem cause there's not enough young people to fund old people pensions. As a result, by the time I become a pensioner, the money I pay into the system will become worthless

This is like taking out a loan with higher interest to pay back a previous loan.

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teep_ posted...

At least here, it's a problem cause there's not enough young people to fund old people pensions. As a result, by the time I become a pensioner, the money I pay into the system will become worthless

Money is just numbers on a screen. I dont have much faith in the government but I dont think theyd let an entire generation go broke.

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MrDrMan posted...

Money is just numbers on a screen. I dont have much faith in the government but I dont think theyd let an entire generation go broke.

They most certainly will. You had better start saving to fund your own retirement; if you get any social security in old age consider that gravy.

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ssi will be fine, def save your own too tho.

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Squall28 posted...

teep_ posted...

At least here, it's a problem cause there's not enough young people to fund old people pensions. As a result, by the time I become a pensioner, the money I pay into the system will become worthless

This is like taking out a loan with higher interest to pay back a previous loan.

It's a system that's worked for centuries

I just had the luck to be born into a generation undergoing a large demographic shift
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Bump
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https://www.inverse.com/science/climate-scientists-say-achieving-net-zero-is-not-nearly-enough

If anyone here has extra time, consider getting involved in some kind of engineering work that is aimed at solving this problem.

Even 100 more brains working on this stuff, could make a difference.

You can also plant a tree for as little as $1 through the National Forest Foundation, if you want to make a difference with some spare change or even with volunteering.

https://www.nationalforests.org/tree-planting-programs/climate

Through our 50 Million for Our Forests campaign, the NFF offers you a proven, immediate and effective solution to fight climate change. For every $2 you donate to the NFF, we will plant 2 trees, and you will help remove 1 Metric ton (Mt) of CO2e from the atmosphere over the life of those trees.

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but by NO MEANS question the underlying socioeconomic paradigm and consumption habits that created and continue to maintain this unholy fuckstorm in the first place

we can still paper over this, everyone!

People want nice things. We have to find a way to keep producing nice things, be it in orbit or with modern technology enabling more sustainable production. No one will want to hear that we should all become poorer or submit to new overlords and their rules on consumption, because those are not the necessary or only solutions to the problem of CO2 emissions.

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why is there a third page itt when nobody posted

Omnislasher posted...

but by NO MEANS question the underlying socioeconomic paradigm and consumption habits that created and continue to maintain this unholy fuckstorm in the first place

we can still paper over this, everyone!

Yeah this. Go ahead everyone and say shit about how Brazil needs to be invaded and that this is all Bolsonaro's fault. Never mind that there's a huge international market that incentivizes burning the rain forest that will remain in place long after he dies from hiccups, or contracts covid for the 53rd time or whatever.

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