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No, but I kinda understand why I was downvoted.
Readit NewsControversial uninformed opinion:
Recycling is a major cause to the Homeless epidemic. Roads, brakes, weight are major causes to pollution. Heavy cars (IE. Super dense lithium, nickel, cobalt) will cause more pollution.
Microplastics mostly come from fabric like nylon. Small fibers that can be easily broken off.
Your crushed 4L milk jug in a landfill isn't much of a source of microplastics, nor is it much of a threat to the water table (I mean, we use that same plastic for food).
i've heard this before. It was in regards to people washing their clothes.
I'm not convinced because as the article says, it's not realistic to recycle many kinds of plastic, and because I don't see the harm in safely burying garbage. In my city there is an old landfill which has now been covered in dirt and turned into a park, with a sledding hill and a bike park. If you didn't know better, you wouldn't even be able to tell it was a landfill before, and if properly managed none of that garbage will ever leak out - the city uses well water and has had no problems with contamination from the landfill.
If it is less energy intensive to create new plastics rather than recycling (which seems to be the case), why not just safely bury the old plastics and make new ones, it should be better for the environment anyways. Of course you should try to reduce and reuse before throwing out plastics, but if you have to get rid of them landfills seem reasonable.
Are you talking about Tacoma/ Ruston Area?
I agree with you. Recycling is stupid; weirdly enough it's a major contributor(? Totally not the right word) to homelessness.
Secondly, it's allowed to be 'disposed of' internationally. Who knows what the Chinese and Indians are doing with it.
Instead of CRV at the consumer level, we should have susidies or direct payments to suppliers for reusing plastic. All the plastic that isn't 'intrinsically valuable', ends up safely in a landfill.
lorenzorhoades commented on LSD chemist William Pickard to be released from prison psymposia.com/magazine/wi... · Posted by u/miles
You don't give someone a life sentence to rehabilitate them. At some point, you have to recognize that certain people are dangers to society and need to be "incapacitated" from causing further harm.
Like Australia, but more expensive and brutal.
lorenzorhoades commented on The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh economist.com/middle-east... · Posted by u/lxm
I'm sure any American Government support for electrics pales compared to what the Chinese government is doing but isn't government investment a great thing? That's what every sane country with a car industry should do :-)
Government investing in technology is great. Wish we did more of it.
> Many people can self-learn. Those same people often cannot perform well in school because school is rigid and authoritarian.
Are you still talking about college here? For a lot of classes, I commonly skipped class and taught myself the topics. In some fields like math that was practically the system even if you attended: Step 1: attend lectures that go too fast and lose you at some point, providing little more than a roadmap to use. Step 2 go home and teach the material to yourself. Step 3 attend exams to quantify how well you did.
i've seen this comment a couple times on HN and find it funny. My classes and lectures were mostly about what was not in the book and if you tried to read the book and take the test you'd get around a 50%.
lorenzorhoades commented on The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh economist.com/middle-east... · Posted by u/lxm
The planet doesn't really care about the per person data, nor is it reassuring since human populations continue to explode, and the fastest growing CO2 emitters are in the countries with the fastest growing populations.
Per unit of GDP also should not reassure anyone since GDP is constantly growing even faster than CO2-pruduction-per-unit-of-GDP is dropping (according to the data you linked). Additionally, regional improvements in these metrics (prominently showcased for the US and EU) are driven by the fact that manufacturing has been relocated from the first world to developing countries - not because manufacturing is becoming significantly cleaner. In fact, the higher sulfuric acid levels in the Pacific are a direct consequence unfiltered coal burning in China - so we've actually made things worse by moving manufacturing to countries with poor environmental standards.
Net total CO2 emissions are all that matter. Moreover, even ZERO growth of CO2 is insufficient to stop increasing temperatures since CO2 accumulates.
The alternative to aggressive absolute level CO2 caps (something many countries openly refuse to agree to) some are quietly pursuing planning for failure. Planning for human migrations, sea level changes, and local precipitation changes, are things those with means are doing. ...and the more people with wealth and/or power begin to plan for failure, the fewer will work on preventing catastrophe. What emerges is an unfortunate game-theory dilemma without a solution where parties actually produce more CO2 in order to prepare for higher CO2-driven global temperatures, and the regional challenges they bring.
I think you nailed it. However 'Planning for failure' breaks down in a future with economically viable carbon capture. What happens when nations are 'un-aligned' in how much carbon should be in the atmosphere/ the total globe. If it makes India a rainforest with a certain level of carbon, but makes the US a desert, how do you decide the optimal level of carbon PPM?
lorenzorhoades commented on The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh economist.com/middle-east... · Posted by u/lxm
I really hope we'll reach the end of the Oil Age, but as one gets older it becomes hard not to be sceptical of these claims. Seeing is believing.. more evidence.
Tesla keeps outperforming other car makers, even in a difficult environment: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/tech/tesla-sales/index.html.
VW's electrics are about to hit: https://electrek.co/2020/07/13/volkswagen-vw-id-3-electric-c....
Electric semis are moving towards production, by Tesla, Daimler, and others.
Even electric bikes and scooters are still seeing massive sales growth. If you've not tried you, you should.
The change is happening. Long-haul plane flights will remain on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future but the rest of the world is changing, fast.
Elon and other CEO's in the transportation space owe alot of their success to the Obama administration. Massive loans to a variety of electrical car makers and the privatization of space access in the US.
It definitely feels like a pretext for something else going on, who knows what -- whether it's a police racket or something shady going on in the restaurants they're sending a warning about.
This is what these obscure, rarely-enforced laws seem to exist for in the first place.
If the police were really interested in enforcement over this, they'd send a letter to every restaurant, bar, and cafe owner in the country that they have 3 months to comply and it will become part of regular inspections.
Targeting 5 individual restaurants (through arrests) is definitely not about simply enforcing this regulation.
Note: I'm NOT defending this as a legitimate law enforcement tactic. Just describing what seems to be happening.