schroedingershat @ schroedingershat @lemmy.world

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Animal agriculture isn't just direct livestock emissions.

It's land use, fertiliser, cropland, transport, electricity and water. All told about a fifth to a quarter of emissions.

Same thing that happens to every generation before them. Projecting your own complete lack of critical thinking or imagination onto others doesn't mean they're actually as stupid as you make them out to be.

On the billions of acres no longer needed to grow animal feed for a small minority of global calories and protein.

You're trying to pretend meat isn't over and order of magnitude less efficient than other agriculture and it's just making you look foolish.

The worst part is neither are even remotely economically viable without massive subsidy. Just redirecting those subsidies to alternatives would solve 75% of emissions overnight.

Both are used for animal feed, and the vast tracts of no longer needed crop land would displace other demand.

If the entire world turned vegan would it make a difference?

...yes. Plainly and obviously. Most land use would be gone overnight. Deforestation would stop immediately as would the second largest source of methane, one of the largest sources of NO2, and billions of tonnes of CO2 per year (about a quarter of all emissions). No other single initiative other than maybe ending urban driving would come close.

If you're in the global top 50% there is absolutely nothing stopping you from switching to a primarily plant based diet, and if you're in the bottom 50% you probably don't eat enough meat to be a major impact.

The overwhelming majority of charging happens at home and brazil's grid is perfect for overnight charging as it's wind and hydro heavy. What little happens at charging stations will be battery backed starting in the next year or so for purely economic reasons.

The idea that car charging is an insurmountable peak load is pure fiction.

Only have to get rid of 1% or so to fix it. And it's not the groups you're dogwhistling genocide of because they contribute an order of magnitude less than you do.

I can see them now:

"Biden is so weak he won't even call for the extermination of minorities, vote Trump!"

The police presence is to arrest (violently) anyone who tries to stop the agents provocateur.

If you miss the chance you have to set more small businesses on fire.

No idea if China is better but western academia requires spending 95% of your time playing politics/begging for funding and pays worse than fast food for the first decade or so whilst requiring you to go into debt you will never pay off while everyone around you not-in-academia accuses you of being a woke coastal elite, grooming children, and spreading lies about poor defenseless shell and chevron for profit.

A government that intervenes to stop a strike on the side of a monopoly corporation because the workers are vital to the economy is not left wing. Rainbow corporatocracy is still corporatocracy and your attempt to erase 3/4ths of the political spectrum by charwcterizing neoliberalism as "left" is laughable.

Vacuum trains weren't elon's idea they go back to the 40s, and they are neat. Just wildly impractical, silly and unsuitable as anything other than a one off tourist draw or something to make your scifi setting seem different.

It's not a godwin if they are literally nazis performing a literal genocide whilst literally losing a war of agression in Europe.

Splitting your assets into multiple subsidiary companies to limit liability isn’t organized crime, it’s standard corporate operations

Those are the same picture

Sounds like some mexicans just got some free barbed wire, netting, and buoys as attacking someone on their own soil for cleaning up your litter is definitely an act of war..

You need a temperature gradient to extract energy.

The water is still cooler than the atmosphere just less than usual.

It would be a few degrees warmer than deep ocean water, so you could maybe power one of those toy stirling engines with a heat sink near the surface and one deep down, but the amount of usable energy per m^2 would be milliwatts at best.

I'd settle for a single less sweet option.

The choice always seems to be extremely high in sugar, or even sweeter but with artificial sweeteners.

These scooter riders taking up 1.2m x 1m are crowding the city. I know, let's try and force them into cars!

That would be plausible if they actually came to it in good faith.

It doesn't explain why they're completely disinterested in seeing how stopping forcing people from living the exact way they do is better for their lifestyle too.