Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when we (all of humanity) have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. In 2018, it fell on August 1.
We are using 1.7 Earths. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb.
Since we're all going to die, some of us want to be as productive, and have as much fun, as we can in the meantime. Others want to wallow in gloom and boredom and uselessness. The latter are identified by the scientific classification "wusses."
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more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. In 2018, it fell on August 1.
te through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon di oxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb.
Tabb isn't happy with science, and much prefers his own brand of feel-good propaganda - not that he's prepared to tell us whatever it is that he happe ns to feel good about, though he is happy to tell us that medically qualifi ed doctors give much worse advice than he does in this unspecified and myst erious area.
John Larkin does like to think that. A more relevant division is between th ose who want to pay attention to the real world, and those who are gullible enough to swallow attractive propaganda, which is the group with which Joh n Larkin identifies.
Yeah I know some kids with right-winger 'rents, in those cases where they do still talk to them regularly they usually just roll their eyes internally and tell them what they want to hear it's just easier that way. Hey it works just fine for GOP politicians too, why not.
Krw does over-simplify. The solution to climate change is to shift resources from digging up fossil carbon and burning it as fuel to building solar generating plant and wind turbines. We've got to go over to electric cars as part of that process.
Changing the tax regime (and killing off some of the tax loop-holes that favour the fossil carbon extraction industry) might help this process, but "higher taxes" as such don't do anything useful in their own right.
then I suggest the global warming climate changers remove "carbon tax" from their agenda and we can all get along.
If global warming is such a looming catastrophe that we need to act on right away, then drop carbon taxes from the agenda and we can all stop arguing and work together right now.
other right wing lunatics may think science is political, but in reality it is not.
osed solution involves more taxes.
rful agency, it would cease to be political.
urces from digging up fossil carbon and burning it as fuel to building sola r generating plant and wind turbines. We've got to go over to electric cars as part of that process.
t favour the fossil carbon extraction industry) might help this process, bu t "higher taxes" as such don't do anything useful in their own right.
om their agenda and we can all get along.
It happens to be the neatest way of moving the economy away from excessive dependence on burning fossil carbon as fuel. You can make it revenue neutra l by using all the money collected to subsidise renewable energy, and thus pushing up the economies if scale for renewable energy sources.
ght away, then drop carbon taxes from the agenda and we can all stop argui ng and work together right now.
Don't be silly. Carbon taxes aren't the problem. The problem is all the peo ple who make lots of money out of digging up fossil carbon and selling it a s fuel. They will seize on any excuse to slow down any process that looks like cutt ing their income and devaluing the assets they happen to own.
And climate change isn't a "looming catastrophe". It's a progressive inconv enience that's making life more difficult at present and promises to make l ife even more difficult as the CO2 level in the atmosphere keeps on going u p.
It's currently 405 ppm, up from the 270 ppm level which it reached at the e nd of the last ice age, and more or less stuck at until about 1750, when we started burning coal on an industrial scale.
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It's now going up appreciably faster than it was when we first started accu rate measurements back around 1958 - a bit more than twice as fast.
Not an option on a un-moderated group. I'm aware that there are other modes of deletion, but none of them are legal. Some of our more right-wing poste rs don't seem to see that as a problem, but John Larkin's particular delusi ons more or less fit with the the standard right-wing lunatic delusion set, so they don't seem to see any particular need to delete him.
08/16/2018 07:24 PM, snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: : August 17, 2018 at 10:09:11 AM UTC+10, snipped-for-privacy@004.com wrote: :: John Larkin wrote: :::: snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: :::: ::::: Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when we (all of humanity) ::::: have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the ::::: entire year. In 2018, it fell on August 1. ::: ::: Since we're all going to die, some of us want to be as ::: productive, and have as much fun, as we can in the meantime. :: :: You should be deleted. : : Not an option on a un-moderated group. I'm aware that there are other : modes of deletion, but none of them are legal. Some of our more : right-wing posters don't seem to see that as a problem, but John : Larkin's particular delusions more or less fit with the the standard : right-wing lunatic delusion set, so they don't seem to see any : particular need to delete him.
No "delusions", Larkin is another who simply doesn't give a f*ck. He has here, carelessly, let us know what motivates him, as Pantjeltje once did.
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