As a late night cab driver, if you're ever wondering why I'm on the street rather than the driveway in your sketchy, pickup truck filled suburban neighborhood, this is why.
Give me a shady looking industrial district or run down residential neighborhood over semi-rural suburbia any day of the week. I feel much safer.
I love reading, but the moment an author tries to guilt me into reading their particular viewpoint as though I'm just a slave of the system if I don't, I check out. I have better things to do, and this person doesn't have any right to my time.
You know, there's a discordian game that seems pretty appropriate right now.
I honestly can't stand slowly scrolling and waiting for the text to appear. What a terrible design choice.
Can we start archiving stuff somewhere that doesn't block firefox?
There's some good information in this article, but I would have appreciated it being a little less of an ad for a podcast.
The title implies that we're going to hear from scientists about their opinions, but all we actually get in its body is a single quote from one scientist as the literal tagline. Talk about clickbait.
I just want to, for a moment, shed some light on the mental disconnect here for Ms. Clifford.
This is a person who literally ran CNBC's climate change desk. She is, then, ostensibly aware of all the same information any of the rest of us have about climate change.
And yet, she seems to think we can somehow have a world where everybody can casually fly to Istanbul or some other place they've never been every single year, and that'll be sustainable. Or if she doesn't think it's sustainable, she's still totally fine using her own financial position to do it anyway.
If this is how people who actually focus their careers on climate change think, we're pretty fucked.
Kinda sounds like you're rich. I'm definitely not.
Wanna help? I can probably make an amount of money that you barely sneeze at go absurdly far.
With the level of technical knowledge we've achieved, there's no way we're going back to doing things exactly the way they used to. One example that jumps out at me is the method this primitive technology guy on youtube uses to stoke his furnace. He's basically made a little manual turbine out of leaves and vines to push his air rather than one of those little squeeze box things.
Obviously I'm not a blacksmith or historian so I don't actually know how common something like that might have been, but I'm guessing it's not super old. In any case, I'm sure there are other ways that we'd apply our more advanced knowledge to tackling the sorts of problems we'd be looking at with a collapse of manufacturing and shipping infrastructure.
Honestly, a technologically adept but non-industrial society of artisans sounds kind of cool.
To be fair, I can close my eyes and just sort of flail on an elliptical in a way that would absolutely hurt me if I tried it on the ground. It's also a lot lower impact and when I'm done I can just stop.
Clickbait title. The places in question are: the South of the US, the Andes in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, and in highlands African countries like Ethiopia and Kenya.
Heat doesn't go up. Hot air rises because it's less dense than cold air. You know what's less dense than hot air though? Vacuum. That's a good thing, though, because we don't want to be hemorrhaging atmosphere.
Even if we could build a physical heat sink sticking out of the atmosphere somehow, it would be less protected from solar radiation than anything inside the atmosphere, so if it were facing the sun it probably wouldn't work.
Even if we had the resources and like, enough readily available materials on Earth to make some sort of retractable heat sink sticking out of the night-side of the planet, it'd probably require more energy consumption to create than would be worth it.
Probably the best way to cool things down is to quit burning so much shit and quit knocking forests down.