Fortunately, I wasn’t.

Farmers are also dependant on soil quality, temperature, sunshine, equipment that largely relies on fuel, and distribution for the crops they grow.

Not being an oracle myself, I’ll take an educated guess that when the temperature keeps climbing, the conditions that allow for outdoor food production will also change. Likely, the hardiness zones will shift to places with no farmland, and the current hardiness zones will be subject to flooding or drought or both.

Might be tricky business if the best farmland is suddenly on the side of K2.

Tell that to Captain America.

urban people

Funny how I don’t remember the last hospital I saw in the middle of a corn field.

Sorry, all life? Even the mosquitoes? Damn.

Gail Berman is to blame. She cancelled Firefly and doomed humanity in the process.

If the politicians would have refused bribes,

the standards wouldn’t have come into fruition that allowed the auto industry to decouple vehicle size and weight from energy efficiency;

the trams systems wouldn’t have been bought up, shut down, and rails ripped from the ground to make room for more lanes;

the energy sector wouldn’t have septupled down on an invisible gas that’s 20x worse than burning coal;

the healthcare companies would be run by medical experts finding the best treatment instead of by money men denying care by default;

the technology we developed wouldn’t be tracking every time we blink to create advertising opportunities;

the houses we build wouldn’t sit vacant waiting for a tenant to pay half their income for the privilege of having no equity…

Greed is the problem.

It’s understandable within capitalism why corporations would push boundaries to make money, but our politicians are supposed to be the force of opposition. Instead they look the other way while pocketing another cheque or airline ticket or deed to a brownstone.

I’m as pro active transportation as anyone I have ever met, but it’s delusional to blame people for buying a large, expensive vehicle when the manufacturers keep discontinuing small, cheap cars because the return on investment isn’t as high. The politicians could require them to make two compact cars for every pickup or SUV, but they don’t because they’re greedy just like the corporations.

There are no checks and balances anymore, and the politicians are to blame. Some blame in certain places should also land on the electorate, to be sure. But with every city, neighbourhood, and street gerrymandered to look like a hand drawn map by Michael J. Fox, it’s mostly the politicians on the hook for all this.

If everyone got together and came to the decision to fix the planet, it would probably still be possible, even though it’ll likely get to a point where going outside is a complication. Generations, to be sure.

Though of course, we’re never all going to agree on how to go about it, so you might be right.

China has the highest emissions in the world!

Only right now though. And only in annual volume. And in large part because they make just about everything for just about every other country.

China has four times the population of the United States. Despite this and being the world’s factory, their CO2 emissions per capita are only 10.1 tons. Which sounds like a lot - and it is - but the United States emissions are 17.6 tons per capita.

But who cares about all that mumbo jumbo. Don’t go looking at how America got here, to this pedestal so high above the rest. There’s nothing to see in the past, just some work ethic and a good pair bootstraps. Don’t worry about it.

Good on you for attempting to parse different meanings out of what was said. Too few people attempt to do so and instead jump all over a misinterpretation.

Know what I like about coal? If some falls off the sleigh, it’s just another rock, not an explosion or dish soap advertising campaign.

All those other problems with coal? Still bad, but maybe not as bad as non renewable alternatives. Really annoying we didn’t go full steam ahead on sun and wind the moment they became possible.

According to the open letter those donations to Organic Maps were used for a personal holiday. Along with everything else in there, I’m not using it any longer.

You won’t live near cities that clean up their waterways? You could rival Michelin publishing that list of reasons you have.

I did of course mean ecologically friendly and not economically friendly.

That said - less than ten times the price to help the environment and of course make the country smell like a pancake breakfast? Sign me up!

They run on maple syrup though, which means they’re eco friendly.

Again, you repeat the same words as the Americans did some hundred years ago when Hitler was rising to power.

I hope for the sake of your neighbours that you are correct and that the Nazism of the west does not bleed beyond the borders of the United States.

Do check in four years down the line. Best of luck.

Given the noise Musk has been making surrounding the political landscape in Germany, the United Kingdom, and lately Canada, it stands to reason that the richest person on the planet is actively trying to make the world revolve around him.

Sentiment similar to yours was undoubtedly stated a century ago throughout Europe; ‘You overestimate the impact Germany has on the citizenry outside of it.’ Look where that attitude got the world, and here you are saying the same thing.

Certainly not an expert in the field here, but I’m not sure there’s much environmental benefit from laundry bags of that sort, given the collected microplastics optimistically end up - Germany excluded - collated in your local landfill.

Guppyfriend even recommends sealing them in a container for disposal to ensure they don’t blow around during waste collection and transport. This assumes of course that you can successfully transfer microplastic fibres from a large bag into a small container without spillage, but that’s a matter separate from my conjecture.

While I don’t think any particular company that makes similar bags is purposefully guilty of this, the marketing strategy used to promote these as environmentally responsible products just smells like greenwashing to me.

The ones I’ve had are also made of synthetic materials, and so eventually break down and begin releasing their own fibres.

Frankly, the true environmental benefit I see is something I’ve never seen advertised: I can wash groups clothes I want kept from intermingling in the same load and therefore run the machine half as often.