human actions, global climate change, global human solutions
POSTED BY: 1kiki
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 19:38
VIEWED: 60750
PAGE 49 of 111
you must love your private jet, SECOND!
one problem with jets, and all combustion, but especially with combusion of heavier fuels like diesel and jet fuel (and trees): not only do they create CO2, a greenhouse gas, they also create fine carbon particles. these paticles spread across the globe and blanket everything, including icefields everywhere, and greatly accelerate melting, lowering the earth's albedo and setting yet another warming process in motion. if the covid lockdown taught us anything, it's that you don't HAVE to jet of to 'meetings' here and there. air travel is, for the most part, unnecessary.
i have yet to see 'sustainable' anything. alot of things that claim to be 'sustainable' are either direct scams (like the various 'carbon reduction' schemes offered for carbon trading that don't exist) don't reduce net greenhouse gases (like 'lab grown' meat') or have other negative environmental effects (like overusing fertilizer, causing massive runoffs and lake dieoffs to grow corn for ethanol)
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?
Originally posted by second:Quote:Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Drawing a parallel with Covid: real problem, nefarious"solutions".
We can't trust business IR our government to solve anything without using the issue to try to screw us over.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:This is also Capitalism, but there are anti-monopoly laws that could, over the objections of Congressmen from a particular political party, forcefully beat back the Capitalist ethic:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?
Quote:https://jabberwocking.com/how-to-build-a-monopoly-in-less-than-a-year/
The multibillion-dollar private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe took less than a year to create, from scratch, Colorado’s biggest and most prominent anesthesiology practice. The financiers created a company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, which in 2015 bought the largest anesthesiology group in the Denver region. Then it bought the next largest. Then it bought a few more....The Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to prevent unfair business practices, questioned the company’s growth but did not stop it. The company raised prices for its services — one by nearly 30 percent in its first year in Colorado — and continued raising them for several years, according to interviews and confidential company documents obtained by The Washington Post.
It is imaginable that the FTC could brutally beat sense into some Capitalists over price-gouging monopolies. It is less imaginable that Congress would give the EPA the new power to brutally beat sense into Capitalists over fuels and plastics. Why is it less imaginable? Because Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax according to many in Congress.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Climate+Change+is+a+Chinese+Hoax
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
Quote:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Meat-Inspection-Act
The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died. Roosevelt, who served in Cuba as a colonel, testified in 1899 that he would have eaten his old hat as soon as eat what he called “embalmed beef.”
The canned meat scandal prompted Thomas F. Dolan, a former superintendent for Armour & Co., to sign an affidavit noting the ineffectiveness of government inspectors and stating that the company’s common practice was to pack and sell “carrion.” The New York Journal published Dolan’s statement on March 4, 1899. The Senate then formed the Pure-Food Investigating Committee, which held hearings in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City from 1899 to 1900. The committee declared such common meat preservatives as borax, salicylic acid, and formaldehyde to be “unwholesome.” The press also reported from the committee’s hearings that some of the nation’s food supply was adulterated—made impure by the addition of foreign or inferior substances. These concerns were in addition to the health problems posed by the packaging of substandard or condemned meat products.
Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Biden’s hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust
The EU is investing billions into becoming a green energy superpower. But Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act means it’s the U.S. reaping the rewards.
Nel is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of electrolyzers for hydrogen production, and its Michigan gigafactory will be one of the largest in the world.
By Gabriel Gavin and Ben Lefebvre
07/05/2023 04:30 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
4
European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that advocates say will create jobs and help fight climate change.
But now, many of those jobs will be going to the United States instead.
The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden’s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500 million factory that will produce the equipment needed to extract hydrogen from water. And other European-based companies are being tempted to follow suit, people involved in the continent’s hydrogen efforts say — making the universe’s most abundant substance the latest focus of the transatlantic trade battle on green energy.
The Norwegian firm, Nel, announced its decision in May, nine months after Congress approved Biden’s flagship climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The move takes 500 new jobs to the other side of the Atlantic, despite the European Union’s efforts to position itself as the obvious place for clean tech investment.
Gas grab riles Europeans
“There’s not one single driver behind the decision to put it in the U.S.,” Nel CEO Håkon Volldal told POLITICO, pointing to the benefit of being close to customers and partners like General Motors, as well as the financial benefits of the IRA, the Biden-era CHIPS and Science Act that provides funding for technology development, and Michigan’s own grants for green tech.
“If you take the IRA and the CHIPS Act together, we’re talking about more than $400 billion,” Volldal said. “On top of that, you have subsidies for renewable power and so on. Europe is dwarfed by the numbers we see in the U.S.”
The global hydrogen industry was valued at more than $155 billion last year, and the EU plans to produce and import a total of 20 million tons of renewable hydrogen a year by 2030. Supporters say this will help replace natural gas, powering vehicles and generating electricity.
Now, though, the U.S. has its sights set on overtaking Europe when it comes to both hydrogen and the electrolyzers that extract it. The IRA introduced a $3-per-kilogram subsidy for green hydrogen and tens of billions of dollars in loans and other incentives for international investors to put money into the industry.
“A year ago, the EU clearly had the yellow jersey,” Volldal said, referring to the garment that the fastest cyclist wears in the Tour de France. “Now the U.S. has it.”
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis agrees. As the CEO of Hydrogen Europe, he’s one of the continent’s most influential lobbyists, having helped secure industry handouts worth billions of dollars. “We have a very robust framework in the EU, but we fail to attract our own companies because it’s all too complex,” he said. “We have ambitious targets, but we don’t have simple and efficient instruments to incentivize businesses.
“In their typical bureaucratic way, the Europeans will kill this business,” Chatzimarkakis said.
That leaves those who’ve helped launch the industry at risk of losing out, Chatzimarkakis added.
“Dung beetles spend hours rolling up balls of dung to attract females,” he said. “But there are some very smart dung beetles that just sit by the side and watch while others do hard work. Then they shoot in, take the dung ball, take the girl and run away with everything. That’s Joe Biden.”
Much more at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
4
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pa
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Earth sees third straight hottest day on record, though it's unofficial
July 6, 2023 / 5:45 AM / CBS/AP
Earth's average temperature remained at a record high Wednesday after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records. It's the latest marker in a series of climate-change-driven extremes.
The average global temperature was 62.9 degrees, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world's condition. That matched a record set Tuesday and came after a previous record of 62.6 degrees was set Monday.
Not only that but last month was the world's hottest June since records have been kept, the European Union's climate monitoring service said, according to Agence France-Presse. "The month was the warmest June globally ... exceeding June 2019 -- the previous record -- by a substantial margin," the EU monitor said in a statement from its C3S climate unit.
Scientists have warned for months that 2023 could see record heat as human-caused climate change, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil, warmed the atmosphere.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-hottest-days-third-straight/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
SECOND : The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:Quote:
The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died....
Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.
what part of 'we are in the grip of an oligarchy' did you not understand?
your precious DNC torpedoed the EU's transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions ... and in fact created one of the largest single-event emissions of greenhouse gases, ever - by blowing up their nat gas pipeline and wasting tons of fuel and manufacturing emissions on a pointless proxy war in a(nother) corrupt nation.
and it's certainly no benefit to fighting climate change if the USA attains top-dog status in hydrogen production if THE WORLD needs to be on the same path ... altho it certainly benefits the capitalists who've cornered that particular niche
Ukraine war threatens climate targets
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-threatens-climate-targets/a-62185483
Climate change: Ukraine war prompts fossil fuel 'gold rush' - report
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61723252
US Military Pollution: The World’s Biggest Climate Change Enabler
https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/
Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/world/europe/g7-summit-ukraine-war-
climate-change.html
as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Let me pick one of your complaints about me: Warmonger. The Russians have murdered 4 million Ukrainians and made very believable plans to nuke the US to death. If the Ukrainians continue a war with the Russians, this is positively good. If Ukrainians win, even better. Based on my knowledge of the sad lives of East Texans who have ever said a kind word about Trump or Putin, I can make predictions about you without ever knowing you. Signym, your opinions are worthless, the same as those East Texans' opinions. I'd wish you well, but reality will deny you that because of what you do and what you believe is factual/ethical/attainable, just as reality brutally manhandles those East Texans because they stubbornly misunderstand the obvious reality all around them, including their strong yet false belief that Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME