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Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by RamblingCTO »

pjmlp wrote: post #30
vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow - would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? - the price of veggies would obviously go 10x in the short term but would be the impact long term

Hardly anything worthwhile, like paper straws, those are the kind of feel good measures, while the planet gets destroyed via wars, depletion of resources, wild construction, fires actually started by pyromanics and speculation for burned wood and construction sites, all everything else destroying Earth thanks to greed of a few in detriment of everyone else.

This paper straw thing is the dumbest take of them all. It's about reducing plastic waste (which is equally important) and has nothing to do with climate change. I have no clue how people can repeat it, as it has no obvious relation to each other?

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by pipes »

krunck wrote: post #21

I'm glad that France, Germany, and England are getting hit hard. It means that some of the most powerful countries in the world will actually take action. If it were only some countries in the Global South then there would be less incentive to fix what we've broken.

You are glad people are dying or losing their homes?

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by overflowy »

triceratops wrote: post #29
overflowy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's hilarious, since France, Germany, and UK combined barely make up 8.7% of China's total CO₂ emissions [1]. In other words, China emits about 11.4 times as much as France, Germany, and the UK put together. [1] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...

China is also 10 times the size of those countries put together. So they're about equally responsible. China also makes most of the world's solar panels, EVs, and batteries.

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Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by pjmlp »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #31
pjmlp wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hardly anything worthwhile, like paper straws, those are the kind of feel good measures, while the planet gets destroyed via wars, depletion of resources, wild construction, fires actually started by pyromanics and speculation for burned wood and construction sites, all everything else destroying Earth thanks to greed of a few in detriment of everyone else.

This paper straw thing is the dumbest take of them all. It's about reducing plastic waste (which is equally important) and has nothing to do with climate change. I have no clue how people can repeat it, as it has no obvious relation to each other?

Probably because both go together, and it has hardly changed anything when everything else keeps using plastic, a I feel good measure.

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by anon48293 »

gs17 wrote: post #11
anon48293 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- people would have nutritional deficits - methane production would only drop by a max of 32% due to farming - rice alone already emits 12% of world methane, this would increase - only 15% of co2 comes from farming. - 45% of the co2 from farming is plants. This would increase. So it wouldn’t do anything.

> - 45% of the co2 from farming is plants. This would increase. And what percent of that is farming plants to feed animals?

Since rice alone is more than 33% of farming methane, I’d wager not that high a percentage actually.

The thing is, as you can see from the data, it’d reduce methane and co2, but not substantially.

Bottom line is that there is too much heavy industry, too much oil, gas and coal, and too many people.

The problem isn’t me eating meat. It’s 9 billion people eating anything.

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by AngryData »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow - would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? - the price of veggies would obviously go 10x in the short term but would be the impact long term

A bit of pollutants would go down, but cow farming isn't a one way street as their manure is also a potent fertilizer and they primarily eat legumes that fixate nitrogen or unmanaged grass and neither use pesticides.

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

krunck wrote: post #21

I'm glad that France, Germany, and England are getting hit hard. It means that some of the most powerful countries in the world will actually take action. If it were only some countries in the Global South then there would be less incentive to fix what we've broken.

The UK has more than halved its carbon emissions since 1990 despite a growing population.

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by aziaziazi »

AngryData wrote: post #36
vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow - would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? - the price of veggies would obviously go 10x in the short term but would be the impact long term

A bit of pollutants would go down, but cow farming isn't a one way street as their manure is also a potent fertilizer and they primarily eat legumes that fixate nitrogen or unmanaged grass and neither use pesticides.

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Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by Cpoll »

triceratops wrote: post #8
vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow - would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? - the price of veggies would obviously go 10x in the short term but would be the impact long term

> i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done. > would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? You'd have to do something about all the existing livestock. Again with 10 years' lead time you could just stop breeding new livestock and let them die out. > but [what] would be the impact long…

> Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done.

How do you figure? The same logistics lines that carry animal feed and then the animal can just carry the ~animal~ human feed directly to the consumer. Sure, the animals starve to death, but it's just a silly hypothetical.

Re: Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

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Post by 3eb7988a1663 »

Cpoll wrote: post #39
triceratops wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> i wonder what would happen if the whole world went vegan from tomorrow Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done. > would it actually cut down emissions, methane? co2? You'd have to do something about all the existing livestock. Again with 10 years' lead time you could just stop breeding new livestock and let them die out. > but [what] would be the impact long…

> Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done. How do you figure? The same logistics lines that carry animal feed and then the animal can just carry the ~animal~ human feed directly to the consumer. Sure, the animals starve to death, but it's just a silly hypothetical.

It takes 1000 calories of feed to make 100 calories of animal protein. While the type of animal feed is not what humans probably want to eat, the calories already exist today. Without livestock, there would be a huge surplus of available food.

Wikipedia[0] Says that US directs 4345 million bushels of just corn to livestock feed. Which would be ~13 bushels or 330kg per American.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_...

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