Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc. (4 Viewers)

[magicbastarder]

I assume bedclothes (including duvets) and towels are included in that figure too?

 

[ann post]

You change your bedclothes?

Gross.

 

[seanc]

Been reading this thread the last couple of days and thinking about it.
I just can't imagine 30 odd kilo's of clothes. Every year.
When the local pub got a skip to refurb the place, they maybe threw out 60 or 70 kg, and thats five years of crap in a gaff has a couple of dozen people living there.

That said, shoes and boots are definitely a thing for me. i haven't thrown any, but the various work boots under my bed only last about six months thanks to my stupid posture. I'll have to put them in the shoe recycling at some point.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I just remembered, I had these lovely little flannel old man pyjamas from when I was one. My cousins wore them when they were one. My two boys now have both worn them. These are 40 year old clothes, kept and used as needed, only now are they starting to lose their shape but still easily repairable.

 

[therealjohnny]

Well, that's that then.

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[magicbastarder]

I went car-free living in Waterford. Here’s how it’s going

I have had to adapt to the reality of slow travel but have no regrets

www.irishtimes.com

that article annoys me. it's vague on details and way too hand wavey.
5k a year saved on 'fuel, maintenance, car insurance and other costs'. is she including depreciation in that? because that'd probably be the biggest or second biggest cost.
she says she still does have to rent a car at times - so why not include a per annum figure there too? or her p.a. cost on public transport? if she's going to tell us how much she saved, she should tell us how much she's now spending in other costs.
she lectures part time in TUD - which would be a 300km+ round trip - so fuel or public transport costs would be significant, if she physically attends the college.

 

[ernesto]

I went car-free living in Waterford. Here’s how it’s going

I have had to adapt to the reality of slow travel but have no regrets

www.irishtimes.com

that article annoys me. it's vague on details and way too hand wavey.
5k a year saved on 'fuel, maintenance, car insurance and other costs'. is she including depreciation in that? because that'd probably be the biggest or second biggest cost.
she says she still does have to rent a car at times - so why not include a per annum figure there too? or her p.a. cost on public transport? if she's going to tell us how much she saved, she should tell us how much she's now spending in other costs.
she lectures part time in TUD - which would be a 300km+ round trip - so fuel or public transport costs would be significant, if she physically attends the college.

That sounds like essential information to omit to make your point / validate the piece.

Irish times gone to shite

 

[magicbastarder]

just stop oil have just stopped just stop oil.

Just Stop Oil to ‘hang up the hi-vis’ after three years of climate action

Final gathering in April will mark end of street protests although campaign to continue ‘in courts and prisons’

www.theguardian.com

 

[ann post]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/weather/water-rescues-flash-floods-texas-hnk/index.html

 

[therealjohnny]

More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

www.theguardian.com

 

[nuke terrorist]

It was dark and verging on drizzle in North Tipperary this morning. Then it was lovely and sunny in Dublin. When I got back home before 4 pm there was still no sunshine here. Ah well.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

www.theguardian.com

The wheels are coming off..

 

[ann post]

the wrong 80% too

 

[therealjohnny]

the wrong 80% too

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These guys must be saved at all costs

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[therealjohnny]

Oh nay

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[magicbastarder]

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

"At present, builders are supposed to follow a “mitigation hierarchy”: avoid, minimise, mitigate, offset. Ideally, they should avoid building in places of high wildlife value, especially irreplaceable habitats. If that isn’t possible, they should minimise the harm inflicted. Then they should mitigate that harm, by restoring the habitats they’ve damaged. Only if all these options are exhausted should they seek to offset the damage by creating habitat elsewhere. This final gambit is generally the most expensive and least successful.

The new bill scratches all that, jumping straight to option 4: offsetting. By paying a “nature restoration levy”, developers will be allowed to trash whatever habitats – woods, meadows, wetlands, streams – stand in their way. Once they’ve paid, the bill states, they can “disregard” the impact of destroying a protected feature."

 

[ann post]

In my experience the speed at which *corporate* will sprint towards offsetting is unmeasurable.

 

[pete]

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[egg_]

The new bill scratches all that, jumping straight to option 4: offsetting.

Monbiot is always alarmist, but if there's a grain of truth in this it's pretty fucked up

 

[magicbastarder]

it's worth reading 'whittled away' by padraic fogarty too; also 'feral' by monbiot is good.
but one major issue with 'protecting' landscapes is that it usually freezes them in place; i.e. if there's something worth protecting, you have to continue to maintain whatever practices are present, to preserve the landscape as is. even if those practices are artificial and harmful.

fogarty's book is full of batshit stuff we pay farmers to do (and he's not hostile to farmers); e.g. leaving a pile of sand somewhere in your yard for mining bees to use as a home. but there's no stipulation on what sand to use; and that detail is critical.