Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[presta]

Here's another Aussie who speaks his mind, and a lot more intelligent and educated a mind it is too.

 

[the snail]

People have called me worse.

Making the point that other dry places can manage. What makes you think Australia will 'run out of fresh water' soon?

A lot of agriculture in Oz/US depends on underground aquifers which are being drained faster than they are refilled. As the levels drop they have to drill deeper for water,eventually it becomes uneconomic,and that's the end of farming.

 

[Beebo]

I’ve just stumbled across a Carl Sagan argument which he was making 35 years ago on Green spending v military spending. And the importance of being prepared.
It is put into sharp focus by the current NATO 5% pledge.

View: https://youtu.be/4C6co5qXEE4?si=cz2M5ZVtzkBYWkA2

 

[Pblakeney]

I’ve just stumbled across a Carl Sagan argument which he was making 35 years ago on Green spending v military spending. And the importance of being prepared.
It is put into sharp focus by the current NATO 5% pledge.

View: https://youtu.be/4C6co5qXEE4?si=cz2M5ZVtzkBYWkA2

I wouldn’t put too much weight on the 5%.
Apart from helping out Ukraine it was mostly to keep Trump onside, and a vast amount could be well used to improve infrastructure in this country which counts towards the 5%.

 

[Psamathe]

Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year
Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the Thurrock “hyperscale datacentre” will be part of a wave of mammoth computer and AI power houses if it secures planning consent.
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That amounts to about 500 flights from Heathrow to Málaga every week, according to the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization’s carbon calculator.

At only equivalent of 500 flights a week CO₂ a week maybe we could throw in a few new international airport runways as well? Should make sure what prospects there might be for any climate recovery are trashed.

 

[CXRAndy]

Best they set it up in some other more appreciative country