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- Soy, Slaughter, and Survival: How Animal Agriculture Fuels Rainforest Loss and Why Veganism Holds the Keymedium.com ↗Submitted 22 hours ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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- Comment on What's Missing In This Picture? 5 days ago:
In theory, I agree with you. Just cross-posting this so that people see this perspective and how much the infrastructure needs to change. Whether those changes will happen is the real question.
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- ‘Sun day’: US climate activists to rally for clean energy amid Trump attacks | Some 450 events are planned across the US this Sunday to celebrate growth of solar power and energy efficiencywww.sunday.earth ↗Submitted 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
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- Human-driven climate change largely responsible for last 50 years of worsening fire weather in Western North America, new study showsscience.feedback.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 1 comment
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- World’s Biggest Polluters Least Impacted by Conflict and Environmental Damage: Studywww.ecowatch.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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- 50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war – and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukrainetheconversation.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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- Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contaminationphys.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Scientists discover deep-sea microplastic hotspots driven by fast-moving underwater avalanchesphys.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments
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Always check terms and privacy policy before signing up, but these seem like they will be here to stay:
Those are all Lemmy and PieFed, and I’m not so familiar with Mastodon and others. Maybe look at mas.to ?
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- Extreme weather 'becoming the norm' - as minister warns UK's way of life 'under threat'news.sky.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 2 months ago:
I don’t doubt that the return on investment for solar and wind will continue to improve relative to fossil fuels when used for electricity generation, but the problem seems to be, again, the manufacture of infrastructure such as wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, and so on, which require energy-intensive mining and refining of minerals. Unless every stage of the manufacturing process can be electrified, the efficiency of generating electricity using wind and solar won’t matter in the slightest, as there will be no way to use that electricity to eventually recycle/replace the existing wind/solar infrastructure, let alone to deploy more of it or to do either of these while maintaining the high energy return on energy invested.
To be clear, I don’t want solar/wind/etc to be dependent on fossil fuels at all, and so I would be interested to read an explanation of how these (or other) clean energy technologies can be deployed without using fossil fuels at any stage of the process. The problem presented in the article seems to be that such technologies currently do depend upon the use of coal, and I posted the article here with the idea that it might get people to start thinking about potential solutions to this problem, not to suggest that the deployment of clean energy technologies is not worthwhile.
Realistically, even if photovoltaic panels and wind turbines can be recycled 100% efficiently, the supply of energy from these sources at any given time will still have an upper limit based on the finite supply of the minerals required for these technologies, so people cannot continue to increase their energy consumption indefinitely even from “renewable” sources. But that’s a separate problem.
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 2 months ago:
Do you know of a way to efficiently produce the infrastructure needed for solar, wind, etc using energy from solar, wind, etc such that the energy return on energy (ERoE) is high enough? That seemed like the crux of the argument made in the article, and I’d be interested to read a rebuttal.
- Comment on The World Has a Serious Coal Problem 2 months ago:
It would seem that scaling back the use of many modern technologies is both necessary and inevitable. When hydrocarbon-based energy sources run out, it’s back to old-fashioned carbohydrates…
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- Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarievanews.mongabay.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to earthscience@mander.xyz | 0 comments