An essay in futility, too long to read :)

yor_on · « **Reply #42960 on:** 28/03/2023 21:00:04 »

Yeah, I know, plastics are a fossil product. But if it is what we need to use under a limited period, then so be it. For those 'green alternatives' getting built. And the same goes for nuclear. Although neither of it will matter without peace.

yor_on · « **Reply #42961 on:** 28/03/2023 21:01:17 »

Two decades to change it in.

yor_on · « **Reply #42962 on:** 28/03/2023 21:14:47 »

And it won't get us back to what we had some hundred years ago. It's just a bet on us still having a chance. And it needs a global fossil ban to work, setting a expiration date around 2040, with few exceptions.

yor_on · « **Reply #42963 on:** 28/03/2023 21:21:58 »

Somewhat like Don Quixote attacking those windmills, isn't it?

My views on it :)

Well, if you don't it won't matter anyway, will it?

yor_on · « **Reply #42964 on:** 29/03/2023 07:34:37 »

Inequality

https://apnews.com/article/nursing-home-medicaid-personal-needs-allowance-poverty-2e0a2d90d7d63d4b476397a50a9cddff

yor_on · « **Reply #42965 on:** 29/03/2023 07:39:53 »

wars, and 'anti personal landmines' or ' 'Anti-infantry high-explosive mine'. A cherised kid can go by several names

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0780.pdf

Russia, and Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1_mine

The results https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-izium-land-mines-kharkiv-aec1fb4de0914cc01eb6db12e33d4a9c

yor_on · « **Reply #42966 on:** 29/03/2023 07:44:20 »

And even if Mr Biden says he doesn't like them?

" Most land mine use by US military banned, except for Korea "

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-land-mines-government-and-politics-5fd33b609ba1818b7186817dbc76f1e0

'most' ?

yor_on · « **Reply #42967 on:** 29/03/2023 07:46:52 »

Anyone thinking that we doesn't invest a lot of efforts and ingenuity in maiming and killing each other is either stupid or very, very, ignorant.

yor_on · « **Reply #42968 on:** 29/03/2023 07:51:11 »

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/10/landmines-us-should-support-global-ban

yor_on · « **Reply #42969 on:** 29/03/2023 07:52:01 »

You see, the problem comes when I look at the 'leader of the free world', the one I'm assumed to be in.

yor_on · « **Reply #42970 on:** 29/03/2023 07:53:34 »

I don't belong to the Russian sphere of interest, or the Chinese. And we keep telling the rest of the world to adapt, don't we?

yor_on · « **Reply #42971 on:** 29/03/2023 08:12:03 »

And if you want 'objective' information on its use, you won't get it, not by Russia, neither by Ukraine. And if USA uses it, it will be the same.

yor_on · « **Reply #42972 on:** 29/03/2023 08:15:18 »

Countries signing it, dating 1999

https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXVI-5&chapter=26&clang=_en

spelling, better use 1999 than 1997

yor_on · « **Reply #42973 on:** 29/03/2023 08:30:38 »

If you look you will find Ukraine being one signatory, as well as other East European states.

But

" Ukraine stated that its stockpile of PFM-1 mines in 1999 was 6,000,000 units. In a November 2008 presentation, Ukraine indicated that it had destroyed 101,088 PFM-1 mines per the convention in 1999. Following the agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and NSPA (formerly known as NAMSO) on 1st September 2012, a three-way agreement between Ukraine, NSPA the EU was signed, which figurated that the EU would provide 3.689 million euros for the destruction of 3.3 million mines. In 2013, the NSPA provided assistance in destruction of 300,000 mines.

In 2014, Ukraine submitted a document to the Mine Ban Treaty Third Review Conference, stating that it has destroyed 568,248 mines since the ratification, with an additional 576 mines in 2014, leaving its stockpile at 5,434,672 mines.[13] After failing to adhere to the Ottawa treaty deadline of November 2018 on the destruction of its anti-personnel mines, Ukraine requested the deadline be extended til 1 June 2021, later asking for further extension on 8 June 2020.

The effort for the destruction fizzled out towards 2019 and 2020, with only 67,236 destroyed in 2019. In 2020, Ukraine refused to destroy any PFM-1 mines. In 2021, Ukraine's PFM-1 stockpile is reported at 3,363,828 mines, with no further submissions of their destruction." as the wiki states

And it's about wars, not Ukraine specifically, or for that sake Russia

yor_on · « **Reply #42974 on:** 29/03/2023 08:48:56 »

As for how long a war stretch? No matter when it 'stopped'

Generations

https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/25/23590279/kosovo-war-anniversary-what-happened

yor_on · « **Reply #42975 on:** 29/03/2023 08:50:06 »

So that becomes our main western legacy to Iraq, and Libya.

yor_on · « **Reply #42976 on:** 29/03/2023 08:51:07 »

You still want to beat those wardrums?

Probably

yor_on · « **Reply #42977 on:** 30/03/2023 05:59:14 »

Bias, and Artificial Intelligence, aka pattern recognition. you know, like a parrot.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/26/artificial-intelligence-meredith-broussard-more-than-a-glitch-racism-sexism-ableism

It's such a misnomer 'AI'

yor_on · « **Reply #42978 on:** 30/03/2023 06:05:19 »

Pakistan

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/29/lost-jobs-hunger-food-charity-kitchens-feeding-millions-pakistan

Water

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134852

and mars 2023.

https://thediplomat.com/2023/03/the-war-is-still-ongoing-pakistans-floods-six-months-on/

yor_on · « **Reply #42979 on:** 30/03/2023 06:17:39 »

And if that wasn't enough

https://theconversation.com/torrents-of-antarctic-meltwater-are-slowing-the-currents-that-drive-our-vital-ocean-overturning-and-threaten-its-collapse-202108