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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17440 on: 23/02/2021 10:51:25 »
planning and planting, and mono plantations.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/23/row-over-uk-tree-planting-drive-we-want-the-right-trees-in-the-right-place


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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #17441 on: 23/02/2021 11:02:31 »
And everywhere species migrate now. They are in a chase for somewhere to survive. They don't think about it as we do, it's necessity driving them. We think about it, then we either do something stupid, or we don't do anything at all. I wish I could state that we're not failed but looking at the facts?

" Recent degradation of Interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne LiDAR "

https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-47/
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« Reply #17442 on: 23/02/2021 11:14:39 »
" The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska:  fast-forward into the future "

https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/4279/2020/

Species there won't have anywhere to go soon. It's the same mechanism behind it as with those species existing in warm low-oxygen waters. they have somewhere to migrate to, at least for the next decades or century. They go to the water that used to be colder, if they survive their migrations. It's called global warming.

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« Reply #17443 on: 23/02/2021 11:19:17 »
Well, according to the BBC there are no global warming. At least when I look at their daily update. Corona, or corvid, exist though.
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« Reply #17444 on: 23/02/2021 11:22:45 »
Should I start to call the BBC the last bastion?

maybe, one of them at least.
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« Reply #17445 on: 23/02/2021 11:34:51 »
And here's Italy. Not so different from the UK, or for that sake Germany, in its 'planning' it seems.

'Natural Gas' instead of 'Natural Gas oline'.

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/02/17/italy-creates-ecological-transition-ministry-campaigners-warn-gas-support/

to me it all becomes a big bad joke. Just as with this idea of pushing it into the future. Or relying on wind farms and batteries as the sole answer. Or keeping infra structures built on profits and consumptions, raising your GDP.

Increasingly stupid, all of it. You're running out of time, you're running out of topsoil, you're running out of water and groundwater, you're running out of species. Steadfastly believing in your game to take you out.


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« Reply #17446 on: 23/02/2021 11:42:34 »
Doesn't seem to help does it?

Being called a 'scientist'.
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« Reply #17447 on: 23/02/2021 12:00:04 »
Lakes without out and inlets should be the first to notice it in, shouldn't they? Species disappearing. Then you have the way some species, like salmon, return to to play and procreate. They won't be able to as the weather and climate change. Those few lacking those instinctive responses, lucky enough to find somewhere else, will be amongst that species last hope. At the same time as the release of green house gasses accelerate at those places.
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« Reply #17448 on: 23/02/2021 12:03:01 »
It doesn't really matter for the long picture that we're its culprits. The outcome will be the same as what we know from before. A extinction.
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« Reply #17449 on: 23/02/2021 12:16:17 »
There is this problem with a good education. It may instill a feeling of superiority in you, a false sense of knowing what is best at all times. You can get the same just from climbing your cooperate ladder, or in any way becoming a 'role model'. The best of us avoids it, at all costs, the rest what I call 'human', it's all too easy to believe that you know it all.


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« Reply #17450 on: 23/02/2021 12:18:19 »
Then of course, there is the question of what a good education should consist of.

Either you understand this, or you don't. I won't write about it now.
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« Reply #17451 on: 23/02/2021 14:16:11 »
Sweden and our other Nordic Countries are often lifted forward as some 'green example'. I don't agree to that, if we take Sweden then what exist today is a result of the past. And a past that had no knowledge of global warming. The people here today are kept as ignorant as you, well, almost.  They also seem to prefer it that way. They don't get it, just as you, and they too think they can 'push it' into a future.

'Banking On Thin Ice'  https://www.banktrack.org/download/banking_on_thin_ice/210202_banking_on_thin_ice.pdf

" This report covers the role of Scandinavian banks in financing the fossil fuel industry. It is based on research conducted by Profundo, the Netherlands based research and advice consultancy, into the investment and credit flows of ten Scandinavian banks into fossil fuel companies over the period 2016-2020, as well as assessments conducted by BankTrack of the fossil fuel  related policies of these ten banks.

This report is a joint publication of BankTrack, Fair Finance Guide Norway (Etisk Bankguide), Fair Finance Guide Sweden (Sveriges Konsumenter), Oxfam IBIS (Denmark) and ActionAid Denmark. "

But it is need of leaders and positive interpretations driving you, isn't it?
You don't want the bad, only those that makes it look good.
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« Reply #17452 on: 23/02/2021 14:23:09 »
With British banks in no way better :)

This will be my joke of the day.  " HSBC looks to Asia after profits plunge 34% "

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/23/hsbc-looks-to-asia-after-profits-plunge-34
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« Reply #17453 on: 23/02/2021 14:36:22 »
I can put it this way. Global warming not only threatens our earth, what is worse is that it threatens our game. That's one of the main reasons why you won't see the BBC discussing global warming in anything but positive terms. It threatens your beliefs and it threatens your ideals. It threatens your life style, your consumption, what you believe 'always' have been that way. On a personal plane it becomes something of a refusal for you to see, and accept, because if you did you would have to change.
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« Reply #17454 on: 23/02/2021 14:42:13 »
With a end result of making you just as ignorant of your extinction as any other species on earth. It doesn't help, intelligence, not if you refuse to use it.
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« Reply #17455 on: 23/02/2021 14:44:42 »
Another thing worth noticing is that no political ideology on this earth proves me wrong. The game is played everywhere.
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« Reply #17456 on: 23/02/2021 15:37:14 »
Well. being the positive person I am.

  https://animekisa.tv/konosuba--gods-blessing-on-this-wonderful-world!--legend-of-crimson-episode-1

I think I posted the first season already but it doesn't really matter, it's still positive, and don't forget your addbl0ckers.
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« Reply #17457 on: 24/02/2021 11:41:53 »
Now, this is a Chinese anime. Different and poetic. Taoism or Daoism depending on how you translate (pronounce) it, is not just one school of though but several and has today became a sort of amalgam, here in Europe and and the western world. I'm not sure what is right or wrong when thinking of it, but whatever you think it is should be okay, for you. And it mixes philosophy with a very Chinese way of looking at authority, knowledge and martial arts.

  https://animekisa.tv/ze-tian-ji-episode-1


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« Reply #17458 on: 24/02/2021 12:00:25 »
and this, this is a hard verdict on and for Microsoft " “Should Microsoft address the authentication architecture limitations around Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, or shift to a different methodology entirely, a considerable threat vector would be completely eliminated from one of the world*s most widely used authentication platforms,” Kurtz said. "

what it should mean is that not only USA has access to your computer, and network, if need be. And that goes for all governments, using Microsoft operative systems. That's also why they argue " for greater transparency and information-sharing about breaches, with liability protections and a system that does not punish those who come forward, similar to airline disaster investigations. “It’s imperative for the nation that we encourage and sometimes even require better information-sharing about cyber-attacks,” Smith said. "

For Microsoft and as a guess, for NSA, this becomes very troublesome. For Sweden too as we use Microsoft in our government and institutions. The world build on trust and the risk of USA looking over shoulder was deemed to be acceptable. But it isn't anymore and to build in weaknesses and 'back doors' are becoming increasingly risky. Unless you 'hard code' it of course into the hardware. But in the end it becomes a question of who, and what, you will trust. And how far you're prepared to take your own nation in that gamble. Would there be a war this would be a opening for blackmail, a added forcing of circumstances..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/solarwinds-hack-senate-hearing-microsoft
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« Reply #17459 on: 24/02/2021 12:14:18 »
And this I would call a vivid description of some of the implications of a 'death by a thousand cuts'.

" “Much higher sea levels will take out most of the world’s cities, displace millions, and make much of the rest of our land surface uninhabitable or unusable,” Bevan told the annual conference of the Association of British Insurers. “Much more extreme weather will kill more people through drought, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves than most wars have.

“The net effects will collapse ecosystems, slash crop yields, take out the infrastructure that our civilisation depends on, and destroy the basis of the modern economy and modern society. “If [this] sounds like science fiction let me tell you something you need to know. This is that over the last few years the reasonable worst case for several of the flood incidents the EA has responded to has actually happened, and it’s getting larger. "

He's correct, there's a lot of 'cuts' already appearing, and it's going to get worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/23/climate-crisis-hitting-worst-case-scenarios-warns-environment-agency-head

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