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Somebody partly opened it to make a fountain for kids to cool off under
If you were a vegan villan, you could spread the ticks that induce the allergy.
It’s more that converting a power plant from burning fossil fuels isn’t going to improve things, as the change in forest cover associated with that conversion results in similar emissions. We need to stop burning stuff at scale.
Yes, but not at the scale needed to offset the fossil fuel burning that’s going on.
Actually making this work means removing land from agricultural production, for example by ending US burning of corn as ethanol blended with gasoline, or by a huge, society-wide rejection of meat-eating.
Yeah, so long as the number of home users does not rise, they can be ok. Most of the world getting off fossil fuels can’t shift to wood
Because by showing that living a better way is possible, you can help shift how society as a whole operates. It’s not the only thing, but part of the story.
The basic answer is that when the power plant is far from the clearcuts, they can pretend it’s being fed using waste sawdust. Been a big issue with the UK importing from North America.
The problem is that you can’t supply power plants at any scale using waste sawdust. They clearcut to make pellets to feed the power plants
Wood pellets are exactly that kind of large industrial operation, with the pellets mostly shipped to power plants
Heat strokes like that mean you’re at the edge of what can kill. Really bad sign if there is a culture of toughing it out
It’s important to not just teach, but actively take measures during athletic practice on hot humid days to prevent kids from overheating. That can mean practice in an air conditioned space, providing ice, ice vests, shifting practice to cooler mornings, etc
This article is two years old
That’s what they said in Canada. Then there was a really insane heat wave in 2021 in Alberta.
A few people go for zen gardens, but there is a lot of low-water vegetation out there. Some municipal utilities even publish books about it
Yeah, we’ve just started making big changes
I’d rather see them displaced by actual news.
Also, he’s getting allies to fire journalists who cover climate.
Not sooner so much as more likely. We’re into the 40% to 50% range now