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@silence7
The Austrain Government just announced that gas is an important part of our emissions reduction framework.
I shit you not, Australian climate policy is literally
- speak some bullshit
- move on to the next issue
- Goto 1.
I am here to learn and face the truth, not avoid it and sometimes this can alas lead to confrontation when others prefer the latter to the former.
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@silence7
The Austrain Government just announced that gas is an important part of our emissions reduction framework.
I shit you not, Australian climate policy is literally
@silence7
Insurance industry on the brink ? They made record profits last year and flooding in northern Australia is now stupidly underwritten by the federal government.
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Australia’s QBE Insurance annual profit more than doubles
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The industry itself is hugly profitable, the real question is, how much longer can this ponzi insurance last ?
Australins are some of the biggest climate deniers on the planet, with zero moves to making a sustainable continent. As an Australian my empathy lies with the impoverished in other parts of the world, which our emsisions are destroying.
I petitioned my local member 20 years ago about doing something this for email for delivery of documents and communication with citizens. He was even polite enough to meet with me about it.
I got precisly no where though :)
>But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."
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It’s bemusing to me to see people articulate thier own stupidity so willingly in public. A lack of imagination to easily see how things could be much better by those who hold some sway seems to be the real impedient to making the changes needed.
@ajsadauskas
An estimated 11,000 die from exhaust pollution and 20,000 hospitilisaed from cars now , that’s ignoring 1000’s of direct deaths and injuries.
I doubt most people really give a shit about micro plastics from tyres and participates from brakes, they’d ratier 10s of thousands die then ride a bicycle and catch a train.
>Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed
>The grave estimate from the study means that death from air pollution in Australia is 10 times more likely than a fatal road accident.
@bric
Bad ? No but it distracts from what needs to be done becase it ignores two of the most important issues in regards usefulness for climate change, scale and timeliness.
It can’t satisfy either of those even if you ignire the myriad of other genuine serious concerns.
So the real question is why so many bad faith arguments from proponents offering it as a solution when it obviously isn’t ?
My hypothesis on this is; addiction to technohopium. “Tech will save us, this is tech, therefore this will save us” and just ignores reality.
It may even make sense to build a few nuc plants in places with access to little renewables eg North Korea for example.
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@Blamemeta
As someone who uses the bus, I have to say I have never stabbed anyone or pissed on anyone on a bus (or off a bus for that matter) and I’ve never seen it occur. I have had friends and acquaintances killed and maimed in car accidents though.
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@silence7
No one has to fly. Luckily 7 billion people don’t, or the ecological and climate mess would be even worse. Flying is the new climate denial. Know it’s bad and do it anyway, impactoary denial.
A good first step would be recognising the difference between needs and wants
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying/
>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207886-it-turns-out-planes-are-even-worse-for-the-climate-than-we-thought/
>It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year
>Taking a long-haul flight generates more carbon emissions than the average person in dozens of countries around the world produces in a whole year,