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88m3 said:
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The county has removed 460 structures and replaced them with absorbent grasslands, winning national praise.


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One city’s plan to combat climate change: Bulldoze homes, rebuild paradise
Charlotte has been demolishing flood-prone houses for years. But the floods are getting bigger.


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Near my folks old house there was some old farm houses that were knocked over and they were a neighborhood farm for a maybe a year, then eventually they just planted trees.

It finally hit me a few days ago that the open area we used to cut through and play in as kids is now a densely wooded area.

I thought it was pretty cool.
 
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Near my folks old house there was some old farm houses that were knocked over and they were a neighborhood farm for a maybe a year, then eventually they just planted trees.

It finally hit me a few days ago that the open area we used to cut through and play in as kids is now a densely wooded area.

I thought it was pretty cool.
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Nice

A lot of smaller cities and towns are tearing down old houses/buildings that are abandoned and they have no hope of getting back on the tax maps and planting trees or making parks.

Time flies, one of the places I grew up is like that and then living in the city now it's the opposite with development.


One crazy thing I realized when I was reading this article last night See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s is that out of all the major cities I've lived in and visited around the world Brooklyn somehow has some of the cleanest air.
 
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emissions are at an all-time high, again :mjlol: People are all talk. ban plastic straws and then drive to work everyday
 
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The New York Times
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Oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by roughly 2% between 1960 and 2010, a new report found. The decline, called deoxygenation, is largely attributed to climate change, although other human activities are contributing to the problem.


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World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds
A new report found that oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by 2 percent over 50 years, threatening marine life around the planet.


well that's not good
 
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88m3 said:
The New York Times
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Oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by roughly 2% between 1960 and 2010, a new report found. The decline, called deoxygenation, is largely attributed to climate change, although other human activities are contributing to the problem.


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World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds
A new report found that oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by 2 percent over 50 years, threatening marine life around the planet.


well that's not good
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l was just about to post the same article. We Humans are playing Russian Roulette with our future at this point. If the ocean no longer functions are a carbon sink we may very well go extinct
 
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F K said:
emissions are at an all-time high, again :mjlol: People are all talk. ban plastic straws and then drive to work everyday
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Governments will be all talk until its too late. What truly needs to be done to mitigate climate change is such a radical reformation of society that the average person would freak out.
The problem is that we have an economic model based on continuous growth. Trying to outpace this growth with the development of green technology is unrealistic.
The global economic system needs to come to an absolute halt. In truth we would need to ground all flights. Put an immediate ban on gas fueled cars. Banks would need to be forced to divest from ALL fossil fuels. We would need to localize our food production etc etc. We would need to do ALL this while massively expanding investments into clean technology and carbon capture.
This is the uncomfortable truth that no one wants to talk about. Not even most climate scientist. It would spell the end of capitalism as we know it.
However what people dont realize is that climate change will inevitably put an end to capitalism regardless. And if we take the current do nothing approach the collapse may be so severe that I doubt we'll be able to salvage a civilization even remotely similar to our current one.
We should have been slowly making transitions to an environmentally friendly economy decades ago. Its far too late to for the "slow transition" that most governments and people are just paying lip service to.
 
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Senate eyes nixing 'forever chemicals' from major defense policy bill

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I think when yall put non-climate change stuff in this thread you water down the thread...but whatever.

Nonetheless, was a deep comment...I'm registered independent, but shiit! :wow:

  • Sherman's Tiki Torch     Keepingitreala month ago
    They [Republicans] think natural resources were put there to enrich the first person to get to them and lay claim.

    They don't like the idea that air and water belong to everyone, it's too close to socialism


  • :damn: This what makes it difficult being Independent, because it's stuff I agree and disagree and both sides.:snoop: Just need a Third Common Sense Party.
 
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newworldafro said:
I think when yall put non-climate change stuff in this thread you water down the thread...but whatever.

Nonetheless, was a deep comment...I'm registered independent, but shiit! :wow:

  • Sherman's Tiki Torch     Keepingitreala month ago
    They [Republicans] think natural resources were put there to enrich the first person to get to them and lay claim.

    They don't like the idea that air and water belong to everyone, it's too close to socialism


  • :damn: This what makes it difficult being Independent, because it's stuff I agree and disagree and both sides.:snoop: Just need a Third Common Sense Party.
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There is much to critique when it comes to the Democratic party. However, the Republicans are quite literally the most dangerous group on the planet word to Chomsky. I cant imagine having a level of denial so great where I could look into the eyes of my child and simultaneously espouse a system that will be detrimental to his(or her) future survival. This is the reality of most Republicans and Fossil Fuel execs. I honestly wonder how these people live with themselves knowing their denialism and inaction amounts to the greatest crime in human history.
 
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