Can we get that in micro-furlongs? Is there a universally-recognized-and-used measurement system that doesn’t rely on American hand-egg sports fields for comparison? Some kind of common metric?
If we're being approximate, Meters and Yards are approximately the same.
But if you want exact then 200yds = 182m
Anyway, I actually have both an Imperial and a Metric tape measure in my junk drawer. When someone asks for a tape measure I hand them the metric one just to fuck with them.
An article worth reading in its entirety. Nordhaus’ models predict even a 6C increase as not that bad, this doesn’t even pass a common sense test. The fact that this fantasy outlook has sway with governments is terrifying and bodes ill for our future.
The study is very ambitious in scale, there are a lot of variables at play, and measuring social things is not an exact science. This means there are a lot of assumed values for various things. Too many for me to be comfortable with the conclusions derived on first read, even if I generally agree with the proposals. This level of assumption gets worse when reducing the paper to a headline.
Meat, milk alternatives could slash food system emissions a third: study
Yes, if... we ignore the entire animal fats and non-food animal product markets, apply supply and demand interventions globally, do not account for energy use in conversion/development of equipment, assume uniform instant transition rates, assume the historical trends of equitable food supplies continues as is, amongst many other things.
The reason I went looking into the study was because I was interested to see how they dealt with reduced yields from crops due to increased natural disasters (they don't), and if they have factored in the declined/declining nutritional value of mass produced crops that requires much more food to be eaten to get the same nutritional content from the same produce as 100 years ago (they don't).
The more of it I read, the more terrifying the outlook is. The linked article about the study is dangerously superficial, I worry that it encourages complacency, even if it's a good-natured attempt to encourage people to make constructive choices and keep morale up.
I attended a talk by a planner in my city and they explained that the big “useless” lawn area near the downtown is pretty much the only thing stopping the downtown from flooding when it rains, so yeah i don’t mind it as much anymore.
And although scientists who visit the continent to study its life and demise have a clear place here, many sightseers bring a whiff of “last-chance tourism”—a desire to see a place before it’s gone, even if that means helping hasten its disappearance. Perversely, the climate change that imperils Antarctica is making the continent easier to visit; melting sea ice has extended the cruising season.
I don’t like that Russia looks like they just took a Mercator projection and shrank to scale. Because of its shape and location, Russia is especially distorted by the Equatorial-centred Mercator.
To say that Mercator “lies” is to misrepresent the complications of projecting a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface. All projections “lie” in this sense because they’re simplifications of reality - that’s what a map is.
Mercator is the most accessible paper map. The Authagraph is the most accurate due to low distortion. It’s not listed in the comic, and can be confusing to use as a learning tool.
The real question is why are you so committed to flat maps in the digital age? I don’t even understand why Google Maps doesn’t correct to a spheroid when zoomed out like Apple Maps, requiring users to download Google Earth for accurate representation of land mass size comparison.
Tear humanity from nature and overwork them in factories and stale white boxes like cattle to the point every single person, even children is socially inept, mentally ill, and suffers from chronic stress, anxiety and Zoochosis for profit.
“Why can’t people just pop more children! Ow my economy! Ow! Ow!”
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