70,000 tons "to date" is a heck of a lot less than 37 billion tons annually. It would take over 500,000 identical facilities with no environmental impact to reach net zero.
That’s why Grekin and five other graduate students signed their names to an Oct. 5 letter proposing new rules that would force a much stricter standard for fossil fuel funding for Stanford’s research....
I will give you money to research something. If the results are favorable to me, I will be able to give you more money to continue researching the thing. If they are not favorable to me, you will be required to find new sources of funding.
They are not interested in facts and logic, they are interested in wearing you down until you give up and/or feel worse about yourself. They are not arguing in good faith, and they are not worth your time or mental effort.
My towns local realtor group (there's only like three total) bought a dying motel and converted the rooms into the absolute shittiest "studio apartments" with like a hot plate and a mini fridge.
In my little rural town there were so many people who lost their license that they had to go and privatize all the roads so people could drive their ATVs to the liquor store and drop their kids off at school.
This is for the people who miss /r/breakingmom on reddit. I'm not very good at kbin so I'm still trying to figure out how it works but since I'm the only one here I think that's fine.
Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so (www.theverge.com)
When compared with a short commuting time (< 30 min), a long commuting time (≥ 60 min) was associated with a 16% increase in likelihood of depressive symptoms (www.sciencedirect.com)
An Exxon-funded scientist speaks out | “There are definitely ways that [fossil fuel funding] can influence the research," she tells HEATED, as the fight for university divestment heats up. (heated.world)
That’s why Grekin and five other graduate students signed their names to an Oct. 5 letter proposing new rules that would force a much stricter standard for fossil fuel funding for Stanford’s research....
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We’ve officially gone full circle (lemmy.world)
Not the same thing, my dudes (slrpnk.net)
OC Here is a baby goat.
[meme] Car dependency is a communist plot to control us — real Patriots™ walk! (or use mobility aides for ADA compliance) (lemmy.world)
Unironically, this is the argument I use when discussing urbanism with skeptical American conservatives.
OC Cardassians are reptilian after all
Giant kites could pull cargo ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions - Beehaw (beehaw.org)
Gender Rule (lemmy.world)