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by yassam 7y ago
> ...without winding in a decarbonisation scheme that doesn't actually do anything I take issue with this. Australia's contribution to GHG emissions does contribute to warming. Even if it's only 1.3% (greater if you take e
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by yassam 7y ago
Good analysis. I've recently been reading The Australian online, and any time there's a climate related article, there are literally 100s of comments almost all of which are rabid climate deniers. It's stomach churning to rea
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by yassam 7y ago
As an Australian resident and now citizen for 20 years, I've been pretty angry since that last federal election. So many people here are still denying man-made global warming, and that includes our own government, which stood in the
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by yassam 7y ago
Hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths, are predicted from smoke inhalation: https://insidestory.org.au/slow-burn/
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by yassam 8y ago
ZX81 was my first machine. Got me hooked on coding at 11, and I'm still coding full time for a living 36 years later. I learnt the most important aspects of programming on the ZX81 with nothing more than 1k RAM, a small B&W CRT TV
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by yassam 8y ago
Get involved in grassroots politics, e.g. https://350.org/ Personal action (such as reducing your own CO2 emissions) is good but not enough. Collective action to put pressure on governments to regulate CO2 emissions is what
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by yassam 12y ago
The reason I mentioned the super rich of the past, is that they had enough money to buy whatever was available. Most other people couldn't afford to buy much at all, I imagine. So the question is, were the super rich then as acquisitiv
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by yassam 12y ago
I wonder to what extent a lifetime of exposure to advertising contributes to our craving for stuff. The article claims an evolutionary psychological explanation: anyone know of any research to back that up? Our ancestors were nomadic, so ac
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Big Brother’s Prying Eyes: Lawrence Lessig [video](billmoyers.com)
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by yassam 14y ago
I agree (about climate) and I don't think we can wait for peak oil to hit before we start making much deeper cuts in emissions. Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone shows that proven fossil fuel reserves are around 5 times higher than we can burn
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by yassam 16y ago
This article is critiqued at RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/04/climat...