What am I supposed to go and do? Re-freeze Siberia?
Their logic is that by reintroducing megafauna like elk and moose into more parts of Siberia, these animals will graze during winter to survive, thus exposing more of the soil, which lets the frost permeate down to further depths and slows down the recession of permafrost.
Their logic is sound and experiments have demonstrated that grazing animals do help to reintroduce permafrost, but I seriously doubt their operation is scalable (they are something like a 3-5 man team)
If you want to make an immediate, large impact, without having to rely on other people’s actions, start taking public transportation everyday.
- reinsulate your house
- if you live in a sunny place, build/buy a solar heated water tank
- plant trees
- try zero waste lifestyle
- fund lithium recycling plants
- buy electric companies stock
- fund a local veggies club
- fund a repair / recycling shop
- harass your family and neighbors to use the two above
- walk any distance below 5 miles that doesn't require heavy loads (or rain)
- stop buying
- go to an AWS datacenter and cut some wires at random
If you don't have money nor time:
- paste this comment to people you don't know on the internet
what's wrong with the rain?
You say that as a joke, but I know some of you work in the tech industry.
Go into work and make sure your company isn't running twenty physical machines when twenty virtual machines on one physical machine would do.
If you're in charge of buying desktops for a corporation, check the power consumption of different models and take it into consideration when making your choice. One watt times a thousand desktops is a thousand watts.
If you're writing code that runs on hundreds of machines or more, write more efficient code.
And any power you save is also saving your company/customers money, so make the same case to your boss/coworkers.
Meh, it's at that threshold point where there'd be some advantage but it would never put me ahead financially to do it
>if you live in a sunny place, build/buy a solar heated water tank
alas
> plant trees
there are trees in every place that could hold a tree where I am, but i've done what I can in the yard
> try zero waste lifestyle
i hate plastic but everything comes wrapped in it. what do?
> buy electric companies stock
it's a crown corporation, i just pay my taxes
> fund a local veggies club
seems like the local asian supermarket sources these things as locally as it can already tbqh
> fund a repair / recycling shop
i like this idea a lot
> harass your family and neighbors to use the two above > walk any distance below 5 miles that doesn't require heavy loads (or rain) > stop buying
all in on these already
> go to an AWS datacenter and cut some wires at random
violence usually results in more energy expenditure, centralizing all that compute actually probably saves us a ton of energy compared to running idle machines everywhere