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Maybe because quite a lot of plastic gets sent to asia? https://www.dw.com/en/german-plastic-floods-southeast-asia/a...

clowson Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

As you said yourself ... the airpods are better bluetooth headphones than the ones you had.

Charging is mostly a nonissue due to the case having a battery. shutting down is as simple as putting them in the case.

There are downsides (Airpods are expensive and though they can last a few years in the end are a throwaway product), but not having a cable being in the way and pulling out the headphones is also something I'd consider a downside so there's that I guess.

clowson Farmers sue German government over climate change failures

Money makes the world go around so:

The 2018 drought cost farmers in germany approximately 2 billion euros -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/germany-f...

ground water levels are at an all time low due to very little rain: 2018 was especially problematic.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-chang...

forrests are dying at an alarming rate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/07/part-of-...

I wouldn't say germany is a climate change hotspot but the effects are already here. Politics just hasn't caught up with reality yet.

clowson Ask HN: What happens after no-deal Brexit?

The Union you are talking about dissolution being the GB not the EU I assume?

clowson I Miss Microsoft Encarta

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

possibly https://skepticalscience.com/1982-exxon-accurate-prediction.... (totally unverified - lots of links to the sources though)

clowson Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?

Which company did you order from? I'm from Austria myself and thinking about building with timber walls.