makerofspoons

The accelerating rate of extinction outlined in the latest UN biodiversity report, out last month: https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment

Some millennials are considering the collapse of civilization as a factor in their retirement plans: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-get-young-people-to...

I understand the pessimism. I think that course of action can be justified. I am still saving for retirement but I can't really justify it beyond some very early markers that we are going to decarbonize and save what we can.

I would love to see a citation for 11 billion people not causing an environmental collapse.

At our current population 40% of insects could be extinct in the coming decades, and over the last 50 years 60% of animal populations have been wiped out: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/health/food-biodiversity-repo...

This is closer to reality. Even the UN, which has been criticized in the media as too alarmist, has likely been too optimistic: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastatin...

Unfortunately there is no Vitamin D3 in these products, here is one of the nutrition labels: https://www.nutritionix.com/i/gardein/fishless-filet/5460edc...

That would mostly depend on the environmental impact of such a product, for me.

Seems like an opportunity to write a Lambda function or similar to sync your photos using their respective APIs. I wonder if there are any web hooks available for Photos that you could set to trigger the function or if it would just need to run every 15 minutes or something.

Not mentioned in this article, but the Gardein brand vegan fish fillets and crab cakes are excellent and already available at grocery stores.

That would be fantastic- no mercury or by-catch to worry about.

The loss of sea ice is stoking US heat waves: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-loss-arctic-sea-ice-stokes.htm...

Intense heat is also predicted for Europe this summer: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweather-2019...

James Anderson, the scientist from the article, also has linked ozone depletion with climate change: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-ozone-prob...

The article is from January 2018, so if Dr. Anderson is correct we now have four years.

Why can't prescriptions come in recyclable paper boxes, or glass bottles for liquids?

Humanity, as far as we know, is the only species that is aware of the impact it has on its habitat. It is also the only species we are aware of that has come to the realization that its habitat might be the only one like it in the universe, and that destroying the unique life that is found there is beyond tragic.

Defense contractors have a huge spectrum of work- some projects will be horrible projects maintaining legacy products with outdated technology and numerous security flaws, some will be using cutting-edge technology and will involve innovative things. There is a lot of bureaucracy, they often move slow, and the pay is often below industry standards. The current backlog of security clearance applications (in the US) means it could take years before you're fully onboard your program, and means that hiring help takes forever as well. If you end up on a great program they can be rewarding places to work, it's just a matter of being careful about choosing your opportunities.

Similarly I'm still waiting for the first time I have an OnTrac order actually show up.

We don't have to stop emitting all carbon dioxide, we need to develop the technology to capture and sequester what we do emit, however.

If you make more than $25k USD you are in that top 10%. This shows just how unsustainable our lifestyles have become and how in need of de-growth we are. But how do you make people step back from owning cars, taking flights, or eating imported food? People are not going to do so willingly, and our infrastructure in many countries was built in such a wasteful spread-out way that we will have to burn even more fuel to reinvent it.

When I worked in a physics lab a PRL publication was seen as a big deal.

I live in a low COL city, so most of my friends and myself are doing pretty well. Most of us, also including myself, are not planning on having children due to pessimism about the latter half of this century so child-rearing costs aren't really a concern.

"Climate change, protecting the environment and natural disasters topped the list of most respondents on a personal level, but less than three in ten of both the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts cited it as a worry."

This is surprising. As a Gen Z-er this highlights the kind of bubble I find myself in- my friend group is almost universally in a state of despair about the collapsing biosphere. Climate change and mass extinction are the chief reasons I am pessimistic about my life.

45 is much too late for the average human. The average human has a life expectancy of 79 years.

Everywhere there is evidence that we have overshot as a civilization.

In the garden there aren't as many insects anymore. They're in decline worldwide.

The weather isn't how it used to be when you were growing up. It's hotter, colder, harsher.

We are inundated with articles about the collapse of nature- how half the animals that existed in 1970 are now gone, the coral reefs are dead, and there is no end in sight. We are adding yet more people every day.

It's very easy to fall into despair that regardless of what you do today the collapse we are careening towards will erase all of it and more.

Carbon sequestration is built into the IPCC RCP scenarios, it is required to reach a tolerable future temperature.

It might be likely the results will be worse than the last IPCC report. The CMIP 6 models in general are running much 'hotter' than the CMIP 5 ones, revealing that the climate might be much more sensitive than anticipated: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-results-from-the-...

None of that sounds bad to me. Imagine how quiet it would be without cars and planes, and how much better the air quality would be. Perhaps obesity would even be curbed if people were eating local vegetables, fruits, and grains instead of fish, meat, dairy, and other animal products. What you have described doesn't sound like people are poor but living a leaner, simpler, healthier lifestyle.

A similar disaster is playing out in Mexico City: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647180486/mexico-city-thirsty...

Right

Drawdown.org ranks refrigerant management as the number one way to fight climate change: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

A fireball flying in from the north would scare the crap out of me if I lived near DC.

The WWF has estimated that, barring dramatic change, the stock of fish for food will collapse by 2048: http://www.wwf.org.pe/en/how_you_can_help/faq/sea/