makerofspoons

You're right, I cited the wrong article. The summary does mention air travel only once, but it does mention the 80% reduction figure, which seems nearly incompatible with air travel if everyone is expected to live with yearly emissions of ~3-4 tons of CO2.

I get a meal kit too for variety- three to four meals a week from Green Chef depending on the amount of leftovers.

Edit: If anyone knows of any good vegetarian/vegan meal kits that do better on plastic, let me know.

I have decreased the amount of choice and the amount of shipping required for my food by switching to powdered nutritional shakes like Huel and Soylent. No need to worry about the picker getting the wrong thing and there is less need to worry about the colossal amount of plastic waste my weekly shopping used to create. I feel great and I only wish that there were some way to buy various 'lents in a reusable container I could ship back to them, or better yet pick up locally.

It's in line with the 2019 IPCC report, which called for an 80% reduction by 2050 https://grist.org/article/how-soon-do-we-need-to-cut-greenho...

There's really no budget for burning kerosene if we are serious about the 1.5 degree target. The only way I see aviation being compatible is if there is a massive breakthrough in biofuels or battery technology.

1/15th of a yearly total that is far, far too large. A sustainable value is 3 tons of CO2 per year (https://www.ecocivilization.info/three-tons-carbon-dioxide-p...). Now that transatlantic flight is 1/5 a person's yearly total which also has to include the emissions for their heating, water, food, and transport which is just not feasible in western countries today.

Worse yet, what many consider a standard of living increase such as air travel, cheap energy, and an abundance of material goods shipped from all over the planet are actually contributing to the climate crisis.

One benefit of the pandemic not mentioned in the article that I am hoping for is that the dip in emissions from driving, flying, cruising etc. will help us lock in a more accurate value for how sensitive the climate is to aerosols emitted by these vehicles. The error bars on just how much they cool the planet are large, ranging from masking 1 degree of warming to a more alarmist 2 degrees.

The main thing keeping me from using it as my daily driver is the battery, as others are reporting. Secondarily I'm working through an issue where I can receive calls but not place them which is also frustrating. I would also like to finish building apps for many of my IoT appliances so I can continue monitoring them on the go, like my smart thermostat.

This is a frequent topic of discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/

What happens to the economy when a significant portion of society wakes up to the reality of the biosphere collapsing? Will it happen soon or when the oceans are dead or the pollinating insects extinct?

As a customer I would rather they solve the problem that their pickers decrease the usability of their stores.

Also, only the world's richest (who have by far the largest carbon footprints) fly today. The comparatively small sliver of emissions it is today will balloon as the world gets richer.

Thanks! I fell out of the loop with this.

Many students aren't old enough to create their own accounts and getting parents to create accounts and provide credentials is a bureaucratic mess for the schools I volunteer with.

Zoom's web SDK and web client were down for nearly four days over the weekend with minimal communication, and when they brought it all back they killed a key functionality the education market needs which is the ability to join a meeting without an account: https://devforum.zoom.us/t/in-progress-web-sdk-web-client-fr...

I wish I had never backed this train wreck. The last 'update' I got from Atari was that they're building a cryptocurrency casino: www.casinoatari.com

That didn't give me quite as much pause as the "Atari Hotel" they were promoting a few months ago.

Very likely kids. I've been seeing tons of links to meetings with passwords being dropped into Discord chats asking for someone to bomb it at a certain time. While certainly there are some sophisticated bombers out there, it seems like there are quite a few who are just classmates wanting to disrupt classes.

My mother is a first grade teacher. While many things like math, reading, spelling, etc. can be delivered remotely (and I've been really impressed at the speed at which she has digitized it all) there is a lot of crucial tactile and social learning that occurs at that age that we have no real substitute for yet.

Wouldn't that pay scale push many talented people to work in private industry? At that pay it would be difficult to retain computer science faculty for example, where universities are already struggling with a shortage.

Being terminated can be looked on less favorably than quitting when applying to another job.

On the bright side, that new way of life could help reduce the rate of climate change if it means fewer international flights, more local production of goods, the collapse of the cruise industry, etc.

Calling Dick Tracy: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0616/13/dick-tr...

Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01086

The Paris Climate Agreement should definitely not be the template. It has zero teeth and is hardly aggressive enough to hit its own targets.

While originally the Clock represented the threat of the power struggle between superpowers, it's important to note that factors such as climate change and bioterrorism are now factored into setting the Clock. The Clock's current position was explained as follows:

'On 23 January 2020, the Clock was moved further, to 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight, meaning that the Clock's status today is the closest to midnight since the Clock's start in 1947. The Bulletin' executive chairman, Jerry Brown, said "the dangerous rivalry and hostility among the superpowers increases the likelihood of nuclear blunder... Climate change just compounds the crisis".'

I think many can appreciate that the lack of appreciable action on climate change is at least as worrisome as the the threat of a nuclear exchange and it is looking increasingly likely we will miss our 1.5-2 degree targets.

Pine64 has revisited the concept with the PinePhone, which has gotten quite a bit of attention in the UBPorts community (what Ubuntu Touch turned into).

So terrorists will use one-time pads and other strong encryption and everyone else will have their information exposed on a massive scale when the backdoors inevitably are exploited.

While it is unlikely to kill you, it can cause permanent damage to the respiratory system: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...

Climate change may also drive the collapse of food webs globally in the oceans: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Record numbers of bees died last winter, and we've continued to do nothing to address the problem: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/06/19/733761393/mo...

Here's the GitHub contact form for anyone who also could not easily find it: https://github.com/contact/report-content