The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you’ve ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible
The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you’ve ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible
Also, lots of state and local governments in the US have strong renter protections.
You’d probably site them on higher ground outside of the flood plane. Add in flood walls, etc. if storm surge is a concern
A go to lunch for me is overnight oats. The night before I throw half a cup of oats and water into a container, add a spoon full of peanut butter, a tbsp of chia seeds, and handful of frozen blueberries
For sure. I think trying to preserve these tools is a bit of a waste of time. But extending their lifespan is always a win in my book
When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.
Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.
I like to chop it up, fry it with onions, and put it in burritos. Breakfast burritos especially with egg, bacon or sausage, and cheese. It can also substitute for turnip or collard greens in a recipe if you’re looking for a place to eat it. Since its more of a bitter plant, you’ll want to use it much differently than spinach (whoever told you it tastes like that deserves a stern talking to)
Wait until you get into food preservation!
I’m from a big wind state. It’s absurd to me how unpopular wind farms have been among rural folk. It brings jobs and revenue and has a relatively small land foot print. I just don’t get why people don’t like them, except for culture war stuff :/
Nuclear could be useful in applications that need a high energy load on-site, like steel, cement, and nitrogen production
That’s a great point, I didn’t consider the tech tree that leads to bikes also makes cars more likely :/
I definitely recommend looking into some of Dr. Fowlers history, he’s such a cool person and his work with Crop Trust was so cool.
The only disease to be fully eradicated, 5 million people can live every year who otherwise would have died had we not defeated this disease
In 2008, the most likely projections had us around 4.5 degrees of warming. So, there is progress. Insufficient progress, we need to double down, but progress nonetheless
I disagree. To unlock workable solar and wind powered electricity, you need something to carry you energetically through the ‘tech tree.’ I simply don’t think you can get to that level of technology without some fossil fuel use.
To an extent, but we have the chance of transitioning into a solar and wind society and remediate that damage. Subsequent species would not have that potential.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if it would be possible for another species to reach our level of technology or civilization. We built up our society off of easily accessible energy resources (surface-level coal being our first source of industrial energy). This energy excess allowed us to develop other sources of energy, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. But if you tried starting from zero again, you could never get to this point, at least along the same path, as you need a high level of technology to access any available energy resources. Thus, if any new species took our place, they could only ever rise to the level of the pre-industrial revolution.
Nobody does maintenance in authoritarian regimes, either. It’s not a priority under any governance system
Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.