Chamale posted:

fosborb posted:

at least someone in texas has snow tires

Chamale posted:

gay_crimes posted:

Highways are super hosed. I've known "car bad" for a while, suburban sprawl is devastating the biosphere, but the local pollution impact I understood was vague and unclear. I started digging in more and recently learned how about terrible ultrafine particles are, and how you're breathing that poo poo any time you're driving or within 300m of a highway. And if you're in an area with nocturnal surface inversions, like LA or Salt Lake City, you're getting extra hosed, because the extent of the pollution plume greatly extends extends at night and can't disperse normally, resulting in plumes extending up to 3000m if you happen to be down wind of the highway or major road. You breathe that in all night, and it easily gets indoors, and most filtering systems won't capture it.

Also, do not live near airports, especially if you're within 5-10 miles downwind of the airport depending on the prevailing winds of your area.

Don't jog in the nice, brisk morning.

Always recirculate air in your car when you drive, the air you breathe is pure poison on the highway but recirculating cuts it down to 20%, which is still terrible but not as bad. Major roads have these problems as well, depending on the car throughput per day, if you live near an intersection, on a hill, anything that would cause cars to accelerate or brake harder.

Truly awful stuff, and it's invisible! Makes me reflect on extended periods of time I've lived close to highways and major roads and would get headaches and regularly had irritated sinuses and breathing issues that resolved after moving. Or my grandparent who lived within 500ft of a highway and a mile downwind from the airport who died young from cancer. Or a person I know with asthma who grew up near a busy road and close to an oil refinery. Dated someone who had a sibling with autism and multiple different types of psychoses, their childhood home was within 1000ft of a highway and downwind from an airforce base. Fuckin everyone near or inside cities is getting poisoned with this poo poo and it slowly cooks you over time. You could go move out into the wilderness or a sparsely populated area, but global warming will still get you there, and you're more likely to die from something stupid and random like appendicitis because you're far away from services. A lot of people here probably know this stuff already, but I don't think it's common knowledge.

gently caress cars

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

endlessmonotony posted:

I like how people go "Tesla will save us" because they don't understand what road surfaces are.

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

gently caress You And Diebold posted:

massive elon musk energy
https://twitter.com/vkhosla/status/1362473247770431488

quote:

We refute the response from Petroecuador EP in which the Ecuadorian company declared its alleged compliance with all international health, safety, and environmental standards. This shows that Petroecuador is operating with outdated information and a lack of knowledge regarding the protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples and current climate commitments, and is actively preventing the country from complying with them. Petroecuador’s press release presents an industry free of conflict and violations of human rights and rights of nature by ignoring the current state of pollution caused by oil spills. There is no accountability or proper remediation, there is a lack of consultation and consent of Indigenous peoples and nationalities and the forced concession of oil blocks in Indigenous territories, among other issues.

The lived reality of communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon differs from these statements. The open-pit burning of oil waste and spills made possible by the lack of adequate prevention measures contradict Petroecuador’s claims. In the last year, there have been two major oil spills in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon: on April 7 along the Coca and Napo rivers, and on November 27, in the Shiripuno. Both have directly affected the lives of over 120,000 people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous), who depend directly on rivers to live and on the rainforest with which they coexist. The spills also affect isolated Indigenous peoples, whose lives are threatened by pollution, without protection by the government. The first spill occurred precisely because of the negligence of Petroecuador and the OCP consortium.

In 50 years of oil exploitation in Ecuador, no government has developed a consultation and consent processes for oil extraction or any other extractive industry (mining, agribusiness, etc.) to fulfill international standards. This is why, in 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the Ecuadorian government responsible for non-compliance of prior consultation. Despite this, the government has tendered oil blocks without consultation for the past eight years. In 2019, Waorani communities won a historic case against the government that demonstrated Ecuador’s systematic violation of prior consultation and consent, self-determination, and self-government.

Complications posted:

Ten years ago Chevron/Texaco had to pay $9.5 billion to the five indigenous tribes in Ecuador they deliberately poisoned. Surely after this feather touch on the wrist the oil industry working in the rain forest got bett-- hahaha here's what's happening today from an indigenous reply to statements made by Petroecuador.


Anyway I'm sure those dastardly execs will learn a lesson this time! [sitcom laugh track]

quote:

City Protective Services (CPS) law enforcement officer Kiera Cameron lives with her husband and son in 2077-era Vancouver under the corporatocratic and oligarchic dystopia of the North American Union and its Corporate Congress, a technologically advanced high-surveillance police state

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Who knew the future was going to be the Continuum tv show timeline.


In 30 or so years Congress will be CEOs from the Fortune 500 after global companies buy a bankrupt America outright. President will go to the richest person and the election will be decided by accumulating money.

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

Homeless Friend posted:

do we have any initial estimates of how much damage having water pipes burst all over texas and then subsequently having 90f weather to supercharge mold growth will result in?

Trabisnikof posted:

This still sums up my feelings on climate change:

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

Chris James 2 posted:

Would have lost a bet on Texas being the next state after FL to end up hosed by the climate death

stellers bae posted:

there's nothing wrong with 'fetishizing' nature

splifyphus posted:

nature as a master signifier is the kernel of all fascisms. anytime a product has the word 'natural' on it, it's lying. anytime a lib says 'human nature' they're lying. nature is a hoax, a scam, a freakshow of shambling monstrosities, a planetary cancer, a cheap offbrand yahweh clone for hippies without the cojones to make a real leap of faith. nature is dead, amd we have killed her. must we not become nature to be worthy of this deed?

theres no such thing as nature. never has been, never will be. poo poo's a toxic memetic virus that rots your brain inside out. deconstruct that poo poo and be scientific in your future conceptualizations.

Gio posted:

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1362608390699053059?s=21

gay_crimes posted:

Truly awful stuff, and it's invisible! Makes me reflect on extended periods of time I've lived close to highways and major roads and would get headaches and regularly had irritated sinuses and breathing issues that resolved after moving.

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

from the standpoint of insurance alone:

this also adds a new public health crisis on top of an existing one. all in all nothing short of a catastrophe, and a mere taste of what is to come- anything that isn’t winterized this go-round is going to have the same thing happen again. to speed up repairs I’m sure this step will be skipped completely

Perry Mason Jar posted:

I'm just quoting. The idea was that the "Global South" will be heavily impacted by climate change Soon (this was, ten years ago?) and developed and/or Western nations some long time thereafter. Lol

Pigmassacre posted:

Holy gently caress. I've been living *measures on google maps* 75(!!!) loving meters from a highway for the last 5 years, and I've been dealing with seemingly random sinus issues. It took me a while to actually notice that it wasn't just a one-off event but something that actually keeps occuring over and over. It just now clicked that I have no memory of this happening _before_ I moved here. At my current workplace it's a whole thing that I'm the guy that feels sick on-and-off.

What the gently caress. My partner and I have been wanting to move away from here for the last couple years, mainly due to the awful noise and the total lack of sunlight (all our windows are north-east facing...). This realization only makes it even more urgent.

Whaaaat is this what cracking feels like