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2 months ago@silence7
The Austrain Government just announced that gas is an important part of our emissions reduction framework.
I shit you not, Australian climate policy is literally
- speak some bullshit
- move on to the next issue
- Goto 1.
Bargearse
I am here to learn and face the truth, not avoid it and sometimes this can alas lead to confrontation when others prefer the latter to the former.
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@silence7
Insurance industry on the brink ? They made record profits last year and flooding in northern Australia is now stupidly underwritten by the federal government.-—
Australia’s QBE Insurance annual profit more than doubles
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The industry itself is hugly profitable, the real question is, how much longer can this ponzi insurance last ?
Australins are some of the biggest climate deniers on the planet, with zero moves to making a sustainable continent. As an Australian my empathy lies with the impoverished in other parts of the world, which our emsisions are destroying.
@silence7
The question here is will their call be drowned out by the incessant braying of Trump?
8·4 months ago>But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."
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It’s bemusing to me to see people articulate thier own stupidity so willingly in public. A lack of imagination to easily see how things could be much better by those who hold some sway seems to be the real impedient to making the changes needed.
@ajsadauskas
An estimated 11,000 die from exhaust pollution and 20,000 hospitilisaed from cars now , that’s ignoring 1000’s of direct deaths and injuries.I doubt most people really give a shit about micro plastics from tyres and participates from brakes, they’d ratier 10s of thousands die then ride a bicycle and catch a train.
>Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed
>The grave estimate from the study means that death from air pollution in Australia is 10 times more likely than a fatal road accident.
@heatofignition
But it’s impossible to put really good infrastructure in place while cars consume so much space, all that happens is endless complaining from car owners about removal of car parks or one more lane is needed etcWe have all the infrastructure we need to start, we can close many roads to cars and uses buses and bicycles in cities while simultaneously building out even better PT and medium density dwellings to stop toxic urban sprawl add green spaces, business etc on land previously allocated to car parks but that can’t happen becase we get endless complaints from car owners.
Will it be disruptive ? Of course, for a decade or more but then if we don’t, in a decade we’ll still be arguing we should have started a decade ago .
142·10 months ago@ajsadauskas
These are excuse trotted out by deniers in order to keep emitting and/ comes from entitlment. Not saying that’s you bit thats essentially the sane arguments they useAs to the toast allegory, it’s a nonsense argument because even then poorest Africans have emissions, a duck has emsisions, the debate needs to be around sustainable emsisions.
Apparently BP holds a gun to peoples heads and tells them not to vote Green, to fly to Bali for holidays and to buy a car and not cycle. It’s not their fault Chevron hasn’t invented a zero emsisions plane and zero emissions hovercraft.
You will AlWAYS have emsisions, the trick is we need get them to about 2-3t per annum (living like the average Cuban, not the average Australian) so do your bit to get your personal emisisons down to where they need to be AND vote Green to move the Overton Window and start allowing structural reform.
If it all sounds too hard just wait a few decades until Climate Changes destruction really hits home to even the developed world.
Everyone has to eat, no one has to fly or drive a car. Everyone can Vote Green (not to get them into power but to show all polticans it’s time to take this seriously) and to allow the rise if the really radical politcans we need.
Voters don’t, not becase of BP, Chevron or Shell but becase of greed, entitlement and apathy.
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@silence7
No one has to fly. Luckily 7 billion people don’t, or the ecological and climate mess would be even worse. Flying is the new climate denial. Know it’s bad and do it anyway, impactoary denial.
A good first step would be recognising the difference between needs and wants
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying/
>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207886-it-turns-out-planes-are-even-worse-for-the-climate-than-we-thought/
>It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year
>Taking a long-haul flight generates more carbon emissions than the average person in dozens of countries around the world produces in a whole year,