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Btw I’m a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

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  • Copy-pasting here my comment to this article from another community:

    Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (CCS) is a topic I changed my mind about, not that long ago, including its subsets like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), etc. Up to last year or something, I was thinking that it’s important for these kind of tech to be researched.

    Now I see things differently:

    • To my understanding, the only CCS tech that makes sense is the one that catches emissions at the source, the factory chimneys.

    • The others that claim to suck up GHG and store them “out of sight out of mind” are highly problematic for so many reasons. They are distractions from the real issue which is phasing out fossil fuel.

    A few relevant links:

    Fact or fantasy? Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?

    For fossil fuel corporations, keeping CDR on the agenda as a credible climate change solution is a Get Out of Jail Free card. Instead of stopping emissions, they promise to capture and bury them. Not now, but someday. As the CEO of Occidental Petroleum told a conference of her peers in 2023, “We believe that our direct capture technology is going to be the technology that helps to preserve our industry over time. This gives our industry a license to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years that I think it’s going to be very much needed.”[

    Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

    The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

    More articles in the relevant community:
    cdr@slrpnk.net







  • It was a huge disapointment that contrapoints demonstrated this way of thinking on the genocidal settler colonial movement called zionism.

    Personnaly, I listen to anti-zionist Jews on on the matter, like Jewish Voice for Peace, since they are the largest Jewish anti-zionist organization in the world. Having JVP’s input, I can say this word substitution doen’t work for me.

    Still thank you OP for posting this because, somehow I wasn’t aware of it. I unsubscribed from contrapoint’s channel, and I will not watch any of her videos again, unless she has a change of heart.



  • Just to note that at some point in this article it looks like SDGs are portrayed as something positive. I don’t share this view. I am more of the view that it is SDG-washing.

    Edit: In principle, SDGs could be a step towards the right direction. In practice, to my understanding, they are used for PR. Companies and corporations, more often than not, are vaguely supporting some of these goals in order to be considered as SDG compliant, while covering up the sectors that are actively harmful. And that’s perhaps one of the best case scenario.




















  • If you look into the article, when this is mentioned, there is a relevant link. I think it is worth taking a look at it, because it gives perspective on this topic. Actually, a few, not only one.

    The countries with the biggest skews in favour of boys in sex ratios at birth have seen a reversion towards the natural rate.

    In a handful of places, the overall birth statistics appear to reflect a preference for girls over boys.

    But in most countries, any preference for girls expressed in polls is not strong enough to show in the overall sex ratio at birth. Most parents-to-be seem to balk at sex-selective abortions, in other words.

    The assumption that daughters will be more nurturing whereas sons will grow distant is ingrained even in the most egalitarian societies.

    Edit: I rewrote the comment, when I realised there are a few links in the article that clarify things




  • For me, this is beautiful because thanks to the many rows, we can access more stuff in just one click.

    I don’t know how anyone would feel about the following, nor how easy or difficult it would be to implement something like that, but I’ll say it anyways. I was wondering if we could somehow access all these in one click, instead of two. Meaning, what if these lists were on the sidebar? Or perhaps create a new, narrower sidebar on the left side? Possibly, them having the option to collapse as well?

    Just some thoughts and thank you for everything.