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Skullerprop t1_j3vpirn wrote

Reply to comment by Belawzi in The ozone layer is on track to recover in the next 40 years, the United Nations says by ascendingthemountain

The same way we understand how gravity works and why the planets rotate around the Sun and the moons around the planets. Science.

And then you have stupid people who are unable to understand any bit of science and then decide for themselves: “no, this is not possible. It can’t be”. Sweet ignorance!

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Y34rZer0 t1_j3voc4b wrote

Reply to comment by Llanite in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

Faith in what they say being true.

I don’t mean to get into the morals of it completely, I just meant to say that when I saw our greenhouse emissions were Drop in the ocean compared to what they put out it was disheartening. I’m sad for the planet I guess..

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nIBLIB t1_j3vkmp9 wrote

Reply to comment by Curse3242 in The ozone layer is on track to recover in the next 40 years, the United Nations says by ascendingthemountain

When every climate scientist on the planet is in agreement, I choose to believe them. But, sure, there’s a chance they’re all lying and the UN and every government are all in on it in an effort for you to buy a different version of the same brand of hairspray. Because that makes sense…

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Llanite t1_j3vket1 wrote

Reply to comment by Y34rZer0 in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

Why faith? 🤷‍♂️

If you're buying plastic bags, they will make plastic bags. If you buy paper bags, they will make paper bags. They literally onlu make what you want to buy. It's not like they produce stuff and shove it into a blackhole.

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Llanite t1_j3viidg wrote

Reply to comment by Y34rZer0 in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

If China stop producing your crap and your country has to make them yourself, yours will be up there with the rest of the manufacturing world.

China literally produces stuff for entire world to use and their emission per capita doesn't even get into top 40. Something to think about.

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Mysterious_Emotion t1_j3vgted wrote

Reply to comment by faciepalm in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

Won’t have to wait that long. Polar icecaps are still around and it’s already happening. Mass extinction events, micro-plastics and synthetic toxic chemicals in all corners of the world, including living things like us, mountains upon mountains of waste from all industries piled up in backwater countries, facilities and infrastructures not able to keep up and withstand climate swings, many people dying….gonna be a pretty amazing fireworks display to look forward to.

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faciepalm t1_j3vflwl wrote

Reply to comment by Mysterious_Emotion in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

Carbon capture without alternative energy source is literally virtue signalling too. That's what their hydrogen bullshit is about too, natural gas converted to hydrogen while still releasing the same amount of carbon dioxide. Oil companies are not trying to help at all and they dont even deserve to help, all their money, assets etc should be stripped off them and used towards actual preventative measures.

When I meant the oh shit climate change is a real issue moment that's when millions are starving, regions are getting hammered so often they cant even repair etc. When the polar ice is already long gone

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K4m30 t1_j3verud wrote

Reply to Farmer Geoff Stevens has converted a formerly cold barn into a warming room for vulnerable people in Suffolk. He insulated it, got a log burner working, and added a kitchen and he's just opened it to the public in 2022 after plans to convert it to a café in 2020 were delayed. (links in comments) by whatatwit

In the future uplifting news will be the removal of hostile architecture to allow homeless people to sleep on park Benches. And everything is chrome.

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Mysterious_Emotion t1_j3ve9wa wrote

Reply to comment by faciepalm in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies

Emissions reversal ain’t happening within our lifetime, nor our children’s lifetime….maybe in their children’s lifetime, but that could be a stretch by a large margin. Oil companies seem to be hinging their bets on carbon capture (at least one of their big bets), so they think eventually they can make it a “closed loop” system, emit, capture, emit, capture in an ever ongoing cycle, so in the meantime, it’s full steam ahead for them drilling, refining, emitting, all while majority of consumers will continue to use. Until the societies finds a way to run the world through some other economic means, the Earth is gonna get major wrecked.

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