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Machiavelcro_ t1_je8sc5f wrote

Reply to comment by Arrrrrr2D2 in Israeli scientists develop drought-resistant tomatoes by TheLieDetectorBro

Why do you think this is the case?

Created in a lab environment, isolated from dangerous contamination like e-coli and other bacteria, free from growth hormones, and with the added benefit that you can control the micronutrients in the growth medium, tweaking stuff like the amount of b12.

Let's be objective about things, not take some pseudo religious "we are steering further away from nature" mentality.

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Spoonfeedme t1_je8rw2k wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 by Lakerlion

>What is the alternative to adaptation and confidence in human ingenuity?

Actual adaptation to mitigate the looking predicted catastrophic change in climate? You have demonstrated that you are willing to lie to me and yourself to avoid confronting the possibility of the world being severely damaged the change that is occuring, to the point of attempting to claim that it isn't.

Doing nothing isn't adaptation.

>Which we are not.

Who is we? There are already tens of thousands of deaths occuring each year thanks to climate change, either directly or thanks to the stress that change is placing on existing fragile systems.

Your statements remind me of the villas outside London in the 4th century, still enjoying their baths, oblivious to reality.

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autotldr t1_je8rtm8 wrote

Reply to Australia makes biggest carbon polluters curb emissions by electrictoothbrush09

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)

> CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation's biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits.

> Set to take effect July 1, the reforms create a ceiling on the nation's emissions and force Australia's 215 most polluting facilities to reduce their emissions by 4.9% a year or reach the target with carbon credits.

> Big polluters would be able to buy carbon credits to help achieve their emission reduction targets, but polluters that use carbon credits to achieve more than 30% of their abatement would have to explain why they were not doing more to reduce their own emissions.

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Isenhoowa t1_je8rgve wrote

Reply to comment by PopeHonkersXII in Taiwan's defiant leader departs for New York to start Central American trip by HeHateMe337

Interesting tidbit: Chiang Kai-shek's body is still not burried. He is put in a coffin and the coffin raised above the ground, because of his wish that he must be burried in mainland China after the KMT retake China.

So for 48 years, he is still unburried.

Just recently, a radical group of Taiwan independence activists sued the government for violating the Mortuary Service Administration Act for letting this happen and wasting money maintaining the facility that has been "temporarily" holding Chiang's coffin for 48 years. :3

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Substantial_L1ght t1_je8q05m wrote

Reply to Brazil, China strike trade deal agreement to ditch US dollar by loggiews

This is largely symbolic. There are only so many Brazilian Reals China can accumulate before they will need to get rid of it on the open market and that means they will eventually have to translate Reals to US dollars.

In any trading arrangement, as long as one side is exporting more than the other - in this case China - they will eventually need to use the reserve currency or be stuck with a lot of fiat currency that can’t be used to buy anything.

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