Sending to my wife, she's the master gardener in this house.

Every so often I compare the amount in dollars of all wheat produced in a year and compare it to musks worth to see he could buy it all and not effect his wealth all that much.

They are sheets of silicon dioxide...our beaches are already seeing it pile up so high kids are playing in it!

These energy companies pay millions for PR firms to spread misinformation about energy. Talk to any American about the evils of ethanol in gasoline, they will tell you all kinds of internet chemistry.

But the biggest problem with energy is the idea that any grid has to be binary in its source of power. We don't need 100% renewables, we can reach real goals of significant reduction of emissions and cheaper energy without being zealots about any one source.

EVERY product should have end of life costs baked in.

Also, remember that things aren't too expensive, we're just not paid enough. By far, the biggest problem the world has is the top 1/2 percent raping everyone else 24/7.

Come now, I have had several FIGJAMs tell me that solar panels are essentially just junk at end of life, we basically have to bury them underground they are so toxic... So we might as well keep burning coal. I think they would know, they are self professed smart guys on the internet.

They are as insufferable as the nuclear advocates who regard every renewable as a distraction from building out more nuclear generation capacity.

what are the things we have absolute fucktons of.

what are the things renewables need.

They 'crunched the numbers', yet somehow couldn't put a cost comparison in a single, simple sentence.

That is toxic at so many levels. Scarring for your son too.

Saw a video recently where a retailer was recycling clothes using machines that would wash and break down the cloth and respin it into thread. That thread would then be re-weaved by other machines into new yarn for clothing/sweaters. It was a small test of the tech, but would love to see more of this. It would probably work really well for those machine-knitted sock parts of modern shoes.

I hope it works.

My son works at a national sporting goods chain. He has to destroy inventory daily because the stores demand it. If he were to take anything, he gets fired. So he spends a few hours each day cutting clothes just enough to ruin them. Shoes too.

He hates it, tells me the store fills a dumpster every week with cut clothes. What a fucking waste.

3% looks like pretty good number for me. Bigger problem is how much of it will be discarded after only one wear.

That's ok.

Poverty and the end of the world will stop people buying clothes full stop.

Ok we'll "recycle" them 😉

Our govt hasn't really started. With the European example and this situation having been discussed for a long time now and bits and pieces happening around the country we have a better chance to get a workable system happening. We as buyers must demand it.

That's nice, but too often "feel good" rules like these get passed with no enforcement teeth behind them.

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It's just a matter of priorities

i think there will be a time in the not distant future when people will want to help the environment

this will be when there they have no water, there is food rationing and they are either drowning or burning

@Almacca @arbilp3 Great book! Great author!

I recommend reading 'The Future Eaters' by Tim Flannery.

I wouldn't put all 'humans' into the same basket. Some 'humans', like traditional indigenous people and people who are ecologically attuned, can live and have lived on the planet in harmony with nature for millions of years. Other 'humans' see nature (the planet and all its natural attributes) as a resource base to exploit and those resources used to create an artificial world which is hostile to and competes against nature.

I dunno about that. Let's ask ChatGPT.

The planet will be fine. Life upon it however...

Even then, without humans poisoning everything, live will bounce back after a few millennia.

Yeh, we might as well hasten the complete destruction of the planet.

We should build several hundred gigawatts of datacenters. That'll fix the problem.

Unfortunately there's presently no options available to responsible pet keepers who want to vaccinate.