Horrific. Someone needs to be help responsible for this.

I don't really understand how you square running a blog about environmental conscientiousness with using AI slop but, ok. Your point about plastic stickers still stands fine. I'm just a little confused.

The not knowing seems to be by design with the plastics industry.

I hate them. They now are on every single banana because customer used scanners exist and customers couldn't possibly be expected to either know the code for bananas (4011) or even worse, use the lookup.

Might poorly affect shelf life of thin skinned fruits

I cut them off, I don't trust the gum residue.

I can't understand why we aren't instead using entirely-nonharmful-spray-on-in-labels.

It'd be less marketing-effective, it'd be something people couldn't move from 1 item to another ( to steal from the self-checkout ), & it'd remove the damn stupid stickers.

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Yes, these plastic stickers are totally stupid.

And l didn't even know they were non-degradable until a year ago or so.
Caught me by surprise hearing that.

I guess most people don't know that, leading to huge amounts of unnecessary plastics in the organic waste collection bins.

And "they and us" also have shared parasites: the banksters, the weapons industry, and the fossil fuel industry to name 3.

maybe its time to deploy your EMU forces again.

You have your parasites and they have theirs which are not you.

I thought it quite obvious that the line is between the workers vs the bourgeois/capitalists/0.1%/. Anyone thinking differently needs a quick socialism/marxism/lenninism refresher course.

After all, there's no war but the class war.

What can you expect from the fossil-brained lobby? Evade the truth, project their failings onto others and get a horde of compliant minions to parrot whatever narrative they manufacture.

Be careful what you wish for. Those of us living in developed countries may be considered part of the parasite class by those in developing or undeveloped countries. The line between parasite and host is completely arbitrary.

The billionaires/parasite class will be the death of civilisation. Someone needs to remove, with extreme prejudice, all the wealthy so we can reclaim the money they have stolen through immoral tax cuts, unpaid taxes, stolen wages, environmental destruction. Reclamation without reparations - take back the public assets and give them nothing.

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Yeah, right...

Scientists and environmentalists, sure. Other folks? Not so sure. People love to deny. I'm old enough to have met people believing environmental issues are just the exaggerations of some hippies- and I'm not that old. People also tend to ignore a problem unless they're already suffering the consequences. Which brings me back to my point: everything is easy to see in hindsight.

Well, to be fair to you. Even though the previous comment said know since the 80s, rooftop solar on households didn't really start in Australia until 2008 abs. From a climate change perspective, from ~1912 they knew coal increased atmosphere carbon

See?

It's nothing to do with what humans are doing!

It's all the heatwaves and cyclones!

Sure, and yes I know now, like you said. But the previous comment said science has been heralding solar since the 80s or so, implying it's unsurprising. So when I rewind a couple decades (or just one), did I know? No. I think people were still arguing that the infrastructure for solar made it more expensive in the long run, that it would be so costly to implement it wouldn't be feasible, or that it would be superseded by other renewables, etc. It's very hard to tell which arguments are credible or not when everything is hypothetical and in the air and you have no expertise in the subject. That was my point. Everything is easy to see in hindsight.

That aside, yeah I'm glad solar is where it's at today. Australia has a very sunny weather overall, which makes it ideal to develop and implement, and the government fortunately has supported solar in a variety of ways, which is actually pretty amazing. I only hope something similar happens with electric vehicles.

Well all of those things can be true though. The claim is that solar is massively cheaper than fossil fuels. Nuclear could still be better (generates more energy with fewer resources and less waste) wind could still be better (works 100% of the time*) but solar could still be getting cheaper and cheaper to the point where it “wins” because it’s easier to install, more distributed which means people are less dependent on the power grid, etc.

In any case, it sounds like now you know. Renewables are incredibly cheap because they don’t require continued investment in incredibly expensive infrastructure. They’re generally build once use forever. Fossil fuels are not, wells run dry, you have to continue to build pipelines, terminals, pump stations, etc for every new well pad. Those benefits from renewables can be had in a bunch of different ways and they all have pros and cons. But they are all cheaper than fossil fuels, it’s just by which order of magnitude and depends on how you measure (cost, maintenance, effect on environment, output, ease of construction, political issues at the time, etc).