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🤘🏻 conservation ftw 🤘🏻

my local environment center was planting box ironbark in chiltern vic around 2000 for theses little dudes to live in

Spot on!

Cane toads are prolific breeders, with a single female laying up to 30,000 eggs twice a year.

TIL.

Well, Independents are the right option as long as they have positive climate action in their plans. The major two are gutless on actually doing anything.

well, people had 3 years of this environmental horror before the last election and then proceeded to boot 4 of the 5 Greens out of parliament, so it's safe to assume voters don't really give a fuck.

Remember all of this, anyone who is considering voting Labor ever again. We don't live in a political system where only two parties can exert power. The minor parties can have major impact.

The idea that politicians are meant to 'listen to the people' is a bit tricky. Because some people talk about what they believe and care about, and other people talk about what they are paid to talk about... and people's beliefs are influenced by what other people are saying.

So with enough money, 'public sentiment' can be whatever the rich want it to be.

This is why good leaders need so sometimes go against public sentiment. They must lead the public to the best outcome rather than just listen. .... unfortunately, a more common outcome is that they go against public sentiment in order to self-enrich. So that sucks.

Our super-efficient machines of propaganda make it extremely difficult to have policies that aren't focused on consolidation of power.

I reckon a similar thing happens with the meat industry regarding the aggressive rabid vegans I bump into online.

More money to "licensed" mafia. Prepare for 4x price jump.

It is not possible to build stable grid on renewables only using current technology. Batteries are not there, world can get enough batteries for cars, not mention grid. And just think about ecological impact of making all these batteries. Grid interconnects is not ready to take load needed for grid only on renewables. List is go on. Full renewable grid is child stories for non engineers at this time. Nuclear is mature and can be integrated to current distribution network without too much troubles. There is no alternative for it unless you are willing to wait another 50 years.

One positive is that the research is now in the open so it will be easier to monitor the flow of money. However, how it will be turned around to become fairer is not clear. At least knowing it allows conservation and other environment organisations to keep asking questions and demanding change.

I'm sure no one will investigate the flow of money leading to this

Of course, no need to look into the politians. Maybe just age verify more things and it will go away?

But I bet in 20 years, when shit hits the fan, we will still be debating about it and burning coal.

Solar and wind will make up near 100% of the grid (backed by batteries), likely in 10 rather than 20 years. Nuclear had its time, which is now long since passed.

After we nuke it, it'll be unpopulated, and there will be no one to complain. Easy!

If it were only that simple but it is not. Do a little research and you will learn, for example,

A nuclear winter would not reverse the effects of global warming. The changes in surface temperature, solar radiation and precipitation, would exacerbate some effects, including ocean acidification and damage to the ozone layer. Recent studies modeling the potential climate effects of nuclear war using crop yields, marine fishery and livestock production as indicators, found that production levels across the board would drop catastrophically, leading to global famine. https://www.icanw.org/what_would_nuclear_war_do_to_our_natural_environment

And we still resist the nuclear option. Two stations, and all coal gone, without any major changes in the network or new technologies, But I bet in 20 years, when shit hits the fan, we will still be debating about it and burning coal.

I guess it was about the Siberian permafrost. When that thing will thaw, it’s going to be a shit show.

we just need some unpopulated land to nuke. Of well, I know country which has plenty. But unpopulated island will be better option fallout wise.

No, they will not be able to say that. The facts have been known and recorded in so many places. No one will be able to plead ignorance. When our children are old enough to understand we must also let them know the facts and teach them how to have a propaganda and spin detector AND also teach them lots of self-help skills.

I get so pissed off about this. Here am I doing my best, with the puny things under my control, and all those who have power and responsibility who could actually achieve something, do NOTHING.

And when the shit hits the fan, we know what the narrative will be and the history books will write:

• "Who could have known?"
• "Nobody could have known!"
• "If we knew about it, we would have done something!"
• "We tried everything we could!"

You got it the wrong way around. Nukes are going to throw lots of dust in the air, which will reflect solar energy away before it has a chance to heat the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

We knew this with certainty when methane started escaping from ice caps faster than it could be sequestered.

But I guess its always good to see more data.

I feel like it wasn't that long ago I had to refer to satellite tracking websites to have any hope of catching one pass overhead, now I can look up at any point and see 3-4 starlink sats at once.