Commonly known as the UN biodiversity summit, COP16 is a meeting of government officials from around the world — likely including some heads of state — to figure out how to stop ecological collapse. COP, which stands for “conference of the parties,” brings together environmental leaders and officials from countries that are part of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global treaty under the UN to conserve nature. They meet every other year to push forward a conservation agenda.

In 10-15 years people will be nastalgic for Fortnight the way people are nostalgic for Xbox 360 halo

And a Creationist!

Just visited Denver/Boulder. They had EVs everywhere

I was made for this class

Poultry is definitely the more climate friendly of the meats but it doesn’t come without problems

There’s still increased risks of pandemic with factory farmed chickens and most chickens are raised in inhumane conditions

Because the moon is moving away very slowly there will be a last total solar eclipse at some point. We’re lucky to have such good ones currently

I’ve heard that’s the plan. They’re dedicating an hour to the presidential candidates. If only one shows up then that candidate gets the whole hour

Harris is showing within the margin of error for polls nationally

What we really want to do is look at her chances of winning each state to see the probable delegate total but it’s WAY too early to tell and either way we shouldn’t get complacent

I think the dude in the pic is trans masc

Or Alaska

Which one? I loved what I was reading and was thinking of picking one up

These are very good

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/danez-smith#tab-poems

Congrats on your son! I’m sure your support is going to help them tremendously as they discover themselves

Low quality information is easier to produce than high quality information

Even worse, while people prefer high quality information, the preference is weaker than other preferences, such as the desire to see things that are cute or make you angry

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Never heard of it, either

It’s not a straw man, the guy knows what he’s talking about. Destroying biodiversity is a major problem with a lot of tree farms and tree planting programs. Tree planting doesn’t HAVE to do that but that kind of management is hard to do, like the guy said

Can you not afford an air conditioner? A heatpump is only marginally more expensive

Two things

1. Politics is for Power provides a pretty good model for thinking about this https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Politics-Is-for-Power/Eitan-Hersh/9781982116798

There’s a lot of political hobbyism on social media in general and Lemmy is really bad for it. Take for example the constant Elon Musk rage bait. No one is doing anything productive with that information. They’re just getting mad

2. Social media, in general, isn’t a good way to get informed. It makes you feel really in touch but when a lot of the time you’re getting biased and polarizing that is often as enraging as it is unproductive

We treat politics like entertainment and it’s making our politics worse. Personally I try to limit my exposure to politics that I don’t think will be productive. It might feel like the most important thing in the moment but it’s often a huge waste of time

That’s a false dichotomy in a lot of the comments here

We do both

Carbon capture isn’t so we can continue to use fossil fuels. It’s because once we get to 0 emissions we still need to draw down the carbon in the atmosphere

An ounce of prevention is almost always worth a pound of cure but we’re still going to want that cure because every extra tenth of a degree we can bring the Earth back to normal is going to be worth it