Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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Trump is speedrunning to aim for the lowest biodiversity index in North America.
Maybe if we stop ridiculously subisidising corn everywhere, some that gets thrown away because we have way too much, we could replace a couple dozen sq km of corn fields with more sustainable agroforestry, and thereby massively increase our logging output, instead of yk, cutting down the last wildlife sanctuaries? Not holding my breath tho.
We get 30% of our lumber from Canada. This is the inevitable consequence of shutting our borders to trade via tariffs - if these policies stick around for four years, sure, we may bring some manufacturing home at great immediate cost, but we'll also be bringing home the environmental burdens of manufacturing (the negative externalities) which we've been pushing onto other countries and ignoring for decades. In the meantime, other countries have started to learn how to handle those externalities, like China's big push for solar power. In America, we've got an idiot who is rolling back worker safety, health and environmental protections, the list goes on. So even if these tariffs worked, we're going to be living in a less healthy place, all in the name of jobs...
This has nothing to do with the tariffs; even if those weren't happening Trump would be selling the trees off to his cronies anyway. It's a blatantly corrupt kleptocracy.
The trees can't be harmed if the lorax is armed. You touch his trees, he aims for your knees.
One can make useful items out of wood.
Guillotines, for example…
Can you just find the article about this story that's not published in a corporate paper instead of posting this link?
It doesn't take long to find a better source
Why people link to a paywalled article in the first place boggles my mind. You're not sharing information, you're just advertising the paper for free.
Save a forest, shoot a ...
Wait, where's the line where what I say gets me banned again?
In my experience, that line was mostly left over on Reddit.
Just wondering, what makes a forest a national forest and does this include trees in national parks or are they protected?
Safe to say, nothing's protected from this admin