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2020-04-07 Climate change triggers Great Barrier Reef bleaching
posted by metastab at 2020-06-08 21:19

metastab: "Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its third coral bleaching event in just five years. The 2020 bleaching is severe, and more widespread than earlier events."
metastab: In other news, NO NEW COAL.
metastab: ...but The future of renewable infrastructure is uncertain without good planning.
Ash: coal is just part of the earth, why do u hate earth
metastab: imho one of the biggest challenges, if not the biggest, of decentralised energy infrastructure is achieving the economies of scale which are needed, and could be achievable if only there were not so many competing, but similar, schemes
metastab: this is where government or some large investor can make a huge difference, simply by assigning essentially, a patent or monopoly to a given system or type or deployment, and ensuring that it gets the momentum needed to be deployed with maximal efficiency
metastab: (I hate patents and monopolies, but I think we can find where to draw the line in this sector as readily as in any ... yet I don't see any discussion or planning in this direction.)
metastab: back to the article: "For the first time, severe bleaching has struck all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef -- the northern, central and now large parts of the southern sectors." That's an area the size of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, all simultaneously checking out.
metastab: INFER FROM THIS, VERY SHORTLY YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO BUY FISH TO EAT. Call it years or decades, soon what few fish stocks remain will be unaffordable to those who have no other affordable option.
metastab: 750 million starving people. Compare that with COVID and figure out whether you want more coal.
metastab: sociological result of only 100,000 dead in USA You do the math. 750 million is not a small number, even if their starvation is spread over some decades.
metastab: your soundtrack should you choose to ignore or laugh
metastab: here's what happens to democratic institutions in times of crisis. Deepening the crisis only leads to even fewer freedoms.
metastab: Do the math and get off your arse, or the day is lost.
metastab: They kill people in front of our eyes to show impunity and cause dread. It's not racism, it's fascism.
metastab: I don't think the mathematics of fascism looks 50 years into the future, and I don't think it cares about saving a global ecosystem.
metastab: I don't think it thinks at all.
metastab: They seek excuse for violent escalation. The proper response is to double down on peaceful collaboration.
metastab: They seek the excuse for violent escalation because they know they are losing, and have invested heavily in an unsustainable status quo.
metastab: otoh, here's this

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