Greta Thunberg
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You're not alone!
Cryptominging appears to me to be one of the worst things ever invented by humans.
The argument here is not about this - but about how to decrease the emissions and who exactly and how they contribute the most.
If only we could reuse our old PC cases, motherboards, old smartphones, etc, without throwing them in the trash...
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You'd have thought the EU's targets couldn't be considered ambitious given mining of materials and production is mostly done elsewhere.
Are you confident that the loss of green land will be MORe than offset by flooding land and killing humans (flashbacks to Bender from Futurama with "Kill All Humans!") ??
I guess at that stage, who really cares?
A few years ago I did wonder if a global pandemic (a la Survivors 1970s TV series) might be the best thing for the planet as human beings (and politicians particularly) seem unable/unwilling to fix their "issues" but I'd definitely prefer we fixed this ourselves
to be fair he was a pretty good keyboard player for D-REAM. Remember meeting him in bradford university when D-REAM headed the freshers ball.
That brings back memories
Remember watching this as a teen
Not too far from the Truth re
andemic started in China 
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Yet despite everything you say, I'd wager he's doing better than you...
Genuine lol
Maybe viruses are the earth's protection against overpopulation damaging it. The thinner the herd then the less impact a virus has. But bigger herds get decimated by pandemics. Throughout history pandemics have thinned us out. But the problem now is we have enough understanding and technology to limit the impact of it and to create vaccines.
not really, we just got lucky with the current pandemic that it was not particularly lethal. Take Ebola as an example. Scientists were working on candidate vaccines since the early 90's and it wasn't until around 2014 that they actually managed to succeed. Most of that is due to Pharma not being arsed in developing somethng that would cost billions for a disease that impacted 3rd world countries who likely couldn't afford to pay. The only reasons the vaccine really made it in the end is when the USA starting to **** a brick as they had imported cases from africa.
It's pretty much the same as the climate change issue, none of the developed world leaders can really be ****** because it costs money and they won't get anything from it. The human race basically deserves extinction due to it's inability to not be a race of selfish narcisitic *****.
A. You don't know that.
B. So? Trump is doing better than me, but that doesn't stop him being an idiot.
Well, that's a very unfair comparison. I don't actually have anything against Brian, I just don't like the way the BBC is constantly trying to sell him as something he is not.
The BBC in the past have found some real characters for their presenters. David Attenborough and Patrick Moore for example. These people go far beyond being "just" presenters. But typical BBC they want to rinse and repeat. They are trying to force Brian in to bigger shoes ~ make him an authority on all things science, which he most certainly is not. He is not a climate scientist, he is not an astronomer. I am tired of the BBC making headlines like "Brian says this...." when he is not qualified in that field. Attenborough and Moore were experts in the field they commented on, Brian, invariably, is not.
That brings back memories
Remember watching this as a teen
Not too far from the Truth re
The title sequence says it ALL.... the 2008 remake was a bit "meh" for me.. too much "OMG the internet is down, society is crumbling"...
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She does, says and knows nothing more than any school kid studying Geography, and every such kid with a passion for the subject would be just as vocal about global warming as she is.
It hardly matters at all what developed countries do when China / India / Brazil keep pumping out as much pollution as they do, and what do we think is yet to happen once Africa reaches full industrialization?
It hardly matters at all what developed countries do when China / India / Brazil keep pumping out as much pollution as they do, and what do we think is yet to happen once Africa reaches full industrialization?
That leaves everything in place though to pollute and go wrong.
I think an abandoned human civilization would definitely be worse