For me, there are to many “ifs” and assumptions in this hypothesis.

Copy-pasting here my comment to this article from another community:

Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (CCS) is a topic I changed my mind about, not that long ago, including its subsets like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), etc. Up to last year or something, I was thinking that it’s important for these kind of tech to be researched.

Now I see things differently:

• To my understanding, the only CCS tech that makes sense is the one that catches emissions at the source, the factory chimneys.

• The others that claim to suck up GHG and store them “out of sight out of mind” are highly problematic for so many reasons. They are distractions from the real issue which is phasing out fossil fuel.

A few relevant links:

Fact or fantasy? Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?

For fossil fuel corporations, keeping CDR on the agenda as a credible climate change solution is a Get Out of Jail Free card. Instead of stopping emissions, they promise to capture and bury them. Not now, but someday. As the CEO of Occidental Petroleum told a conference of her peers in 2023, “We believe that our direct capture technology is going to be the technology that helps to preserve our industry over time. This gives our industry a license to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years that I think it’s going to be very much needed.”[

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

More articles in the relevant community:
cdr@slrpnk.net

Your comment reminded me of a recent article from Carbon Brief:

Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?

It was a huge disapointment that contrapoints demonstrated this way of thinking on the genocidal settler colonial movement called zionism.

Personnaly, I listen to anti-zionist Jews on on the matter, like Jewish Voice for Peace, since they are the largest Jewish anti-zionist organization in the world. Having JVP’s input, I can say this word substitution doen’t work for me.

Still thank you OP for posting this because, somehow I wasn’t aware of it. I unsubscribed from contrapoint’s channel, and I will not watch any of her videos again, unless she has a change of heart.

I tend to agree with what you say but I feel like mentionning a couple of things I see perhaps differently.

I believe saying marine mammals are a myth has nothing to do with claiming alpha males don’t exist. The first is about a biological classification, the latter is about observed (or projected) social behaviors within one species.

Apart from that, and to my understanding, the manosphere has taken a hold of the alpha male narrative and expanded it far beyond the scientifically debunked myth. I do not imply that the fact that the alpha male myth has been debunked means that there are no hierarchical structures in species, just that when they are present, they are misrepresented in order to promote competitive narratives. This is why primatologist Frans de Waal inadvertently popularized the term ‘alpha male.’ Now, he’s debunking common stereotypes to explain what an ‘alpha male’ really is – empathetic and protective.

Just to clarify, not family dynamics, but wolves in captivity.

Edit: What we call “wolf packs” are just families. They are loving and take care of each other. In the unnatural environment of captivity, wolfs demonstrate different and aggressive behaviors, and studying these behaviors lead to the alpha-male myth

For socialism in the context of the so-called communist countries, I agree with you.

For socialism in the context of the nordic model, I am not sure because I am not well informed about how they have handled nuclear power.

Edit: Regardless of the past, it’s capitalism that has prevailed globally for now, so currently this is what we have to deal with.

The way I see things, the unsafe part is more related to how capitalism works, more than anything else. Capitalism is not a safe system.

Super-briefly, time and money related to: planning, maintenance, decommissioning, and last but not least, nuclear waste.

Imo and due to climate emergency, we’d be better putting the money that would go for nuclear towards renewables. Let’s keep in mind that numerous nuclear projects were funded with enormous amounts of money for 10-20 years, to be abandoned before producing any electricity.

Just a few relevant links:

• Why Nuclear Maintenance Equipment Requires a Single-Source Solution
• Dismantling work begins at Hamaoka nuclear plant
• Exposed: French nuclear companies dumping radioactive waste in Siberia

It’s a buy your right to pollute scheme.

To my understanding, the overwhelmingly vast majority of carbon offsets and carbon credits are at best ineffective or at worst just scams. Consequently, they lead to more emissions and are used to delay the phasing out of fossil fuels.

I don’t think I understand why you say that the author is assuming 5% of GDP goes towards making guns, since they talk throughout the article about military expenditure and military spending, which are much broader terms.

This site has some troubling articles about Zionism. This gives me a pause, to put it mildly, in relation to how to view its content in general. See:

• ‘Are you a Zionist?’

• Liberal Jews are reclaiming their Zionism

The way I see things, it’s Jewish Voice for Peace, the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world, that has a sound approach on the matter. See:

Our Approach to Zionism

Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.

While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

Zionism is a form of Jewish nationalism,

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Of course, it’s not normal for such high temperatures so early in the summer, or for them to occur more and more often. I’m not implying we are used to climate change, just that we are used to much hotter weather than other people.

I could say it depends on what one is used to. For example, yesterday the temperature here was 37°C, and the app was saying Real feel 40.6°C. We get 29°C only at night and it feels almost like a breeze. And the tough part of the summer isn’t here yet.

I suppose my understanding of this article is very different. For me, the author shares some thoughts on the topic of french slavery in movies and she presents us some new relevant ones.

So, I don’t see any wrongdoing on her behalf. On the contrary, I found this article to be informative and interesting.

I don’t think I understand what you mean. Who is obsessing over depicting people’s failures?

This article is not really about mathematical talent. It mentions that stereotypes might be reproduced by attributing success in girls to diligence and in boys to talent, but it’s about mathematical ability.

At the start of the first school year (when children are five or six years old), there are no differences, on average, between boys and girls in mathematical ability. But after just four months, boys have pulled ahead. The gap widens throughout the year.

In that case, adding /s at the end of the comment helps a lot to clarify its tone

Farmer suicides have a long history in India

Dammit, very long indeed. It seems thatnearly 4,00,000 farmers committed suicide in India between 1995 and 2018. This translates into approximately 48 suicides every day..

I am not really sure I understand what you mean. Of course 0.5°C is very important, but to my understanding, the Paris Agreement is really not going as planned.

As the official deadline passes for countries to submit their revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, only 13 of the 195 parties have done so. Alarmingly, this group includes just five developed countries, which are required to lead the way on climate action.

Under the Paris Agreement, every country must update its national climate action plan every five years. These NDC plans outline how nations intend to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impacts to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This year’s submissions should extend their new NDCs to 2030 and outline new objectives for the period up to 2035, setting the tone for a decisive decade of climate action.

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Edit: Since the above article dates a few months back I searched for something more updated and found the perfect link: NDC Tracker