No, I think we have painted ourself into a corner again. You now HAVE to do controlled burns since our previous management avoided any fire at all costs and built up huge fuel stores that would have normally burnt.

Also, sidebar: our ecosystems today are not those that were present thousands of years ago. I can hear the keyboards clacking already, but what I mean is this: ecosystems will come together and then fade away as conditions change - your pine dominant forest may not have even existed as you see it today and instead had a different canopy and/or different understory species. Ecosystems live, breathe, and adapt just like a giant organism and I think that’s super cool.

Your soil moisture regime changes? A new community moves in. You have a global cooling or warming? That original community may go extinct, or only some species will remain and those species may not have the same dominance they once had as they are now operating at the edge of their niche conditions rather than under optimal ones.

Look at that, you got me monologuing you sly dog

Generally, good land management is lazy land management. Nature (and her ecosystems) got on just fine without us. The only reason we need to manage the fire cycle now is so that we don’t have our population centers burnt by the natural fire cycle. However, we largely already fucked that part up by intervening in the fire cycle, and not allowing areas close to these centers to burn. As a result, you end up with conflagrations popping up where you don’t want them to.

As another commentator points out, transportation of electricity and vehicles themselves are the major problems. Farmers that grow biofuels could conceivably shift to another crop, and many of the crops used for biofuels are routinely farmed for other uses (e.g., corn is animal feed and biofuel feed). In that regard, I disagree with the the argument that the entire infrastructure would have to be rebuilt.

the problem of getting electricity to cars is removed if we have better public transportation, though developing that infrastructure and reconfiguring the existing system (e.g., car-centric) is a much bigger problem. Regardless, you can still use solar for other uses (houses, industry) while you convert transportation slowly (and painfully, as we’ve really painted ourselves into a corner).

I do* like your take on alternate land uses for quarries (and mines! don’t forget those). Not all mines are close to cities, but some are. There’s a few really good example of mines installing solar panels on their reclaimed tailings storage facilities., or old mines being used for pumped hydro batteries.

The energy issue is multifaceted, and while it’s easy to say ‘just do nuclear’ ‘just do solar’ ‘just do hydro’, one size doesn’t fit all. However, the one thing that DOES fit, is how we have to start thinking about how to repurpose what we have already (e.g., windows as you point out) to suit our objectives of green energy.

if it’s any consolation, I found it outside of lemmy

Do we dogpile the comments section with the same kind of comments AI posts get, since this came from Reddit?

Amazing. Bunch of stoned-out-of-gourd-anarchist-ninjas trying to burn Gotham to the ground and the only saviour is a playboy billionaire

What did you hurt? Iv been dealing with a nagging shoulder issue

My back and hips used to be so bad from working now they are much better

Just tip it over ‘accidentally’ with the door side down

It’s almost as if systematically dismantling your health care system is a bad idea.

The UCP have been doing this for years in the hopes of painting the system as ineffective so that they can better sell a privatized system like the US has.

Fucking dickheads

Correct!

PP at the world economic forum:

GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK GAH… We need to support our allies in seizing Greenland GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK

did someone say asbestos?

this is the tailings from the Cassiar Asbestos mine.

This mine is abandoned, and those tailings contain asbestos. During operation, green dust (asbestos) would blow everywhere. Kids playing in the snow would caution others to ‘eat around the green’ so they don’t get sick.

Just the GDP of Uruguay on bitstrip-like avatars

IT’S NOT A BUBBLE!!!

I’m old school, where NSFW was either tits or gore, but I’m trying to be a bit more sensitive about it, and also trying to not lob a mental flashbang on someone’s desk while they eat their depression sandwich at work

Mr. Simpson, are you just holding on to the cans?

blushes in 4th read through of wheel of time

Isn’t the mad woman in the attic a Mr Rochester thing?

If you think I created this meme or am going to go look for an uncensored version of it, you’re as wrong as Varus on both accounts