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We will need smart people in the future. Where are they going to come from if smart people do not have kids?

My son (26) talks about this. Says he feels bad bringing a kid into a fucked up world. My reply was well he has a blue passport and that alone is a leg up.

But it is his call and I will support either way. As for me? I loved being a dad to two kick ass kids who are both devoted to finding solutions.

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Last week, a private developer's application to dam Big Canyon, a major threat to the confluence and the entire Grand Canyon region, was finally denied. The dam was first proposed in 2020.

The Big Canyon decision is a win for tribal sovereignty and reaffirms the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's commitment not to approve initial permits for hydropower projects on tribal lands without consent from the tribe whose land it is.

In denying the developer a permit, the commission noted that, "because the proposed project would be located entirely on Navajo Nation and the Nation has stated that it opposes issuance of the permit, we deny the application."

 

https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/permit-denied-big-canyon-dam-near-grand-canyon

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On 4/29/2024 at 9:42 AM, InkaUtexas said:

We will need smart people in the future. Where are they going to come from if smart people do not have kids?

My son (26) talks about this. Says he feels bad bringing a kid into a fucked up world. My reply was well he has a blue passport and that alone is a leg up.

But it is his call and I will support either way. As for me? I loved being a dad to two kick ass kids who are both devoted to finding solutions.


Won't need smart people in the future if there are no people.

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On 4/26/2024 at 10:46 AM, Biff Tannen said:

Absolutely.  My wife is 2nd generation Italian-American and she's the reason I appreciate food as much as I do now.  When you go to Italy, they cherish the food and it is grown/raised in sustainable ways.  They use mostly local ingredients and, while they eat meat, it's not the staple of the meal in most instances.

Much of this is that Italy was a poor country until rapid industrialization following WW2 and much of the south still is very poor and much of its business is dependent upon the trappings of a pure culinary tradition (which arguably wasn’t invented until after WW2 as well)

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11 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Good thing he’s dead. 

And to think, while he was crazy extremist right-wing, he was less insane than the MAG-tards holding office now.

 

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28 minutes ago, swraith said:

Right but that seems to be the direction we are heading.  There is no real good news on our horizon with regard to climate trends. 

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3 hours ago, troph said:

I thought the irony of their permanent hiatus for a climate optimism update was depressing.

I understood, that’s why I thought it was a lovely story. We are uber fucked. 

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Would be nice if this could be a campaign topic at all. But in order to appease as many potential swing state voters as possible and save our democracy, climate is taking even more of a backseat than usual. 

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1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

Would be nice if this could be a campaign topic at all. But in order to appease as many potential swing state voters as possible and save our democracy, climate is taking even more of a backseat than usual. 

It will be the number one campaign topic in a matter of years.

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Last two posts above are so damn true and sad. It will become an issue when enough are impacted and get not get their pumpkin spiced latte at will 10 minutes from their McMansion with perfect green lawns in the middle of a drought zone. it will be too late to unfuck things, and solutions will not be popular or quick to demonstrate impact, so not vote generating items.

Meanwhile, yeah, lets keep going forward as is until then. It makes me sad when my son questions if he wants to have kids or not. Climate is the #1 issue that makes him doubt it.

Fuck, now I am depressed.

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On 4/29/2024 at 5:40 AM, BevoAbyss said:

And it has not limited my social life at all, as I discovered there are many attractive/educated/intelligent women who are cool with the no marriage/kids scenario. I have always been right up front about it. 

No man is an island.  But you sound vaguely like Ibiza.

 

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23 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Last two posts above are so damn true and sad. It will become an issue when enough are impacted and get not get their pumpkin spiced latte at will 10 minutes from their McMansion with perfect green lawns in the middle of a drought zone. it will be too late to unfuck things, and solutions will not be popular or quick to demonstrate impact, so not vote generating items.

Meanwhile, yeah, lets keep going forward as is until then. It makes me sad when my son questions if he wants to have kids or not. Climate is the #1 issue that makes him doubt it.

Fuck, now I am depressed.

My kids are 2 and nearly born, so perhaps they won't remember when things weren't entirely fucked. Silver lining!

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On 9/16/2024 at 9:10 AM, InkaUtexas said:

Last two posts above are so damn true and sad. It will become an issue when enough are impacted and get not get their pumpkin spiced latte at will 10 minutes from their McMansion with perfect green lawns in the middle of a drought zone. it will be too late to unfuck things, and solutions will not be popular or quick to demonstrate impact, so not vote generating items.

Meanwhile, yeah, lets keep going forward as is until then. It makes me sad when my son questions if he wants to have kids or not. Climate is the #1 issue that makes him doubt it.

Fuck, now I am depressed.

Somehow a cure for cancer in exchange for the pending doom of climate change came up at dinner - I didn’t start it - my kids know climate change is a fact so do all of their friends and not all kids of liberals it’s just a thing they all seem to accept - and they said basically fuck a cure for cancer if we can trade it for an unfucked planet. I just can’t even understand how they live as kids with that over their heads.

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https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-inflation-reduction-act-a-looming-political-earthquake


 

If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloombergheadline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as big as $41 billion. The missing funds in question were for “climate finance” projects, “financed by taxpayer dollars from its member countries, the biggest being the US.”
 

I rarely post in CR, but it’s always nice to see our tax money being well spent

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I rarely post in CR, but it’s always nice seeing our  tax money being well spent

 

If it weren’t for the election season swamping news coverage, odds are more people would be talking about the revelation that, to quote a Bloombergheadline, “The World Bank Somehow Lost Track of at Least $24 Billion.” In fact, that may understate the reality: the World Bank’s “accounting gap” could be as big as $41 billion. The missing funds in question were for “climate finance” projects, “financed by taxpayer dollars from its member countries, the biggest being the US.”

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-inflation-reduction-act-a-looming-political-earthquake


 

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7 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Looks like oil companies know its worse than what the general public thinks

 

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If i had to guess, without any research, I would bet this is related to them buying Denbury and their carbon sequestration projects.

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On 4/28/2024 at 1:42 PM, Neonmoon said:

Reducing meat consumption is a good goal. I agree with you. Your plan to reduce meat consumption is dumb. Here’s an olive branch. Don’t you think requiring dog food to be plant based is a better solution than charge high fees for new pets?

My dog would just eat me if I dared feed her some vegan nonsense.

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An aside from the article that I hadn't seen largely due to increased detachment, file under Home of the Brave, Land of the Free:

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Don't shatter your kneecap bending the knee. Wait, on second thought...

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From where I stand here is what I see is the biggest problem right now:

Short of a federal government mandate like you have in Europe (and we were going down that path but it seems completely dead now), in America we have to either a) incentivize businesses in a methodology that enables shareholder value creation or b) rely on states to enact reporting and penalty mandates (a la California).

Up to this point it's been largely a "you should do this because it's a good thing to do and even though it's a value destruction in the short and mid-term", IMO.

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20 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

From where I stand here is what I see is the biggest problem right now:

Short of a federal government mandate like you have in Europe (and we were going down that path but it seems completely dead now), in America we have to either a) incentivize businesses in a methodology that enables shareholder value creation or b) rely on states to enact reporting and penalty mandates (a la California).

Up to this point it's been largely a "you should do this because it's a good thing to do and even though it's a value destruction in the short and mid-term", IMO.

Agree and this will also be our downfall

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11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Agree and this will also be our downfall

Or.............we can have states step up like California has done (and NY could be next), etc.

President 47 ain't gonna do federal climate change regulation any favors.

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Saw this graphic and it hit home:

We have two factors to work with (of the 4 that are generally understand to contribute to our CO2).

1) the amount of energy used to create a unit of economic development (dollars)

2) the amount of CO2 generated per unit of energy produced

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1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

Or.............we can have states step up like California has done (and NY could be next), etc.

President 47 ain't gonna do federal climate change regulation any favors.

CA will fight like hell for their own climate regulation autonomy - if CA can win and hold it's own, their economy alone will dictate some positive policies that extend beyond CA.  we can hope, but Trump Admin is coming for that autonomy.

In the end, we are going to have to see most of the world convert to (i) nuclear, wind, and solar (with batteries), (ii) EVs, and (iii) we are going to have to bring costs down and turbo charge carbon atmospheric vacuums. There's a lot more but if we don't start sucking this shit out of the air with a massive filtration system we are just doomed.

how on Earth the richest countries in the world aren't dumping money into this is beyond me.

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39 minutes ago, troph said:

how on Earth the richest countries in the world aren't dumping money into this is beyond me.

It's because today, doing anything beyond the most rudimentary and lip-service of net zero is wealth and value destruction and we live in a world where value creation in the short-and-medium-term is all that necessarily matters (e.g. shareholder capitalism). Thus, regulation is necessary.

Edit to add, I know you get it, but for the granola types who don't have a business background, the theory undergirding all this is in our system:

A company merely exists to create value for shareholders by investing in projects that generate cash flow growth and/or return on invested capital (ROIC).

If the ROIC is less than the cost of capital, the growth destroys the value.

Climate Change implementation to processes (did you know that it is widely understood that 7 industries make up 85% of the direct greenhouse gas emissions) is costly and hard and distracts from or actively destroys value creation.

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