Kill grass, plant trees?

Your results may vary.

Friendly reminder to anyone reading that forests can deliver all of these benefits and food at the same time.

And let’s not forget the massive amount of deforestation for growing the feed crops that they use. It’s an ecological catastrophe at every level.

For the automotive industry, I think that they mean Interior parts that aren’t exposed to the weather.

The massive dairy industry with a stranglehold on Indian culture and politics says hello.

The closest cyclone to the equator was the 2001 Tropical Storm Vamei which formed at just 1.4°N. Cyclone Senyar formed at 3.8°N.

The safe zone at the equator is narrow. If choosing to settle near the coast, there really isn’t much choice when it comes to latitude.

I know what it means; I wasn’t being serious. I know that Sunshine is not the type to use speciesist slurs. :)

Is that a slur? When used as a verb? And would that be against the rules here? If so, oh the irony. 'Twas nice knowing you, valiant Sunshine…

Most people in South America don’t speak English; something may have been lost in translation there. /j

In 2024, Colombia lost 113,608 hectares (about 280,700 acres) of forest, a 43% increase compared with 2023, when deforestation had dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades. But while organized crime, ongoing armed conflict and wildfires have been partially blamed for the spike, land use change for cattle ranching remains a huge driver of deforestation.

Animal agriculture is the leading driver of Amazon destruction and climate change as well as species extinction.

Wayback Machine link to preprint PDF

I hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code years ago and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won’t start by learning Rust. Baby steps.

Is Rust really so obscure? I’m not a programmer, but I seem to hear about Rust frequently in any remotely halfway-techy space.

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The causes of the rapid recent declines are the continuing destruction or damage of habitats caused by agricultural intensification and land abandonment, draining wetlands, overgrazing by livestock, and the use of fertilisers and pesticides including neonicotinoids. The fragmentation of pollinator-friendly habitat greatly increases the risk of local extinctions.

Global heating is also revealed to be a major threat: 52% of all endangered butterflies in Europe are imperilled by the climate crisis – approximately twice as many as a decade ago.

So there is really one main cause.

Not only that; at this point, reducing fossil fuel use too quickly would actually be suicidal.

Regarding animal agriculture’s contribution to climate change, read “The Truth Behind the Numbers” part one and part two

Depending on the study, estimates of animal farming’s contribution to climate change vary considerably. Widely cited, peer-reviewed sources — including the United Nations report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” and subsequent academic analyses — consistently place the industry’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions between 16.5% and 28%.

A 2013 UN report gave a lower estimate of just 14.5 percent, but this figure has been widely criticized for contradicting available evidence and for being influenced by industry lobbying.

The Truth Behind the Numbers

and the follow-up