I agree with the sentiment generally, but not your reasoning in this post. Although to be fair to you, I can’t really put my gut feeling into a cohesive argument here either.

However I did notice as well people seem to overestimate what law can do. I joined an ecoactivist group in my community, yet everything they do is petition the local government to pass or veto something, which obviously then get ignored.

But really even IF those petitions weren’t ignored, drafting a petition is the easier part.

The harder part is aligning power structure incentives with yours, or building your own superior power structures. Otherwise law isn’t worth shit, because power structures such as police or media or courts or Big Tech will prevail using more money, media influence, and thugs with weapons than you ever did.

I am not a tankie, but I believe Stalin was right on this one: “the only power comes out of a long rifle”

Hi everyone, I joined 4 weeks ago, but missed the July community discussion.

I was picking a Lemmy instance, and for me, what sealed the deal to go for SLRPNK was finding out f-hub servers run on used hardware and are 70% green energy to lower carbon footprint. I appreciate the effort and transparency

So far I love SLRPNK. I don’t know anyone IRL who is eco-conscious, so seeing people also discuss ways to reduce food waste, or not using AC on principle is reassuring.

Quick question though, where may I share a photo of a microhabitat for birds in my yard? Previous owner left it, it’s awesome

IMO it’s a waste of time and money to optimize for vitamins unless you took a blood test, and found out about specific deficiencies.

There are way too many kinds of vitamins and placebo involved to be able to guess what specific vegies, if any, you need to minmax for your health.

“noooo i can’t read corporate slop from government agencies and my favorite ragebaititng influencer news on Mastodon nooo, must read Xitter!!!”

Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.

If ethics didn’t exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.

For instance, let’s assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.

Thus, we recognize we don’t have inherent ability to define what’s good or bad. But that also means we can’t prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what’s good.

I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.

Building anything underground is extremely expensive and energy intensive, as you have to constantly pump ground water and pour concrete to keep walls from breaking under pressure of tons of soil.

So yeah, underground could work, but better used sparingly when benefit outweighs the costs, like maybe in areas that could go literally uninhabitable on the surface. Otherwise not worth it.

Urban planning wise: I think ivy walls, or other greenery covering residential buildings.

For reference, you might want to look up Bosco Verticale in Italy, or lush green roofs in Norway.

I know this isn’t a catch-all solution, but it could help mitigate climate crisis impact in addition to other options people offered here.

Mfers the real deadline was 20 years ago, we already irreversibly fucked up wild bees and many forests, you don’t get to delay it anymore. In fact, be grateful deadline is not “tomorrow or go broke” (as it should be)

That’s unfortunate, yet not a separate issue from animal farming. They are interconnected, and we can’t fix one without fixing the other.

To get to the point where society pressures ruling class to ban airplanes despite best lobbying efforts, we need to shift the Overton window.

Right now, the Overton window is rather conservative, with most people considering any climate action that requires slightest drop in quality of life completely unacceptable.

Every successful radical climate action, including veganism, helps normalize idea of nature preservation over convenience in public consciousness, so movement can eventually take on more entrenched capital protected interests like jets.