Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days

Re:Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four ... by titojankowski on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:55PM (#14134341)

Thanks, I watched the whole video. A great success of natural capitalism. I wonder how drone surveys, satellite mapping, and synthetic biology could extend this 35 sq-km success to 3,500 sq-km and beyond, augmenting people's needs and efforts. As said in the video, let's "properly understand the miracles performed by trees" to make this more profitable and spread everywhere.

I also agree with the farmer who said "what about our children, they can't eat trees!!". There's an opportunity for climate change solutions need to be communicated at human timescales (days, months, years). Decades are too hard to imagine.

Thanks for the video!

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Re:Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four ... by thinkcontext on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:07PM (#14135764)

Perhaps its not exactly the best example of capitalism given that it was centrally planned.

Glad you found it interesting. In the text accompanying the video they link to more videos in the series from Ethiopia and Rwanda, with similar projects to rehabilitate the land.

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Re:Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four ... by titojankowski on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:27AM (#14139060)

Food is key. This inspired me to re-read the 4 pages on Food in "Sustainable Energy without the hot air": https://www.withouthotair.com/c13/page_76.shtml

(ps I just put this great book up on github. The author passed away, would love ideas to re-release the CC content.

Specifically, merging the short Food chapter into a nicely formatted single medium-type article would be a good step for readability: https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_...)

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Re:Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four ... by titojankowski on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:55AM (#14139869)

Ok it took an hour but I reformatted the "food" chapter on my blog as an experiment in readability.

http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-...

Thoughts?

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Re:Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four ... by specialist on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:28PM (#14135847)

Centralized planning == state capitalism. Private capitalism is not the only variety.

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