5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf

Re:5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf by roryisok on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:36AM (#14751641)

Well, that 10% exists to serve us consumers. Container ships are big polluters. Maybe if we tried to buy things locally and second hand rather than ordering new stuff from overseas, it might have a minor impact on shipping?

And regarding coal, it's possible to choose a green electricity supplier here in Ireland at least

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Re:5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf by peteretep on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:19AM (#14752223)

    > Maybe if we tried to buy things locally

Or just tax items that have shown up by container enough to reflect environmental cost; this is a political issue.

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Re:5800sq km iceberg breaks off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf by dwhabcdefg on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:15AM (#14752204)

Another thing we can do is to continue to bring attention to projects like this one:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/propelwind-wingsail-technology-...

I'm probably more in the "use technology to help, while I do what I can" rather than "technology will save us, so carry on" camp.

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