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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by Thriptic on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:43PM (#22439188)
It's also somewhat misguided in my opinion. For some reason a large portion of the population have decided that it is categorically impossible to do anything about global warming from a technical or policy perspective. They have thrown up their hands and have decreed that we must all live awful lifestyles and shouldn't even try to innovate our way out of the problem. We are spending a tiny fraction of available resources fighting this problem, and it is not inconceivable that we could develop solutions which would change the state of the world dramatically if we actually threw money and talent at the problems.
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by henrikschroder on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:28PM (#22439780)
My biggest source of hope for the climate crisis is that we got into our current state by expending enormous amounts of human labour. Those mines didn't dig themselves, those factories didn't build themselves, those highway networks didn't fill with cars by themselves.

It took effort to fuck things up, which means that with effort, we can un-fuck things as well.

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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by int_19h on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:36PM (#22447749)
The problem is that we've spun up a bunch of positive feedback loops in the process, and so un-fucking things is a lot costlier.
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by henrikschroder on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:10PM (#22447916)
In some cases, yes, in some cases, no. Reforestation for example appears to be very cheap, fast, and simple.
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by int_19h on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:33PM (#22448601)
Is it cheaper in terms of man-hours spent on each kilo of carbon sequestered, compared to man-hours spent on emitting it?
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by tonyedgecombe on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:41AM (#22441187)
and another group of people think some magic technology or wishful political thinking that doesn't exist right now can solve all our problems in the future.
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by Thriptic on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:53PM (#22446262)
We have technology right now to solve the problem. Carbon capture, planting trees, alternative energies, etc. We have just decided not to properly invest in deploying them or advancing them to make them more efficient. Green new deal might be a step in the right direction.
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Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time by tonyedgecombe on Saturday February 29, 2020 @02:57AM (#22449538)
Carbon capture is one of the technologies I consider wishful thinking right now. It may well work but I haven't seen anything other than a handful of small scale trials yet people have been talking about it for twenty years.

I'm not particularly convinced by the green new deal either: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.15...

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