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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by epolanski on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:43PM (#49500935)
I don't buy it.

Climate change is related to our consumptions, period, focusing only on energy or transport doesn't tackle the whole problem: we consume too much, eat too much (cattle and fish in particular) and destroy too much in our quest for more and more.

Inefficient transport or energy is just one aspect of the whole problem.

But I'm tired of hearing how it is just a matter of energy or transport, it's literally missing the forest for a tree, even if it might be a particularly big one.

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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by Gud on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:21PM (#49501334)
"A third of the problem" is fucking huge
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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by epolanski on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:17PM (#49502925)
Sure, which is why I used the image of "missing the forest for the tree, even if the tree is huge".

But it's our consumption and expectations that feed into it.

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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:47PM (#49504005)
And that image is wrong. If the tree is that big then it's okay to focus on it.
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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by epolanski on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:16AM (#49508748)
Even a huge tree, is still a tree in the forest. You need to look at consumption patterns, not just energy, which derive from the first anyway.
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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by Dylan16807 on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:20PM (#49512964)
Your chosen forest exists within the even bigger forests of human action and ecology. That doesn't mean we have to focus that wide. When one part of the picture is both specialized and huge, it makes sense to focus on it.
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