I’m so glad I didn’t have kids. I’m not sure how I’ll survive as an old lady in the post oil, post water, post life world, but at level my kids won’t have to feel guilty for leaving me at the side of the road. Or eating me.
The only reason I regret not having kids, I won't have anyone smaller and weaker to push down when running from cannibal raiders during the climate crisis.
Man I get a twinge of pain in my heart every time I read a comment like this… my partner is dead set on having kids, and I’m not so sure. If I can’t get on board, we’ll need to break up soon despite loving each other. Shit sucks man, why can’t the world just be habitable, it doesn’t seem like much to ask
If this really is your primary reason, talk to your partner about adoption or foster care. There's no guilt but you can still have all the wonderful things
I have 3 young-and-not-so-young adult children (big gap between them) and I have found myself wanting to apologize to them so many times for bringing them into this shit show. I really didn’t know it was going to get this bad. As a child of the 70’s I was promised a world of ecologically and socially conscious people by now. Welp…
Also a child of the 70s, and I thought we had a lot longer before the shit show started, and that we had time to fix it, and that we would fix it. I really didn’t think I’d be seeing it happen. It breaks my heart. Humanity is capable of so much better than this, but we just… haven’t. And won’t.
Yes this is true, but what I was meaning is that a lot of the effects of climate change are happening faster than predicted, because we’ve made things worse than predicted.
It’s not that the current administration “can’t” (altough they have proven time and again that they seem to can’t), it’s they don’t want nor care about it, it’s the final year before elections, it’s the time to steal as much as possible and the president only cares about that and talking shit about his opponents… think something like Trump.
The bigger deal is buying it in the yuan. That could have far reaching changes to the global economy. Right now the world’s reserve currency is the US dollar because the vast majority of oil is bought with them. If enough oil is bought in a different currency, that has the potential to shift the world’s reserve currency to whatever is used. Whoever’s currency is used as the world’s reserve currency will get a lot of power.
That’s not why this is weird, the fact that India is shifting deeper into the bRICs is.
China has been a strategic threat to India, between their close alliance and support of Pakistan and the whole kashmir thing, plus the past skirmishes in aksai chin (even in 2020/2021).
Modi doesn’t really care about geopolitical history, he lives in the moment, whether that makes sense or not, hence surprise invalidating the currency over a weekend.
But I don’t see how a menage a trois works here, especially given India’s ties to the US.
This sounds like a Russian demand because they were tired of being paid in weak rupees. Knowing Modi, he’d gladly go along as long as he got a cut, and it hurt Pakistan enough.
It could not immediately be determined how much Russian oil Indian refiners have bought with yuan, although Indian Oil has paid in yuan for multiple cargoes, sources said.
Not a biologist, but I would think that evolution could take something from cold to warm blooded (or opposite) without way too much time. I think I read somewhere that scientists are debating/speculating whether some dinosaurs were warm blooded as well.
Ok. So what should I be doing about it now? I’ve been on the recycling train for 30 years, I ride my bike instead of driving as much as possible, I compost and grow vegetables with it to name a few things. What else would our corporate overlords like me to do while they do nothing but gouge us?
It’s disgusting that I first scrolled past this headline and shrugged before coming back to make this comment.
The reality is that this is not a problem that can be solved by individual action. The only way forward is systemic change away from the capitalist system where large industry is owned by the oligarchs. What people in the west need to do is to start organizing a movement for socialism before capitalism kills us all.
So senseless. But like, why is the world just waiting see if it happens or not? Do something, anything to prevent it! Give Ukraine absolutely everything it needs if you don't want to send your own troops. So maddening
Being completely transparent I don't care if there are any health risks associated with it for the greater population. I am just allergic to it and it gives me the worst shits possible, so if we could stop putting it in things that would be killer. It's in every gum now so I just can't buy gum anymore.
Oh my fuck. I hate news stories like this. Aspartame falls into the same cancer risk category as eating red meat sometimes and being kinda lazy. A rigorous systematic review was conducted of dozens of studies of aspartame and they did not find a plausible biologic mechanism by which aspartame could cause cancer. Epidemiologically, it’s vaguely correlated, not causative of cancer.
Also, in the Reuters article it notes that a 132-lbs adult would have to drink 12 to 36 cans of diet coke a day for the dose/exposure to become relevant to the risk they’re talking about. This article is talking about one study that is at odds with the systematically reviewed data from 40 human observational studies, 12 experimental animal studies, and 1360 assay/experimental end points to look for the supposed link.
Being lazy is vaguely kinda sorta correlated with cancer… but that doesn’t account for the fact that humans who are regularly active are also less likely to make other lifestyle choices that are more significantly tied to cancer like smoking and drinking.
This is the problem with a lot of population based studies. Obesity is linked with a lot of health problems like cardiovascular disease, but only some aspects of cardiovascular disease have causative links to obesity and others are sequelae of other factors that tend to be associated with obesity. For example, extra weight/adipose puts more stress on your heart by there just being more body mass to deliver blood to and more oxygen demand from muscles to just physically move the weight around (also a cause of joint problems)… but it’s the poor diet full of cholesterol that clogs up the arteries (aka atherosclerosis) causing myocardial infarction (heart attack).
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