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“Greenwashing”. Always look at the full process and the total energy cost. Marketing can sell anything, including saving the planet.

“before they acknowledge there’s a problem” would be the better phrasing.

I would guess that hiking or trail maps are probably much more detailed than a road map, so that makes sense that it would still be a thing, although certainly digital versions have made some dent in them. Electronics are a bit more susceptible to the environment and the need for power though, so maybe not as much for those reasons.

Alternate question: do any of you (maybe a bit older than 35) remember the last time you bought an updated paper map for your area, or one for a road trip? They used to be at most checkout lanes in many stores.

I can already hear the “maps on paper? How could you find anything?”

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“Jesus H. Christ!”

“The H is silent.”

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I think it was still too late to avoid the worst of it, but with him as President in 2000 some things would have changed by now for the better, and some things would have been prevented. Or maybe not, alternative history is hard to predict, and maybe GWB was the better choice for the US and the world after all.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe too.

Have to wonder why he stayed with the party when so much has changed since then.

There are methods to solid capture, similar to what happens over millennia naturally. It takes a lot of energy and more importantly, water flow, and like everything else can’t possibly scale up to get enough of a percentage in the air and oceans to make a difference. It also probably has its own waste, as it’s a complex chemical process and not just one simple reaction.

Green Lantern wasn’t the best of films, but it still had a number of good scenes in it, so putting it #1 seems a bit much.

I know we will do what we can to keep status quo, but opening that geoengineering box is going to lead to long term failure.

What about cutting subsidies? Make the price of fuel more realistic to force reductions. The money saved can go to the same places, but we also slow emissions. It will definitely be terrible for most people, but real solutions have to be hard.

We’d also need to see more progressive seats in both House and Senate, since legislation to spark any improvement direction would have to go through them.

Agreed. The problem is so deeply embedded in our society that any change that doesn’t have some profit isn’t going to gain traction. A real plan for climate adaptation would piss off both corporate and public and she’d be out asap for the next person who promises to keep things status quo.

Let them go. Maybe they’ll get something analogous to the ending of “Don’t Look Up”. Or worse, Martian dust…nasty stuff.

A frog will try to jump out. Lobsters also try to get out. The kicker is that the pot is the planet, and we can’t jump out.

The Reagan-Carter election is the first one I vaguely remember as a kid, and to have the news of the freed hostages get announced at the inauguration seemed so convenient even for a politically uninformed kid. Yet I heard so much of “see, he got elected and got them free!” NO, Carter did the work, dumbasses. At the cost of his reelection.

How Reagan of him.

Exactly. Objectiveness is stating the facts. “We report, you decide.” Only really doing that.

Make it an unneeded state to win by grabbing others in its place, or making the spread large enough to not matter. If everyone could vote fairly, and actually showed up to vote, there wouldn’t be a 50/50 split in the country’s popular vote, and it would push all the purple states into blue.