Recent comments in /f/Maine

Majestic-Feedback541 t1_j8p6f7a wrote

No, we have to reach higher, wipe out every single animal, because they all burp and fart. Then when we don't see a difference, it's time to wipe out all humans, because humans also burp and fart. Then, after all animals and humans have died, earth will be safe from climate change.

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madroxinide t1_j8p5va4 wrote

Yea what you described sums up the "stop doing stuff" part well. But you really gotta follow it up with a statement about how its good for the environment else you might come off a little aggressive.

And the meat thing will solve itself after you and everyone else stops doing stuff. Cuz it's only a temporary problem of having lots of meat for a bit but after it rots and goes back to the earth the earth is healed and without people doing the stuff to make more animals there won't be any of those bad animals that make burps and farts and meat so the meat thing you only have to worry about once. But as long as we didn't do the stuff that makes the animals it's ok cuz then if the animals still exist and burp and fart it's ok because it wasn't caused by stuff we did, it was caused by stuff the animals did and as long as we didn't cause the animals, the animals are part of nature and good for the environment.

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Majestic-Feedback541 t1_j8p3k2x wrote

How do you suggest we stop cows from burping and farting? Slaughter them all? What would you like to do with all that meat after you kill all the living, breathing, farting, burping animals?

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MosskeepForest t1_j8oyaiu wrote

Why would capitalism advertise its own failings?

This accident happened because of a large company cutting back safety measures to save a buck. Combined with the state using its power to crush union workers who wanted more safety measures in place....

So it's capitalism and corrupt government working together that created a disaster.... and you expect them to use their "news" channels to advertise this???

Officially, bad things only happen under other systems. Under capitalism everything is an "oopsy" and not that big of a deal.

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madroxinide t1_j8ou6ac wrote

See, this guy gets it.

Stop doing stuff cuz you are contributing to the killing of the planet. If you stop doing stuff as well as him, none of us would have to worry about the planet dying because we could all cancel out our impact of existence by just not imposing our existence onto the planet by doing stuff.

CO2 feeds plants and plants don't do as much stuff as animals so it's not so bad. But the animals that do stuff like burp, that's bad. Even worse is the people that do stuff that makes it so the animals do stuff. It's absurd. Anyways so if we stop doing the stuff with the animals, the animals no longer do the stuff with the burps, and the stuff that isn't carbon dioxide but is way way way worse stops doing stuff to the atmosphere and the planet and stuff. Smart.

He even gets the part where we stop doing stuff, tell everyone else to stop doing stuff, but also sit and wait for the people that are doing stuff to be held accountable for doing the stuff. So by stopping doing the stuff ourselves and waiting and depending on the other folks to stop doing stuff, we can pretend less stuff is being done while the folks doing the stuff can do more of it and make more money from doing it because the stuff we didn't do meant they could step in and do more of it instead.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j8orf2w wrote

Get the payloaders out there, scoop out the burn pits, put out more than one air sampler, put clean fill all around, and fine the railroad company a meaningful amount above just the cost of clean up and mitigation (includes purchase of homes for those who wish to leave the affected area).

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Sophistrysapien247 t1_j8orb9l wrote

Methane(CH4) is an insanely bad GHG compared to CO2. "Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere."

https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane#:~:text=Methane%20is%20the%20second%20most,trapping%20heat%20in%20the%20atmosphere.

And it can be remediate out of the atmosphere way quicker too.

So it's worse, and easy to remove from the atmosphere (even with no extra efforts). So if we just focused on CH4 as a starting point we could slow down a lot of warning.

The biggest source of methane is from farmed animals burping and farting. On top of the fact that it takes fossil fuels to run the machines to farm grain to feed them and get the food to them we could reduce so much warming emissions just from the food we eat.

It's something we could all do that would have a very measurable impact.

If you are complaining about people not giving a shit but you still eat animal products because you "recycle and don't buy plastic straws" you are kidding yourself and part of the problem.

It's something we can do while we wait for the large companies to be held accountable

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