found only in New Zealand

And only just, given the massacre by rats and cats and possums. The few remaining kakapo are all confined to islands off the mainline and watched over individually. This species is above all a major conservation test case.

See the last 10 minutes of episode 1 of Attenborough’s Life of Birds (it’s been shared online) for a great introduction.

Looks like a cross between a sparrow and a coal tit. What it is?

C’est dit dans l’accroche même : pour “relancer la compétitivité du secteur” et pour éviter que “trafic aérien stagne”.

La stupidité atteint vraiment des combles.

it looks purpose-built to capture diverse motorcycle-heavy markets like Indonesia, which counts over 120 million two-wheelers and is quickly transitioning to electric models

A transition that cannot come soon enough for that region’s eardrums and sanity.

As a teenager at the time, I remember finding it almost unbelievable that such a thing had just happened in the middle of Europe. Bosnia is right opposite Italy. Not in the 1940s but in the 90s! I still find it mind-boggling. The veneer of civilisation is very thin.

It does seem so, but I’m guessing it’s mostly a tourism venue at this point.

What I find interesting is how the experiment effectively taught us some humility:

But the most important lesson from the biospherians’ experience, experts agree, is the realisation of how difficult it would be to live anywhere else than on Earth. Humans can’t exist in isolation; they come in “biospheric packages”, as Nelson puts it, and recreating these complex systems is no easy task. While Tilman reckons that some of the problems may have been solvable, it was clear during his visit to the facility that it was a long way away from being able to sustain human life. “It really impacted me when I saw that, because… my initial guess was that you would probably make it work,” he says. Now, “I firmly believe that this really is our only planet ever”.

Harsh! I do faintly remember it (very young at the time) and I do vaguely remember a bit of a circus atmosphere, sure.

Probably referring to this (trailer). Have not seen it. Looks super interesting.

Ouais on est bien d’accord que j’ai le droit de m’informer, mais t’as posté un truc sans aucun contexte ou explication, c’est pas ça qui va susciter une conversation (ce qui est normalement le but de ce truc).

PS: c’est fait.

Cette petite diatribe aurait mérité un peu de contexte (si possible neutre) pour ne pas dire un lien vers une source (si possible neutre) avec plus d’infos.

(Si cette loi est si conséquente et mon ignorance est partagée, j’avoue que c’est un problème en soi.)

That’s helpful. These estimates do tend to vary a bit depending on assumptions (type of plane or car, what occupancy etc). The 2t I quoted was slightly high. My point was that there’s no other way to emit 1 tonne in 6 hours.

Apart from the methane problem, all livestock farming takes, by definition, a massive amount more land than arable farming to produce the same amount of food. On a stressed planet of 9 billion people, there simply is not enough land to feed everyone with red meat.

First, well done for taking it seriously and doing your bit.

The point of the post (I think) is simply to illustrate that certain actions are much, much more important than others. Anecdotally, there are still plenty of people out there who believe that, say, turning off a couple of (low-energy) lights, or “recycling” a plastic bag, are somehow major good deeds that allow them to kick their feet up and celebrate with a steak. There’s still way too much ignorance about all this, IMO.

In reality (as you seem to understand), some gestures are far more important than others. Ditching red meat (and dairy) really is a big deal. Everyone who claims to care about this problem should at least consider doing it.

This is a nice articulation of nihilism.

The paradox being that the attitude is both justified and… certain to only make the problem worse.

lasts much longer which is important as a single household

This is an often-overlooked argument for veganism. If you plan carefully, you literally don’t need a fridge.

Roughly true, but you’re eliding a very, very problematic activity into “travel”: aviation.

Per kilometer, flying is pretty carbon intensive (about the same as driving - basically: the extra efficiency of being packed into a tin can is offset by exponentially higher wind resistance at high speed). The problem is that airplanes allow you to burn up massive distances really quickly.

A single transatlantic flight will blow a 2-ton1-ton hole in your personal carbon footprint. That’s 10-20% of an average European’s annual footprint - or 100% a very large chunk of a sustainable annual footprint. For anyone who flies more than once a year (i.e. likely a bunch of people here), cutting down on flying is likely to be the single biggest thing you can do for the climate.

acoustic bike

Had heard “analog bike” but this coining is much better.

By 2100, the human population is on course for global decline. Some say this will be good for the environment.

The circumspection is irrational to the point of comedy. Alas I struggled to take the rest of the article seriously.

Wonderful story! Thanks for sharing.

in places like France and Japan

This is completely wrong.

You talk exclusively about Japan, so even if your anecdata is representative, then my point is not “completely” wrong. Let’s begin by using language correctly.