Beats me. We’ve got our own lip-service politicians to deal with in Canada. And absolute disasters… 😠

What climate goals? I see a lot of talk about deadlines and dreams. I don’t see much to indicate that there are any goals.

In sports, a goal is something that everyone puts coordinated and concerted effort into achieving.

In business, a goal is something that everyone puts coordinated and concerted effort into achieving.

If the climate “goals” that were set in the 1990s, weak as they were, had been actual goals, we’d now be planning the closure of the last pipelines, not celebrating the opening of new ones and planning for the next. We’d be planning the closure of the last oil and gas fields, not looking for new drilling and fracking opportunities.

Sure, Trump and his ilk are going to make a show of getting in the way, but it’s not like there is any coordinated, concerted effort for them to block.

It seems they did some work on coming to a definition for “mild weather,” but I still don’t like what they came up with. They set the range at 10-25 degrees Celsius. I would have set the lower boundary at -10 or maybe even a bit lower. It’s somewhere below that the majority of people stay inside their ice-fishing shacks instead of getting out a chair to enjoy the weather.

Of course, the number of people I know in Saskatchewan who think only lunatics go out at those temperatures may mean that they’ve nailed it. :)

An absolutely fantastic bit of writing. My favourite sentence:

The effort to slow climate change is in many ways an attempt to make the charts agree again, make them speak to each other in once-familiar languages.

Yes.

Most passenger vehicles have 12v electrical systems to run everything of note. Even fully electric vehicles typically have a 12v system separate from the transport battery to run things like wipers and lights.

There may be some components that run at 3 or 5 volts because they contain computer chips. Most of the fun stuff, like pumps and motors, run directly off 12v.

You don’t have to buy new, either, as there are surely wrecking/salvage yards nearby.

… but I doubt many cars/trucks have built in fishtanks …

True, but they do have windshield washer pumps. I don’t know about duty cycles, but I bet they’d be fine.

I live in a farming community in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Me too. I’ve talked to a few retired farmers and a couple of active farmers who just shake their heads at all the nonsense, but I would say that you are generally correct.

I know that zero-tillage and high-cut stubble goes a long way to reducing erosion, but I can’t help thinking that they’ve picked the wrong time to get rid of all the tree rows.

Looks crocheted. I came across a crochet community somewhere in my browsing. It might be worth tracking down and posting there, too.

I’m more intrigued by the purple zones. 7-14 days late. I live a couple of hundred kilometers north of that big “late zone” next to Canada.

Springs don’t feel particularly late to me, although I also don’t have any real data. Farmers seem to be in the fields earlier than they used to, leading to harvest starting earlier than it used to. Gardeners don’t always wait for the end of May to plant the way they used to.

On the other hand, my record of pellet consumption (we heat using a pellet stove) shows our heating season getting longer. I just assumed that that was because we’re getting less tolerant of a chill in the air as we age.

That is bordering on tautological. How do you suppose anyone would prepare in the absence of risk assessment?

Forward-looking, thoughtful individuals or even individual municipalities might take concrete action, but country- or continent-wide? Not a chance.

In addition, some of the mitigations will involve national and international regulations, standards, and projects that are beyond the reach of individuals and municipalities.

I would think that the relevance of their motivation was already sorted out during the proceedings.

The defence probably brought it up and the prosecution then probably objected on the grounds that motivations were not being argued, only actions. Hearing those arguments may have gone as far as the submission of briefs and even a separate hearing.

In any case, if the conclusion was that the prosecution’s arguments were better than the defence’s, then the judge may have been compelled to address that in instructions to the jury.

My earnest advice is to listen to climate scientists, to meteorologists, to fire officials. They are trying to save your lives. And if you see fire on the horizon, don’t fixate on the flames, pay attention to the wind: If it’s blowing toward you, the embers are, too, and you better get ready to go.

I’m a retired volunteer firefighter on the prairies. Grass fires are no joke. They can move fast! They can move fast enough that the equipment literally cannot keep pace with the flame front. And all bets are off if it gets into a standing crop near harvest.

To make matters worse, the vast majority of research and training has been on forest fires.

Yeah, I don’t know how to describe that. My personal opinion is that being stupid or negligent doesn’t mean that “terracide” isn’t appropriate in the same way that “homicide” doesn’t imply intent in law, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to common speech.

I’m partial to “terracide”. Pair it’s adjective(?) form, terracidal, with “maniac”, “profiteer”, or “tyrant” and you’ve really got something.

If we’re looking for an overarching ideology, “terracidalism” works for me, giving us the companion word “terracidalist”.

Writing this out, I have to say I like the sound of “Trump: terracidal tyrant.” It’s short, descriptive, easy to grasp, and even has that sweet, sweet alliteration, so useful in slogans, signs, etc. Replace the “:” with “is a” and you have a nice chant.

I’m a Canadian. We still frequently refer to our Conservative party as Tories. That gives us “Tories: terracidal tyrants.” The chant would use “are” instead of the colon.

Canadians knew from the very start that the tar sands would never be anything other an unmitigated environmental disaster. Sadly, we don’t seem to be any more immune to scam artists than anyone else.

My only problem with insects as a necessary part of our nutrition is that it’s basically the last stop before all we have left are vats and mats of algae.

When Europeans came to the east coast of what is now Canada, they were in awe of the cod. They said things like “we can walk across the sea on their backs” as a way of helping to visualize the teeming billions.

Where are the cod now? The fishery collapsed because of over harvesting. It will likely never be restored to anything like its original state, despite the pressure to kill the nonhuman predators that feed on them.

“The fishery should have been better managed” you say?

Pray tell, what were we doing with the cod? Were we killing them the way we killed bison, to make way for high-speed, high-volume transportation of freight and people, favoured species, and starve the native populations? No, unlike with bison, we were shipping cod “home” and then across the country and around the world to feed an ever growing population.

“Better management” would have meant making decisions about who got to eat and who didn’t. Unlike with bison, nobody set out to destroy anything.

We’re busy destroying insect populations right now, both deliberately and as a side effect of other activities. We have not yet added them to our food supply. What do you think will be the outcome of becoming dependent on them to meet our nutritional needs?

How about a prediction? As with every natural resource, some species will be favoured and farmed to the detriment of every other species. Eventually, that won’t work anymore, and we’ll be living off algae. And when that doesn’t work anymore?

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Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump are boomers, yet they are basically as different as people can be.

Much is being made of the climate denialists, anti-vaxers, anti-trans, and white supremacists. Take a look at their membership and the people who show up to the marches. The vast majority are younger than boomers.

To put some more names on the non-boomers seemingly intent on destroying society: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Pierre Pollievre (looking like he might be Canada’s next Prime Minister).

I’m under no illusions regarding the damage that my generation has done, but let’s be clear: it’s the stupid and the rich, powerful, greedy, and just generally miserable excuses for human beings in every generation ever that have wrecked the world and continue to do so.

Whoever came up with “generational psychology” must have been intent on finding yet more ways to divide and conquer. We need solidarity of purpose, not infighting based on artificial or statistical constructs.

Excellent! I’ve just started my own investigations in the same direction, so please keep us posted on your progress.

Have you looked at Friendica? It requires more of a server than what I’ve got, but it looks pretty good to me.

A couple of days ago, I set up a GoToSocial instance. It’s still alpha software, but it looks pretty good so far and is a lot less resource intensive than Mastodon. It’s also server-only, but the clients I tried all worked with it just fine.

I’ve been able to follow people on regular Mastodon instances, but haven’t interacted outside my instance beyond mere following.

It was easy to get going on “bare metal” (no Docker), although I had to start over once because of a documentation gotcha. (The instructions as-is will leave you with an old version instead of the newest version.)

FWIW, I wrote up my experiences here.

For truly personal servers (single account), there is seppo.social, but I haven’t figured out how to actually getting it running! 🤷

When I was calculating costs in anticipation of putting in solar, I played around with several online calculators. Latitude, panel orientation, and angle. I was surprised by how few extra panels were required to do “stupid installs” like vertical, horizontal, west-facing, etc.

Oh yeah, I don’t think moving plants across the border is for the faint of heart or shallowness of pocket.