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@paulpeace
Yep, tax animal agriculture out of existence. As much as I like the idea, there is a risk we'd end up with more animal suffering, at least in the short- and medium-term.A meat tax has little consumer support, so most likely a tax would foremost or only be applied to the flesh of those animals that contribute most to global warming, ruminants. And consumers might just switch to eating more chickens, pigs and fishes.
It's explained here in more detail:
https://c2b5df1e-0ba2-4201-9fb6-87e92e6ad2c0.usrfiles.com/ugd/c2b5df_ecf0945e31054a62b33da5fd0816a86f.pdf#AnimalAgriculture #MeatTax #AnimalSuffering #AnimalProtection #environment
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@paulpeace @Andy_Scollick Great inputs by both of you, appreciate the conversation we've had.
Random loose ends:
How long until the ocean circulation crosses #criticality & flips in the direction of another mini ice age or such? Imagine having migrated to less hot areas, re-building for a couple generations, and then having to migrate south again, leaving most of it all behind again.
I've spent the last 5-10 years thinking there was still time to engineer 'soft landing' alternatives, but I'm no longer convinced there is time or resources to do this. Again, that doesn't mean stone age level before we rebound, but nothing like the Civ we have now.
Hard line attempts at structural & social civ change will likely also result in violent outcomes in the areas where that succeeds, and their neighbors took a more optimistic route. Same sort of competing our way to the bottom game theory results as now.
That said, I think local solutions are the best ROI in general. I think it is valid that the most advanced nations will suffer the most, measured in change/loss of norms, social disorder, etc. Also mostly coincides with the most dense areas, which are far from #equilibrium in the #sustainable sense.
There is also a great risk of mass #information loss if we cannot maintain the complex set of requirements needed for computer #memory storage device maintenance.
All this with scarce & unaffordable gasoline, as we watch militaries burn up the last of it.
Sadly, it will most likely take the occurrence of many of these things we're talking about before serious efforts are undertaken at the levels needed.
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Yep, tax animal agriculture out of existence. As much as I like the idea, there is a risk we'd end up with more animal suffering, at least in the short- and medium-term.
A meat tax has little consumer support, so most likely a tax would foremost or only be applied to the flesh of those animals that contribute most to global warming, ruminants. And consumers might just switch to eating more chickens, pigs and fishes.
It's explained here in more detail:
https://c2b5df1e-0ba2-4201-9fb6-87e92e6ad2c0.usrfiles.com/ugd/c2b5df_ecf0945e31054a62b33da5fd0816a86f.pdf#AnimalAgriculture #MeatTax #AnimalSuffering #AnimalProtection #environment
... this was meant to be in reply to Paul's post on a meat tax @paulpeace
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Almost finished a paper with the amazing and crazy people at our Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University. We're looking at how we can gain insights by using textual analysis of popular culture (street art, comics, and film), using environmentally-themes research. Hope to share more details in the near future!
#environment #ScienceCommunication #StreetArt #Comics #Film #AnimatedFilm #TextualAnalysis #Humanities -
These grow along the dunes. Good ground cover for our garden. The pink is very cheery! Delightful name, Pigface. Bushtucker - maybe dune tucker - if you like the salty flavour. #NativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Natives
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Will Steffen on the climate challenge: “It's not a technological or a scientific problem, it’s a question of humanities’ socio-political values... We need a social tipping point that flips our thinking before we reach a tipping point in the climate system."
#ClimateCrisis
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Growth won't decouple from carbon emission AND water extraction/pollution AND biodiversity loss AND extinctions AND chemicals. Pipe dreams. Just stop the deception, please. #degrowth to a #SteadyStateEconomy
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A long way to pull this back and most of it is going in the wrong direction. #degrowth to a #SteadyStateEconomy is required. Consumptgenic lifestyles must be reined in.
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Sustainable diets are often linked with femininity, yet eating sustainably is a signal to heterosexual women of oft-desired attributes in men, namely, altruism, and commitment as a partner and father.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mar.21321
#masculinity #masculinities #gender #nonforming #trans -
I'm calling for the word #sustainabler. Very few things are truly sustainable across population and time. The threshold for calling a product or process sustainable is ridiculously low, misleading, and encourages conscience-free and unwitting consumption.
#greenwashing #sustainable #sustainability #consumption #degrowth #SteadyState #DoughnutEconomics #PlanetaryBoundaries #BiodiversityLoss #ClimateEmergency
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Many people advocating a 'circular economy' support economic growth. Could they explain how elements already in this closed loop defy the laws of physics by growing without extraction or pollution?
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Here's what's right about a climate denier:
- Doesn't blindly accept science.Here's what's wrong about a climate denier:
- Insufficient knowledge and skills to appraise it.#ClimateDenial #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Science #Logic #Dunning-Kruger #CognitiveBias
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A shiny new profile as I start my second PhD. "What have I done?" has taken on a second meaning!
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Healthy eating is not 'more expensive' for the typical Aussie metro area. It's cheaper. Wholefood vegan diets are even cheaper still (this research is based on the so-called 'Planetary Health Diet' which still trashes the environment with fish and meat).
#Nutrition #PlanetaryHealth #Diet #FoodBills #CostOfLiving #Deakin #Research
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Public/media claims: "Nuts are anti-inflammatory".
Actual research statement (e.g.): "when substituted for potato chips".
Communication framing: neglects to mention that potato chips need not be replaced by nuts!
Put simply, foods that are better than terrible foods are not excellent choices.
#Food #Diet #Nutrition #ScienceCommunication #SciCom #Research #Dietetics #Claims
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The locals are out.
The background noise comes from our friendly mole crickets, very happy after recent rain.
#FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #Bats -
I hadn't noticed it was Black History Month, so that sounds about. Still, by week 4, I have come across quite a bit of activity, in this case, in marine sciences. Voices from this exciting corner of science would like to share their experiences. They speak below.
A panel of black marine scientists talk about their journey into marine science, difficulties in entry to the field, successes, isolation and other experiences:
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More local native plants going in the garden. Hibbertia vestita / hairy guinea flower. #NativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Rewilding
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Watching a talk at uni by Prof James Wilsdon. Got me thinking. How do we ensure scientific advisors to governments ensure they channel scientific consensus and not outlier studies? And sometimes policy has to be formed on volatile, early-stage science despite uncertainty.
#CPAS #ANU #ScientificAdvice #CSO #CSA #Uncertainty #Consensus #Science #Research
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Midyim berries from my garden. Local wild plant and bush tucker. They taste a little bit perfumy to me, a bit like parma violet. #homegrown #food #NativePlanting #bushtucker
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Marketing organisation for potato farming, Potatoes USA, pays for researchers to develop a new index for carbs. Potatoes now look healthier. No conflict of interest there, then.
#potatoes #diet #nutrition #carbs #weightloss #food #dietetics #research #science
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The 'soy-boy' claim that soy products feminise men (how 'awful') is scientifically disproven. #soyboy #vegan #plantmilk #science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623820302926
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I'm looking forward to eating these berries. I'm growing a local native plant called Midyim, Austromyrtus dulcis. Beautiful. Raw, they taste a bit of parma violet! I bet there are some good antioxidants in here! #NativePlanting #Bushtucker #WildFood #Biodiversity #HomeGrown
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Meet one of my local natives. I'm growing it. This is Cymbopogon refractus, a QLD lemongrass from that genus. Yet to taste it! Will report back! Also called barbed wire grass. I'll show the flower shape soon. #nativePlanting #WildlifeGardening #Plants #Herbs
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Woo-hoo! Life-changing news! I've accepted an offer to study for a 2nd PhD, at The Australian National University, Centre for the Public Awareness of Science. Topic: Scientific Communication of the Environmental Effects of Dietary Overconsumption.
#research #ANU #CPAS #Diet #Environment #sustainability #FoodSystem #biodiversity #extinction #climateChange #PlanetaryBoundaries #ScienceCommunication #SciComm
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If you stop eating just before you think you're full, within a few minutes, you are full. It's a good way to lose weight or benefit the environment by reducing food production, processing, packaging, storage, transport, and waste.
#food #WeightLoss #Hunger #Satiety #Nutrition #FoodSystem #FoodProduction #Farming #Sustainability
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Calving up Daintree Rainforest, north QLD. Buy a lot of paradise and make it a lot of not paradise.
Campaign to purchase and keep wild: https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheDaintree
#rainforst #BiodiversityLoss #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #LandUseChange
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I'm growing Xerochrysum bracteatum, a local #wildflower. Also known as everlasting due to its ability to be dried for floristry, or paper daisy, after the crispy, papery feel of the petals.