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  1. @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:
    c2b5df1e-0ba2-4201-9fb6-87e92e

    #AnimalAgriculture #MeatTax #AnimalSuffering #AnimalProtection #environment

  2. @paulpeace Hi Paul,

    In case you are interested, here is a petition for radical, restructuring reform of the #UN, which hasn't changed in structure since it was formed shortly after #WW2, and frankly isn't fit for resolving conflicts peacefully such as #RussiaUkraineWar, dealing with the #ClimateAndEcologicalEmergency, and more.

    The petition is accessible via toot:

    toot.community/@Paullima/10940

  3. @paulpeace Interesting. For a number of years I’ve visited the local populations of eastern grey kangaroos in my 5km radius of Fawkner, including the 9ha #NgarriDjarrang #Grasslands in #Reservoir surrounded by residential development. Numbers are steady at about one dozen Roos. One quiet road bisects the grasslands.
    #EasternGreyKangaroos #Moonrise #ReservoirMob #LifeInFawkner

  4. @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.

  5. @paulpeace @pollyjhemming
    I remember attending the #BlueCarbon in NDCs side event at #COP25 in Madrid in 2019 which Minister Angus Taylor spoke at. Australia was then developing blue carbon methodologies, and supporting blue carbon projects in PNG and the Pacific. No questions to Ministers or the expert panel at the event (Yes, I had a question to ask)
    flickr.com/photos/takver/49207

  6. @paulpeace @pollyjhemming
    I remember attending the #BlueCarbon in NDCs side event at #COP25 in Madrid in 2019 which Minister Angus Taylor spoke at. Australia was then developing blue carbon methodologies, and supporting blue carbon projects in PNG and the Pacific. No questions to Ministers or the expert panel at the event (Yes, I had a question to ask)
    flickr.com/photos/takver/49207

  7. @paulpeace @pollyjhemming
    I remember attending the #BlueCarbon in NDCs side event at #COP25 in Madrid in 2019 which Minister Angus Taylor spoke at. Australia was then developing blue carbon methodologies, and supporting blue carbon projects in PNG and the Pacific. No questions to Ministers or the expert panel at the event (Yes, I had a question to ask)
    flickr.com/photos/takver/49207

  8. @paulpeace @pollyjhemming
    I remember attending the #BlueCarbon in NDCs side event at #COP25 in Madrid in 2019 which Minister Angus Taylor spoke at. Australia was then developing blue carbon methodologies, and supporting blue carbon projects in PNG and the Pacific. No questions to Ministers or the expert panel at the event (Yes, I had a question to ask)
    flickr.com/photos/takver/49207

  9. @paulpeace @pollyjhemming
    I remember attending the #BlueCarbon in NDCs side event at #COP25 in Madrid in 2019 which Minister Angus Taylor spoke at. Australia was then developing blue carbon methodologies, and supporting blue carbon projects in PNG and the Pacific. No questions to Ministers or the expert panel at the event (Yes, I had a question to ask)
    flickr.com/photos/takver/49207

  10. @paulpeace
    The Australian Clean Energy Regulator authorised a #blueCarbon methodology under the Emissions Reduction Fund for #carbonCredits on 2 January 2022. "The new method covers projects that introduce tidal flows to allow the establishment of coastal wetland ecosystems including supratidal forests, mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrass, through the removal or modification of a tidal restriction mechanism."
    #offsets #ACCUs #carbonSequestration
    cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/In

    Will be interesting to read the Williamson and Gattuso study in this light. Any Thoughts @pollyjhemming ?

  11. 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:
    c2b5df1e-0ba2-4201-9fb6-87e92e

    #AnimalAgriculture #MeatTax #AnimalSuffering #AnimalProtection #environment

    ... this was meant to be in reply to Paul's post on a meat tax @paulpeace

  12. See this recent discussion of the Australian #blueCarbon methodology for producing Australian Carbon Credit Units. The first Blue Carbon method so far developed is restoring tidal flows to #wetlands, but two other methods are presently under consideration. #CarbonCredits #Offsets #ACCUs #CarbonSequestration
    c.im/@[email protected]/1

  13. Without ploughing, regenerative farming encourages glyphosate herbicide use. "92% of readers planned to use glyphosate for weed control this year"
    #RegAg #herbicides #pesticides #farming
    Is Glyphosate Harming Your No-Tilled Soils? (no-tillfarmer.com)

  14. Without ploughing, regenerative farming encourages glyphosate herbicide use. "92% of readers planned to use glyphosate for weed control this year"
    #RegAg #herbicides #pesticides #farming
    Is Glyphosate Harming Your No-Tilled Soils? (no-tillfarmer.com)

  15. Without ploughing, regenerative farming encourages glyphosate herbicide use. "92% of readers planned to use glyphosate for weed control this year"
    #RegAg #herbicides #pesticides #farming
    Is Glyphosate Harming Your No-Tilled Soils? (no-tillfarmer.com)

  16. Without ploughing, regenerative farming encourages glyphosate herbicide use. "92% of readers planned to use glyphosate for weed control this year"
    #RegAg #herbicides #pesticides #farming
    Is Glyphosate Harming Your No-Tilled Soils? (no-tillfarmer.com)

  17. Without ploughing, regenerative farming encourages glyphosate herbicide use. "92% of readers planned to use glyphosate for weed control this year"
    #RegAg #herbicides #pesticides #farming
    Is Glyphosate Harming Your No-Tilled Soils? (no-tillfarmer.com)

  18. In a world struggling to feed 8B people, food loss and waste is a serious matter. Loss refers to unfit for consumption, waste to what was fit but spoiled, etc. It happens across crops and around the world.
    #FoodWaste #FoodLoss

  19. Sanger with homegrown rocket, lettuce, and my homemade hummus with za'atar and without nasty-oil concentrated sesame seeds in tahini.
    #wholefood #VeganFood #SustainableDiet

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Sources of microplastics in agricultural soils. Agriculture itself includes plastic mulches and plastic-coated fertilisers. doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.
    #plasticpollution #novelEntities #microplastics

  26. 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