Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly
"Together with our energy partner, Entergy, we are adding enough clean and renewable energy to the grid to cover 100% of the electricity use of our Richland Parish Data Center." [...]
Entergy noted that Meta has also committed to helping it install CCS technology at one of its power plants
Oh good lard. They're building 2 GW of gas capacity and will offset those separately.
They're going to offset it right into the atmosphere, and probably figure out a way to claim a tax deduction for the "offset."
Deny, defend, depose.
Remember, remember, the 4th of December.
The day the exec was shot.
I know of no reason
Why the day he was deposed
Should ever be forgot.
Looks like a huge amount of space for solar panels on that site plan.
Yeah, but how about we place those solar panels somewhere else entirely? On a dewy meadow someplace else where they can't hurt our precious roofing or parking spaces? Doesn't that sound splendid?
Classic Zucc
Datacenter environmental impact is a short-term problem.
In ten years, we'll have significant renewable energy disposable.
In ten years, we'll be lucky if all the food is still growing to keep all these people alive. Yes, including you.
People vastly underestimate the scope of what climate change is going to do to us, quite soon.
https://predicament.substack.com/p/what-most-people-dont-understand
Solar panels are the natural photosynthetic plants turned into technology.
Let's see how things unfold.
Ah yes the natural photosynthic process of mining silica, aluminum and rare earth metals from deep in the earth's crust. Yes solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis but they still require substantial systems built around them to function - plants not as much.
Still doesn't mean we can't have solar panels but we really shouldn't be ravaging the earth more just to satisfy our excessive energy usage. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order.