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.)

Perhaps you’d consider writing a paper to detail all this. And then submitting it for peer review, of course. I am not a climate scientist so I will content myself with trusting reliable secondary sources.

Point 2: “Reliable sources”. They are likely wrong. Read the paper.

Yeah, no. To be clear, the source I referred to is Our World in Data. It’s widely respected and I have better things to do than second-guess it.

And yet reliable sources say what seems to be generally accepted, namely that stopping carbons emissions completely in a short time frame (a couple of years) would land us with “1.5 degrees by the end of the century”. So, as I said, something is off with this “10 degrees”. Perhaps it’s the “end of the century” bit.

And yet, says the same article:

Equilibrium warming is not ‘committed’ warming; rapid phaseout of GHG emissions would prevent most equilibrium warming from occurring.

So something’s off.

acoustic bike

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

In theory, no. There’s actually a tiny bit of runway left. If carbon emissions continued as today for about 2 or 3 years (extrapolate figures) and then stopped, the temperature would plateau at 1.5 and then very slowly fall.

Of course, the problem is that emissions are absolutely not going to stop in 2027.

BTW: current average projection is around +3.5 by century’s end. That’s actually a bit lower than it was a few years ago, due to faster than expected roll-out of green tech. But it’s obviously still way, way too high. Especially because of the risk of tipping points.

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.

dog ownership dog ownership

This sure sounds like your bugbear! It’s because they eat lots of meat? What if (devil’s advocate) the dog were owned in replacement of a child?

Wonderful story! Thanks for sharing.

It’s clear that Antarctic tourism is a completely unsustainable proposition. But I’m regularly surprised by how few people imagine that they personally are implicated when they take part in any given practice that is unsustainable at scale. It’s as if people see their actions as happening in a vacuum.

I once met an Antarctic tourist. I admit that I listened with interest to their breathless story of glass-clear water and whales you can touch and so on. But I also felt a bit of disgust too.

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.

Yep exactly. At first I had trouble believing it was working without a connection, but it really does. This is definitely a case of AI being useful.

Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.