Pons_Aelius

Japan is not alone in this.

The three countries that are getting hit with declining population are also the ones with some of the lowest migration rates in the world.

Japan.

Sth Korea.

China.

I think you are mistaking a bad translation for actual intent.

A chicken farm?

Looks like an ex with some mental health issues.

Which, like every mental health treatment, only works for a subset of people.

It sure would be great if doing the work actually lead to change for everyone.

For many it does not.

Sorry, that was not my intention at all.

I would much prefer a world-news sub not be filled with the same stories (endless US/UK/EU politics etc) over and over again but rather have some interesting local stories from around the world.

I was just pointing out that adding some more generic descriptions would make it more readable to the rest of the world.

I settled on figuring how much of Essex that would cover.

which is not that helpful in worldnews…

“for a 114 hectare solar farm east of School Lane”

Now I have an idea of the actual size.

How does a town of 250 have the funds to pay 50 police salaries?

Texas Highway 155 crosses Ledbetter Bay as it passes through Coffee City

Coffee City’s budget shows the town collected more than $1 million in court fines last year. That came from more than 5,100 citations officers wrote

As an outsider, local city based police forces sound like some medieval throwback to me.

Sorry but that sounds like you can’t craft a decent search query.

Try excluding youtube from the results.

One country can’t just start injecting aerosols into the stratosphere without every other country on Earth freaking out.

Are you sure about that?

That is what climate change is. Nations pumping what ever amount of co2 into the atmosphere while the rest of the world does nothing.

Is this surprising to anyone?

I am not a capitalist. I beleive in degrowth and communalism

Honestly?

Your politics are irreverent, you are still Humans first and only.

The earth is in the middle of the sixth and fastest mass extension in the planets 3,500,000,000 years that life has existed.

It is only the second caused by a single species. The other was the great oxygenation event caused by Cyanobacteria.

The big difference is that we know the destruction we are causing and are doing nothing

Personally, the best thing that could have happened to planet earth would have been for COVID to have had a mortality rate of 30-95%.

Sorry but we humans have been fucking over the planet and our impact needs to be reduced ASAP.

We have blithely caused catastrophic damage to the ecosystem and have continued to do so for decades after we had the knowledge and capacity to reverse the effects.

The argument the whole time against changing our ways has been but it will hurt the economy

Well, we are now reaping what we sowed, so Fuck the economy and let the find out phase begin as soon as possible.

IIRC: The rate in Japan has been below replacement level (2.1) for longer but the rate in SK has been falling faster and has now passed Japan.

Edit:
Just did some quick research:

First year below 2.1

Japan: 1975

Sth Korea: 1984

Year Sth Korea dropped below Japan’s rate and kept falling: 2001.

You sit here, typing away, demanding everyone man the barricades now.

Ok. what have you done, personally, to improve drivers conditions?

The main problems I have with it is::

Once you begin (without actually reducing co2 emissions), you can never stop.

You will have to increase the rate of SAI every decade, in perpetuity.

If, for any reason (war, political instability, economic burden etc), the SAI stops the rapid change in temperatures will be devastating to ecosystems on a level that would make our current rate of change look like paradise.

From what I remember of the effect the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 had of global warming the effects disappear within 5 years. If humans want to reverse warming we will have to push well past the “safe max co2” of 350ppm.

My little End of SAI Nightmare Senario.

Its 2100 After 50 years of SAI pegged as if there is only 200ppm of co2 in the atmosphere. The actual level is some where between 800 - 1000 ppm.

The SAI stops. In effect the earth goes from 200ppm to 800 - 1000 ppm in five years.

Sorry, you are only attacking the teamsters here?

Not a single word against the fucking company that would have done nothing and would have changed nothing in the future if not for the teamsters pushing for change?

Cool. The sooner human population starts to go down the better it will be the the rest of the planet.