A funeral hurst the climate. Please don’t die.
If you do, do it in the woods. So your body feeds the flora and fauna.
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I walk around in biodegradable clothes covered from head to toe in pockets filled with native seed balls, so that when I inevitably die from heatstroke within the next five years, the pockets will eventually degrade and spill out hundreds of seeds to sprout and feed upon my decaying corpse. Call that kamikaze gardening
So you are like gurillia utaru? I’m down for that.
Hopefully you have a lot of super drought and heat resistant species that are also somehow magically hardy in climates that get winter, because the extremes are getting more extreme.
I’m legitimately so glad CRISPR is in the hands of pretty much everyone, and that kids are (and have been for many years) designing next-gen bioengineered 4H agriculture and farming projects, because they definitely have the vision to produce what we need and they don’t know they can’t do it (like we think we do) so they can!
Sorry, who is "gurillia utaru"?
Wasn’t sure if that reference would hit, my bad. The utaru are a society of people in horizon forbidden west who are super in tune with the lands around them.
They each carry a seed pouch with them throughout their lives, and add seeds that are meaningful to them.
Upon death, when the seed pouch can be recovered, it’s planted in the sacred grove and tended as a memorial.
Guerrilla just refers to them being planted wherever instead of being brought home, like guerrilla gardening (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening)
I’m realizing now that’s a lot of really niche references I took for granted, that’s totally my bad.
That's some nice worldbuilding, honestly.
It’s a really really amazingly done game. The world changes around you as to complete major side objectives. They spent a ton of time on the story, and it shows.
I keep telling people to just throw me in the bush in a burlap sack because I don’t care. I should get a will going…
If there's enough left of me to bury then I didn't protest against cars hard enough
I'm planning on dying at home and letting the cats feed on my corpse
You've nailed the "reuse, recycle" parts of the triad.
They'll just keep meowing at you. You'll have to get up to feed them eventually...
That's in my will, actually. I have no attachment to my physical body once I'm dead. Donate me to science and put the rest of me in the ground and plant a tree on my corpse 🤷
I found this article quite interesting as it adds some much-needed context to the original.
It's mostly saying that, on a per-calorie basis, rice produces notably more methane compared to most other grains but still very much less than animal-agriculture (specifically, cows).
Realistically, rice will continue to be needed as a staple food in many places so it can't be broadly eliminated as a food source. Most consumers who are trying to reduce emissions will be better off looking for ways to reduce their consumption of meat and dairy as it will have a bigger impact.
The original article talks specifically about flooding rice farming. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/your-bowl-of-rice-is-hurting-the-climate-too
Apparently, flooding the field kills weeds but allows the rice plant to survive. The plant matter decomposes and releases methane gas. The article's main point is to bring awareness to a planting technique that doesn't produce methane gas. It's clickbait more than corps doing there "take individual responsibility" thing.
In the US they have rolled out an ag program called "Climate Smart" that pays rice farmers for dropping their water early to reduce methane emissions.
Capitalists: Climate change is your fault and here's an exhaustive list of every little thing a normal person does and how it negatively impacts the environment
You: fails to either learn to photosynthesize, or starve to death
Capitalists: Ugh, I can't believe you would do this to the environment! This is all your fault!
Definitely not massively polluting megacorps. Nope, it's definitely billions of poor people eating grain.
I exchange the rice for lo mein every single time.
If I'm going to eat a bunch of carbs, they should at least taste good. I live in an Asian neighborhood so I eat a lot of Asian food; still don't understand the obsession with rice.
rice is good but I'll definitely fuck with some noodles
No, you fool. Dying means you will decompose and that causes more carbon dioxide.
Dying hurts the climate too (╥﹏╥)
This newspaper is from my country.
It was so badly run by some nepo hire that it went non profit.
A newspaper went non profit.
Yes everything is climate change
Except when the elites do it, they can use private jets, hot water, gas, eat what they want and do what they want without consequences
But what you do will never be enough
Anyone who thinks this shit makes a difference and ignoring what China is doing on the daily are just virtue signaling fools
is str.sg/o94K a unit of climate damage?
Hahah, that's such a smooth reply tweet, I love when people use "bad english" on purpose. Is like a pair of jeans that are artificially weathered to make them look more beautiful. Interestingly, I feel like you can do it wrong and have actual bad "bad english"