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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
In the 2004 film Downfall (Der Untergang), which portrays Hitler’s last days in a Berlin bunker, he says that if the German people are weak they deserve death. It is a view from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that conflicts are won by those with the strongest will. ...
This makes the decision on the Tiwai Smelter even more interesting.
I am confused.
I would have thought a smelter powered by hydro is two ticks in the "carbon constrained" and "sustainable" box.
Edit. ahh, I see we are talking Aussie smelters, not Tiwai
Quebec generates vastly more electricity than it uses, and about 97% of that generation is hydro. That excess electricity has to be exported, either to the rest of Canada, to the US, or in a congealed form (ie aluminium ingots).
Canada's electricity sector as a whole has some similarities to NZ, with around 20% getting generated by fossil fuels. So they, like us, could conceivably get pretty close to zero-ghg electricity by giving their aluminium smelters the arse and shutting down their fossil generation.
Then there's Iceland, with as near as dammit 100% renewable (70% hydro, 30% geothermal). Their installed aluminium smelters have a bit over 3x the capacity of Tiwai Point.
The ability to witness two men stand toe to toe in the spirit of sportsmanship and pummel each other into insensibility is what separates us from the animals.
Christopher Lloyd
(1938 – ) American actor
– as Jim Ignatowski
It's a fine quote.
But actually it's cooking. Some use tools, some have language, some even practice a kind of agriculture, but only humans cook.
Their home
The only other species that does better is varroa destructor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor
At some point in our past we became homo destructor
Are we going to give up exploring space for Lent? The time of fasting to enable sustainability and limit greenhouse gases etc. The scientific community into space probes don't indicate that there is any problem here on earth. Perhaps they embrace the idea of a depleted earth as more grist to their mill.
Ted Talk – We need a new economics. Interesting – is this true – what he is saying? Did we just hear this or dream it?
The link does finish with a bs!
The dirty secret of capitalism — and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer