A buddhist vegan goth with questionable humour.

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  • Yes, but that is because there is a power imbalance at play here. It makes sence to avoid such situations to prevent sexual violence in institutions.

    You can normalise beeing naked without shame beeing involved and keep children safe in a situation that could be potentialy abused. In my opinion that’s not mutually exclusive.

    Ironically not making parts of our body a taboo best not even to talk about is what helps children speak out if they have been molestered. Same with knowing what is appropriate and what not. Sex-Ed is just so important to prevent sexual violence against children. Which is, just to make the clear, still not their responsibility. It’s just something that helps a lot, you still need systems of protection in institutions.

    /rant I guess.


  • This is btw one main reason why milk is murder, because many of those calves are often killed for their meat. The other reason is that cows stop beeing productive and are killed way before their natural death, since the replacement calves are rdy to go (I think it was something like after 5 years with their natural life span beeing around 25, but I’m not sure if I remember correctly).

    A bit oversimplified, but just to add a bit more context why vegans don’t drink milk.





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    29 days ago

    Great question! The reason why I was using the 2017 report is that the Guardian arrival you originally referred to was from 2017, so I looked at the report they were working off of.

    That is sensible, yes.

    I regards to the graph you posted, it shows how emissions from private comps is have fallen and emissions from nations and nation owned companies have rissen. I think this is a relevant distinction to make, because the meme and the report as they are show a one sided picture (capitalism is the sole drive of climate change) whilst, looking at the complete data, a more nuanced picture emerges (like the role of nations in upholding the capitals system).


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    Looking at the numbers you should maybe include Chinas Coal Industry in there, since it is responsible for about 25 % of global emissions alone, according to the up to date report.

    And the people at Gazprom also deserve a prominent spot in that line.


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    Why are you using data from the 2017 report?

    You are referring to page 15, which shows emissions in 2015. In the up to date 2024 report this has been replaced with emissions after the Paris climate agreement, so 2016 till 2022.

    As you can see, the same picture emerges as I stated in my first post: the top actors are Nations or state owned producers. The contribution to global Co2 emissions is listet, but still only refers to fossil fuel and cement Co 2 emissions.



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    This meme is not true and missleading. I know it fits the narrative of “companies bad”. But it’s not based on fact.

    It’s based on an article by the guardian.

    Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says

    The article is based on the Carbon Major Report.

    It describes itself like this:

    Carbon Majors is a database of historical production data from 122 of the world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers. This data is used to quantify the direct operational emissions and emissions from the combustion of marketed products that can be attributed to these entities.

    As you can see, they speak about “entities”, not companies. Who are said entities?

    75 Investor-owned Companies, 36 State-owned Companies, 11 Nation States, 82 Oil Producing Entities, 81 Gas Entities, 49 Coal Entities, 6 Cement Entities

    As one might realize, only 75 are Companies. Most of them are either States, or producers of Oil, Gas, Coal and Cement.

    The 71 % is not at all about global emissions. This is wrong.

    72% of Global Fossil Fuel & Cement CO2 Emissions

    So it’s 100 entities that are responsible for 72 % of the world’s fossil and cement Co2 emission.

    https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/05dfb9e1-ace2-4072-9fc5-7ed6f6eddfb2.png

    Looking at them you can see how the top emitter are very much not companies. Also, it’s historical Co2, a fact made prominent by the former Soviet union beeing the top emitter.

    Let’s look at some more findings:

    The Carbon Majors database finds that most state- and investor-owned companies have expanded their production operations since the Paris Agreement. 58 out of the 100 companies were linked to higher emissions in the seven years after the Paris Agreement than in the same period before. This increase is most pronounced in Asia, where 13 out of 15 (87%) assessed companies are connected to higher emissions in 2016–2022 than in 2009–2015, and in the Middle East, where this number is 7 out of 10 companies (70%). In Europe, 13 of 23 companies (57%), in South America, 3 of 5 (60%) companies, and in Australia, 3 out of 4 (75%) companies were linked to increased emissions, as were 3 of 6 (50%) African companies. North America is the only region where a minority of companies, 16 of 37 (43%), were linked to rising emissions.

    Here the report mixes state and private companies. The rise is most prominent in countries with state owned companies. Privote companies, as seen in Europe and North America, haven’t increased that much.

    So, all in all: The idea that 100 companies are responsible for the destruction of earth is plain wrong.

    I know the ideas that companies are responsible and to blaim for the current state of affairs fits our world view (it fits mine!!), but please don’t run into the trap of believing everything you read just because it does.


  • Im not a native English speaker and I thought “lost my legs” was an idome of some sort, especially because you wrote it in the same sentence as beeing a single father.

    But no. You lost your legs. Litarly.

    In regards to the rest of your post, absolutely 100 % on your side. I met my wife 2 years ago and it is the most beautiful relationship I ever had, mainly because we treat each other with the same amount of respect.


  • Would you live in Israel knowing what you know? Would you move there? Would you stay if you had ever ability to leave? How would you feel about someone who did?

    If I were a jew I would not want to live their. I don’t want to live in an apartheid state and would not want to live under the extreme right wing government. Nor would I want to live in a place that is so prone to beeing the target of a terrorist attack. So moving there would be our of the question.

    As for your other questions: There are Israelis who belive on a 2 state solution and are against the government. There are Israelis who have family who love there they do not want to leave back. People have been living in Israel for 75 years. That’s two generations growing up there. It’s not that easy to just go away. Nobody thinks that US citizens should leave their county, and they got it by committing a genozode and settling land that didn’t belong to them. Just 100 years earlier as Israel. So if you realy hold the stance that people should leave Israel you better apply that same logic to the US.






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    Bulldozed over them. Alive and dead. Couldn’t take the gore no longer.

    I have empathy for him, honesty. He belived the propaganda about defending the country an all that. Then was ordered to to horrible things. He experienced the difference between a lie told and a lie lived and just couldn’t deal with it.

    He not the bad guy here.


  • Then there’s the first six months of caring for a newborn, which is intense.

    We have 7 month old Twins. Intense is a good word, the last 7 months have been the hardest of my life so far, and I am hitting on 40. That said, it’s far from trauma, as far as I understand the term.

    Also, my father and by brother died 10 and 5 years ago, both before they were old aged. I am well aware of the concept of moratility, even of my wife’s and children’s mortality. It doesn’t weigh on me personally, honestly. It’s just a reality that one has to accept, as there is nothing that can be done about it.



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    3 months ago

    Aside from global warming

    I get what you are saying. But that improvement has been possible only because of global warming. Today we have more energy (=workforce) at our hands than ever before. This has imported things, but it’s living on bored time Global warming will start to deteriate our world in multiple ways, I fact it is doing so right now.

    A collapse of this system build on sand is a very real possibility. And it is a very real possibility that it will take less than a generation to happen.