I get where you’re coming from but a yoyo forum isn’t gonna change global policy and habits. It would be like a single person recycling. In the end the dump is probably just mixing the bins downstream anyway because it’s not cost effective to recycle plastic when plastic is so cheap to make. Whole community could get radicalized and sort and recycle but the entire system is the issue and as long as we are fracking the Texas flats to the point plastic precursor is so available it’s more effective to burn off than sell it you can’t even compete at any real level on reclaiming used plastics…
Same concept with shopping all of the yoyo community could reform our ways but the capitalist system will simply keep going regardless with other things. It’s a tiny tiny cog in a much much larger set of issues.
All that to say it’s cold right now and I’m gonna go find fluffy socks to put on.
Last couple winters here in southern Michigan have been fairly mild, bar a day here or there where we got hammered. This winter has been a bit colder and snowier. Hit -7F last week and it hasn’t really stopped snowing since Christmas
IMO if the climate alarmist crowd were actually serious, we’d be talking about nuclear more, but we aren’t. You’re just supposed to eat bean steaks and cricket burgers instead.
Remember when we were going to enter a new ice age?
“Climate change” not global warming. The poles are warming but the way that affects the rest of the earth is much more complex.
“There’s clearly this strong relationship between stretched vortex events and extreme winter weather here in the US,” Cohen said. He said that during the period of rapid Arctic climate change, the polar vortex has become more stretched and variable, raising the risk of bouts of severe winter weather in the mid-latitudes, including the US, Europe and parts of Asia”
They have the largest populations and therefore are some of the largest contributors to man-made climate change.
You’re looking at this the wrong way.
There are many things that are already too late to fix now, and some other things that could still go back to normal if we started making big changes tomorrow. Year by year, there will be less of the earth-that-was that can still save, but that doesn’t mean we should just give up. Humans are very good at putting off dealing with problems that they can’t see the immediate effects of, but it’s not a healthy desire.
This is 100% because if regulations based on bad science around allowable radioactive contamination and exposure levels. If we had similar laws and policy to that of our EU counterparts we could build nuclear facilities significantly cheaper and faster but there’s no appetite in that. There be money involved in that their decision tree in the form of oil/natural gas lobbyists…
Regardless I’ve realized I ain’t seen the mail truck in a few days. Seems the snow scared away my mail man.
don’t be jealous, i had to shovel snow in 10degree weather for 6 plus hours the past two days to move my cars out of my condo parking lot and back into my condo parking lot.
There is one underlying theme to all of these environmental scares: the US economy needs to use less energy and consume less. Translation: others need to slow down the US economy so that their economies can keep pace. This inevitably is universally-supported by Europe as well as any small country looking for a handout.
Ice ages, Peak Oil, holes in the Ozone, global warming and now the equally undefined: climate change; they are all the same. Use less resources and handout money to other countries who are not being asked to do the same.
Yes there Earth is undergoing ‘climate change’. It has been doing so since the planet acquired an atmosphere.
Over here in Vegas, it’s reaching 70 degrees fahrenheit, and it feels nice right now, but it’s the middle of winter so I’m getting scared for what the summer is going to look like.
I remember years ago when it’d be 30-40, but I never expected it to still be so warm this time around.
I have a dog and know how likely I’m eating snow that’s just overtop of where he did his business. I would rather make “snow” with filtered water myself
humid and your string sticks to your hands, freezing cold and you’re between shivering uncontrollably and cursing blasting your knuckles, raining, the wind is blowing so hard not only can you not do slack tricks but it blows the yoyo out of plane, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
It’s all over the place. It was 75 here. Then it dipped to 20 at night. Then we had some below freezing days. The wind was gusting up to 70 miles per hour. I’ve never seen graupel in my life, but it was pretty darn sunny while that happened.
