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Comment Human overpopulation. (Score 0) 145

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Having 1 child averages 58.6 tonnes of CO2e per parent per year, 23.7 in poor countries, and 117.7 in rich countries like the USA (2050 vs life expectancy).

58.6 > 2.1.

We need to have a fertility rate of about 0.01 per person for several decades, or we'll turn the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction.

Comment Radiation map. (Score 1) 60

According to Windy.com (switch off everything except radiation), Chernobyl was at 192 nSv/h 2 days ago (see Sv).

Compare this to 480 (been around that for several days) just to the north near Brahin, Belarus.

The 2nd highest I can see is 283 at Tréauville, France (near the Cherbourg Naval Base).

Comment An eternal Treblinka. (Score 5, Insightful) 85

Not millions, but billions of animals are enslaved in torturous conditions on factory farms every year.

As for industrial fishing, it could be about 2 trillion fish that they tortured to death every year.

Factory farming and industrial fishing causes more pain and suffering than all other atrocities ever committed, combined.

Comment 4 best, 4 worst. (Score 1) 40

Looks like HGST is the best bet, with the good WDC having a very similar model to the HGSTs so possibly just rebranded. While the old Seagate is the best, their quality may have dropped so much as to not be a good bet anymore.

Best AFRs:
0.11 Seagate. 6TB sy6000dx000
0.14 WDC.... 16TB wuh721816aLe6L0
0.27 HGST... 12TB huh721212aLe600
0.29 HGST... 12TB huh721212aLe604
0.31 HGST.... 4TB hms5c4040bLe640

Worst AFRs:
4.79 Seagate 14TB st14000nm0138
2.26 Seagate 10TB st10000nm0086
2.04 Toshiba. 4TB md04aba400v (n=97, failures=2)
2.01 Seagate 12TB st12000nm0007

Comment Don't look up. (Score 1) 59

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to average less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year total now (2050 vs life expectancy), and 0 tonnes soon.

A single roundtrip transatlantic flight averages 1.6 tonnes of CO2e per passenger.

Don't look up.

Comment Re:Not me! (Score 1) 243

Unsustainable overpopulation is not just the biggest cause of anthropogenic climate change, it is also the root cause for all the other causes.

Not solving the thing that's the root cause, and an order of magnitude worse than all other causes combined, isn't how you solve a problem.

Having only hundreds of millions people isn't zero people. Having billions of people is how you destroy the biosphere - without which people (and most genera of complex life) go extinct.

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