Nearly all so called "clean" water across the planet is polluted with microplastics, given that water is vital ingredient in the beer making process this is not in the slightest bit unexpected. Once again a study from the department of the fucking obvious.

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I dont disagree with your sentiment.

There is little point in wasting time pursuing a high-flying career any more. Im glad to see that this is happening.
By the time students come out of the higher education system we will be 4-5 more years into global socio-economic collapse
and 4-5 more years in to climate breakdown.

It is far better that kids today focus on preparing for an extreme weather future where multiple crop failures and food shortages are the norm.

Having a law degree isnt going to help here.

I commend Intel employees who have grown a conscience and sought employment elsewhere.

We’re kidding ourselves if we think EVs are a drop-in “solution.” Building an EV burns about twice the carbon of making an ICE, and scrapping a perfectly functional ICE adds nearly another tonne of COe. Run the numbers: ramping up EV sales by 10%/year for a decade actually adds ~650 million tonnes of COe from manufacturing, even after accounting for fewer ICEs scrapped.

That’s just swapping one carbon-intensive system for another — tailpipes for furnaces and mines. The problem isn’t just the drivetrain, it’s the scale: 75 million new cars every year.

The real win isn’t “replace every ICE with an EV,” it’s cutting the carbon out of steel, aluminum, and batteries, cranking up recycling, and maybe even questioning whether churning out this many new cars is sustainable at all. Otherwise, it’s just business as usual in a greener paint job.

Another waste of time and funds on a study from the department of the fucking obvious and nothing done about it.
Once again another reason not to refute the fact that theres only a 5% chance of us getting off this trajectory
to catastrophic climate collapse that will lead to the extinction of much of life, except perhaps a few lucky
extremophiles within decades.

Perhaps if we were to fund action,instead of reports that tell us what we already know we might stand a better chance,
but i dont think thats looking likely.

It wont happen. 2030 is the milestone whereby demand for clean water outstrips supply.

Ergo - if were aiming to scale AI up to that level by 2030, that situation can only worsen , not improve.
Clean Water is a very important component of cooling datacenters.

Denial continues.

Its something thats concerned me from the get-go. But lets get real - these masks and other microplastics laden disposables are defacto in pretty much all hospitals and care institutions across the world.

The day we spend more time tackling the problem instead of researching the fucking obvious again and again without making changes to our way of life will never come.
In fact Global-Socio Economic collapse is more likely than not in the next 5-10 years.
And thats ignoring the fact that its set against a background of climate breakdown, mass displacement of people , crop failures, food shortages and lack of clean water.
Theres a 5% chance of changing our trajectory to one that does not lead to the extinction of most life on this planet except maybe a few lucky extremophiles.

Most people still wont grasp this, and most people believe that business as usual is a fulfulling way of life, unless this attitude changes globally its difficult to refute these claims. Next time you are on the subway or tube or train to work , take a look at the misery on peoples faces around you and ask yourself why everyone is in denial.

Am I ?

Give them a taste for it , then once they addicted to their product charge the earth for it.

nope it is not. Thats from the IPCC report which states that by 2030 there will no longer be enough clean water for everyone on the planet.

Im sure you have already digested it and refuted everything it says.

Capitalism enables climate collapse.

I already minimize participation in systems i oppose , you should do the same.

even more wrong than the previous

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