I switched to 5G home Internet service because it was more reliable for me than DSL. The telco switching station is a couple blocks down the street from me!

I fully support the right of people to avoid getting a vaccine if they stop exhaling.

We could compare CO2 per 1000 kilocalories, but to me it makes more sense to look at CO2 per hundred grams of protein. In either case beef is 5-10 times worse than poultry and 100 times worse than peas.

Kind of wonder if this problem would self-correct if we limited corn subsidies and/or factored externalities into price. Distorting the market while pretending to embrace capitalism is one of the dumbest things the right wing has led us into.

George W Bush managed to destabilize the entire Middle-East by invading Iraq. Kind of wonder if we exceeded Osama's hopes.

Marble madness was one of my all time favorites. Groundbreaking.

See also 'Marble Madness'. Did they ever do a cabinet that would do both games?

Was kind of hoping they'd partner with Tile or some other location service so I could put a Titan key on my keyring and figure out where I left it when I misplace it once every year or three.

There's a projection:
https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sea-Level-Rise-Projection-Guidance-Report_FINAL_02212020.pdf

In the US, four million displaced with a three foot rise ~2070, 13 million with a six foot rise.

Remember too that storm surge and saltwater incursion will both increase as conditions get hotter.

It's eminently technically solvable, but if it were easy to do politically or economically it'd be done already. Sequestering carbon from a pollution source is already something like five or ten times cheaper per ton that it is to extract it out of the atmosphere as a whole, but we lacked the political will to force industry to bear the costs and instead wave a magic wand and call it an externality as if there's no repercussions. If we're not doing it now, how is the incentive going to change to do it later? It'll always be a cost to bear that lobbyists will try to get other people to pay for.

Solar and wind are great, but we're only replacing something like one or two percent of the grid per year. Meanwhile we've erased a lot of the power savings of LED lighting tech by creating an entire industry around cryptocurrency mining which added a small country worth of power consumption. Nobody is building new coal plants, but it's taking a disheartening amount of time to shut them down. We can't fix this without a worldwide carbon tax and teeth in multilateral trade agreements to enforce it. Who is going to drive that effort?

In the US context, there are states that grant allodial title but that doesn't change the federal government's ability to use eminent domain. The closest we come is some land held by Native Americans, churches or universities. Even there allodial title ceases if the land is no longer used for the same purpose.

I'd be happy to pay carbon taxes. Especially if the revenue got kicked back to every citizen and/or taxpayer as UBI.

Not paying carbon tax means we all get taxed worse later when the damages from climate change ramp up. Tax externalities and the market solves the problem.

China is less than half the CO2 emissions per capita as the US, India less than an eighth.

Best I can come up with as an idea that politicians can all get behind is to create a multilateral free trade agreement that locks everyone into a five year phase in of carbon tax and those countries who don't adhere get punitive tariffs. Build it so that side agreements between countries require the same punitive tariffs from any country that is signed onto the multilateral agreement and most countries will be smart enough not to back out as they lose free trade. Voting on the agreement would mean that the vote would be well over before the negative economic consequences kicked in, and hopefully the five year phase in would allow a lot of industries to transition to less polluting methods or plan for carbon sequestration. The US is uniquely vulnerable though with our decades long subsidization of high-carbon transportation options (cars & planes).

If UPS and FEDEX can manage deliveries through cargo ebikes I think most people can shop Costco with one. I go and get $200 worth of stuff at Costco with just panniers and a rear rack. With a bike trailer I can haul ~300 pounds. That's with a standard non-cargo bicycle rather than a cargo ebike like Riese and Muller or Yuba sells.

https://hanschenklein.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/elyse-sewell-china-styrofoam1.jpg

We have the technological solutions already. We don't deploy them because of political reasons. Specifically political reasons that prevent us from fully capturing the externalities. The technology to do point source sequestration of carbon isn't getting deployed everywhere because there isn't fiscal incentive. Once we have a cheaper technological solution for sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, it still won't get deployed, because there still won't be fiscal incentive. There will never be a fiscal incentive until energy is close to free or we summon up the political will to make industry pay for externalities via a carbon tax or other system. Without some kind of tiered trade agreement that is punitive to countries that don't implement a carbon tax we'll never have carbon taxes in every country because the countries that don't implement it will attract carbon emitting industry.