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Comment Re: If I wanted Chrome, I would use Chrome. (Score 1) 408

There is "de-googlified" Chromium: it's called "Ungoogled Chromium". It's what you get when you completely remove opaque code and connections to Google services from the Chromium source code, and replace what breaks with trusted alternatives. It's also a great way to say "I want all the good parts of Chromium like security and reliability, but don't want anything to do with Google." Only, you can't install Chrome extensions, for obvious reasons... Still, it's possible to download extensions from GitHub and install them with a few button presses. I recommend uBlock adblocker.

Comment Re:In before (Score 2) 164

Sadly, the world doesn't work in the way you describe.

If innovations that would be more efficient than the current options got the funding they deserve, the world would already look very different. Like a big tree stealing most of the water and sun from surrounding sprouts, the dominant systems in society will strangle funding from its competitors. The least we can do is to help the sprouts that won't pollute the atmosphere as much by providing more funding.

Comment Re:That's nice... (Score 1) 462

Trees aren't gonna fix this.

Maybe not, but the effort described, planting trees, is not a bad effort. It's not just a carbon sink: restoring forests would also restore habitats for many of the species keeping our planet alive. Finding a solution at all that "soaks up" the carbon we've emitted so far is a pipe dream. We're already at the point where the planet has so many problems other than CO2 that we are going to have to live with the consequences for the next few hundred years. The agenda is to adapt to a lifestyle that will not make it worse.

Comment Re:Pascal's sociopathic wager (Score 1) 462

Here is a solution: explain that sacrifices are worth it in the long run. Here is an attempt: What awaits us on the other side of the sacrifice is not lower life standards. For example, transitioning industrial farming to agroecology would restore soils and ecosystems while yielding just as much food: https://rightlivelihood.org/th... Ergo, sacrifice is transition. The pain is associated with learning to give up our current habits and adapt to new ones. The reward is a future for our children.

Comment It won't be the apocalypse (Score 1) 462

Your presumption that the scientists forecast an "apocalypse" is wrong. They are telling of a time with low life standards and short food supplies, which is getting longer and worse as time goes by. It is a matter of either giving up on bacon now and be wiser in 10 years, or being forced to give up on bacon 10 years from now.

Comment Re:My Grandmother was dying... (Score 1) 323

May your grandmother rest in peace, and save her soul.

You are absolutely right that the public must be reached, and that the media sounding the alarm isn't being taken seriously. But I'm afraid that the newspapers and media can't do much else. We should be happy that the world seems to finally start to look the consequences in the eyes.

If there are any remaining doubts in your mind about what measures need to be taken, and whether those measures are truly worth taking, I highly recommend reading the foreword to "How Everything Can Collapse" by Jem Bendell. The focus of that text is sympathy, which got the message across for me. Sympathy is something we're going to need in the coming years.

https://jembendell.com/2020/03...

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