The oil companies really fears to be liable. In Europe we have the Klimaseniorinnen case. I suspect the oil companies will throw any amount of money to avoid these. They even choose fascism.
We know COVID-19 can downregulate the immune system. This may increases the risk for early onset cancer. If this is true, long COVID patients are at biggest risk to develop cancer, but this may affect even non-long COVID cases from mild Covid-19 infections.
Various viruses have been identified to increase cancer risk, it won't be a big surprise if SARS-CoV-2 is in this group.
Every day with a bankruptcy of a miner is good day for our climate.
This Whataboutism should not distract of the profound message of the parent poster: Trading with Bitcoins is wasting valuable energy and thus accelerating climate warming.
(Of course the Xmas lights are a waste too.)
Well when you look at the growth rate until now it has all the attributes of an exponential curve. It's nice if your prediction of 2.1 babies per woman by 2070 comes true, but it's still a prediction very far away. In a chaotic, nondeterministic environment.
It not sustainable but the other way around.
I recommend to see the lesson "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function." from Albert A. Bartlett.
Western countries like the USA may have a dwindling birth rate which compromise the eternal growth myth without immigration. But as a whole the world population is growing exponentially. This isn't sustainable at all. It's a bet when the boat is full (technological inventions may shift this line), but once it's full the decimation begins. There are many possible ways for this but only a very few aren't brutal. One of this few is to have fewer children. But even this can be hard if no social security is available for the elderly. And of course the religious zealots are hard to convince about this.
This will concentrate the miners in miner friendly countries like Kazakhstan. With the consequences like right now, as they turn off the internet due to civil revolts the hash rates dropping by 12%.
"Piss down economics" is a great term I'll remember to use. In German I always mention to "tickle down economics" as "Das einzige was heruntertropft sind Exkremente" ("The only thing that is tickling down are excreta").
What "future humans" does he mean?
If you look how the humans handle a global crisis like Covid-19, and are still struggling to do anything on climate crisis, extinction of the species, and environmental pollution, I don't think there's a future for humans.
While it's true that the viral load doesn't differ significantly the infectiousness of the virus load is reduced. This can be explained as the virus seems to be agglutinated with the antibodies. Beside that the duration of the infectiousness is shorter and hence there's less chance to spread it.
Kids will also suffer if one of their parents die from covid or have long lasting symptoms. Beside vaccinating the parents, the vaccination of the kids directly protects them and indirectly help them by protecting their parents from break-through infections.
Trickle down is a myth. The only thing that will trickle down from the rich are excreta.
Me and my relatives are using XMPP. Because I'm to lazy to setup and admin a server myself I've paid a 10 users license of conversations server. It's running under a subdomain of my own second level domain. All my relatives are happy with this solution (except one that is still searching for an usable iOS client).
The current state of XMPP cannot be compared to the one a few years ago. It won't draw your battery anymore and notifications are shown instantly. It's quite usable now.
Yeah, laugh to the guy with the lower grades than yours in class, even if your grades are remarkable poor.
Or did you just compare with an emerging nation?
Life is more than survival.
Of course, beside a good health system you need also a leader you trust and a social safety-net that will catch you before you're hungry and land on the street.
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