@jsdz

Article: [list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels]

jsdz: No! My list is better! [exact same list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels.]

@DougHolland

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"Findings

The final dataset included more than 11.5 million tested isolates. Raw antibiotic-resistance data included nine pathogens and 43 types of antibiotic agents. Significant correlations between PM2.5 and antibiotic resistance were consistent globally in most antibiotic-resistant bacteria (R^2=0.42–0.76, p<0.0001), and correlations have strengthened over time. Antibiotic resistance derived from PM2.5 caused an estimated 0.48 (95% CI 0.34–0.60) million premature deaths and 18.2 (13.4–23.0) million years of life lost in 2018 worldwide, corresponding to an annual welfare loss of US$395 (290–500) billion due to premature deaths."

@ComradePorkRoll
In 2000, I went to Burning Man, which is, if you don’t know, a festival that is held on the dry lake bed in a desert, at the end of summer, at which there is no general provision of water. You are warned when you buy your ticket that your hydration is your problem, and that the average human adult in that environment requires two gallons of potable water a day not to die, so you’d better figure out how long you’re going to be there and bring enough water for yourself.

I’d never been camping before under such circumstances, but the person I was attending with had a great bit of advice that worked well for me. He insisted that I get a Camelback, which is a water backpack with a drinking tube.

I made a point of never leaving my tent, not even for a trip to the loo, without having my Camelback on my back. The pragmatic upshot was that drinking water was always as near as my right shoulder. Sipping from the tube became habitual.

I’ve never been so hydrated in my life.

@kinther @doom_and_gloom

Heh, city-dwellers have generally been oblivious to how food gets on their tables for much, much longer than the public had the internet.

When I was a kid in the 70s, it was a commonplace in calls to modernize education to decry “memorizing countries’ imports and exports” as an archaic waste of time. And there was none of that in the enlightened education I received.

Of course now I find myself endlessly fascinated by facts like “Australia is/was the biggest seller of coal to China” and “Ukraine provides a third of the wheat bought by African countries”.