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Cassette tapes are not exactly in use for the vast majority of people anymore but they sure are nostalgic. I mean, we still make MIX TAPES despite them . . . no longer being on tape. In any case, the iconic medium is in trouble due to a world wide shortage of gamma ferric oxide needed to make them.
So if you watched HBO’s Chernobyl, you might be interested in seeing the place where it all went wrong and good news for new tourists, you can now visit the control room. The area was previously considered too dangerous but now you can have a five minute look inside.
With climate change a reality, what will the future look like on an urban level? This short story gives one hopeful vision of that future. Although the world wasn’t able to stop the changes our choices and practices have caused, there is some hope.
It takes a lot of water to produce many of the foods we enjoy in our everyday life and this is something that we really should be paying more attention to, especially as climate change will cause more droughts and greater water scarcity in the future to some areas.
Animals in the UK are in trouble. Current numbers show that one in seven species are in danger of extinction and 41% are in decline. This is not great. The changes we make to our world, particularly in agriculture and climate change, is causing harm to the creatures we share the planet with.
Climate change isn’t just about drought and rising sea levels. Food shortages and unbearable heat. The crisis has a real cost on our physical health and we’re already starting to see the effects of it. Many common conditions are being exasperated by the effects of climate change.
Cutting out red meat is often cited as one of the ways we can help reduce our carbon footprints. Popular Science holds a yearly event called No Red October where they encourage readers to cut out cow. They’ve published a handy guide with some tips for cutting down the beef. Even if you’re not participating, here’s some advice you can incorporate to lower the amount of red meat in your diet.
Although the phrase “climate change” may be a bit newer the idea of making changes to avoid man made environmental disasters is not, so why is the momentum behind them so different from the 70s and 80s? Well, the short answer is because climate change isn’t as “exciting”.
You may have heard in the news that a few people have died due to vaping related causes. The CDC is recommending that e-cigarette uses abstain until the root cause of the deaths can be found. So far, they have stated that the deaths are not from infectious disease and is likely chemical in nature.
If you’ve been on the internet for a any length of time you’ve probably read the meme about the tree that owns itself. This delightful story may actually hold some guidance for how we should treat nature in the future. There’s a growing movement to assign Rights of Nature laws could change how we interact with it.
Climate change is a big deal for our food supply. Many of the strains of food producing plants we rely on to feed vast amounts of people simply don’t have what it takes to survive the rising temperatures, including wheat. There’s some good news though, scientist have found that some strands of wild wheat have beneficial mutations that make give them an edge when it comes to change.
We’ve been hearing about the hole in the ozone layer since the 80s. Man made chemicals caused it and there was a substantial push for those chemicals to be taken out of production. Which is great. The hole this year is the smallest it’s been in the thirty years! But it has nothing to do with human effort.
There’s information coming at people from all sides these days and not all of it is true. When we’re talking about climate change, it’s important that people are getting the facts and not the fictions because once the false information has taken hold, it’s hard to tell it apart from the truth.
Travel is great but overtourism is a problem. Basically this is the name of the logistical nightmare of having too many visitors to tourist hot spots at once. It causes a host of issues that local governments are trying to tackle. The answer isn’t to stop seeing the world, it’s to be better about it.
Our devices have a high carbon footprint. Manufacturing technology has a high ecological cost in materials as well as pollution which is terrible. Companies are making in roads to change this though by using more sustainable practices. Omega and Circular Computing have teamed up to bring sustainable machines to Austria.
