Ok, this is a crazy comment, but I have been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 a lot and almost every piece of land has something, somewhere built on it. Farm, suburb, etc It's depressing but maybe it helps me understand that we are using
too much of earth. Do we really need endless farms?
I believe in the contiguous USA the furthest you can get from a road is only 20 miles. There are no undisturbed places left, really. Unfortunately preserving roadless areas is politically contentious here. Clinton enacted a roadless area rule at the end of his administration and Bush tried to reverse it a week later.
I agree, but the fact that there was a forest/logging road in that area as recently as 50 years ago does indicate that it is an environment recently impacted by humans.
I can't really know what people think is or isn't a road but these are objectively roads and I think you are understating the extent to which resource extraction activities use these roads today, and the degree to which any road, no matter how much or little used, alters the ecosystem through which it passes.
The point is that humans have touched it. There’s a perception there’s large segments of the American West and Midwest that haven’t been touched. Which is what they’re describing. Almost every place, at one point or another was close to the road. When we’ve only had cars for the last 100 or so, that’s quite a statement.
Completely disagree. Tje richest 10% of the world is responsible for 50% of CO2 output. I don't know about other metrics, but that I'm sure that pattern isn't just limiter to carbon footprint. We don't have a population problem. We have a problem with Greer and resource use that slashing ourr population - even drastically - will not in any way solve.
The richest 10% of the world also come from regions with stable-to-negative population growth. Those regions are our only hope for moving to a sustainable technological platform while maintaining a high quality of life; we're talking about the people who buy solar panels, windmills, and electric cars, who at least can build nuclear plants, if they get over their political reservations.
The poorest 50% of the world would absolutely love to emit more CO2, and will do so just as fast as they can acquire the resources.
I don't think any steps to limit population growth really need to be taken, however, other than two things which are good in and of themselves: women's education, and improving access to birth control.
But concerns about Earth's carrying capacity need to be taken seriously. Malthus is wrong right up until he isn't, and we should strive to avoid hitting that limit.
If we are going to have endless people we need endless farms probably.
It would be cool if we could keep the population of the globe like 1/10 what it is now but I don't know of a humane and rights respecting way to achieve that.
Or maybe if we reduce our standard of living it would help but how low can we go? And people aren't going to go for that either. It's a tough problem.
Small scale farming is not always ecologically destructive. We Definitely don’t need endless mono-crop farms, but adding more small scale, diversified, local farms would probably be a net gain for climate. Look into silvopastures and the carbon drawdown benefits. Also helps build in resiliency to the supply chain for food, something we saw the need for at the outset of the lockdown when grocery chains were depleted.
I grew up in MD and didnçt hear about the coal mine wars (1) until last year, which However, it could have been fairly important and impactful history for the region. However, I could have very well just not been paying attention.
From my wife the American education system only covers the parts where they did “good”, that’s not prioritization that’s deliberately selective rewriting of history.
Covering the war of independence and the civil war in huge detail but skipping the less palatable parts of its own history results in an huge portion of the country not understanding what the effected groups are complaining about.
Think: if you aren’t aware of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments or the difference in quality of treatment at black vs white hospitals you think black people are just being stupid for not trusting the medical establishment.
If you don’t know about things like the Tulsa bombing you think black people are being hysterical when they say the government wants to exterminate them.
How many Americans know that the Japanese internment camps resulted in many japanese Americans losing all of their assets: many (most?) didn’t get their homes back when they were released from imprisonment.
The purpose of history is to teach history, and selective coverage results in people having a functionally delusional view of other people’s experience.
To the extent that if you bring these things up people think you’re attacking America, when in reality you’re just trying to get people to avoid repeating past mistakes.
> From my wife the American education system only covers the parts where they did “good”, that’s not prioritization that’s deliberately selective rewriting of history
This is pretty common among other countries. A big one is Britain's Colonial history. It isn't part of school curriculum in Britain.
I'm a big fan of this model - I've changed all my work architecture models to C4 and they make sense instantly to other engineers. The plugin for draw.io is really easy to use as well.
Vue.js. I use it exclusively for front end now and have ditched Angular 2/React all together. I even got it approved for use in the very large enterprise I work at (internal apps only of course, but we have a lot of those).
I also embraced messaging for good and was shocked at how easy NServiceBus makes everything regarding AMPQ.
I continued to celebrate .NET Core advancements and use it for all my server side programming.
I also dipped my feet in Scala and really like what I found .. Q1 of 2019 will be Scala heavy at work, then back to .NET Core.
E: Forget, every single project I have is set up in Azure Devops now for build/deployment. It's amazing.
Their offerings aren't pricey for what they provide.
DataGrip alone is about $9/mo for a personal license (down to $4.5/mo on 3rd year if you pay annually) but you'd want to use the bundled one in other IDE if you code.
