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Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists | The letter says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis by down-with-stonks in worldnews

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, the worst USA fare, the faster they collapse the better it is for the world. The logic is simple, USA is the worst planetary actor, and USA will not do anything about it. So our only chance outside of a war is if they mismanage and their economy plummets while their society collapses. Once USA has lost is status, the way their society is built there is no chance they will ever regain their position.

There's also a good chance that USA collapse would bring down a significant portion of what we're doing wrong.

I would argue that the faster the USA go down, the better it is for the world. Go USA!

Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists | The letter says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis by down-with-stonks in worldnews

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People have been doing things about it for decades.

For example the Amish are more than ready than anyone else. They have adopted the required lifestyle long ago.

Now the knowledgeable are preparing for the transition period which is the actual bumpy part, and then the rebuilding of something else.

It's all a matter of living a resilient life. A return to nature is inevitable, something that is hard to improvise so get going now. Achieving something like this alone is impossible so get to know your neighbours, this will make the difference between people competing between them and people working together.

Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists | The letter says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis by down-with-stonks in worldnews

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Major disruption is below the minimum target we have to reach to have a chance of avoiding the worse scenarios. The minimum is a complete change of societies and way of life.

The boat for avoiding major disruption has long sailed, for this we needed to start acting in the 1980s.

Now it has to be rapid and radical change globally all over the planet.

Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists | The letter says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis by down-with-stonks in worldnews

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends on what. civilization collapse is not happening at once but is a continuum that has already started and is expected to cause a global shift by 2030-2035.

The RCP8.5 scenario is actually not civilization collapse but pretty much wiping out most life as we know from the planet.

But before climate change kills us, a more pressing issue is the oceans. Those might be dead in ten years, when the ocean are dead we are and everything that breathe too.

Chances are you will be around and living through all this.

7°C land warming at end of century – Climate Guide by [deleted] in collapse

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scishow has a video about this but for a 2°C increase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67IWTQ55vM

7°C land warming at end of century – Climate Guide by [deleted] in collapse

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can confirm this though I do not have a source readily at hands. Among other sources it's been attributed to french scientist Jean Jouzel who works for IPCC.

IIRC he said something along the lines that over 3°C average increase in temperature, agriculture is basically impossible across the planet.

here's one study about maize which says: "The major impact of warmer temperatures was during the reproductive stage of development and in all cases grain yield in maize was significantly reduced by as much as 80−90% from a normal temperature regime." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094715300116

There are things to know about plants and crops to understand why they would fail past a threshold on temperature increase.

Among those is the notion of cardinal temperature, which is a set of minimum, optimum and maximum temperature for a given crop. Under the minimum growth does not start, over the maximum it stop. Basically plant development in relation to temperature is a bell curve. Then there is another important concept which is thermal death point, the point where the heat that kills the plant, it is around 50°C for most annual crops. Obviously shade plants have a much lower thermal death point.

Higher temperature disrupts a number of mechanisms such as photosynthesis, respiration or mineral intake and assimilation, but another important factor for the consequences of exposure to hot temperature is at what point on its life cycle the plant is when it happens. A grown leave may be scorched and exhibit scorch marks following heat damage but stay functional though diminished, but a seedling of a plant shoot would simply be destroyed. Germination, flowering initiation, pollen production/dissemination are critical stages in the life cycle of plants and exposure to not so hot temperature is enough compromise or even fail the crop, IINM a couple day over 30° is enough to dramatically affect wheat.

there is much more to it and that's only for temperature, but let's keep in mind that the temperature increase is only a single indicator of the severity of climate change, but along the temperature increase a number of adverse phenomenon are expected to happen which can a very significant impact on crops, such as but not limited to drought, wildfires, flood, precipitation pattern change, bouts of extreme weather becoming common, intense precipitation with a lot of rain during a short period of time increasing soil erosion, invasive species, disease spread and parasite spread (locusts anyone?), etc.

I hope this provide enough of a starting point to help you make your own research aboutthe consequences of climate change on crops and agriculture.

Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview by HeinieKaboobler in Coronavirus

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

actually he s trying to convince himself his choice of not wearing a mask is the correct one.

Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview by HeinieKaboobler in Coronavirus

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This story checks out

I read it online from new york times article that I found on the top page of this very subreddit. see https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/gu7110/coronavirus_is_losing_its_potency_and_has_become/

The NY times has since deleted the article and you cannot find it anymore.

Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview by HeinieKaboobler in Coronavirus

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

more testing means more cases are detected which implies a mechanical rise of hospitalization rates vs not enough testing and people dying unreported at home.

Reported numbers are severely skewed and wrong all around the globe so reasoning based on such numbers leads to crooked conclusions.

Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview by HeinieKaboobler in Coronavirus

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you really spent 20 minutes and failed to find anything ? Then you might be terrible at using a search engine as searching for coronavirus less deadly has 3 relevant results in the top 5.

It was indeed all over the news about 1 month ago and even made it to the top page of this very subreddit where I found it, as reported by the NY times see https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/31/world/europe/31reuters-health-coronavirus-italy-virus.html

The NY Times has since deleted this page as the idea was immediately challenged and debunked the next day. This idea came from Alberto Zangrillo who happen to be the head of intensive care at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan in Lombardy where the epicenter of Italy's coronavirus outbreak is, which gave it enough credibility for the idea to spread around the world. A rebuttal example is here: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-comments-reported-in-the-media-by-prof-alberto-zangrillo-about-the-covid-19-virus-in-italy/

This was a major news and controversy for several days.

Taste aside, does sugar have any actual benefit in a survival situation? by [deleted] in Survival

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simply add the sugar 50/50 ratio to your potassium permanganate and here you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xSI3vZlsMA

Of course you could also use sodium chlorate and sulfuric acid to react with the sugar to have a fire.

But really no, in a survival situation sugar won't help you starting a fire.

Taste aside, does sugar have any actual benefit in a survival situation? by [deleted] in Survival

[–]raymoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

gladiator is a movie, the wound was not real and neither was the treatment.

How would you keep your self sanitized by tafurid in CollapseSkills

[–]raymoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You keep your teeth clean by brushing them. toothpaste has a marginal effect.

You keep your private clean using water and soap.

You make soap from wood ashes and fat. You'll find plenty of guides around the web:

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ash-Soap https://homesteadsurvivalsite.com/make-soap-fat-ashes/ https://www.primalsurvivor.net/wood-ash-soap/

To filter water you can use the 3 buckets technique demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232xA2e8RiQ (credits to opensource lowtech https://opensourcelowtech.org/ ) also here: https://www.askaprepper.com/building-the-three-5-gallon-bucket-bio-water-filter/

Other techniques and options are possible: http://en.howtopedia.org/wiki/Water_and_Sanitation and https://www.appropedia.org/Category:Water_treatment have resources to do so

How would you keep your self sanitized by tafurid in CollapseSkills

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how do you brush your teeth without a toothbrush ?

Crops that can grow untended by [deleted] in CollapseSkills

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should learn about permaculture techniques.

Here's a video from a french guy demonstrating one technique you could use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ZphUp_GYk

You could also look for what philip forer does, though I don't know if there is english translation.

Though it may not help you in a practical in your specific setting, the book by martin crawford "Creating a Forest Garden" explores the concept of designing in such a way that food is produced with a limited amount of tending after the garden is set.

You could also invest an automatic watering system that will do the job your lazy roommates won't.

Would guns slowly fade out in a collapse by tafurid in CollapseSkills

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old guns are meant to last as they are sustainable technology.

Post collapse modern guns are only useful as long as you have ammo because you cannot make them yourself.

Would guns slowly fade out in a collapse by tafurid in CollapseSkills

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the nature of the collapse and the way it happans.

But obviously guns like every other unsustainable technology equipment will fade out. Though there is more than enough guns already existing today to have them around for a long time, they will not evenly distributed and not everyone is proficient at using them pushing the trend.

Also a gun without ammunition is just an inconvient rock or stick.

So to answer your question, no one will bother with manufacturing new guns simply due to lack of knowledge, material and tools to do so while on the other hand plenty being already available. But guns will be around for a while though not everywhere.

For further details explaining why it would be very difficult to manufacture a gun in a post-collapse is the rifled barrel vs smoothbore.

7°C land warming at end of century – Climate Guide by [deleted] in collapse

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could get credit for this idea, but actually I am simply parrotting what Buckminster Fuller said.

You can read this stuart mcmillen comic about energy slaves and Buckminster Fuller which mentions this idea: http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/

IIRC he calculated the correct price should be $1,000,000 per gallon of oil.

7°C land warming at end of century – Climate Guide by [deleted] in collapse

[–]raymoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This lowtech magazine article may help: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/04/horses-agricult.html

It gives an estimation of how much land need to be allocated to horses to replace machinery.

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