The reclaiming of Darién national park should help protect one of the region’s largest carbon sinks and the Indigenous groups and many animal species that live there. It also comes as tropical forests across Central America are collapsing.

“Nicaragua is gone. Mexico, Guatemala – everything is going now. If you look from Google Earth we are down to these little green patches. It’s the last 10% of what was there 100 years ago. So if we don’t get it right real soon …” Morgan says, trailing off, preferring not to elaborate on the implications of losing the greatest intact rainforest north of the Amazon.

Chilling. Truly a “guys, I think we’re fucked” thought.

For the automotive industry, I think that they mean Interior parts that aren’t exposed to the weather.

I am a furry woodland creature, and I approve this meme.

EDIT: I am using “furry” as a synonym for “mammalian” here.

my bees

my goats and chickens and cows

A solarpunk culture would strive to dissolve every form of social hierarchy and domination – whether based on class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, or species – dispersing the power some individuals or groups wield over others and thus increasing the aggregate freedom of all; empowering the disempowered and including the excluded. It is rooted in the legacy of such liberatory movements as anti-authoritarian socialism, feminism, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, disability struggles, animal liberation, and digital freedom projects.

Owning other beings as property is not solarpunk.

I second the recommendation of neem oil spray if it’s practical to grow/obtain in your area. Just wash the fruits before eating. Otherwise you might consider a spray made from fermented tobacco leaves, and same thing, wash thoroughly before eating.

Of course humans have affected the climate more than the data since 1850 would suggest. Humans were cutting and burning forests for thousands of years before the industrial revolution, leading to desertification of entire regions. All of that deforestation and its associated emissions of carbon dioxide undoubtedly has influenced how climate change has proceeded to this day.

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Where the Truth Lies

As a logical conclusion of this course of action of only consuming a diet of basically fruits and humans who died naturally, the hivemind acknowledges that they will eventually run out of food and starve to death

I’m not familiar with this fictional world, so I may be missing something obvious, but is there something preventing them from planting more fruit trees?

One of the highest emitters in recent years was the Cadereyta refinery, run by Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The plant can also be seen from satellites in space as one of the biggest emitters in the world of sulphur dioxide, which contributes to smog.

Ironically, whether they know it or not, a refinery with such high sulphur dioxide emissions is actually countering climate change by cooling the Earth…

The closest cyclone to the equator was the 2001 Tropical Storm Vamei which formed at just 1.4°N. Cyclone Senyar formed at 3.8°N.

The safe zone at the equator is narrow. If choosing to settle near the coast, there really isn’t much choice when it comes to latitude.

Not specific to Disroot, but since they are based in the Netherlands, you should be aware of Nine Eyes and always use end-to-end encryption. I know someone who avoids Disroot specifically but has not stated a reason for it… He uses envs.net though.

It is both a technological and a political issue. The technology would need to be designed in such a way as to not collect “sensitive” data about anyone and to anonymise whatever data needs to be collected. This would not be simple to implement in a way that would prevent abuse, but the example of a motion sensor rather than a video camera would be the sort of thing that I imagine. To what extent a “smart city” could be developed using only privacy-respecting technology, I don’t know, but at least some options do exist.

This begs the question, would it be possible in a world without politicians? In an anarchist society, for example, where capitalism and the state have been abolished, could there be a technologically-advanced “smart city” that did not violate anyone’s privacy? I think that that is the more interesting question. In the world as it is today, of course this would not work.

For those who cannot self-host:

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but to me that seemed to imply that you were suggesting it as a solution that might be worth trying, not as something worth trying that might be a solution. Language is tricky.

That’s what I thought too, but I could be wrong.

Fair enough, but it would make sense to include a “this may or may not help” when suggesting something that requires setting up a new account like this would.

So are you proposing that OP marks such posts as NSFL instead? Do posts marked as NSFL get more engagement than posts marked NSFW? You could be correct, but I don’t think that it’s obvious from your comment how your suggestion solves the issue.

Respectfully, I don’t think that this answers the question.

re: politics, if you subscribe to the Platonian/Aristotelian system of philosophy, then banning all discussion of an entire branch of philosophy… doesn’t make much sense. If you think through which specific behaviours that tend to arise in political discussions would be a problem for you, or which specific topics in politics are unlikely to lead to productive discussions, then you can make rules pertaining to those things rather than banning politics entirely. Of course this depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put in as a moderator to determine whether a post about politics violates the rules. Just an idea.

EDIT: I see that you have the community up and running with some rules in the sidebar. You might consider adding a rule about citing sources for empirical claims that are not common knowledge (or something to that effect). I imagine that that would help to keep political discussions civil and productive.