Is the world being destroyed?

This thread is an attack on progress.

This thread is denying or minimizing any progress that we have made.

The game is to generate outrage by exaggerating problems and focusing on crisis big and small.

The worst of this narrative is that it is counter productive.

This is scorned by the anti-progress left as "using technology to solve problems" (which really should be a good thing).

All of these things have increased the quality of life even in developing countries.

The frustrating thing about the left is they focus so much on the story of gloom and their condemnation of the entire human race that they take away from what we need to do.

No one seems to want to have that discussion.

The soap box is much easier.

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

You say you'll change the Constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Hightor seems to have a fondness for the Chinese Communist party. When we were talking about vaccines, he was hyping the glorious success of the Chinese Communist party in developing a vaccine.

maxdancona wrote:

Don't idolize the Chinese or Russian governments.

I don't "idolize" them, FFS. I brought them up because they illustrate that other economic systems can produce covid vaccines.

maxdancona wrote:

You seem hold up Russia and China as examples of progress...

No I don't. I think they're both horrible. That doesn't mean they're incapable of producing vaccines.

And now he is touting dazibao...

It [the thread] was meant to function as a billboard or dazibao.

But a positive view of Communist China is a strange recurring theme in what Hightor writes.

I have no problem saying that Western Democracy and Capitalism has real advantages over Chinese Communism in many fronts, including human rights, corruption, productivity.... and in reduction of carbon emissions.

When it was discovered that CFCs used as refeigerants were depleting the ozone layer, scientists developed new better refrigerants.

There are larger concentrations of microplastic pollution in Lakes across Europe than scientists estimated in the past. As per a new study which was released on Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology, the spread of plastic microparticles and synthetic fibers closely match up with nearby human activity and use of land.

Actually, microplastic pollution can be taken to different places, for instance, deep ocean trenches and mountain peaks, but the latest discovery gave an impression that most plastic pollution is discovered in the waters close to places where humans are making plastic waste.

Researchers trawled the surface waters of several European lakes for microplastics in the study. To recognize the chemical components of the plastic microparticles, they made use of both microscopes and spectral analysis.

Making use of both formerly released data and a model designed to give an explanation of the outcomes of their trawling efforts, researchers roughly calculated the amounts of microplastic pollution discovered in every part of the entire freshwater lake system.

Negative Impacts of Plastic on the Ecosystem

The researchers' simulations revealed microplastic pollution quadruples in water bodies close to regions that have a lot of human activity. Reduced forest cover also has something to do with increased microplastic pollution.

Researchers found that some lakes have the ability to process microplastic pollution better than other lakes. Lakes that have more active microorganisms contained minimal concentrations of plastic microparticles.

Researchers wrote: "Our study provides a valuable evidence base to help prioritize monitoring and mitigation of anthropogenic debris in the world's lakes. As anthropogenic debris continues to pollute the environment, our data will help contextualize future work, and our models can inform control and remediation efforts."

Studies have revealed larval fish can ingest microplastics and make their way up the food chain, thereby disturbing the entire ecosystem. The tiniest size of plastic negatively impacts even the largest aquatic species.

How can Microparticle Pollution be Stopped?

In a press release, Andrew Tanentzap, a lead author said most of their attention on plastic pollution is on the oceans, but they found out that microscopic plastics and man-made fibers also pollute lakes in Europe - the main drinking water sources.

University of Cambridge's head of the Ecosystems and Global Change Group and also a professor of global change ecology named Tanentzap said: "Our study can now help direct control and remediation efforts by identifying hotspots of microparticle pollution based on surrounding land use and water quality."

The study also discovered that the sampled lakes' microparticle concentrations were correctly projected on the basis of their water quality and surrounding land use.

In addition to differences in microparticle concentrations with the use of land, there were five times smaller microparticles in lakes that have more active microorganisms.

This indicated that some naturally occurring species can help get rid of microparticle pollution. Potential studies are required to separate microorganisms from the natural environment and check how capable they are to degrade microplastics and fibres.

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When it was discovered that CFCs used as refeigerants were depleting the ozone layer, scientists developed new better refrigerants.

And the new refrigerants, HFC's, are hundreds to thousands of times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Isn't progress great!

As I didn't write them, I'm not in a position to explain them nor am I compelled to defend them.

A Dazibao is a public call to extremism.

These political articles that are designed to shock rather than to inform are also propaganda.

I am pretty sure it is of a beach in the Dominican Republic).

The word Dazibao is political propaganda. A Dazibao was instrumental in starting the Cultural Revolution in China were people, spurred on by the dazibao, starting killing intellectuals. A Dazibao is a public call to extremism.

dazibao again became the symbol of democratic sentiment.

It is the hypocrisy that makes this funny.

Are you really arguing that the Constitution written by the Chinese Communist party and enshrining power in an authoritarian state is "democratic"?

...dazibao again became the symbol of democratic sentiment.

You are ranting against HFCs.