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lcamach84on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut

When the herd eat grass it stimulates grass growth and grass is a huge carbon sink. there is a cool ted talk about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

lcamach84on Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature

You have the example of the United States which has economic growth but has recently seen its average life expectancy fall. Many other countries have less GPD per capita but higher average life expectancy. What do you think of this?

lcamach84on Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature

The title should say economic growth and not prosperity. You can have prosperity in a system whose objective is not infinite growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPUogXUkr7I

lcamach84on Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

If the objective of the system is to produce stuff you need to think in large scale. When we do that we favor big corporations and as you say business around you shut down. So change this system will help to solve your problem to. How do you think we can solve the problem you pointed at?

lcamach84on Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

Whenever I talk about this I am downvoted too. I follow hacker news for the rationality in the comments but on this subject it is rare to exchange good arguments.

lcamach84on Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall since WWII

This proves that we need a system change. Covid made that, we change from a system with the objective of producing stuff to a system with the goal of saving lives. People of HN should take a look of the clube of rome book "limits of growth". GND will not save us beacause it will demand energy and resources to swap all the infraestructure. At most developed countries will shift their enviromental cost to the poor ones

lcamach84on European Citizen's Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income

The aim of the economy before the covid is to produce things and this production is no longer synonymous with increased comfort. For example, Spain has many more houses than families but these families have more difficulty in paying rents. However this production has to exist in order to maintain a profit of a few and above all to give work to the rest. But what we have to do to avoid anthropocene is not compatible with this economy and so we have to think of a post-work society.

lcamach84on Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems

I advice everyone interested in ecology to learn about the Club of Rome and the Limits of Growth. This is the true inconvenient truth specially for people in businesses that treat growth as the ultimate objective.

lcamach84on IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push

This reminds me moves in the fast fashion business were you can dispose your clothes and receive vouchers. The consumer feels good because he is caring for the environment and the store can keep selling more stuff.

lcamach84on The Social Dilemma

I agree with you, but I will mention that Netflix is a paid service but nevertheless it uses similar strategies to keep us hooked.

lcamach84on Lithium find in Cornwall spurs hopes of regeneration

It is strange to see the concepts like "regeneration" and "mining" in the same sentence

lcamach84on How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?

I encourage you to look at the work of Vaclav Smil [1] . There's no such thing as clean energy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4

lcamach84on We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode

Not only programmers, many of us tend to look at progress as an end in itself. Progress is the process of measuring if we achieve the objectives, it can not be the objective. Many times we do not achieve 100% of the objectives and that is fine, we need to consider the law of diminishing returns.