Really? I’ve heard not unlike used all the Damn time. Pretty easy to grasp by now.

Is that a drop ceiling? I hope the thing is sealed off on top…….

Before the "consequences" are made clear?

Clever. :)

SS: Nouriel Roubini (a fairly mainstream economist known for accurately warning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2006) is interviewed on Al Jazeera's "The Bottom Line". The entire interview is interesting and rather sobering. His thesis is high debt burdens, supply shocks, technologies that exacerbate inequality, domestic political turmoil, geopolitical tensions, and environmental problems are going to severely hurt the global economy, and that some of these problems feed off each other and make them worse. Young people who feel (correctly) that they are worse off than their parents will be a source of discontent.Quote from around the nine minute eleven second mark: "Things are worse than the 70s and worse than the post GFC period. In some dimensions, things are even worse than the 1930s".

It's definitely gonna be harder to maintain the mental health of the youngest generation the more of them come to realize that the actions of their priors have doomed them to worse quality of life, that's for sure...

Doesn't prolonged levels of stress degrade immune function? SURELY it's more the other way around?

Read the article. Why do redditors have no attention span?

The status quo is now actually being chosen over reality. It cannot be sustained, so lies and gaslighting are being used to make us think it can.

If that was their job one they literally wouldn’t be able to exist running as a massive conglomeration, because the economic system they are intrenched in is based purely on cold hard profit. So you already can tell this is a lie.

Sounds to me like a more socialized and less capitalistic system for the research field wouldn't have nearly this pervasive an incentive.....but of course, we can't because socialism is badddddd.

Orcas ARE dolphins, no? Or at least in the dolphin family?

Dolphins are the humans of the sea.

Meaning you SHOULD be at least mildly nervous at all times around them, I would say. I think some dolphins have been shown to kill just for fun too, another human analogy there.

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I think this is an important finding to discuss, as we need to be able to objectively determine what measures are effective and which are not when it comes to combatting climate change on a global scale. It seems that several studies are now showing that the carbon offsetting touted by the concept's largest provider is largely just an example of "greenwashing" that is hardly doing anything relatively speaking. It seems pretty evident that offsetting, at least in this format, isn't gonna be much of a help going into the future in terms of effectively helping the environment. More empirical solutions rather than this seemingly indirect/ineffective movement of money to offsetting projects are the answer, if anything I am suspecting that carbon offsetting is largely just PR to try and deflect attention away from the systemic issues of the capitalist system, a way to keep on producing and producing and growing without making the systemic changes required.

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>The two studies from the international group of researchers found just eight out of 29 Verra-approved projects where further analysis was possible showed evidence of meaningful deforestation reductions.
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>The journalists were able to do further analysis on those projects, comparing the estimates made by the offsetting projects with the results obtained by the scientists. The analysis indicated about 94% of the credits the projects produced should not have been approved.
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>Credits from 21 projects had no climate benefit, seven had between 98% and 52% fewer than claimed using Verra’s system, and one had 80% more impact, the investigation found.
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>Separately, the study by the University of Cambridge team of 40 Verra projects found that while a number had stopped some deforestation, the areas were extremely small. Just four projects were responsible for three-quarters of the total forest that was protected.
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>The journalists again analysed these results more closely and found that, in 32 projects where it was possible to compare Verra’s claims with the study finding, baseline scenarios of forest loss appeared to be overstated by about 400%. Three projects in Madagascar have achieved excellent results and have a significant impact on the figures. If those projects are not included, the average inflation is about 950%.
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>The studies used different methods and time periods, looked at different ranges of projects, and the researchers said no modelling approach is ever perfect, acknowledging limitations in each study. However, the data showed broad agreement on the lack of effectiveness of the projects compared with the Verra-approved predictions.

Very interesting!

To be honest considering where we are currently taking the planet I wouldn't even be shocked if it turned out we were automatons the whole time, sadly and honestly......

But can you really be sure of this? How can you be sure your mind didn't unconsciously decide to eat that Pizza for you and then imprinted a false memory to rationalize it being "your choice" afterwards?

Mutually reinforcing, positive feedbacks of corruption.

Yeah it's PROBABLY not healthy to negatively react to every pointless article that you see, but that's just me.

Don't forget the structural factors in society that contribute to depression as well, we can't completely individualize it which makes it harder to fully combat.