Comment Re:The water cycle is a closed system. (Score 1) 135
On a global scale not a closed system because over 3000 tons of water is lost to space each year.
And we'll need to start worrying about that in 400,000,000,000,000 years.
On a global scale not a closed system because over 3000 tons of water is lost to space each year.
And we'll need to start worrying about that in 400,000,000,000,000 years.
Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.
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He's still delivering exactly what he promised.
The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.
These people have much to lose and will carefully toe our line on these serious topics.
Addressing Climate change and being protectionist are not antagonistic to each other.
What's best? Doing both.
- Rare earth elements
- Other minerals should be strategic assets too
- Clean tech - solar panels and battery tech
- Patent rules that favour local businesses
- Seafood - stop getting cheap frozen seafood harvested by China's fleet - who aims to flood the market with unsustainable seafood rather than to feed their own people
When I shop for seafood, I intentionally avoid buying a product of a certain country with the largest fleet of fishing vessels aiming to flood the market with cheap frozen seafood and try to monopolize supply. This country also has a record of unsustainable fishing practices, including target Galapagos.
This grave offender will remain unnamed - I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out.
In a civil society, people are prosecuted instead of persecuted.
Probably because Bluesky is dying.
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