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It's a false dichotomy to suggest that we have to. It is perfectly possible to shift to energy generation methods that guarantee the future while maintaining our quality of life. And if folks are (rightly) unhappy about going back to living in Stone Age standards, then they should consider that not making the transition will most likely lead there.

... or at least hundreds of millions of people will die, vast amounts of infrastructure will be lost, and those around now in general and those who didn't see it is a problem in particular will be blamed. The lack of respect for nature and the underestimation of the consequences it can throw at us amazes me, too. And if we don't adapt, it will show us exactly why it, not other humans, are the biggest devastators around.

Well, considering the current rise in global average temperature is both a. Indisputable and b. Correlates entirely with human activity, I would say that yes, changing the way we do things (which does cost money, and look above at far greater "wastes" of money) can help, yes. The alternative, of course, being letting the consequences run amok, and being responsible for not only a great many human deaths, but also our very own biosphere extinction event (though due to related factors, that's likely happening anyway).

Depends. Do you like the environment the way it is and do people now want to be remembered with the uttermost revulsion by future generations as the ones that totally wrecked things for them? Do agree China need to put more in the pot (their current record on establishing renewable infrastructure putting everyone else in the shade notwithstanding) though, that particular loophole should have been closed years ago.

According to this, the cost in 2022 alone, let alone since, would cover it.

The sum asked for and likely needed is around four times that. It's a vast sum and people are naturally going to ask where it might come from, but the cost if it isn't done will be so much higher. I think there are solutions that exist on paper and could be implemented, but sadly the politicking and petty nationalism seems to do all it can to get in the way.

$300 billion deal reached at COP29. Sadly not enough though, in terms of money or proposed action.

It does show that Oz are mortal at home, and England should be taking notes.

It would be nicer if it were someone like NZ doing the pumping, but yes.

There have been standalone works, but yes, it's rather amazing that they haven't been further adapted tbh. On topic, the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.

And now apparently it's a batters paradise. Odd game.

Cult of personality.

Then it may well be outstanding bowling which both sides are capable of.

Also Marnus on 2 off 42 balls, Boycott would be proud.

Groundsman should absolutely be getting a tap on the shoulder about this. Or is just that both India and Oz bowling attacks are awesome.

Thanks for the additional information - that does all sound like pretty poor form tbh.

The Trump team must have worked out not enough Repubs would support him. Perhaps there is some hope yet.

"...you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan -

"...sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself." - Terry Pratchett. There are so many more that man wrote that could be included here, but that one resonates most.

In line with Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz had likewise looked to produce a line of personalised guitars for sale. Unfortunately, the only chord you can play on them is A Minor.

The high level art world is at least mostly, if not all, a front for criminal money laundering. That's pretty much it imo.

A man of conviction and that left hook/right cross combo was a thing of beauty. RIP Two Jags.

...and when that right to free speech is abused, as it so often appears to be?

Can you elaborate at all?

NB. It's been said before, but sadly nuclear weapons do, in this Might Makes Right world, give the upper echelons of the UN Security Council the right to screw with "lower ranked" nations as they see fit. The Cold War was sadly a lexicon of it, from all parties involved.