Earth's recent climate spiral.

[The Grand Nudger]

The cat problem is overstated. Yes, they kill birds...but mostly birds there are a metric fuckton of (official unit of measure).

Cat kibble, otoh...you know, well fed to stop them preying on native birds...... is a global extinction event.......

Point being, if you're cat owner that doesn't want to feel directly responsible...stop feeding your cats store bought food. They'll be fine, and mostly by eating pests (that we would otherwise expend more carbon killing).

[arewethereyet]

We used to have a cat named Murphy who was quite the hunter. My husband found him in a shed at work when he was just a tiny little thing. He obviously had been scavenging/hunting to stay alive and that drive never left him. I often found the outside food bowl with a dead mouse in it as Murphy was feeding me back. He was a bit of a wanderer, but I didn't worry about him because I knew he had a strong instinct to hunt and survive.

My current cat has grown up with two parrots in the house. He couldn't give a shit about birds. He has learned to bitch at me till I fill his dry food bowl or serve up his wet food breakfast.

Cats' personalities are not one-size-fits-all. Much like my three dogs of the same breed are very different in how they act and what they like and dislike.

[The Grand Nudger]

Mamma Mae, Mother Of Cats, Grey Grendl....jumped out of a tree into my eldest daughters arms while she was waiting for a bus (directly after her last kitty got ran over). Then she had 7 kittens and another cat had three more she couldn't feed. You will never hear a songbird on this property. 11 cats, 3 big dogs. This place is a warcrime to wildlife -before- my rifle is mentioned.

[Leonardo17]

One of the good news of today (Aside from Republicans in the US not being able to have a landslide victory neither in the house or the senate – so congrats on that - ) is Joe Biden’s apology for his predecessor having left the engagements of the COP 25 Paris Agreement and renewing his aim of reducing the USA’s CO2 emission by 50% by 2030. (With that and a little help from aliens we still might keep the warming of the planet at some point below 2 C in comparison to pre-industrial times and from there we might try to innovate some other solutions).


So I'm going to share the whole speech:

[Jehanne]

Something is terribly wrong with the Ding-Dong US climate policy to what President Biden has correctly referred to as an "existential threat" to Humanity. What to do?

A 2 Celsius increase is going to be pure hell, by the way.

[The Architect Of Fate]

And there are still people shoving their fingers in their ears saying 

[Leonardo17]

Something is terribly wrong with the Ding-Dong US climate policy to what President Biden has correctly referred to as an "existential threat" to Humanity.  What to do?

A 2 Celsius increase is going to be pure hell, by the way.

First I would like to share this graph on climate change projections:



As you see the 1.8 C change is a very optimistic scenario already.
 
On the question of “What to do?” the pre-sale of the new book of Greta Thunberg called the “Climate Book” is already on pre-sale on Amazon. So I’ll let you know when I read it.
 
My theory is, (first of all we can’t go above 2 C, this would be too great of a challenge for future generations), SO if we can achieve 1.7, 1,8 or something like that, we may than look to where we can go from there and I don’t think this situation would be completely impossible to manage given our capacities of adaptation and innovation.
 
I think that what really matters is that efforts are being made. As long as concrete steps are taken and these are followed by bigger steps (like truly reducing carbon emissions by 50% in 8 years – Which is a task for titans -) I think there is a chance.
 
Another such effort is happening in India and it’s called the “Save Soil Movement”. Soil (healthy organic soil, with at least 3% of organic material – living metabolisms - in it) is also a huge carbon trap if you treat it properly. By planting more trees around these soils you can attract more rain water and reduce your dependence to other types of irrigation and you can save the farmers by doing it. Here is a web link on this:
https://consciousplanet.org/
 
There is this and many other innovative methods, like ecofriendly houses, recyclable building materials, seaweed cultivation for the feeding of farm animals, clean energy powered hydrogen energy,
This is a speech given by Chad Frischmann, on how we can use and combine many solutions and innovations to global warming to end up with a bearable level of global warming by the end of this century:

[Jehanne]

We have a long way to go:

https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2

At a 2 ppm annual increase as compared to a 1 ppm increase a generation ago, things are not headed in the right direction. As we will all be dead in a century, we'll never know, of course, but simply extending the existing trend line in a linear fashion gives a 3 to 4 degree increase over the next few centuries. For anyone alive near the end of that period of human history, life could very well turn out to be incredibly difficult.

[The Grand Nudger]

Soil isn't just a carbon trap, it's a dwindling commodity that takes roughly 800 years to produce an inch of. There are no known shortcuts.

Good night, godspeed...and good luck....lol.

[Anomalocaris]

Soil isn't just a carbon trap, it's a dwindling commodity that takes roughly 800 years to produce an inch of.  There are no known shortcuts.

Good night, godspeed...and good luck....lol.

There are known short cuts.    The native Americans of Amazon rain forest figured it out about 500 BC.   

Using Stone Age tools and with a population of just perhaps one million at most, they systematically manufactured the richest agricultural soil in the new world, out of some of the most nutrient poor natural soil in the world, to cover an area larger than France to a depth of 2 meters and more over a period of about 1500 years.  

Not only does the artificial soil they manufactured, called Terra preta, rival the most fertile agricultural soil in. Euroasia, such as the fabled chernozem soil of Ukraine, in fertility.    it also has remarkable self-regenerative properties unrivaled by any known naturally fertile soil.    They can regenerate themselves at a rate of 1cm a year.  From a thin priming layer a inch deep, they can regenerate enough for most agricultural crops in 25 years.