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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
September 29, 2022 at 3:54 pm
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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).
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
September 29, 2022 at 4:05 pm
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.
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
September 29, 2022 at 4:10 pm
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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.
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 4:06 pm
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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:
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 4:09 pm
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.
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 4:58 pm
And there are still people shoving their fingers in their ears saying 
"Change was inevitable"
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 5:02 pm
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November 11, 2022 at 10:07 pm
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 11:38 pm
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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.
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RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
November 11, 2022 at 11:57 pm
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