Comment on Aerosol

• Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s been some conservation wins that I know of. Okaloosa Darter fish came off of endangered status, and eventually off of threatened The Red Cockaded Woodpecker was elevated from endangered to threatened a few years ago.

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cockaded Woodpecker

    Now your just making shit up.

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Winner of the “most penis euphemisms in one name” award.

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      • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Penis McPeniswoodchuck

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      • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Top contenders:

        Red-cockaded Woodpecker — “cockaded” refers to a ribbon or rosette ornament once worn on hats, not anatomy.

        Cock-of-the-rock — sounds like a tavern name invented by a teenager.

        Dickcissel — often cited as the funniest North American bird name. “Dick” was historically a common nickname for a male bird.

        Bush Thick-knee — not penis-related, but frequently gets laughs.

        Rufous-naped Lark — harmless, but “rufous-naped” is often misread at a glance. Shag — in British English, perfectly normal; elsewhere, not so much.

        Cockatoo — contains “cock,” though the name comes from Malay, not English.

        Woodcock — another classic.

        Black-cockatoo and other cockatoos — bonus points for stacking “cock” into longer names.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    American Bison, too. The repopulation of American bison (often called buffalo) is one of the most successful repopulation efforts in history. The reason you’re able to order buffalo burgers at your local hipster burger joint is because American bison is no longer endangered. The population has come from less than 1000 total bison (all privately owned by a handful of conservationists) to over 400k today.

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    • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had a Bison meatloaf once that was so good. It’s so much lighter than beef. It was like eating a meat cloud.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I saw on Ted Turner’s wiki page that he helped with that.

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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The irony of all ironies is how similar the words “conservation” and “conservative” are.

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s because the root of both is to converse. To keep things the way they are.

      Politics gets in the way of that reality since they don’t actively want to keep it the same, they actually want to regress back to previous times they can exploit personally.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    None of that is worldwide.

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• rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, last. Not latest, last.

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• MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  iirc ~1/4 of the worlds energy production is renewable. More than 90% of all new electricity capacity worldwide came from renewable sources in 2024. Doomers want you to believe it can’t happen again while we are in the very decade that is likely to change the world. Public policy doesn’t even matter at this point, renewable energy is cheaper, so nearly all new investments are in renewables.

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  • Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Energy sources are only part of the issue (albeit a major one) and enormous damage has already been done to a disastrous point, calling people “doomers” with an intent to ridicule their angst, worries and experiences is akin to climate change denial.

    Also, public policy is constantly used in an expensive way if that it suits the ruling classes, markets are not some neutral forces in a vacuum.

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    • MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m concerned about climate change. But if you ask most people how much progress we’ve made they would say “barely any”. That belief that we can’t do it, is the main thing aside from public policy slowing us down. When people think things are hopeless, they often don’t see the point in fighting or changing their behavior. I also think most people don’t realize that renewable energy adoption has accelerated so quickly the last few years. Every year we have had massive growth over last year in adoption.

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  • Jako302@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s only the case because it was the cheapest option available for a while. Oil execs noticed the trend and got cold feet, now a lot of governments are cutting back subsidies for renewables and actively hinder new projects being build. Here in germany we have investors abandoning half build solar parks cause they aren’t profitable anymore. At the same time we allow oil companies to bid for gigantic offshore projects just so they can say that they have no interest in actually building it after they won.

    With the ozon hole you could see the world working together to fix it despite it beeing somewhat less profitable. With renewables you can see governments actively working against the movement despite it being the best in terms of environment and profits combined.

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    • MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Solar is easily the cheapest energy and its getting cheaper every year. Repairing a coal power plant is not as attractive as a much cheaper to run biofuel plant. Etc.

      Here in germany we have investors abandoning half build solar parks cause they aren’t profitable anymore.

      Without knowing the specifics, I doubt profitability was the issue. Once a solar panel is installed it is pure profit with minimal maintenance. Companies get in trouble when they commit way more to a project than they can raise in investments. It seems more likely that is what happened.

      Lastly your looking at a few countries that are pushing back with what amounts to theater (Germany is 56% renewable energy). Meanwhile the largest producer of energy in the world, China, is staying committed to converting to renewables and s also 56% of the way there.

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  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We could stop producing any co2 today and the planet would continue warming for 100 years, it’s a pretty tough problem we have on our hands.

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    • MonkRome@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure but the problem would be 100 times worse if fossil fuel adoption doest decline. Its good news that we seem to be on the way to shifting our behavior.

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• DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The thing is it kinda isn’t. The ozone layer still needs about 20 years to get back to 1960 levels and the number of problematic states for this increasing again

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tbf, its not even yet a win technically.

  TCO is expected to return to 1980 values around 2066 in the Antarctic, around 2045 in the Arctic, and around 2040 for the near-global average (60°N-60°S). - Source

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So is that good news, that we’re moving in the right direction?

    Though the very next sentence from that linked source says

    The assessment of the depletion of TCO in regions around the globe from 1980-1996 remains essentially unchanged since the 2018 Assessment.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      2018 to 2022 didnt see much change (and given how far until its fully returned to normal, I think you can see qhy - it takes a long time to fully heal), but we’re certainly pretty far into success compared to where we were.

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