The UN is a joke… we kind of need it to exist, but pretty much a pointless organization right now and while most governments in the world are undemocratic.

Aviation is responsible for around 2% of emissions, but it’s also the global connector. While we should refrain from flying when possible just counting on individuals to take the best behavior won’t work.

What should be done:

• ban private jets
• end all the tax perks for aviation, which allow for insanely cheap tickets that promote senseless flying
• ban short over-land flights
• simplify ticketing and reduce prices on international trains in Europe, it’s almost always too expensive to cross borders by train in Europe, it makes no sense.

We need aviation, but we also need it to be sensible in a warming planet.

The problem is that that only happens because aviation gets tax perks that trains or buses don’t.

There’s some redundancy, but a ban solves the issue instantly and also creates a strong incentive for better ground transport.

It’s definitely a forum and that’s it. And we do need it like I said. But whenever they pretend they’re anything else it gets awkward. Not up to the UN to give Rússia swift access.

Lettuces in landfills take up to 25 years to decompose.

Hard to believe was what was being asked 😅 the number is present in many websites about trash or composting, but I don’t know it’s exact origin. But I guess at some moment someone digged on a 25 year old landfill and found remains of a lettuce.

Even if this is exaggerating, the moral of the story is that it’s such a waste to send organics to landfills at a time where we’re losing soils at record pace. Food waste should be composted and returned to the soil.

But it’s possible that that lettuce was a fresh and plastic wrapped thrown to the landfill like that, because that does happen as well. And maybe that created optimal conditions to prevent decomposition.

So true 😅

If they’re more intelligent than us but with the same morals we’re doomed, so we might have not time to adapt our religions.

Para o Lemmy uso a Jerboa e para o Mastodon uso a Megalodon. Muita gente gosta da Tusk para o Mastodon, tem mais funções do que a Megalodon, mas eu prefiro a simplicidade dessa.