ProdigalFrog

I can only assume the english translations are licensed differently? Are you able to watch documentaries from the German DW channel, DW Doku? Unfortunately I don't see the baobab documentary there. :(

Destroying the car (or at least the engine) isn't entirely out of the question, as that has successfully happened when incentives are given, such as with the cash for clunkers program. But I can't imagine that would be a better option emissions-wise compared to EV conversions.

Perhaps subsidizing EV conversions could be a viable route. A significant tax break and perhaps government loans for newly formed conversion companies could really ramp up scale of conversions, and hopefully lower costs.

Ideally, even larger tax breaks could be offered to worker coop conversion shops to encourage that form of business.

Since these won't perform as well as a purpose built EV, as another user mentioned, owners will likely want larger batteries to compensate. If done at scale with lithium based batteries, that would be both costly, and worse, terrible for the environment due to the requirements for lithium.

Sodium ion batteries are just about production ready, and would be the environmental material of choice if this were to be done, even if their range would be lowered due to the decreased energy density.

Even if the world went net zero tomorrow, we would still see new heat records. The climate is like a flywheel on a car, it'll take a lot if time to notice things slowing down and getting better even after we reduce emissions.

Things are slowly improving, and it's likely we're at the beginning of an S-curve when it comes to renewable energy, which should do some heavy hitting.

Even so, things aren't moving as quickly as any of us would like, and that is depressing, but don't lose hope, Jaun. The future is not set in stone, and the more of us who keep pushing each other on, doing our small parts to help, in whatever way that is, adds up collectively and helps reduce the damage on the other end of that flywheel.

Same problem, OP. I used to get em from reddit, now almost exclusively Lemmy.

Humans are also inherently cooperative for survival, and it has been argued by some credible historians that our current forms of antagonistic society is an abberation from the norm.

Catalonia during the Spanish revolution is a pretty solid example. It showed no signs of not working until they were forced to stop due to Franco winning the war. Wikipedia entry for more info.

Ah! sorry about that. I ended up watching the 'free w/ ads' version, but figured I'd post this version without that, since some people outside of the US wouldn't be able to watch it, but had no idea it wasn't in English.

Fortunately, I managed to find the film on Archive.org dubbed in English, and swapped it out in the post as well (hopefully it federates).

Cheers for letting me know!

Huh, you really are an honest to goodness centrist, though a left leaning one, from what you've said.

I don't think humans would be naturally self centered if they lived in an environment that actually encouraged sharing and cooperation instead of actively encouraging and rewarding psychopathy and selfishness.

There were likely people who thought it impossible that wolves would someday become domesticated, and eventually be our best buds, due to their 'unchangeable' nature.

We are all products of our environment.

One scam calling out another. In addition to odysee, Arweave (Forward Research) bought an NFT company, which is the reddest of red flags.

In addition, the crypto that odysee used to use before being bought out is now completely worthless (but I'm sure the creators of it made bank), and Arweave will be no different.

You're now a mod of c/offgrid!

Most of the communities here are pretty laid back when it comes to moderation load. Your activity level should be more than enough. Thanks for volunteering! :)

Unfortunately, the map counts the entire metropolitan area around the city as part of the city, instead of using the city boundaries itself.

Interestingly, CityNerd had the opposite problem when he did a video on city crime statistics.

It does make the broad global overview far less useful, but inspecting each individual city to see what areas are walkable and bikeable is still pretty cool, and could be helpful if deciding on a place to move to.