It's a very small portion of the renewable makeup, less than 5% as opposed to the >75% that's wind power.

https://www.scottishrenewables.com/our-industry/statistics

The idea behind burning "garbage" is that it'll rot and emit methane, so it's an emitter either way. Burning methane is cleaner than letting it release naturally.

Oh hey, look at that, giving shit to the boomers. They know their voting base.

It was indeed expected, but not this year, with everyone scrambling to make up electricity shortfalls.

Reagan is the beginning of basically all the worst things about the modern USA......but even he didn't try to literally overthrow the government.

Man, remember when Reagan and Nixon were the worst modern presidents?

Skimming the post list, I see a santa fundraiser, an abandoned dog, electric postal vehicles, the discovery of a Roman settlement in Ukraine........are you just not looking?

I don't think your reply makes any sense. I said that gender is a social construct, which it is. Ideas of what male and female gender roles have changed constantly throughout history, and have differed wildly between cultures. The idea that such things have always been locked in stone is a falsehood perpetuated exclusively as a response to those who wish to go against contemporary societal norms

"Real men should never wear pink, or tights!" one hypothetical reactionary may shout. If they did, they would be in total ignorance of the times in our history when pink was considered manly, or when all men of stature wore leggings. Did you know that the modern association between women and pink only came about in the 1930s and 1940s?

Gender is a social construct as opposed to sex, which is biological, sooo....it's basically already just words, my guy.

I wonder....when this completely fails to collapse society, will the TERFs attempt even the tiniest introspection?

Naaah, they'll just scream twice as hard over the next attempt to make marginalised peoples' lives easier. Saw an Irish TERF whining in the replies to Holyrood's announcement, completely ignoring the part where Ireland's had this for years and has bugger-all harm to show for it.

The ban coming into effect today is for producers and importers, not end users.

[Citation needed]

Here's one for you: 75% of transport emissions come from road vehicles:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

I know it's illegal to admit you're wrong on the Internet, but maybe if someone points out you're wrong, just pulling shit out of your ass isn't the best way to take in that information.

Not that any of this changes the point that you skipped over this ban being aimed at corporations first and misrepresented it as something that exclusively targets consumers. That was the actual point being addressed.

Utter nonsense. By that logic an ICE car sales ban would do nothing to reduce emissions. Never mind that the end-user purchase ban comes in next year, and you've completely skipped over the ban being introduced today, which is a domestic manufacturing and import ban. You know, one aimed at the companies producing the products? "Placing the onus on corporations?"

You realise that plastic bags, takeout containers, etc are fossil fuel products, right? Aside from plastic pollution being an obvious environmental issue visible to anyone walking down any side street anywhere, it's one more chip in the oil wall.

On top of that, the ban this year is for companies, not consumers. It is a domestic production and import ban. The consumer purchase ban is next year. So you're completely off on that, too.

Excellent news. Now, if only we can get humans to apply the principle of "adopt, don't shop" to other humans...

(Well, I suppose in that case it would be "adopt, don't breed", but you get the idea.)

Always nice to hear the continuing march of divestment in the things that kill us. Ironically HSBC Canada's being bought by the Royal Bank of Canada - who love funding oil fields.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Like, at all.

Are you referring to the COVID vaccines? Moderna and Pfizer both made mRNA vaccines.

That's your entire basis for dismissing something? "An individual treatment was bad once, so all individual treatments are always bad"?

Hahaha this literally always happens. These people never, ever actually attempt to read or comprehend their sources. They just spot one thing somewhere official sounding, that they think agrees with them on a surface level, and then shout "AHA!"

.....People who know how stuff works?

Ah well, more for people with brains in their heads.

Just like all the other vaccines? Oh, wait. Nope.

Did you mean just like all the other chemotherapy? Oh, wait. Nope.

Gotta love the cynicism people can rustle up over "we can now cure CANCER".

Expensive to make *for a vaccine*, but is it cheaper than months or years of expensive and incredibly damaging cancer treatments?

Is the CEO of the research company a woman very clearly putting on a Batman voice?

Well yeah, surprise surprise, an industrial process requires some kind of energy input, but it's not in any way the same thing as creating renewable generation to directly feed a DAC unit.

This is the equivalent of taking an existing industrial process like the creation of steel and making the input cleaner.

Someone didn't read the article. This isn't the DAC you're thinking of, it's microbial.