That's a really cool graphic!
Not a major CO2 takeup, but along the lines with planting trees, people should make sure to have houseplants because they can filter out harmful pollutants in the air of your house.
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Dark painted buildings are not contributing to global warming.
Only CO2 emissions are the issue. That's it. So, coal and oil burning.
If you want to save the planet, drive less and push politically for clean fuel and clean emissions regulations. Also, put your money where your mouth is and spend on companies that support clean fuel and clean emissions, and do not spend on companies that don't.
If you just want to save on your air conditioning bill, paint your house white and use blackout curtains in the daytime.
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Good luck pushing anything clean while Trump and partners in crime are in office in the US. They are actively PUSHING for a renewal of coal power. Pruitt, while head of the EPA, until the other day, had sabotaged nearly ALL of the clean energy practices that were put into place under Obama. And his replacement is in the pockets of the coal barons.
So, unless they get their way, soon you won't be able to live in the US without a mask capable of filtering out toxins.
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Greenhouse effect is affected by planet surface colour.
Dark painted buildings absorb 15x times more energy from sun compared to white painted building, and later emit heat in infra red.
Infra red rays are absorbed by greenhouse gases and part of this energy is deflected back to earth.
Contribution to greenhouse effect
H20 vapour 36–72% - wee cannot reduce this
CO2 contribution 9–26%
Methane 4-9% - Wee can reduce this but in cost a meat production ;)
Ozone 3-7% - wee really need this one to protect from as from UV
C02 is not main drive of greenhouse effect and increase CO2 level increase plants grow speed and sun light conversion efficiency
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I was going to reply, "I am going to stop farting" when I see this thread. hahaha
As far as I know, Cow gases are far more un-environmental friendly.
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Dark painted buildings do contribute to global warming indirectly, by having it hotter inside these buildings, people use their airconditioners more frequently, powered by electricity often produced from carbon-based sources as coal and oil, which adds to the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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zombie apocalypse could help longterm against global warming! /joke
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Without maintenance all Nuclear power plants will melts itself and start releasing radiative dust and our planet will be big radioactive wasteland without any complex life ;)
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You know, you have a point there. Not one zombie apocalypse movie or story shows things like that. Sounds like a big hole in the logic of that scenario.
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during such an infection likely most of them would have been shut down, as it wouldnt infect everyone in the same second. A not operational, leftover reactors wouldnt have such terrifying pollution like meltdowns.
Also, most modern power plants should have fail-safe mechanisms that force them to gracefully shut down in absence of human maintenance.
Additionally, nuclear power plants are like modern fortresses, those try to keep "visitors" outside and it would be one of the most defensable buildings during a zombie apocalypse.
In short, there isn't enough nuclear activity to wipe out all life on this planet, especially not our human lives and the global radioactive wasteland theory right now, even if we would use right now all available nuclear power, is just exists in video games and movies.
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There are currently 451 operable civil nuclear power nuclear reactors around the world.
There was nearly 3000!!! nuclear bomb testing happened in last ~80 years, not even to mention the few dozens full or partial meltdown accidents in nuclear plants. Earth still isnt a nuclear wasteland. It still probably has some effects on global warming and the more commonity of cancer.
You can expect that during a zombie apocalypse not many will stay operable and many will be shut down.
Life already taking back Chernobyl and it was "only" ~30 years ago.
So it will still fix global warning longterm.
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Chernobyl catastrophe has been stooped before get worse. They isolated melted core.
Every reactor have storage pool for used fuel sometimes they stored even more than 10x fuel in use and this pool need active cooling or also will melt.
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Detonators, not bombs. There have only been a handful of actual bomb "tests" including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and most were done in areas where the atmospheric fallout would be minimal (consider those done under water and underground for instance).
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"handful". umm, yeah. 2624 nuclear explosions (actual bombs) really handful. Yes, most of them were underwater, underground, but still, 604 was nonPTBT tests as partial test ban treaty became life only in 1963, 2 years after the explosion of the Tsar Bomb which explosion was visible from 600 miles away. Also early undrground explosions had radioactivity release, which also polluted the atmosphere.
The point was still, that world wouldnt turn into a radioactive wasteland even if all nuclear plant would melt down during a zombie apocalypse. Yes, there would be many falloutzones, but in most cases not within a few year after the breakout because of the shutdown mechanisms. this is why no zombie apocalypse movie spend any time for such scenarions.
Additionally, its very likely, as nuclear plants are fortresses, that they can hold out much longer than any other area and they have enough time (even if many deserters, those who works there have huge responsibilty and would keep on their work in case of any catastrophe), which is about 1-2 months (cant open reactor at least 1-2 weeks after shutdown) to secure the fuel to their storages which means erosion caused meltdowns would happen decades later.
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Even then, a complete nuclear fallout won't render earth totally unhabitable as radiation decaying is still a thing and some sturdier lifespecies will take back wastelands in less than a hundred years. Some species of plants and insects like cockroaches can even survive in a heavily irradiated area without suffering much damage.
Let's face it, with or without us the earth isn't going anywhere. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to preserve it, but the damage we're doing in the end will only affect us. When we'll be gone, everything is going to revert to its natural order.
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detonations.those technically count as bombs, but for the purposes of fallout / increased background radiation, they do not. hence "a handfull". the overwhelming majority were detonator tests, not actual bombs as they did not have a payload. secondly, many were also rocketry based, meaning they also do not count as bombs, but missiles. considering that, how does your figure of "2624" stand now?
it stands as pointless. I argued against your use of the term bombs in relevance to fallout / radiation. you put a broomstick in a dark place and got bitey. well done!
at no point did I argue your logic regarding nuclear power reactors.
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But then there will be the methane from their rotting corpses and the bodies of their food. Not to mention the rotting food left over that survivors would have eaten and such.
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one time extinction would be still much less methane than a maintained huge population on the surface.
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This topic made me think of a show, if you haven't seen it yet, called Life After People. Sometimes they show that the world will heal itself if people alone would just leave the planet.
Lets face it. Humanity as a whole is nothing more than a parasitic infestation upon this planet. All we do is take, take, take, yake and give nothing back except for things that are harmful.
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That show is surprisingly accurate, if not for the fact that we can't really do that much damage to render earth a complete lifeless rock. Besides, the earth has gone through lots of worse things than us and survived nonetheless, George Carlin explains here.
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recycling too can help, it's astonishing how different is the situation from country to country... we should all recycle as much as possible
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That's an interesting infographic, I had no idea the colour of the roof could matter in that way.
One non-obvious thing about preventing the climate warming that I know of is that limit the consumption of beef could actually help. It has been highlighted here in the Netherlands that the methane in cow poop is actually somewhat influential in terms of global warming. I've no idea how big is that influence, but apparently they're encouraging farmers to have less cows here. Then again, AFAIK, cow poop could also be used to generate energy (also because of methane), so maybe not all hope is lost yet for meat-eaters (like myself) :P
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Thanks for the thought for this topic. Use a Fan instead of Air Conditioning. Stop/Limit the use of Spray Cans/Products. Use a manual spray instead. Also, stay away from Barbecues, fried stuffs both for health and environment reasons. Try to schedule yourself to day activities so you will use less energy (I am still struggling with this).
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Eat muuuuuuuch less meat, and when you do, buy it from people you know they treated their animals good - as opposed to mass husbandry.
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Here is another link (though there's loads if you google) about how much cows in particular affect global warming, the dairy industry as well.
Definitely agree with at least trying to cut back and being aware of what you consume and where they come from (including what companies). Even to people not currently vegetarian/vegan, I think becoming informed and having awareness is a big step towards change. The internet is at our fingertips.
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That's useless, overpopulation is the real problem so if you want to save earth don't have children
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I agree to practicing population control over not having children. Anyone who does not possess the ability or understanding to raise a kid, should not. However, they probably would not understand anyway so it is up to the governments to govern upon. Overpopulation often occur in countries with less governance imo.
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In future almost all industry will move to orbit/ space., example solar panel build in space have better efficienty compared to build on eartd due influence gravity on forming crystal , also optic fibre produced in space will not have imperfection also because better crystal forming and data transfer compared to build on earth is increase around 100x
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Don't have children, drive less and walk more, buy a hybrid car, build some solar panels on your roof, recycle, don't waste water, switch to more efficient appliances, change your old incandescent light bulbs to more efficient LEDs, insulate your house, switch to pellet heating.
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More like change deserts/wastelands into green areas, even if it was done locally by a lot of people, that'll make a better impact than just planting trees in places that are already green which isn't bad but isn't enough
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I believe there are efforts on Desert Greening however its not easy, it requires resources and effort. There are Solar plants on the deserts too, to help harness Green power. We are fighting against Nature and the rate Desertification is faster than Desert Greening.
At times I have thought why certain areas flood easily and have too much rainfall or water, why do certain areas like deserts exists. In a large country, with the abundance of materials and manpower. You need extensive tunneling to distribute the water but if its successful it might also solve flood problems in my opinion.
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Well, there's this
Libya's Gaddafi implemented the piping idea but mainly for agricultural purposes
but there will still be enough deserts to harness solar power
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Desert became the obvious area to harness solar due to vast area of habitual area. There are other methods to harness Solar like on Sea platforms so I would prefer lesser Deserts, hahaha. Due to the fact that Desertification process is way faster than Desert Greening.
As you mentioned, governments, corporations does not do it out of greenhouse effects. Mainly due to other needs and not everyone is eager to invest for such high costs but lower returns.
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don't drive vehicles using gasoline (ban all fossil fuels)
don't eat meat (so we end up killing all animals since they will be useless)
don't use lights (wake up at 6am and go to bed at 8pm)
plant more stuff (demolish buildings if needed, even hospitals)
don't eat plants (starving makes earth healthy)
this message was brought to you by captain planet
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Hi Mully, we met on a different thread. hahaha
1- I believe there is a goal to use food waste for fuel in future. For electronic cars, there is still a need to fine an abundance of supply for Electricity and the only solution I can think of is Nuclear.
2- I still believe in eating meats for a balance diet. I enjoy my greens but you need the protein and other nutrients from different meats to strike a healthy balance and muscles.
3- When I go to bed occasionally, at 8-9pm I woke up at 3-4am. 11pm is a good hour as clinically it is reported our body and livers start to work around this time and personal experience is that I feel alot better waking up on days I slept by 11pm. Varies from individuals that is.
4- Yes, living in a modern and urban city. I see more concrete than Greens. There is currently an ongoing plan to remodel the neighborhood and they wanted to remove the green grasses with Trees on potted plants.
5- Pretty sure you are joking about starving. Eating more light meals per day is better than 3 full meals just saying.
Cheers and GO Planet! XD
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-- Chose bright / white reflective paint for car, roof, exterior walls ect.
materials with high reflection
-- Use white / reflective blinds this will also reduce temperature in your room.
-- Save energy, simply turn off lights when you leave room, maybe is not much but if do this few billions people this can have impact.
-- Plant a tree in backyard.
Any more ideas please comment :)
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