@Cox_A_R ... was going to suggest using yr imagination as a low-carbon alternative to both, but turns out the brain uses 0.3kWh/day, x100 more than a smartphone. https://t.co/grDYZ19zhW So, better to switch your brain off and turn on netflix.
@Cox_A_R "It depends": energy mix in your country, wifi or lan, solar on your roof, do you leave your devices on stand-by, etc ad naseum. Global avg. streaming is 36g/CO2e/hr, but in France would be 4g/hr. Whereas blu-ray is 9g/hr. https://t.co/MoLHAY44gs
FACTCHECK:
Exxon claims that staying below 1.5C (in the IEA NZE) "require[s]" a "degradation in global standard of living"
This is FALSE
Follow along for receipts
I'd take Sunak's crusade against teenage 'loitering' more seriously if his party since 2010 hadn't closed more than 800 libraries, sold off hundreds of playing fields, cut arts funding by a third and local authority grants by 40%.
Young people need cheap, interesting things to do
But the environmental impacts of meat and the recommendation to shift to plant-based diets didn’t make it into the final report.
That’s because delegates from Argentina and Brazil lobbied significantly for their removal.
@paulisci “[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.
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They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
Rhetoric, Aristotle 4c BCE
Britain’s housing stock is among the most poorly insulated in the developed world. When we first went back to visit family in Canada after moving to England, my grandma commented on how musty and damp our clothes smelled. https://t.co/mEP6KKTiPE