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More Evidence Identifies China as The Source of Mysterious Ozone-Destroying Emissions
For years, a mystery puzzled environmental scientists. The world had banned the use of many ozone-depleting compounds in 2010. So why were global emission levels [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0106-2] [DX] still so high?
The picture started to clear up in June. That's when The New York Times published an investigation into the issue. China, the paper claimed, was to blame for these mystery emissions. Now it turns out the paper was probably right to point a finger.
In a paper [open, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079500] [DX] published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, an international team of researchers confirms that eastern China is the source of at least half of the 40,000 tonnes of carbon tetrachloride emissions currently entering the atmosphere each year. They figured this out using a combination of ground-based and airborne atmospheric concentration data from near the Korean peninsula.
Previously: Someone, Somewhere, is Making a Banned Chemical that Destroys the Ozone Layer
Illegal Chinese Refrigerator Factories Are Selling Banned CFCs
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday October 31 2018, @01:20AM (2 children)
Then, pray tell, what is your solution to getting rid of the corruption? The status-quo doesn't fucking work anymore. I spent 20 years of my life not really paying attention to my country, and it died. I'm not being hyperbolic, it DIED. If things are truly as corrupt as you say they are, than you cannot disagree that true American principles of freedom and representation did in fact die.
If these people ignore the Constitution, then ignored an Article V convention to amend it, then they are not properly representing the country. We could impeach, but if they don't act like representatives anymore, why would they listen or even start the process? Especially amongst themselves.
I'm sorry, but if things are as bad as you say they are, then outright revolution is appropriate and needed. It's a valid tool for removing corruption so entrenched that more civilized and ostensibly legal processes are simply unable to mitigate. However, not everybody is ready for civil war this very second like I am. There is a growing group of people very dedicated to the idea you dismiss as naive. 5 states out of 34. Those people are still dedicated to making it happen, and organizing. That's unarguably better than 10's of the thousands of people prepping for civil war, mailing bombs, etc.
When civilized processes fail, when morals and integrity fails, you are left with violence and civil war. If all of those people are supporting organized change, and bipartisan change at that, then I will support them. Quite frankly, I think they deserve yours too. Your voice should be heard with everyone else's when we discuss these new amendments.
All of that better than violence, and I know you don't support that.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday October 31 2018, @04:33AM
I don't think anyone knows the solution... but I know what the solution isn't - inaction.
There's a lot of interesting things being tried at the moment. Political action, both inside and outside major parties (and this is not just in the USA). Also economic heretics are being widely listened to such as Steve Keen and Yanis Varoufakis... I believe Steve Keen even advises the UK central bank these days. Voices within the IMF are even coming out against the neoliberal order. I'd advise listening to someone who doesn't get enough airtime (probably because he speaks a rarified breed of academic language) : Roberto Mangabiera Unger although this primer [youtube.com] is a much more concise and intelligible intoduction to his ideas. I read his prescription for "radical innovation" in the economy as a blending of Free Software methods into places outside the I.T world... maybe some kind of open-source-developed worker-owned-Coop/franchise model.
I do think the Free Software world has some important lessons (both positive and negative) for the wider world. There certainly is people-power there, and it has attracted tech-media buyouts, perception management, unaccountable foundations and free riders.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 09 2018, @06:04AM
Cool story bro, but the problem is that you changed not the country. Corruption will always be with us because we always have conflicts of interest between what is good for us and what is a net good collectively.
Obviously, the solution is to pass a "this-time-I-mean-it" law, amirite? My point here is that you aren't fixing anything.
And what would be the point of the revolution? My view is that this is insane. What is the point of giving government more power to do this sort of thing?
The only economic problem the US really had over the past half century was that developing world labor hooked up to the global trade networks. That's it. The rest is self-inflicted - causing more problems to address some minor effect of that globalism (or of the destructive "fixes"). That includes a good portion of the corruption and the budding police state. If instead, 300 million people had manned up and sacrificed a bit for their future, it'd be a different story.